.NET Core Contracts in the City of London

.NET Core
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring .NET Core skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET Core over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 95 136
Rank change year-on-year -9 +41 -12
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 15 32 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.85% 1.46% 1.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.13% 6.67% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 31
10th Percentile £551 £410 £385
25th Percentile £563 £425 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £540 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -16.92% -
75th Percentile £650 £688 £725
90th Percentile £655 £773 £825
Central London median daily rate £600 £500 £638
% change year-on-year +20.00% -21.57% -1.92%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 479 480 1,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.28% 21.85% 28.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 343 676
10th Percentile £413 £401 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £551 £625
% change year-on-year +4.45% -11.92% +4.17%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing .NET Core as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core in the City of London

.NET Core
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Core in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for .NET Core in the City of London

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (13.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Storage
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (6.67%) NUnit
2 1 (6.67%) Postman
General
1 7 (46.67%) Front Office
2 4 (26.67%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Advertising
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Software Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Algorithm Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior
5 2 (13.33%) Front Office Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Quantitative Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) C# Developer
6 1 (6.67%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) C++ Developer
6 1 (6.67%) C++/C# Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Lead
6 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior C++ Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (26.67%) ASP.NET
2 4 (26.67%) Blazor
3 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (13.33%) CSS
3 2 (13.33%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
4 1 (6.67%) jQuery
4 1 (6.67%) JSON
4 1 (6.67%) Kafka
4 1 (6.67%) OAuth
4 1 (6.67%) React
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
4 1 (6.67%) Swagger
4 1 (6.67%) WCF
4 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Code
2 1 (6.67%) TWAP
2 1 (6.67%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Software Engineering
2 7 (46.67%) Front End Development
3 6 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (33.33%) Algorithmic Trading
4 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 5 (33.33%) Multithreading
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (26.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (20.00%) DevOps
6 3 (20.00%) SDLC
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (13.33%) Data Development
7 2 (13.33%) Database Optimisation
7 2 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (13.33%) MVC
7 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
7 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
8 1 (6.67%) OO
8 1 (6.67%) OOP
8 1 (6.67%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) C#
2 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) Python
4 3 (20.00%) C++
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) T-SQL
5 2 (13.33%) Go
5 2 (13.33%) VBA
6 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft