.NET Core Contract Job Trends in the City of London

.NET Core
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring .NET Core skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 97 110
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 +8
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 7 33 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.40% 1.57% 1.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.62% 6.48% 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 24 16
10th Percentile £490 £463 £413
25th Percentile £566 £486 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £688
90th Percentile £724 - £719
Central London median daily rate £650 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%

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 433 509 775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.56% 24.26% 26.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 326 510
10th Percentile £400 £425 £413
25th Percentile £450 £505 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £717 £725
90th Percentile £741 £831 £825
Central London median daily rate £563 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -6.25% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £38.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.81% -27.36% +11.58%
75th Percentile £82.50 £40.25 -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year +62.34% -27.36% +11.58%

.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
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing .NET Core.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Aladdin
1 1 (14.29%) Fidessa
1 1 (14.29%) Maximo
1 1 (14.29%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Storage
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Table
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 3 (42.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) .NET Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) C# Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Applications Developer
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Architect
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Technical Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Architect
4 1 (14.29%) C# Application Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# Architect
4 1 (14.29%) C# Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
2 2 (28.57%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) ADO
3 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Derivative
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Fixed Income
2 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) API Development
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Facilities Management
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) Multithreaded Programming
4 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) VBA
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (14.29%) Bicep
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Istio
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Portware