.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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 99 90
Rank change year-on-year -25 -9 +22
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 3 29 50
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 1.36% 1.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.73% 5.46% 8.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 25 22
10th Percentile £526 £530 £429
25th Percentile £566 £563 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +10.87%
75th Percentile £672 £675 £688
90th Percentile £689 - £710
Central London median daily rate £638 £600 £638
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +10.87%

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 412 531 622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.93% 24.86% 23.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 324 427
10th Percentile £361 £413 £400
25th Percentile £436 £497 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £598 £615
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% -2.85% +2.50%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £713
90th Percentile £740 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £595 £600
% change year-on-year -7.56% -0.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £46.25 - -
25th Percentile £51.88 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.34% -18.95% -6.86%
75th Percentile £76.25 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £83.75 - -
Central London median hourly rate £56.97 £38.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +47.97% -18.95% -6.86%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

.NET Core job vacancy trend 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 13 December 2025.

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

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Aladdin
1 1 (33.33%) Fidessa
1 1 (33.33%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Financial Institution
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Applications Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Architect
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Application Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Architect
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) WinForms
3 1 (33.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk
1 1 (33.33%) Derivative
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Fixed Income
1 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Market Risk
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreaded Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) Order Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Portware