.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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 96 85
Rank change year-on-year -23 -11 +22
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 1 23 50
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.053% 1.22% 2.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.24% 4.67% 8.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 19 22
10th Percentile - £535 £429
25th Percentile - £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £663
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -9.43% +15.22%
75th Percentile - £675 £688
90th Percentile - - £735
Central London median daily rate £500 £600 £663
% change year-on-year -16.67% -9.43% +15.22%

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 425 492 566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.65% 26.09% 23.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 298 407
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £436 £483 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -7.26%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £688
90th Percentile £751 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% -6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £47.50 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +16.88% -18.95% -20.17%

.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
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL