.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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 94 92
Rank change year-on-year -23 -2 +25
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 6 30 55
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.35% 1.41% 1.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.41% 5.85% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 24 22
10th Percentile £544 £472 £429
25th Percentile £625 £570 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £694 £675 £688
90th Percentile £730 - -
Central London median daily rate £650 £650 £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 427 513 676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.55% 24.16% 24.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 306 460
10th Percentile £373 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £505 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £708 £713
90th Percentile £738 £831 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £46.25 - £46.93
25th Percentile £51.88 £36.75 £47.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +62.34% -23.38% -1.47%
75th Percentile £76.25 £40.25 £51.94
90th Percentile £83.75 - £52.58
Central London median hourly rate £56.97 £38.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year +47.97% -23.38% -1.47%

.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 7 November 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Aladdin
1 1 (16.67%) Fidessa
1 1 (16.67%) Maximo
1 1 (16.67%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Storage
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Table
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (33.33%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Applications Developer
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Architect
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Technical Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Applications Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) C# Application Developer
4 1 (16.67%) C# Software Developer
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) ADO
3 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Derivative
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Fixed Income
2 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) API Development
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Facilities Management
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) Multithreaded Programming
4 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Order Management
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) VBA
4 1 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) Bicep
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Istio
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Portware