.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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 114 94
Rank change year-on-year -21 -20 +25
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 6 11 31
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.25% 0.59% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.24% 2.36% 6.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 20
10th Percentile - £499 £404
25th Percentile £613 £563 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £650 £531
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +22.35% -7.61%
75th Percentile £709 £675 £638
90th Percentile £726 £712 £675
Central London median daily rate £663 £650 £500
% change year-on-year +1.92% +30.00% -13.04%

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 482 467 479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.20% 24.89% 23.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 300 320
10th Percentile £413 £404 £413
25th Percentile £475 £446 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.13% -4.04%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £720
90th Percentile £775 £763 £818
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £593
% change year-on-year +1.77% -4.64% -5.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £23.93 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £32.34 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.00% - -
75th Percentile £55.54 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £67.36 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -36.40% - -

.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 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Front Office
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
1 4 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 2 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior C# Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) PySpark
2 2 (33.33%) React
2 2 (33.33%) Redux
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Equities
1 2 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) API Design
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Micro Frontends
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (50.00%) Python
4 2 (33.33%) C++
4 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (16.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) IBM
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) VMware