.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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 105 89
Rank change year-on-year -22 -16 +44
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 4 12 33
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 0.71% 1.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.89% 2.63% 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 15
10th Percentile - £526 £392
25th Percentile £613 £550 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +26.83% -14.58%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £656
90th Percentile £688 £709 £743
Central London median daily rate £625 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +30.00% -16.67%

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 450 456 501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.28% 26.95% 23.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 296 349
10th Percentile £405 £404 £400
25th Percentile £475 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -1.79% -10.40%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £751 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £22.51 - -
25th Percentile £31.03 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 - -
75th Percentile £59.72 - -
90th Percentile £68.89 - -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 - -

.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 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) PySpark
2 2 (50.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) Redux
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) Blazor
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Equities
2 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Design
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) VMware