.NET Core Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

.NET Core
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring .NET Core skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 45 60
Rank change year-on-year -33 +15 -7
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 2 8 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.21% 1.44% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.26% 9.64% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £439 - £380
25th Percentile £461 £450 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% +11.11% +3.75%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £475
90th Percentile £593 £565 -
England median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

.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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 159 83 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.67% 14.98% 16.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 65 82
10th Percentile £360 £340 £300
25th Percentile £393 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +2.86% -1.69%
75th Percentile £550 £530 £536
90th Percentile £638 £553 £650
England median daily rate £518 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £25.05 - -
25th Percentile £25.07 - £10.90
Median hourly rate £25.11 - £22.28
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.27%
75th Percentile £25.14 - £44.63
90th Percentile £25.15 - £59.60
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £54.56
% change year-on-year - +14.55% -16.06%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

.NET Core job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

.NET Core
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing .NET Core.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire -3 2 £519 +3.75% 5
.NET Core
England

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft