.NET Core Contract Job Trends in the East of England

.NET Core
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 93 103
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 +23
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 3 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.23% 0.065% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.42% 0.37% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £478 - -
25th Percentile £481 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.83%
75th Percentile £519 - £563
90th Percentile £523 - £606
England median daily rate £510 £545 £575
% change year-on-year -6.42% -5.22% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

.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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 212 267 221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.26% 17.37% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 105 142
10th Percentile £354 £299 £363
25th Percentile £428 £340 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% -16.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £613
90th Percentile £700 £638 £700
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 58 10
10th Percentile £40.75 - £20.45
25th Percentile £43.00 - £44.47
Median hourly rate £63.00 £43.00 £56.53
Median % change year-on-year +46.51% -23.93% -13.03%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £67.00 - £73.98
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.93 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.60% +4.88% -5.40%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing .NET Core as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core in the East of England

.NET Core
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

.NET Core
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing .NET Core.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. 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
Hertfordshire - 2 £500 - 15
Suffolk - 1 £500 - 2
.NET Core
England

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Backend Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (33.33%) Blazor
3 1 (33.33%) Bootstrap
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (33.33%) MediatR
3 1 (33.33%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Vue
3 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) B2C
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) CQRS
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) MVVM
3 1 (33.33%) People Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft