.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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 94 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.091% 0.24% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.82% 1.44% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £545
% change year-on-year - -8.26% -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 245 209 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.19% 16.43% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 103 106
10th Percentile £295 £345 £300
25th Percentile £417 £425 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year +4.75% +14.29% -14.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £550
90th Percentile £701 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 49 61
10th Percentile £17.12 £38.85 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £43.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year - +51.16% -25.22%
75th Percentile £73.46 £67.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.60 £81.35 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
% change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -9.20%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

.NET Core job vacancy trend 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 10 August 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
Cambridgeshire - 2 - - 7
.NET Core
England

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 2 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 2 (100.00%) C# WPF Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Inversion of Control
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) MVVM
1 2 (100.00%) Physics
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) XAML
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (100.00%) PhD