.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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 80 108
Rank change year-on-year -24 +28 +13
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 7 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.37% 0.49% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.13% 2.84% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £490 £358 £463
25th Percentile £513 £408 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £498 £650
Median % change year-on-year +10.55% -23.46% +36.84%
75th Percentile £563 £525 £694
90th Percentile £570 - £709
England median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -

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 224 176 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.86% 17.31% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 115 151
10th Percentile £402 £315 £310
25th Percentile £458 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £454 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.15% -9.20% -6.54%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £581
90th Percentile £746 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £545 £540
% change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 11 20
10th Percentile £30.92 £65.00 £22.18
25th Percentile £54.06 £66.25 £36.23
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +30.56% -15.22%
75th Percentile £75.31 £81.18 £66.38
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.10 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

.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 13 March 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
Hertfordshire - 4 - - 13
Bedfordshire -8 3 £550 +4.76%
.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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) CMS
1 3 (42.86%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Batch
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Redis
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) .NET Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Developer
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior
3 3 (42.86%) Senior .NET Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 7 (100.00%) React
2 3 (42.86%) Node.js
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (28.57%) CSS
3 2 (28.57%) Express.js
3 2 (28.57%) HTML
3 2 (28.57%) jQuery
3 2 (28.57%) NestJS
3 2 (28.57%) RESTful
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
4 1 (14.29%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (57.14%) Design Patterns
2 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
4 2 (28.57%) Kanban
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) User Stories
5 1 (14.29%) API Management
5 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C#
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Sitecore