.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 3 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 47 67
Rank change year-on-year -20 +20 +16
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 2 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.23% 0.50% 0.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.90% 3.28% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - - £618
25th Percentile - - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -19.23% -
75th Percentile - - £700
90th Percentile - - £711
England median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -3.23%

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 105 61 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.92% 15.14% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 47 68
10th Percentile £425 £363 £300
25th Percentile £463 £415 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% +0.50% -9.55%
75th Percentile £697 £625 £553
90th Percentile £750 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -6.36% +2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 7
10th Percentile £26.35 - £19.86
25th Percentile £55.00 - £31.53
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.23%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £65.88
90th Percentile £77.25 - £78.05
England median hourly rate £61.00 £63.75 £48.43
% change year-on-year -4.31% +31.63% -25.49%

.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 3 months to 12 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire - 2 - - 15
.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 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Batch
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Developer
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (80.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) MediatR
3 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Design Patterns
2 4 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (80.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) API Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) CQRS
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft