.NET Core Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 310 278
Rank change year-on-year -167 -32 -71
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 100 165 294
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.67% 0.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.27% 2.98% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 137 230
10th Percentile £409 £400 £368
25th Percentile £457 £460 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £558 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% -7.08% -
75th Percentile £600 £700 £700
90th Percentile £688 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £492 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -6.29% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £54.85
Median hourly rate - - £64.45
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £64.45
% change year-on-year - - +6.72%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,860 5,541 7,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.99% 22.62% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,285 3,772 5,376
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 86 187
10th Percentile £35.15 £27.30 £21.08
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.56 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.80 £82.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

.NET Core
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 21 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
London -100 57 £500 -23.08% 66
North of England -67 16 £500 +17.65% 46
South East -59 10 £488 +21.88% 66
Midlands -63 9 £455 -9.00% 29
North West -30 8 £575 +39.39% 24
West Midlands -55 8 £460 -3.16% 11
East of England -18 7 £550 +10.55% 30
Yorkshire -54 6 £513 +7.89% 14
North East - 2 £475 - 9
East Midlands -40 1 £450 -10.00% 18
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 4 (4.00%) CMS
2 3 (3.00%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (2.00%) Confluence
4 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.00%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.00%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (73.00%) Azure
2 48 (48.00%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (28.00%) Serverless
4 25 (25.00%) Azure Functions
5 22 (22.00%) Azure AKS
6 20 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 20 (20.00%) Entra ID
7 19 (19.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 19 (19.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 19 (19.00%) Azure Monitor
7 19 (19.00%) GitHub
8 17 (17.00%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (16.00%) AWS
10 13 (13.00%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
12 8 (8.00%) Azure API Management
12 8 (8.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 8 (8.00%) PaaS
12 8 (8.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.00%) Network Security
2 2 (2.00%) 3GPP
2 2 (2.00%) HTTP
2 2 (2.00%) RTCP
2 2 (2.00%) RTP
2 2 (2.00%) SSL
2 2 (2.00%) XCAP
3 1 (1.00%) DNS
3 1 (1.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (38.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (9.00%) NoSQL
4 8 (8.00%) Relational Database
5 6 (6.00%) Oracle Database
6 5 (5.00%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.00%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.00%) Redis
9 1 (1.00%) DataStage
9 1 (1.00%) Parquet
9 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (25.00%) Git
2 9 (9.00%) JIRA
3 5 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.00%) AppVeyor
4 1 (1.00%) GitLab
4 1 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (31.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.00%) Finance
3 12 (12.00%) Banking
4 11 (11.00%) Public Sector
5 10 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.00%) Front Office
7 4 (4.00%) Health Technology
8 3 (3.00%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.00%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.00%) Billing
9 2 (2.00%) Retail
10 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.00%) Legal
10 1 (1.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 67 (67.00%) Developer
2 33 (33.00%) .NET Developer
3 25 (25.00%) Senior
4 17 (17.00%) Azure Developer
4 17 (17.00%) Senior Developer
5 15 (15.00%) Senior .NET Developer
6 14 (14.00%) C# Developer
7 13 (13.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (11.00%) Software Engineer
9 10 (10.00%) Architect
10 7 (7.00%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (7.00%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (7.00%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 5 (5.00%) Azure Architect
12 5 (5.00%) Backend Developer
12 5 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
13 4 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 4 (4.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (100.00%) .NET
2 48 (48.00%) React
3 38 (38.00%) .NET Framework
4 27 (27.00%) AngularJS
5 26 (26.00%) RESTful
6 24 (24.00%) ASP.NET
7 21 (21.00%) HTML
8 18 (18.00%) CSS
9 17 (17.00%) REST
10 16 (16.00%) Node.js
11 10 (10.00%) Entity Framework
12 9 (9.00%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (9.00%) OAuth
13 8 (8.00%) OpenID
13 8 (8.00%) PyTorch
13 8 (8.00%) TensorFlow
14 7 (7.00%) ARM Templates
14 7 (7.00%) ASP.NET MVC
14 7 (7.00%) YAML
15 6 (6.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.00%) AI Agents
2 11 (11.00%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (11.00%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (5.00%) Credit Risk
4 5 (5.00%) Market Risk
4 5 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.00%) NHS
6 3 (3.00%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.00%) Fixed Income
6 3 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.00%) Media Streaming
8 1 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.00%) Grid Computing
8 1 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (74.00%) CI/CD
2 68 (68.00%) DevOps
3 50 (50.00%) Agile
4 43 (43.00%) Microservices
5 30 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (28.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 26 (26.00%) AI
8 21 (21.00%) Test Automation
9 20 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (19.00%) Software Engineering
11 18 (18.00%) API Management
12 17 (17.00%) RBAC
13 16 (16.00%) Containerisation
14 12 (12.00%) Analytics
14 12 (12.00%) Clean Code
14 12 (12.00%) Design Patterns
14 12 (12.00%) Mentoring
14 12 (12.00%) MVC
14 12 (12.00%) Roadmaps
15 11 (11.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 82 (82.00%) C#
2 44 (44.00%) SQL
3 27 (27.00%) Python
4 25 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 18 (18.00%) TypeScript
6 15 (15.00%) Bicep
7 7 (7.00%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.00%) Bash
8 5 (5.00%) PHP
9 4 (4.00%) Java
10 3 (3.00%) T-SQL
11 2 (2.00%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (9.00%) Azure Certification
2 6 (6.00%) Degree
2 6 (6.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) QA
2 4 (4.00%) HL7
3 3 (3.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.00%) WCAG
4 2 (2.00%) MiFID
5 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.00%) EMIR
System Software
1 22 (22.00%) Docker
2 13 (13.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (29.00%) Terraform
2 17 (17.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (27.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.00%) Oracle
3 10 (10.00%) Databricks
4 8 (8.00%) OpenAI
5 6 (6.00%) Sitecore
6 4 (4.00%) Brio
7 3 (3.00%) Google
7 3 (3.00%) ION Trading
8 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow