.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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 265 238
Rank change year-on-year -127 -27 -46
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 120 288 435
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.87% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.92% 3.91% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 207 309
10th Percentile £354 £400 £400
25th Percentile £438 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.65% -5.22% -
75th Percentile £614 £647 £688
90th Percentile £715 £700 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £575
% change year-on-year -2.44% -10.87% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 8
10th Percentile - £52.05 £59.50
25th Percentile - £75.00 £68.13
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +10.06%
75th Percentile - £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £88.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +10.06%

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 6,247 7,369 9,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.48% 22.37% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,237 4,862 6,744
10th Percentile £350 £356 £380
25th Percentile £413 £443 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £810 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 177 164
10th Percentile £31.39 £27.45 £36.84
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% -3.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.67
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.46 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -4.00%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 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
London -115 72 £598 +8.64% 95
South East +28 20 £450 - 82
North of England -20 11 £525 +10.53% 61
Midlands -15 7 £500 -4.76% 39
Yorkshire -15 6 £525 +10.53% 18
South West +21 5 £375 -40.48% 19
North West -21 5 £500 +5.26% 31
East Midlands -3 4 £500 -6.98% 18
East of England +7 3 £500 - 31
West Midlands -8 3 - - 20
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.33%) Umbraco
2 3 (2.50%) Confluence
3 2 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Aladdin
1 4 (3.33%) Fidessa
1 4 (3.33%) thinkFolio
2 2 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.83%) Eikon
3 1 (0.83%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.83%) Maximo
3 1 (0.83%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 77 (64.17%) Azure
2 40 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (20.83%) Azure Service Bus
4 18 (15.00%) Serverless
5 16 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 14 (11.67%) Azure Functions
7 13 (10.83%) AWS
7 13 (10.83%) Azure Logic Apps
8 11 (9.17%) Azure AKS
8 11 (9.17%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (7.50%) Entra ID
10 8 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (5.83%) Power Automate
11 7 (5.83%) Power Platform
12 6 (5.00%) Azure Storage
13 5 (4.17%) Azure Pipelines
13 5 (4.17%) GitHub
13 5 (4.17%) PaaS
14 4 (3.33%) Azure Table
14 4 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (36.67%) SQL Server
2 20 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (14.17%) NoSQL
4 11 (9.17%) Relational Database
5 8 (6.67%) MongoDB
6 7 (5.83%) Power BI
7 6 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (3.33%) MySQL
8 4 (3.33%) Redis
9 2 (1.67%) Big Data
9 2 (1.67%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 14 (11.67%) Git
2 6 (5.00%) JIRA
3 3 (2.50%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (1.67%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.67%) Postman
4 2 (1.67%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.67%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.83%) Ant
5 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.83%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.83%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.83%) Gradle
5 1 (0.83%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.83%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (0.83%) JUnit
5 1 (0.83%) NUnit
5 1 (0.83%) Xcode
General
1 37 (30.83%) Finance
2 26 (21.67%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 13 (10.83%) Banking
5 11 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (8.33%) Front Office
7 7 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.17%) Electronics
8 5 (4.17%) Manufacturing
8 5 (4.17%) Marketing
8 5 (4.17%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.33%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.33%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.67%) Local Government
11 1 (0.83%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.83%) Publishing
11 1 (0.83%) Retail
11 1 (0.83%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 88 (73.33%) Developer
2 48 (40.00%) .NET Developer
3 38 (31.67%) Senior
4 32 (26.67%) Senior Developer
5 26 (21.67%) C# Developer
6 19 (15.83%) Senior .NET Developer
7 18 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (14.17%) Azure Developer
8 17 (14.17%) Lead
9 15 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
10 12 (10.00%) Lead Developer
11 11 (9.17%) Senior C# Developer
12 10 (8.33%) Architect
13 9 (7.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 9 (7.50%) Lead .NET Developer
13 9 (7.50%) Lead C# Developer
14 8 (6.67%) Senior C# .NET Developer
15 7 (5.83%) Azure Engineer
15 7 (5.83%) Software Engineer
16 6 (5.00%) Angular Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (100.00%) .NET
2 30 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 26 (21.67%) .NET Framework
4 23 (19.17%) RESTful
5 22 (18.33%) AngularJS
6 21 (17.50%) HTML
6 21 (17.50%) React
7 19 (15.83%) CSS
8 17 (14.17%) REST
9 12 (10.00%) Entity Framework
10 11 (9.17%) ASP.NET MVC
11 9 (7.50%) SOAP
12 8 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (6.67%) Web Services
13 7 (5.83%) ARM Templates
14 6 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
14 6 (5.00%) Blazor
15 5 (4.17%) Node.js
15 5 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.67%) Cloud Native
2 13 (10.83%) Greenfield Project
2 13 (10.83%) Product Ownership
3 9 (7.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.67%) Hedge funds
5 7 (5.83%) Fixed Income
6 6 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (4.17%) Derivative
8 4 (3.33%) Mobile App
9 3 (2.50%) N-Tier
10 2 (1.67%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.67%) NHS
11 1 (0.83%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.83%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.00%) Android
2 5 (4.17%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.33%) Windows
4 3 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (55.00%) Agile
1 66 (55.00%) DevOps
2 57 (47.50%) CI/CD
3 36 (30.00%) Microservices
4 28 (23.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 22 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (18.33%) TDD
6 21 (17.50%) Scrum
7 20 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (16.67%) OO
8 16 (13.33%) Software Engineering
9 15 (12.50%) API Development
9 15 (12.50%) Design Patterns
9 15 (12.50%) SOLID
10 14 (11.67%) Clean Code
10 14 (11.67%) Event-Driven
11 13 (10.83%) BDD
12 12 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (10.00%) MVC
12 12 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 108 (90.00%) C#
2 59 (49.17%) SQL
3 32 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 15 (12.50%) Python
5 14 (11.67%) TypeScript
6 13 (10.83%) PowerShell
7 11 (9.17%) Bicep
7 11 (9.17%) Java
8 6 (5.00%) T-SQL
9 5 (4.17%) Bash
10 3 (2.50%) VBA
11 1 (0.83%) C++
11 1 (0.83%) JSX
11 1 (0.83%) Korn
11 1 (0.83%) Perl
11 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 6 (5.00%) Degree
2 6 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.50%) MCPD
4 3 (2.50%) MCSD
5 2 (1.67%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.50%) QA
2 5 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.33%) MiFID
4 3 (2.50%) WCAG
5 1 (0.83%) EMIR
5 1 (0.83%) HL7
System Software
1 11 (9.17%) Docker
2 9 (7.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (18.33%) Terraform
2 13 (10.83%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.33%) Grafana
3 4 (3.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.83%) Istio
4 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.67%) Oracle
3 6 (5.00%) SAP
4 4 (3.33%) Portware
5 2 (1.67%) Cisco
6 1 (0.83%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.83%) Brio
6 1 (0.83%) IBM
6 1 (0.83%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.83%) Okta
6 1 (0.83%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.83%) Reuters
6 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.83%) Splunk