.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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 391 265
Rank change year-on-year -95 -126 -39
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 140 124 292
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.45% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.44% 1.81% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 72 212
10th Percentile £379 £351 £399
25th Percentile £406 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -7.83%
75th Percentile £621 £613 £650
90th Percentile £700 £698 £723
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile - - £45.80
25th Percentile £45.00 - £59.89
Median hourly rate £46.25 - £80.00
75th Percentile £50.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile £52.25 - £87.50
UK median hourly rate £46.25 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

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 9,735 6,835 8,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.35% 24.96% 24.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,415 4,689 5,577
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 166 182
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £31.63
25th Percentile £50.38 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -0.79%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.59 £76.85 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%

.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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -85 63 £593 +4.18% 123
South East -64 23 £500 +25.00% 64
North of England -67 21 £500 -1.48% 61
South West -27 18 £413 +10.00% 19
Yorkshire -28 17 £475 -9.52% 12
Midlands -50 10 £450 -10.00% 33
West Midlands -41 9 £450 - 18
East of England -23 3 £525 +5.00% 31
North West -51 3 £550 +15.79% 35
East Midlands -16 1 £450 -10.00% 15
North East - 1 - - 15
.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 25 (17.86%) Confluence
2 5 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.14%) CMS
4 2 (1.43%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.43%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.71%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.71%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.71%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Endur
1 1 (0.71%) Findur
1 1 (0.71%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 96 (68.57%) Azure
2 52 (37.14%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (27.14%) AWS
4 32 (22.86%) GitHub
5 16 (11.43%) Serverless
6 13 (9.29%) Azure AKS
6 13 (9.29%) Azure Functions
6 13 (9.29%) Azure Key Vault
7 12 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (8.57%) PaaS
8 10 (7.14%) Azure App Service
8 10 (7.14%) Entra ID
9 9 (6.43%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (5.71%) Power Platform
11 7 (5.00%) Azure API Management
11 7 (5.00%) IaaS
12 6 (4.29%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.29%) 3GPP
1 6 (4.29%) RTP
1 6 (4.29%) Wireshark
2 2 (1.43%) DHCP
2 2 (1.43%) DNS
2 2 (1.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (38.57%) SQL Server
2 17 (12.14%) NoSQL
3 14 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 13 (9.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (7.86%) Geospatial Data
6 8 (5.71%) Power BI
7 4 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.43%) Db2
8 2 (1.43%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.43%) Parquet
8 2 (1.43%) Redis
8 2 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.71%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.71%) OLAP
9 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 48 (34.29%) Git
2 23 (16.43%) JIRA
3 11 (7.86%) MSI
4 10 (7.14%) GitLab
5 9 (6.43%) Jenkins
6 8 (5.71%) Visual Studio
7 7 (5.00%) TeamCity
8 5 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.86%) JetBrains Rider
10 3 (2.14%) Bitbucket
10 3 (2.14%) SpecFlow
11 2 (1.43%) NUnit
12 1 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.71%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.71%) Moq
12 1 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.71%) Rational Rhapsody
12 1 (0.71%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 45 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.71%) Finance
3 24 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.71%) Banking
5 8 (5.71%) Front Office
6 5 (3.57%) Aviation
6 5 (3.57%) Fire and Rescue
6 5 (3.57%) Police
7 3 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.14%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.14%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.14%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.43%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.43%) Legal
8 2 (1.43%) Marketing
8 2 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.43%) Retail
8 2 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 97 (69.29%) Developer
2 56 (40.00%) .NET Developer
3 36 (25.71%) Senior
4 26 (18.57%) Full-Stack Developer
4 26 (18.57%) Senior Developer
5 21 (15.00%) C# Developer
6 19 (13.57%) Software Engineer
7 15 (10.71%) Senior .NET Developer
8 13 (9.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 12 (8.57%) Azure Developer
9 12 (8.57%) C# .NET Developer
9 12 (8.57%) React Developer
10 11 (7.86%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (6.43%) C# Software Engineer
11 9 (6.43%) Senior C# Developer
12 8 (5.71%) .NET Software Engineer
12 8 (5.71%) Lead
12 8 (5.71%) Senior React Developer
13 7 (5.00%) Architect
13 7 (5.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (100.00%) .NET
2 73 (52.14%) REST
3 59 (42.14%) .NET Framework
4 50 (35.71%) RESTful
5 40 (28.57%) React
6 37 (26.43%) ASP.NET
7 27 (19.29%) Terraform
8 26 (18.57%) Entity Framework
9 25 (17.86%) CSS
10 24 (17.14%) HTML
11 23 (16.43%) AngularJS
12 18 (12.86%) Web Services
13 17 (12.14%) Kafka
14 16 (11.43%) WPF
15 15 (10.71%) CSS3
15 15 (10.71%) HTML5
16 11 (7.86%) ATL
16 11 (7.86%) COM
16 11 (7.86%) JSON
16 11 (7.86%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 50 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 20 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (12.86%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (12.86%) Product Ownership
4 14 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (9.29%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.29%) Wiki
7 5 (3.57%) Robotics
8 4 (2.86%) Credit Risk
8 4 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.14%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.43%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.43%) FMCG
10 2 (1.43%) Market Risk
10 2 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.57%) Windows
2 11 (7.86%) Linux
3 2 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (67.86%) CI/CD
2 77 (55.00%) DevOps
3 68 (48.57%) Agile
4 59 (42.14%) Microservices
5 46 (32.86%) Full-Stack Development
6 39 (27.86%) Test Automation
7 38 (27.14%) Software Engineering
8 32 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (20.71%) Containerisation
9 29 (20.71%) Deployment Automation
10 26 (18.57%) API Development
10 26 (18.57%) Event-Driven
11 25 (17.86%) Design Patterns
11 25 (17.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 25 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
12 22 (15.71%) AI
12 22 (15.71%) API Design
13 21 (15.00%) SOLID
14 19 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (13.57%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 125 (89.29%) C#
2 58 (41.43%) SQL
3 51 (36.43%) JavaScript
4 46 (32.86%) TypeScript
5 35 (25.00%) Python
6 20 (14.29%) Bicep
7 6 (4.29%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.86%) C++
9 3 (2.14%) Java
9 3 (2.14%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.14%) XAML
10 2 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.71%) C
11 1 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.71%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.00%) Degree
4 10 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.86%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.43%) PhD
8 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.14%) QA
2 14 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 13 (9.29%) WCAG
4 11 (7.86%) NCSC
5 3 (2.14%) Basel III
6 2 (1.43%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.71%) GRC
7 1 (0.71%) HL7
System Software
1 49 (35.00%) Docker
2 14 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (0.71%) Istio
3 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (40.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.29%) Centrify
2 6 (4.29%) CyberArk
3 4 (2.86%) IBM
4 3 (2.14%) DevExpress
4 3 (2.14%) Oracle
5 2 (1.43%) Cisco
5 2 (1.43%) VMware
6 1 (0.71%) Databricks
6 1 (0.71%) Google
6 1 (0.71%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.71%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.71%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.71%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.71%) SAP
6 1 (0.71%) Sitecore