.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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 344 263
Rank change year-on-year -152 -81 -35
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 115 153 341
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.58% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.38% 2.58% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 105 252
10th Percentile £373 £352 £400
25th Percentile £413 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -7.56%
75th Percentile £600 £659 £700
90th Percentile £675 £825 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £545
% change year-on-year - -8.26% -7.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile - - £47.61
25th Percentile - - £54.85
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £46.88 - £85.00
90th Percentile £48.00 - £87.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +60.00%

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 8,356 5,921 7,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.00% 22.48% 21.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,509 4,079 5,534
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £540
% change year-on-year +2.44% -5.09% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 126 264
10th Percentile £30.25 £30.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.44 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £58.15
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -0.90% -10.54%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.68 £80.51 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

.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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -120 47 £575 - 57
North of England -64 23 £524 +6.89% 48
South East -60 18 £563 +40.63% 45
Yorkshire -48 14 £511 +5.96% 13
South West -27 11 £419 -30.21% 10
Midlands -49 11 £450 -8.16% 26
West Midlands -55 10 £450 - 15
North West -37 8 £550 +4.76% 25
East of England -27 5 £550 +17.02% 21
East Midlands -17 1 £450 -8.16% 11
North East - 1 - - 12
.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 15 (13.04%) Confluence
2 6 (5.22%) CMS
3 3 (2.61%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (2.61%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.74%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.87%) ColdFusion
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Endur
1 1 (0.87%) Findur
1 1 (0.87%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 78 (67.83%) Azure
2 40 (34.78%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (25.22%) AWS
4 21 (18.26%) GitHub
5 13 (11.30%) Serverless
6 12 (10.43%) Azure AKS
7 10 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (7.83%) Azure Functions
8 9 (7.83%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (7.83%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (6.09%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (6.09%) Entra ID
9 7 (6.09%) Power Platform
10 6 (5.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (5.22%) SaaS
11 5 (4.35%) Azure App Service
11 5 (4.35%) PaaS
12 4 (3.48%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (3.48%) IaaS
13 3 (2.61%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.96%) 3GPP
1 8 (6.96%) RTP
2 6 (5.22%) Wireshark
3 2 (1.74%) DHCP
3 2 (1.74%) DNS
3 2 (1.74%) HTTP
3 2 (1.74%) RTCP
3 2 (1.74%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.74%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (40.87%) SQL Server
2 17 (14.78%) Relational Database
3 14 (12.17%) NoSQL
4 11 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (6.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (6.09%) Geospatial Data
5 7 (6.09%) Oracle Database
5 7 (6.09%) Power BI
6 3 (2.61%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.74%) Redis
8 1 (0.87%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.87%) Parquet
8 1 (0.87%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (30.43%) Git
2 21 (18.26%) JIRA
3 7 (6.09%) GitLab
3 7 (6.09%) MSI
4 6 (5.22%) TeamCity
4 6 (5.22%) Visual Studio
5 4 (3.48%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.61%) JetBrains Rider
6 3 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.74%) NUnit
7 2 (1.74%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.87%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.87%) Moq
8 1 (0.87%) REST Assured
General
1 31 (26.96%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.74%) Finance
3 14 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.30%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.70%) Banking
6 5 (4.35%) Aviation
6 5 (4.35%) Fire and Rescue
6 5 (4.35%) Police
7 4 (3.48%) Front Office
7 4 (3.48%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.61%) Retail
9 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.74%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.87%) Automotive
10 1 (0.87%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 83 (72.17%) Developer
2 41 (35.65%) .NET Developer
3 30 (26.09%) Senior
4 27 (23.48%) Senior Developer
5 24 (20.87%) C# Developer
6 20 (17.39%) Full-Stack Developer
7 18 (15.65%) Software Engineer
8 16 (13.91%) Senior .NET Developer
9 12 (10.43%) Azure Developer
9 12 (10.43%) C# .NET Developer
10 10 (8.70%) Architect
11 8 (6.96%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 8 (6.96%) React Developer
11 8 (6.96%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (6.09%) Lead
12 7 (6.09%) Senior C# Developer
12 7 (6.09%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (5.22%) Senior React Developer
14 5 (4.35%) .NET Software Engineer
14 5 (4.35%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (100.00%) .NET
2 51 (44.35%) .NET Framework
3 48 (41.74%) React
4 42 (36.52%) REST
5 41 (35.65%) RESTful
6 30 (26.09%) ASP.NET
7 29 (25.22%) HTML
8 27 (23.48%) CSS
9 23 (20.00%) Entity Framework
10 22 (19.13%) AngularJS
11 13 (11.30%) ASP.NET Web API
12 12 (10.43%) HTML5
13 11 (9.57%) Web Services
14 10 (8.70%) CSS3
15 9 (7.83%) WPF
16 8 (6.96%) JSON
16 8 (6.96%) Node.js
17 7 (6.09%) ATL
17 7 (6.09%) COM
17 7 (6.09%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 37 (32.17%) Cloud Native
2 17 (14.78%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (13.91%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (13.04%) Product Ownership
5 8 (6.96%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (6.96%) Onboarding
6 7 (6.09%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (4.35%) Robotics
8 3 (2.61%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.74%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.74%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.74%) FMCG
9 2 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.74%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.74%) Media Streaming
9 2 (1.74%) PKI
9 2 (1.74%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.57%) Windows
2 8 (6.96%) Linux
3 2 (1.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (66.96%) CI/CD
2 70 (60.87%) DevOps
3 57 (49.57%) Agile
4 48 (41.74%) Microservices
5 35 (30.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 34 (29.57%) Test Automation
7 32 (27.83%) Software Engineering
8 21 (18.26%) Containerisation
8 21 (18.26%) Event-Driven
9 20 (17.39%) AI
10 19 (16.52%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (15.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 18 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (14.78%) API Development
13 16 (13.91%) SOLID
13 16 (13.91%) TDD
14 15 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
15 14 (12.17%) Design Patterns
15 14 (12.17%) DevSecOps
15 14 (12.17%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 100 (86.96%) C#
2 45 (39.13%) SQL
3 41 (35.65%) TypeScript
4 40 (34.78%) JavaScript
5 30 (26.09%) Python
6 14 (12.17%) Bicep
7 4 (3.48%) Java
8 2 (1.74%) C++
8 2 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.74%) XAML
9 1 (0.87%) C
9 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.83%) Degree
4 5 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.74%) PhD
6 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.52%) QA
2 10 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 10 (8.70%) WCAG
3 7 (6.09%) NCSC
4 2 (1.74%) Basel III
4 2 (1.74%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 39 (33.91%) Docker
2 8 (6.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (25.22%) Kubernetes
2 21 (18.26%) Terraform
3 4 (3.48%) Ansible
4 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (28.70%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.43%) Oracle
3 4 (3.48%) Centrify
3 4 (3.48%) CyberArk
3 4 (3.48%) Sitecore
4 2 (1.74%) Cisco
4 2 (1.74%) Google
4 2 (1.74%) IBM
4 2 (1.74%) ION Trading
4 2 (1.74%) VMware
5 1 (0.87%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.87%) OpenLink
5 1 (0.87%) SAP
5 1 (0.87%) ServiceNow