.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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 416 320 232
Rank change year-on-year -96 -88 -48
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 122 190 411
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.62% 1.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.76% 2.84% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 151 303
10th Percentile £384 £380 £373
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £68.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.40%

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 6,919 6,683 8,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.77% 21.67% 22.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,668 4,253 6,302
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £633 £670 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 98 183
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £36.37
25th Percentile £43.00 £41.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.15 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.12% -14.34%

.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 19 November 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 19 November 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 -59 73 £525 -12.50% 137
South East +7 17 £450 -2.70% 89
North of England -41 13 £525 +13.51% 103
East of England -13 7 £500 - 29
North West -26 7 £525 +16.67% 64
Midlands -35 6 £450 -10.00% 46
Yorkshire -41 6 £525 +10.53% 30
West Midlands -23 4 £413 -17.50% 21
South West +1 2 - - 24
East Midlands -22 2 £519 +3.75% 24
.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 3 (2.46%) Confluence
2 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.82%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.28%) Aladdin
1 4 (3.28%) Fidessa
1 4 (3.28%) thinkFolio
2 3 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.82%) Eikon
3 1 (0.82%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.82%) Maximo
3 1 (0.82%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 80 (65.57%) Azure
2 44 (36.07%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (20.49%) Serverless
4 24 (19.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 23 (18.85%) Azure Service Bus
6 20 (16.39%) Azure Functions
7 19 (15.57%) Azure Monitor
8 18 (14.75%) Azure Logic Apps
9 15 (12.30%) AWS
9 15 (12.30%) Azure AKS
9 15 (12.30%) GitHub
10 14 (11.48%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (9.84%) Entra ID
12 10 (8.20%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (7.38%) Azure API Management
13 9 (7.38%) Azure Event Grid
13 9 (7.38%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (4.92%) Azure Cognitive Services
14 6 (4.92%) Azure Machine Learning
15 5 (4.10%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.46%) Network Security
2 2 (1.64%) Internet
2 2 (1.64%) SSL
3 1 (0.82%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (31.15%) SQL Server
2 14 (11.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (9.84%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.74%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.28%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.46%) Big Data
6 3 (2.46%) Power BI
7 2 (1.64%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.64%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.64%) Redis
8 1 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.82%) DataStage
8 1 (0.82%) MySQL
8 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (14.75%) Git
2 4 (3.28%) Cypress.io
2 4 (3.28%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.28%) JIRA
3 3 (2.46%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (1.64%) Postman
4 2 (1.64%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.64%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.82%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.82%) Ant
5 1 (0.82%) AppVeyor
5 1 (0.82%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.82%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.82%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.82%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.82%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (0.82%) JUnit
5 1 (0.82%) NUnit
5 1 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.82%) Xcode
General
1 39 (31.97%) Finance
2 37 (30.33%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.30%) Banking
4 13 (10.66%) Public Sector
5 12 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.56%) Front Office
7 7 (5.74%) Financial Institution
8 6 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.28%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.64%) Billing
10 2 (1.64%) Electronics
10 2 (1.64%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.64%) Local Government
10 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.64%) Marketing
10 2 (1.64%) Retail
10 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.82%) Legal
11 1 (0.82%) Military
11 1 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 85 (69.67%) Developer
2 41 (33.61%) .NET Developer
3 35 (28.69%) Senior
4 28 (22.95%) Senior Developer
5 19 (15.57%) C# Developer
6 18 (14.75%) Full-Stack Developer
7 17 (13.93%) Senior .NET Developer
8 16 (13.11%) Azure Developer
9 13 (10.66%) Lead
10 10 (8.20%) C# .NET Developer
10 10 (8.20%) Software Engineer
11 9 (7.38%) Architect
11 9 (7.38%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 7 (5.74%) Lead Developer
13 5 (4.10%) .NET Software Engineer
13 5 (4.10%) Angular Developer
13 5 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (4.10%) Backend Developer
13 5 (4.10%) Lead C# Developer
13 5 (4.10%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (100.00%) .NET
2 32 (26.23%) .NET Framework
3 31 (25.41%) React
4 29 (23.77%) AngularJS
5 26 (21.31%) RESTful
6 23 (18.85%) ASP.NET
7 20 (16.39%) REST
8 17 (13.93%) HTML
9 15 (12.30%) CSS
10 11 (9.02%) Node.js
11 10 (8.20%) SOAP
12 8 (6.56%) Entity Framework
13 7 (5.74%) OAuth
13 7 (5.74%) WPF
14 6 (4.92%) ARM Templates
14 6 (4.92%) PyTorch
14 6 (4.92%) TensorFlow
15 5 (4.10%) ASP.NET MVC
15 5 (4.10%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (4.10%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.03%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.84%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (9.84%) Product Ownership
3 9 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (6.56%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (5.74%) Fixed Income
5 7 (5.74%) Hedge funds
6 6 (4.92%) AI Agents
7 4 (3.28%) Credit Risk
7 4 (3.28%) Derivative
7 4 (3.28%) Market Risk
7 4 (3.28%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.28%) NHS
8 3 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.82%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.82%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.56%) Windows
2 2 (1.64%) Android
2 2 (1.64%) Linux
3 1 (0.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (62.30%) CI/CD
2 71 (58.20%) DevOps
3 68 (55.74%) Agile
4 44 (36.07%) Microservices
5 35 (28.69%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (27.87%) Full-Stack Development
7 22 (18.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (17.21%) Design Patterns
9 20 (16.39%) Clean Code
10 19 (15.57%) Software Engineering
11 18 (14.75%) OO
12 15 (12.30%) Event-Driven
12 15 (12.30%) Scrum
12 15 (12.30%) TDD
13 14 (11.48%) API Development
13 14 (11.48%) SOLID
13 14 (11.48%) Test Automation
14 13 (10.66%) Mentoring
15 12 (9.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 12 (9.84%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 105 (86.07%) C#
2 55 (45.08%) SQL
3 37 (30.33%) JavaScript
4 20 (16.39%) Python
5 13 (10.66%) Java
6 11 (9.02%) TypeScript
7 10 (8.20%) Bicep
8 7 (5.74%) T-SQL
9 6 (4.92%) Bash
9 6 (4.92%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.28%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.46%) PHP
12 2 (1.64%) Perl
12 2 (1.64%) VBA
13 1 (0.82%) C++
13 1 (0.82%) JSX
13 1 (0.82%) Korn
13 1 (0.82%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (4.10%) Degree
2 4 (3.28%) Azure Certification
2 4 (3.28%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.64%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.20%) QA
2 5 (4.10%) MiFID
3 4 (3.28%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.46%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.46%) HL7
4 3 (2.46%) WCAG
5 1 (0.82%) EMIR
System Software
1 15 (12.30%) Docker
2 9 (7.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (21.31%) Terraform
2 13 (10.66%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.82%) Grafana
4 1 (0.82%) Istio
4 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (29.51%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.56%) Databricks
2 8 (6.56%) Oracle
3 6 (4.92%) OpenAI
4 4 (3.28%) Portware
5 3 (2.46%) Brio
5 3 (2.46%) SAP
6 1 (0.82%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.82%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.82%) Okta
6 1 (0.82%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.82%) Reuters
6 1 (0.82%) Salesforce