.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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 365 246
Rank change year-on-year -127 -119 -26
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 127 141 325
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.51% 0.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.49% 2.30% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 94 241
10th Percentile £370 £352 £399
25th Percentile £406 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -8.26% -7.00%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £680
90th Percentile £693 £709 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £516
% change year-on-year - -3.15% -10.22%
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 8,530 6,128 7,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.74% 22.20% 21.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,584 4,228 5,077
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £649 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £824
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 145 231
10th Percentile £29.00 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £47.60 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £73.94 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.36 £79.48 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year +18.18% +2.33% -10.42%

.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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -105 53 £600 +11.11% 74
South East -63 23 £513 +28.13% 61
North of England -63 23 £524 +6.89% 47
South West -27 16 £425 +13.33% 9
Yorkshire -33 15 £500 +2.04% 12
Midlands -49 9 £400 -18.37% 26
West Midlands -57 8 £400 - 15
North West -51 7 £575 +15.00% 25
East of England -18 2 - - 23
East Midlands -17 1 £450 -8.16% 11
North East - 1 - - 11
.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 23 (18.11%) Confluence
2 5 (3.94%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.36%) CMS
4 2 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.57%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.79%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.79%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.79%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Endur
1 1 (0.79%) Findur
1 1 (0.79%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 93 (73.23%) Azure
2 51 (40.16%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (22.83%) AWS
3 29 (22.83%) GitHub
4 18 (14.17%) Serverless
5 17 (13.39%) Azure AKS
6 15 (11.81%) Azure Key Vault
7 14 (11.02%) Azure Functions
7 14 (11.02%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (10.24%) PaaS
9 12 (9.45%) Entra ID
10 11 (8.66%) Azure App Service
10 11 (8.66%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (7.09%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (6.30%) IaaS
12 8 (6.30%) Power Platform
13 7 (5.51%) Azure API Management
13 7 (5.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (4.72%) GitHub Copilot
15 5 (3.94%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.30%) 3GPP
1 8 (6.30%) RTP
2 6 (4.72%) Wireshark
3 2 (1.57%) DHCP
3 2 (1.57%) DNS
3 2 (1.57%) HTTP
3 2 (1.57%) RTCP
3 2 (1.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.57%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (36.22%) SQL Server
2 20 (15.75%) NoSQL
3 15 (11.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (11.02%) Relational Database
5 11 (8.66%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (7.09%) Geospatial Data
7 8 (6.30%) Power BI
8 4 (3.15%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.36%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.57%) Db2
10 2 (1.57%) Parquet
10 2 (1.57%) Redis
10 2 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 44 (34.65%) Git
2 23 (18.11%) JIRA
3 9 (7.09%) GitLab
3 9 (7.09%) MSI
4 8 (6.30%) Visual Studio
5 7 (5.51%) TeamCity
6 6 (4.72%) Jenkins
7 4 (3.15%) JetBrains Rider
7 4 (3.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.57%) NUnit
8 2 (1.57%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.79%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.79%) Moq
9 1 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.79%) REST Assured
General
1 34 (26.77%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.26%) Finance
3 16 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.02%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.30%) Banking
6 5 (3.94%) Aviation
6 5 (3.94%) Fire and Rescue
6 5 (3.94%) Front Office
6 5 (3.94%) Police
7 3 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.36%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.36%) Retail
8 2 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.57%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.57%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.57%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (1.57%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.79%) Automotive
9 1 (0.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 90 (70.87%) Developer
2 50 (39.37%) .NET Developer
3 31 (24.41%) Senior
4 27 (21.26%) Senior Developer
5 26 (20.47%) Full-Stack Developer
6 23 (18.11%) C# Developer
7 18 (14.17%) Software Engineer
8 17 (13.39%) Senior .NET Developer
9 15 (11.81%) Azure Developer
10 13 (10.24%) C# .NET Developer
10 13 (10.24%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 13 (10.24%) React Developer
11 11 (8.66%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (7.09%) Architect
12 9 (7.09%) Senior C# Developer
12 9 (7.09%) Senior React Developer
13 8 (6.30%) Lead
14 7 (5.51%) C# Software Engineer
14 7 (5.51%) Senior C# .NET Developer
15 6 (4.72%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (100.00%) .NET
2 65 (51.18%) REST
3 59 (46.46%) .NET Framework
4 47 (37.01%) React
5 43 (33.86%) RESTful
6 33 (25.98%) ASP.NET
7 29 (22.83%) Entity Framework
8 25 (19.69%) HTML
9 24 (18.90%) CSS
10 21 (16.54%) AngularJS
11 15 (11.81%) HTML5
12 14 (11.02%) ASP.NET Web API
12 14 (11.02%) CSS3
13 13 (10.24%) Web Services
14 12 (9.45%) WPF
15 11 (8.66%) OAuth
16 10 (7.87%) Kafka
17 9 (7.09%) JSON
17 9 (7.09%) MFC
17 9 (7.09%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 42 (33.07%) Cloud Native
2 18 (14.17%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (11.02%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (11.02%) Product Ownership
4 12 (9.45%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (8.66%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.72%) Wiki
7 5 (3.94%) Robotics
8 3 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.57%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.57%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.57%) Equities
9 2 (1.57%) FMCG
9 2 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.57%) Media Streaming
9 2 (1.57%) NHS
9 2 (1.57%) PKI
10 1 (0.79%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.81%) Windows
2 9 (7.09%) Linux
3 2 (1.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (70.08%) CI/CD
2 77 (60.63%) DevOps
3 62 (48.82%) Agile
4 55 (43.31%) Microservices
5 43 (33.86%) Full-Stack Development
6 39 (30.71%) Test Automation
7 35 (27.56%) Software Engineering
8 25 (19.69%) Containerisation
9 22 (17.32%) Deployment Automation
9 22 (17.32%) Event-Driven
10 21 (16.54%) API Development
10 21 (16.54%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (15.75%) AI
11 20 (15.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 20 (15.75%) SOLID
12 19 (14.96%) API Design
13 18 (14.17%) Design Patterns
14 17 (13.39%) DevSecOps
14 17 (13.39%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 112 (88.19%) C#
2 52 (40.94%) SQL
3 46 (36.22%) JavaScript
4 45 (35.43%) TypeScript
5 35 (27.56%) Python
6 19 (14.96%) Bicep
7 4 (3.15%) Java
7 4 (3.15%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.36%) C++
9 2 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.57%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.57%) XAML
10 1 (0.79%) C
10 1 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (20.47%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.54%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.87%) Degree
4 6 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.94%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.94%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.57%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.57%) PhD
7 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.81%) QA
2 12 (9.45%) Accessibility
3 11 (8.66%) WCAG
4 9 (7.09%) NCSC
5 2 (1.57%) Basel III
5 2 (1.57%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 45 (35.43%) Docker
2 14 (11.02%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (28.35%) Kubernetes
2 26 (20.47%) Terraform
3 5 (3.94%) Ansible
4 1 (0.79%) Istio
4 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (39.37%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.72%) Oracle
3 4 (3.15%) Centrify
3 4 (3.15%) CyberArk
3 4 (3.15%) IBM
4 2 (1.57%) Cisco
4 2 (1.57%) DevExpress
4 2 (1.57%) Google
4 2 (1.57%) Sitecore
4 2 (1.57%) VMware
5 1 (0.79%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.79%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.79%) OpenLink
5 1 (0.79%) SAP
5 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow