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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 388 267
Rank change year-on-year -105 -121 -34
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 140 126 292
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.46% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.44% 1.83% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 74 212
10th Percentile £378 £352 £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 £610 £613 £650
90th Percentile £700 £693 £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 9,753 6,874 8,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.36% 24.93% 24.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,422 4,723 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% -1.79%
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 1 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 1 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 -93 63 £585 +4.79% 124
South East -59 23 £500 +25.00% 64
North of England -58 21 £500 -1.48% 59
South West -24 18 £413 +10.00% 16
Yorkshire -25 17 £475 -9.52% 11
Midlands -49 10 £450 -10.00% 31
West Midlands -43 9 £450 - 17
East of England -22 3 £525 +5.00% 29
North West -57 3 £550 +15.79% 34
East Midlands -15 1 £450 -10.00% 14
North East - 1 - - 14
.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%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
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 17 (12.14%) Serverless
6 14 (10.00%) Azure AKS
6 14 (10.00%) Azure Functions
7 13 (9.29%) Azure Key Vault
7 13 (9.29%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (8.57%) PaaS
9 10 (7.14%) Azure App Service
9 10 (7.14%) Entra ID
10 9 (6.43%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (5.71%) Power Platform
12 7 (5.00%) Azure API Management
12 7 (5.00%) IaaS
13 6 (4.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (4.29%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
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 53 (37.86%) SQL Server
2 18 (12.86%) NoSQL
3 14 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 13 (9.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (7.86%) Geospatial Data
6 8 (5.71%) Power BI
7 4 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.14%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.43%) Db2
9 2 (1.43%) Redis
9 2 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.71%) Parquet
10 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
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 44 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.71%) Finance
3 23 (16.43%) 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%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.14%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.43%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.43%) Investment Banking
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 98 (70.00%) Developer
2 56 (40.00%) .NET Developer
3 35 (25.00%) 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%) Azure Developer
8 13 (9.29%) Full-Stack .NET 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 38 (27.14%) 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 16 (11.43%) Kafka
13 16 (11.43%) WPF
14 15 (10.71%) CSS3
14 15 (10.71%) HTML5
15 11 (7.86%) ATL
15 11 (7.86%) COM
15 11 (7.86%) JSON
15 11 (7.86%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 50 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 20 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (12.86%) Product Ownership
4 17 (12.14%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (9.29%) Onboarding
7 6 (4.29%) Wiki
8 5 (3.57%) Robotics
9 4 (2.86%) Credit Risk
9 4 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.43%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.43%) FMCG
11 2 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.43%) Market Risk
11 2 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 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 69 (49.29%) Agile
4 60 (42.86%) Microservices
5 46 (32.86%) Full-Stack Development
6 39 (27.86%) Test Automation
7 37 (26.43%) Software Engineering
8 31 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (20.71%) Containerisation
9 29 (20.71%) Deployment Automation
10 26 (18.57%) API Development
11 25 (17.86%) Event-Driven
11 25 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (17.14%) Design Patterns
12 24 (17.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 22 (15.71%) AI
13 22 (15.71%) API Design
14 21 (15.00%) SOLID
15 19 (13.57%) DevSecOps
16 18 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 125 (89.29%) C#
2 59 (42.14%) SQL
3 51 (36.43%) JavaScript
4 46 (32.86%) TypeScript
5 34 (24.29%) 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 13 (9.29%) Degree
4 9 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.86%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.14%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.43%) PhD
9 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 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%) HL7
System Software
1 48 (34.29%) Docker
2 14 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (29.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (0.71%) Istio
3 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (40.00%) 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%) 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