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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 398 286
Rank change year-on-year -70 -112 -48
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 151 123 258
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.44% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.54% 1.72% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 67 192
10th Percentile £400 £353 £400
25th Percentile £419 £431 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -7.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £646
90th Percentile £725 £728 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.00 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £46.25 - £80.00
75th Percentile £50.00 - £86.25
90th Percentile £52.25 - £88.50
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 9,826 7,136 8,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.50% 24.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,461 4,810 5,235
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £449 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £794
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 172 171
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £36.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.51 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.85 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.15% -15.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.20 £70.00 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +8.33%

.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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -86 68 £600 -1.44% 139
South East -53 29 £500 +11.11% 73
North of England -49 22 £488 -7.14% 67
Yorkshire -22 18 £468 -10.95% 19
South West -26 17 £413 +10.00% 14
West Midlands -41 7 £425 +3.03% 17
Midlands -50 7 £425 -13.27% 25
East of England -34 5 £525 +5.00% 29
North West -47 2 £550 +4.76% 35
North East - 2 - - 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 27 (17.88%) Confluence
2 4 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.99%) CMS
4 2 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.32%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.66%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.66%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.66%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.66%) nginx
5 1 (0.66%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Sage 50
1 1 (0.66%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 103 (68.21%) Azure
2 55 (36.42%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (28.48%) AWS
4 31 (20.53%) GitHub
5 17 (11.26%) Azure Key Vault
6 15 (9.93%) Serverless
7 14 (9.27%) Azure App Service
7 14 (9.27%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (8.61%) Azure AKS
8 13 (8.61%) PaaS
9 12 (7.95%) Azure Functions
9 12 (7.95%) Entra ID
10 9 (5.96%) IaaS
11 8 (5.30%) Azure API Management
11 8 (5.30%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (5.30%) Power Platform
12 7 (4.64%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (4.64%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (3.97%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (3.31%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.31%) 3GPP
1 5 (3.31%) RTP
1 5 (3.31%) Wireshark
2 2 (1.32%) DHCP
2 2 (1.32%) DNS
2 2 (1.32%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (39.07%) SQL Server
2 21 (13.91%) NoSQL
3 16 (10.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 16 (10.60%) Relational Database
4 15 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (7.28%) Geospatial Data
6 8 (5.30%) Power BI
7 4 (2.65%) Parquet
7 4 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.99%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.32%) Db2
9 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.32%) Redis
9 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.66%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.66%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 54 (35.76%) Git
2 25 (16.56%) JIRA
3 11 (7.28%) MSI
3 11 (7.28%) Visual Studio
4 10 (6.62%) GitLab
4 10 (6.62%) Jenkins
5 7 (4.64%) TeamCity
6 5 (3.31%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.65%) JetBrains Rider
7 4 (2.65%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.99%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.32%) Moq
9 2 (1.32%) NUnit
10 1 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.66%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.66%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.66%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 48 (31.79%) Social Skills
2 37 (24.50%) Finance
3 27 (17.88%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.60%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.62%) Front Office
6 9 (5.96%) Banking
7 4 (2.65%) Aviation
7 4 (2.65%) Fire and Rescue
7 4 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.65%) Police
8 3 (1.99%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.99%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.99%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Legal
9 2 (1.32%) Marketing
9 2 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.32%) Retail
9 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 110 (72.85%) Developer
2 63 (41.72%) .NET Developer
3 44 (29.14%) Senior
4 33 (21.85%) Full-Stack Developer
5 32 (21.19%) Senior Developer
6 26 (17.22%) C# Developer
7 21 (13.91%) Senior .NET Developer
8 18 (11.92%) C# .NET Developer
8 18 (11.92%) Software Engineer
9 17 (11.26%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 16 (10.60%) React Developer
11 14 (9.27%) Azure Developer
12 12 (7.95%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (7.28%) Senior C# Developer
14 9 (5.96%) Full-Stack C# Developer
14 9 (5.96%) Lead
15 8 (5.30%) Architect
15 8 (5.30%) C# Software Engineer
15 8 (5.30%) Senior React Developer
15 8 (5.30%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (100.00%) .NET
2 81 (53.64%) REST
3 63 (41.72%) .NET Framework
4 55 (36.42%) RESTful
5 50 (33.11%) React
6 43 (28.48%) ASP.NET
7 31 (20.53%) Entity Framework
8 27 (17.88%) Terraform
9 25 (16.56%) CSS
10 24 (15.89%) AngularJS
10 24 (15.89%) HTML
11 20 (13.25%) Web Services
11 20 (13.25%) WPF
12 18 (11.92%) Kafka
13 15 (9.93%) ASP.NET Web API
13 15 (9.93%) CSS3
13 15 (9.93%) HTML5
14 13 (8.61%) JSON
15 11 (7.28%) ATL
15 11 (7.28%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 53 (35.10%) Cloud Native
2 23 (15.23%) Product Ownership
3 22 (14.57%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (11.92%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (9.27%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (9.27%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.64%) Wiki
7 5 (3.31%) Credit Risk
8 4 (2.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.65%) Market Risk
8 4 (2.65%) Robotics
9 3 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.99%) NHS
9 3 (1.99%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.32%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.91%) Windows
2 10 (6.62%) Linux
3 2 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (66.23%) CI/CD
2 79 (52.32%) DevOps
3 74 (49.01%) Agile
4 55 (36.42%) Microservices
5 54 (35.76%) Full-Stack Development
6 48 (31.79%) Test Automation
7 42 (27.81%) Software Engineering
8 37 (24.50%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (23.18%) Deployment Automation
10 28 (18.54%) Containerisation
11 26 (17.22%) Design Patterns
11 26 (17.22%) Event-Driven
12 25 (16.56%) API Design
12 25 (16.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 25 (16.56%) SOLID
13 24 (15.89%) AI
14 23 (15.23%) API Development
15 22 (14.57%) Infrastructure as Code
15 22 (14.57%) Scrum
16 21 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 134 (88.74%) C#
2 65 (43.05%) SQL
3 54 (35.76%) JavaScript
4 50 (33.11%) TypeScript
5 43 (28.48%) Python
6 20 (13.25%) Bicep
7 9 (5.96%) T-SQL
8 5 (3.31%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.31%) XAML
9 4 (2.65%) C++
9 4 (2.65%) Java
10 2 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.32%) VBA
11 1 (0.66%) C
11 1 (0.66%) VB
Qualifications
1 29 (19.21%) Security Cleared
2 23 (15.23%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.26%) Degree
4 11 (7.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.64%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.64%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.65%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.65%) PhD
7 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.91%) QA
2 14 (9.27%) Accessibility
3 13 (8.61%) WCAG
4 11 (7.28%) NCSC
5 3 (1.99%) Basel III
6 2 (1.32%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.32%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.66%) GDPR
7 1 (0.66%) GRC
7 1 (0.66%) HL7
7 1 (0.66%) ITGC
7 1 (0.66%) PSD2
7 1 (0.66%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (31.13%) Docker
2 16 (10.60%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (26.49%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.64%) Ansible
3 1 (0.66%) Istio
3 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (39.07%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.97%) Centrify
2 6 (3.97%) CyberArk
3 4 (2.65%) IBM
3 4 (2.65%) Oracle
4 3 (1.99%) DevExpress
5 2 (1.32%) Cisco
5 2 (1.32%) Google
5 2 (1.32%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.32%) SAP
5 2 (1.32%) VMware
5 2 (1.32%) WSO2
6 1 (0.66%) Calypso
6 1 (0.66%) Databricks
6 1 (0.66%) FIS
6 1 (0.66%) Murex
6 1 (0.66%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.66%) Sage
6 1 (0.66%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.66%) Temenos