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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 383 261
Rank change year-on-year -120 -122 -31
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 138 132 302
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.48% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.40% 1.91% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 77 220
10th Percentile £374 £353 £380
25th Percentile £406 £438 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -7.83%
75th Percentile £619 £613 £650
90th Percentile £700 £732 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile - - £47.61
25th Percentile £45.00 - £54.85
Median hourly rate £46.25 - £80.00
75th Percentile £50.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile £52.25 - £87.00
UK median hourly rate £46.25 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +23.08%

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 9,865 6,895 8,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.49% 24.86% 24.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,497 4,739 5,609
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 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 166 193
10th Percentile £30.10 £31.25 £25.72
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.32% -10.82% -5.23%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £76.85 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.43
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.10% -2.49%

.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 23 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 23 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 -112 61 £600 +6.67% 61
South East -66 23 £500 +25.00% 51
North of England -48 22 £511 +0.74% 38
South West -26 18 £413 +10.00% 14
Yorkshire -28 17 £475 -9.52% 7
Midlands -41 9 £425 -15.00% 20
West Midlands -45 8 £400 - 13
North West -43 4 £575 +21.05% 22
East of England -18 3 £525 +5.00% 25
East Midlands -16 1 £450 -10.00% 7
North East - 1 - - 10
.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 (18.12%) Confluence
2 5 (3.62%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.17%) CMS
4 2 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.45%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.72%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.72%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.72%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Endur
1 1 (0.72%) Findur
1 1 (0.72%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 97 (70.29%) Azure
2 51 (36.96%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (28.26%) AWS
4 32 (23.19%) GitHub
5 17 (12.32%) Serverless
6 15 (10.87%) Azure AKS
7 14 (10.14%) Azure Functions
8 13 (9.42%) Azure Key Vault
8 13 (9.42%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (8.70%) PaaS
10 10 (7.25%) Azure App Service
10 10 (7.25%) Entra ID
11 9 (6.52%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (5.80%) Power Platform
13 7 (5.07%) Azure API Management
13 7 (5.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (5.07%) IaaS
14 6 (4.35%) GitHub Copilot
15 5 (3.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.35%) 3GPP
1 6 (4.35%) RTP
1 6 (4.35%) Wireshark
2 2 (1.45%) DHCP
2 2 (1.45%) DNS
2 2 (1.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (38.41%) SQL Server
2 19 (13.77%) NoSQL
3 14 (10.14%) Relational Database
4 13 (9.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (7.97%) Geospatial Data
7 8 (5.80%) Power BI
8 4 (2.90%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.45%) Db2
9 2 (1.45%) Redis
9 2 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.72%) Parquet
10 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (34.06%) Git
2 23 (16.67%) JIRA
3 11 (7.97%) MSI
4 10 (7.25%) GitLab
5 8 (5.80%) Jenkins
5 8 (5.80%) Visual Studio
6 7 (5.07%) TeamCity
7 5 (3.62%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (2.90%) JetBrains Rider
9 3 (2.17%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.45%) NUnit
10 2 (1.45%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.72%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.72%) Moq
11 1 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.72%) Rational Rhapsody
11 1 (0.72%) REST Assured
General
1 43 (31.16%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.01%) Finance
3 23 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.59%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.80%) Front Office
6 7 (5.07%) Banking
7 5 (3.62%) Aviation
7 5 (3.62%) Fire and Rescue
7 5 (3.62%) Police
8 3 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.17%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.17%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.45%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.45%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.45%) Legal
9 2 (1.45%) Marketing
9 2 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.45%) Retail
9 2 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 99 (71.74%) Developer
2 56 (40.58%) .NET Developer
3 33 (23.91%) Senior
4 27 (19.57%) Senior Developer
5 26 (18.84%) Full-Stack Developer
6 21 (15.22%) C# Developer
7 17 (12.32%) Software Engineer
8 16 (11.59%) Senior .NET Developer
9 14 (10.14%) Azure Developer
10 13 (9.42%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 13 (9.42%) React Developer
11 12 (8.70%) C# .NET Developer
12 11 (7.97%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (6.52%) Senior C# Developer
13 9 (6.52%) Senior React Developer
14 8 (5.80%) Lead
15 7 (5.07%) Architect
15 7 (5.07%) C# Software Engineer
15 7 (5.07%) Senior C# .NET Developer
16 6 (4.35%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (100.00%) .NET
2 71 (51.45%) REST
3 57 (41.30%) .NET Framework
4 51 (36.96%) RESTful
5 43 (31.16%) React
6 38 (27.54%) ASP.NET
7 27 (19.57%) Terraform
8 25 (18.12%) CSS
8 25 (18.12%) HTML
9 24 (17.39%) AngularJS
9 24 (17.39%) Entity Framework
10 18 (13.04%) Web Services
11 16 (11.59%) CSS3
11 16 (11.59%) HTML5
12 15 (10.87%) Kafka
12 15 (10.87%) WPF
13 11 (7.97%) ATL
13 11 (7.97%) COM
13 11 (7.97%) JSON
13 11 (7.97%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 50 (36.23%) Cloud Native
2 20 (14.49%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (13.04%) Product Ownership
4 16 (11.59%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (10.14%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (9.42%) Onboarding
7 6 (4.35%) Wiki
8 5 (3.62%) Robotics
9 4 (2.90%) Credit Risk
9 4 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.45%) Equities
11 2 (1.45%) FMCG
11 2 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.45%) Market Risk
11 2 (1.45%) NHS
11 2 (1.45%) PKI
11 2 (1.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.04%) Windows
2 10 (7.25%) Linux
3 2 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (68.84%) CI/CD
2 77 (55.80%) DevOps
3 70 (50.72%) Agile
4 61 (44.20%) Microservices
5 45 (32.61%) Full-Stack Development
6 40 (28.99%) Test Automation
7 35 (25.36%) Software Engineering
8 31 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (21.01%) Containerisation
10 28 (20.29%) Deployment Automation
11 27 (19.57%) API Development
12 25 (18.12%) Event-Driven
13 24 (17.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 24 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
14 23 (16.67%) API Design
14 23 (16.67%) Design Patterns
15 22 (15.94%) AI
16 20 (14.49%) SOLID
17 19 (13.77%) DevSecOps
18 18 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 123 (89.13%) C#
2 57 (41.30%) SQL
3 52 (37.68%) JavaScript
4 46 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 35 (25.36%) Python
6 20 (14.49%) Bicep
7 6 (4.35%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.90%) C++
8 4 (2.90%) Java
9 3 (2.17%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.45%) XAML
11 1 (0.72%) C
11 1 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (20.29%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.94%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.42%) Degree
4 9 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.62%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.90%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.17%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.45%) PhD
9 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.32%) QA
2 14 (10.14%) Accessibility
3 13 (9.42%) WCAG
4 11 (7.97%) NCSC
5 3 (2.17%) Basel III
6 2 (1.45%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.72%) HL7
System Software
1 49 (35.51%) Docker
2 14 (10.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (29.71%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.07%) Ansible
3 1 (0.72%) Istio
3 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (39.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.35%) Centrify
2 6 (4.35%) CyberArk
3 4 (2.90%) IBM
4 3 (2.17%) DevExpress
4 3 (2.17%) Oracle
5 2 (1.45%) Cisco
5 2 (1.45%) VMware
6 1 (0.72%) Google
6 1 (0.72%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.72%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.72%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.72%) SAP
6 1 (0.72%) Sitecore