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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 315 276
Rank change year-on-year -127 -39 -84
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 107 167 304
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.64% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.47% 2.87% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 132 230
10th Percentile £405 £426 £361
25th Percentile £453 £475 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £600 £700 £688
90th Percentile £705 £825 £726
UK median daily rate £492 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -14.43% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
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 7,262 5,823 7,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.82% 22.38% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,871 3,732 5,612
10th Percentile £358 £363 £355
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £535
% change year-on-year -4.65% +0.47% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 75 182
10th Percentile £34.40 £26.35 £25.85
25th Percentile £50.00 £47.38 £45.96
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.13 £66.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.60 £76.26 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%

.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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -85 66 £500 -20.95% 61
South East -23 14 £425 -8.11% 57
North of England -53 12 £494 +16.18% 56
East of England -17 7 £550 +10.55% 20
Midlands -51 6 £460 -8.00% 27
North West -25 5 £488 +18.18% 35
Yorkshire -56 5 £500 +5.26% 12
West Midlands -45 4 £460 -3.16% 11
East Midlands -33 2 £519 +3.75% 16
North East - 2 £475 - 10
South West -21 1 - - 15
.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 4 (3.74%) CMS
2 3 (2.80%) Confluence
2 3 (2.80%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.93%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.93%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 73 (68.22%) Azure
2 47 (43.93%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (28.97%) Serverless
4 28 (26.17%) Azure Functions
5 24 (22.43%) Azure Logic Apps
6 23 (21.50%) Azure Monitor
7 22 (20.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 21 (19.63%) Azure AKS
9 20 (18.69%) Azure Service Bus
10 18 (16.82%) Entra ID
11 17 (15.89%) GitHub
11 17 (15.89%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (14.02%) AWS
13 12 (11.21%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (10.28%) Azure Event Grid
15 9 (8.41%) Azure API Management
15 9 (8.41%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (7.48%) Azure Cognitive Services
16 8 (7.48%) Azure Machine Learning
17 7 (6.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) Network Security
2 2 (1.87%) SSL
3 1 (0.93%) DNS
3 1 (0.93%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (37.38%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.28%) NoSQL
3 10 (9.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (8.41%) Relational Database
5 7 (6.54%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.67%) Oracle Database
7 4 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.87%) Big Data
8 2 (1.87%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.87%) Redis
9 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.93%) DataStage
9 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (21.50%) Git
2 9 (8.41%) JIRA
3 6 (5.61%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.80%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.87%) Postman
6 1 (0.93%) AppVeyor
6 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
General
1 36 (33.64%) Social Skills
2 31 (28.97%) Finance
3 18 (16.82%) Banking
4 10 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.61%) Front Office
7 4 (3.74%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.74%) Health Technology
7 4 (3.74%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.87%) Billing
8 2 (1.87%) Retail
9 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Legal
9 1 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 68 (63.55%) Developer
2 34 (31.78%) .NET Developer
3 26 (24.30%) Senior
4 17 (15.89%) Azure Developer
5 16 (14.95%) Senior Developer
6 14 (13.08%) Senior .NET Developer
7 13 (12.15%) C# Developer
7 13 (12.15%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (12.15%) Software Engineer
8 11 (10.28%) Architect
9 8 (7.48%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (6.54%) Azure Architect
10 7 (6.54%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (5.61%) Administrator
11 6 (5.61%) Azure Administrator
11 6 (5.61%) Database Developer
11 6 (5.61%) DBA
12 5 (4.67%) .NET Software Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (100.00%) .NET
2 40 (37.38%) React
3 36 (33.64%) .NET Framework
4 26 (24.30%) AngularJS
4 26 (24.30%) ASP.NET
4 26 (24.30%) RESTful
5 18 (16.82%) HTML
5 18 (16.82%) Node.js
6 15 (14.02%) CSS
7 14 (13.08%) REST
8 8 (7.48%) ASP.NET MVC
8 8 (7.48%) PyTorch
8 8 (7.48%) TensorFlow
9 7 (6.54%) ASP.NET Web API
9 7 (6.54%) OAuth
9 7 (6.54%) WPF
10 6 (5.61%) ARM Templates
10 6 (5.61%) Entity Framework
10 6 (5.61%) GraphQL
11 5 (4.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.63%) Cloud Native
2 14 (13.08%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (10.28%) AI Agents
4 9 (8.41%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (7.48%) Product Ownership
6 7 (6.54%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (4.67%) Credit Risk
7 5 (4.67%) Market Risk
8 4 (3.74%) Fixed Income
8 4 (3.74%) NHS
9 3 (2.80%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.87%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.93%) Derivative
11 1 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.93%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.48%) Windows
2 1 (0.93%) Android
2 1 (0.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (70.09%) CI/CD
2 68 (63.55%) DevOps
3 56 (52.34%) Agile
4 46 (42.99%) Microservices
5 35 (32.71%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (28.97%) Full-Stack Development
7 24 (22.43%) AI
8 22 (20.56%) Software Engineering
9 19 (17.76%) Test Automation
10 18 (16.82%) API Management
10 18 (16.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (14.02%) Clean Code
11 15 (14.02%) Containerisation
11 15 (14.02%) Design Patterns
11 15 (14.02%) RBAC
12 14 (13.08%) Mentoring
13 13 (12.15%) Event-Driven
13 13 (12.15%) MVC
14 12 (11.21%) Analytics
14 12 (11.21%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 90 (84.11%) C#
2 52 (48.60%) SQL
3 27 (25.23%) JavaScript
4 24 (22.43%) Python
5 16 (14.95%) TypeScript
6 14 (13.08%) Bicep
7 6 (5.61%) Bash
7 6 (5.61%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.67%) PHP
8 5 (4.67%) T-SQL
9 4 (3.74%) Java
9 4 (3.74%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.93%) C++
10 1 (0.93%) Perl
10 1 (0.93%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (7.48%) Azure Certification
2 6 (5.61%) Degree
2 6 (5.61%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.87%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.54%) QA
2 4 (3.74%) HL7
3 3 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.80%) MiFID
3 3 (2.80%) WCAG
4 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.93%) EMIR
System Software
1 20 (18.69%) Docker
2 12 (11.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (21.50%) Terraform
2 14 (13.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (28.04%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.21%) Oracle
3 10 (9.35%) Databricks
4 8 (7.48%) OpenAI
5 6 (5.61%) Sitecore
6 4 (3.74%) Brio
7 3 (2.80%) Google
7 3 (2.80%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.93%) Okta
8 1 (0.93%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.93%) Portware