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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 310 270
Rank change year-on-year -149 -40 -78
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 105 172 301
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.69% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.36% 3.03% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 139 236
10th Percentile £411 £404 £366
25th Percentile £460 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £610
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -5.74% +1.67%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £700
90th Percentile £703 £825 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £558 £600
% change year-on-year -10.31% -7.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £60.91
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 7,707 5,673 7,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.65% 22.67% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,175 3,746 5,458
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% -7.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 78 209
10th Percentile £35.10 £26.92 £21.16
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.75 £40.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £81.34 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

.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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -92 61 £513 -21.15% 50
North of England -58 15 £500 +11.11% 57
South East -36 11 £506 +12.50% 67
Midlands -57 9 £455 -9.00% 26
North West -38 8 £575 +39.39% 33
East of England -23 7 £550 +10.55% 31
West Midlands -45 7 £455 -4.21% 12
Yorkshire -61 5 £500 +5.26% 18
East Midlands -37 2 £519 +3.75% 14
North East - 2 £475 - 8
South West -20 1 - - 24
.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 (3.81%) CMS
2 3 (2.86%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (1.90%) Confluence
4 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.95%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.95%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (69.52%) Azure
2 48 (45.71%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (23.81%) Serverless
4 22 (20.95%) Azure Functions
5 20 (19.05%) Azure Monitor
5 20 (19.05%) Azure Service Bus
5 20 (19.05%) Entra ID
6 19 (18.10%) Azure AKS
7 18 (17.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 18 (17.14%) Azure Logic Apps
8 17 (16.19%) AWS
8 17 (16.19%) GitHub
8 17 (16.19%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (13.33%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (8.57%) Azure Event Grid
11 8 (7.62%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 8 (7.62%) Azure Machine Learning
11 8 (7.62%) SaaS
12 7 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.76%) Network Security
2 2 (1.90%) 3GPP
2 2 (1.90%) HTTP
2 2 (1.90%) RTCP
2 2 (1.90%) RTP
2 2 (1.90%) SSL
2 2 (1.90%) XCAP
3 1 (0.95%) DNS
3 1 (0.95%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (38.10%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (8.57%) Relational Database
4 8 (7.62%) NoSQL
5 7 (6.67%) Oracle Database
6 4 (3.81%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.90%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.90%) Redis
8 1 (0.95%) Big Data
8 1 (0.95%) DataStage
8 1 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.95%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.95%) Parquet
8 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (21.90%) Git
2 9 (8.57%) JIRA
3 6 (5.71%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.95%) AppVeyor
4 1 (0.95%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.95%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.95%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (32.38%) Social Skills
2 24 (22.86%) Finance
3 14 (13.33%) Banking
4 10 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.76%) Front Office
6 4 (3.81%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.81%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.86%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.90%) Billing
8 2 (1.90%) Retail
9 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Legal
9 1 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 69 (65.71%) Developer
2 35 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 28 (26.67%) Senior
4 18 (17.14%) Senior Developer
5 16 (15.24%) Azure Developer
5 16 (15.24%) Senior .NET Developer
6 15 (14.29%) C# Developer
6 15 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (12.38%) Software Engineer
8 9 (8.57%) Architect
9 8 (7.62%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (5.71%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 5 (4.76%) .NET Software Engineer
12 5 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 5 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (4.76%) Backend Developer
12 5 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
13 4 (3.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (100.00%) .NET
2 48 (45.71%) React
3 39 (37.14%) .NET Framework
4 26 (24.76%) AngularJS
5 25 (23.81%) ASP.NET
6 24 (22.86%) RESTful
7 21 (20.00%) HTML
8 18 (17.14%) CSS
9 16 (15.24%) REST
10 15 (14.29%) Node.js
11 12 (11.43%) Entity Framework
12 9 (8.57%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (8.57%) OAuth
13 8 (7.62%) ASP.NET MVC
13 8 (7.62%) PyTorch
13 8 (7.62%) TensorFlow
14 7 (6.67%) ARM Templates
14 7 (6.67%) OpenID
14 7 (6.67%) WPF
15 6 (5.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.14%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.48%) AI Agents
2 11 (10.48%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (10.48%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (8.57%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (6.67%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.76%) Credit Risk
5 5 (4.76%) Market Risk
6 4 (3.81%) NHS
7 3 (2.86%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.86%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.90%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.95%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.62%) Windows
2 1 (0.95%) Android
2 1 (0.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 67 (63.81%) DevOps
3 53 (50.48%) Agile
4 41 (39.05%) Microservices
5 33 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (30.48%) Full-Stack Development
7 26 (24.76%) AI
8 21 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 20 (19.05%) Test Automation
10 18 (17.14%) API Management
11 17 (16.19%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (16.19%) RBAC
12 15 (14.29%) Clean Code
12 15 (14.29%) Containerisation
13 14 (13.33%) Mentoring
14 13 (12.38%) Design Patterns
14 13 (12.38%) MVC
15 12 (11.43%) Analytics
16 11 (10.48%) Machine Learning
16 11 (10.48%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 88 (83.81%) C#
2 50 (47.62%) SQL
3 27 (25.71%) Python
4 26 (24.76%) JavaScript
5 18 (17.14%) TypeScript
6 15 (14.29%) Bicep
7 7 (6.67%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.71%) Bash
9 5 (4.76%) PHP
9 5 (4.76%) T-SQL
10 4 (3.81%) Java
10 4 (3.81%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.95%) C++
11 1 (0.95%) Perl
11 1 (0.95%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (8.57%) Azure Certification
2 6 (5.71%) Degree
3 5 (4.76%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.90%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.67%) QA
2 4 (3.81%) HL7
3 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.86%) WCAG
4 2 (1.90%) MiFID
5 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.95%) EMIR
System Software
1 21 (20.00%) Docker
2 14 (13.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (24.76%) Terraform
2 15 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.33%) Oracle
3 10 (9.52%) Databricks
4 8 (7.62%) OpenAI
5 6 (5.71%) Sitecore
6 4 (3.81%) Brio
7 3 (2.86%) Google
7 3 (2.86%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.95%) Okta
8 1 (0.95%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow