.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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 419 332 234
Rank change year-on-year -87 -98 -49
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 126 190 434
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.62% 1.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.84% 2.84% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 150 318
10th Percentile £377 £380 £374
25th Percentile £438 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £566 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.62% -1.61% -2.13%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £68.50
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 6,839 6,687 8,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.85% 21.69% 22.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,618 4,261 6,403
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £637 £665 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 95 181
10th Percentile £30.38 £26.35 £36.84
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £73.90 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.35 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +13.64% -12.47%

.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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 2025. 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 -49 74 £525 -12.50% 129
South East +10 17 £450 -2.70% 86
North of England -45 13 £525 +13.51% 105
East of England -9 7 £500 - 33
North West -23 7 £525 +16.67% 60
Midlands -29 6 £450 -10.00% 46
Yorkshire -31 6 £525 +10.53% 30
South West +3 5 £375 -40.48% 20
West Midlands -25 4 £413 -17.50% 21
East Midlands -14 2 £519 +4.80% 25
.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 3 (2.38%) Confluence
2 2 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.79%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.17%) Aladdin
1 4 (3.17%) Fidessa
1 4 (3.17%) thinkFolio
2 3 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.79%) Eikon
3 1 (0.79%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.79%) Maximo
3 1 (0.79%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 84 (66.67%) Azure
2 48 (38.10%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (19.84%) Serverless
4 24 (19.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 23 (18.25%) Azure Service Bus
6 20 (15.87%) Azure Functions
7 18 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (13.49%) Azure Logic Apps
9 15 (11.90%) AWS
9 15 (11.90%) GitHub
10 14 (11.11%) Azure AKS
11 13 (10.32%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (9.52%) Entra ID
13 9 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (6.35%) Azure API Management
14 8 (6.35%) Azure Event Grid
14 8 (6.35%) Azure Key Vault
15 5 (3.97%) Azure App Service
15 5 (3.97%) Azure Cognitive Services
15 5 (3.97%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.38%) Network Security
2 2 (1.59%) Internet
2 2 (1.59%) SSL
3 1 (0.79%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (30.95%) SQL Server
2 14 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (9.52%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.97%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.38%) Big Data
6 3 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.38%) Power BI
6 3 (2.38%) Redis
7 2 (1.59%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.59%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.59%) MySQL
7 2 (1.59%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (15.08%) Git
2 5 (3.97%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.17%) Cypress.io
3 4 (3.17%) JIRA
4 3 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.59%) Postman
5 2 (1.59%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.59%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.79%) Ant
6 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.79%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.79%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.79%) Gradle
6 1 (0.79%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.79%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (0.79%) JUnit
6 1 (0.79%) NUnit
6 1 (0.79%) Xcode
General
1 41 (32.54%) Finance
2 37 (29.37%) Social Skills
3 16 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.11%) Banking
5 12 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.35%) Front Office
7 7 (5.56%) Financial Institution
8 6 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.97%) Electronics
9 5 (3.97%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.97%) Marketing
9 5 (3.97%) Telecoms
10 4 (3.17%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.59%) Billing
11 2 (1.59%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.59%) Local Government
11 2 (1.59%) Retail
12 1 (0.79%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.79%) Military
12 1 (0.79%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 89 (70.63%) Developer
2 46 (36.51%) .NET Developer
3 38 (30.16%) Senior
4 31 (24.60%) Senior Developer
5 22 (17.46%) C# Developer
6 20 (15.87%) Senior .NET Developer
7 19 (15.08%) Azure Developer
8 18 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (13.49%) Lead
10 14 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
11 11 (8.73%) Lead Developer
12 10 (7.94%) Software Engineer
13 9 (7.14%) Architect
13 9 (7.14%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 9 (7.14%) Lead C# Developer
14 8 (6.35%) Lead .NET Developer
15 7 (5.56%) Senior C# Developer
16 6 (4.76%) Senior C# .NET Developer
17 5 (3.97%) .NET Software Engineer
17 5 (3.97%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (100.00%) .NET
2 32 (25.40%) .NET Framework
3 31 (24.60%) React
4 28 (22.22%) AngularJS
5 27 (21.43%) RESTful
6 25 (19.84%) ASP.NET
7 20 (15.87%) HTML
7 20 (15.87%) REST
8 18 (14.29%) CSS
9 10 (7.94%) Node.js
9 10 (7.94%) SOAP
10 9 (7.14%) Entity Framework
11 7 (5.56%) OAuth
11 7 (5.56%) WPF
12 6 (4.76%) ARM Templates
12 6 (4.76%) ASP.NET MVC
13 5 (3.97%) ASP.NET Core
13 5 (3.97%) PyTorch
13 5 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (3.97%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.90%) Product Ownership
3 12 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (6.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (6.35%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (5.56%) Fixed Income
6 7 (5.56%) Hedge funds
7 5 (3.97%) AI Agents
8 4 (3.17%) Credit Risk
8 4 (3.17%) Derivative
8 4 (3.17%) Market Risk
8 4 (3.17%) Mobile App
8 4 (3.17%) NHS
9 3 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.79%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.79%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.56%) Windows
2 3 (2.38%) Android
3 2 (1.59%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (60.32%) CI/CD
2 75 (59.52%) DevOps
3 71 (56.35%) Agile
4 44 (34.92%) Microservices
5 35 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (26.19%) Full-Stack Development
7 22 (17.46%) Design Patterns
7 22 (17.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (16.67%) OO
9 20 (15.87%) Clean Code
10 19 (15.08%) Software Engineering
10 19 (15.08%) TDD
11 17 (13.49%) SOLID
12 16 (12.70%) Mentoring
12 16 (12.70%) Scrum
13 15 (11.90%) Event-Driven
14 14 (11.11%) Test Automation
15 13 (10.32%) API Development
15 13 (10.32%) Unit Testing
16 12 (9.52%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 109 (86.51%) C#
2 57 (45.24%) SQL
3 39 (30.95%) JavaScript
4 19 (15.08%) Python
5 13 (10.32%) Java
6 12 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 10 (7.94%) Bicep
7 10 (7.94%) PowerShell
8 6 (4.76%) Bash
8 6 (4.76%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.38%) PHP
9 3 (2.38%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.59%) Perl
10 2 (1.59%) VBA
11 1 (0.79%) C++
11 1 (0.79%) JSX
11 1 (0.79%) Korn
11 1 (0.79%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (3.97%) Degree
1 5 (3.97%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.17%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.94%) QA
2 5 (3.97%) MiFID
3 4 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.38%) HL7
4 3 (2.38%) WCAG
5 1 (0.79%) EMIR
System Software
1 14 (11.11%) Docker
2 10 (7.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (22.22%) Terraform
2 12 (9.52%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.79%) Grafana
4 1 (0.79%) Istio
4 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (30.16%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.35%) Oracle
3 6 (4.76%) Databricks
3 6 (4.76%) SAP
4 5 (3.97%) OpenAI
5 4 (3.17%) Portware
6 3 (2.38%) Brio
7 1 (0.79%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.79%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.79%) Okta
7 1 (0.79%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.79%) Reuters
7 1 (0.79%) Salesforce