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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 314 298
Rank change year-on-year -160 -16 -100
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 102 172 290
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.70% 0.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.29% 3.08% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 140 228
10th Percentile £410 £400 £367
25th Percentile £461 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £566 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% -5.63% -
75th Percentile £600 £700 £700
90th Percentile £705 £825 £741
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £54.85
Median hourly rate - - £64.45
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £64.45
% change year-on-year - - +6.72%

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 7,879 5,583 7,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.40% 22.60% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,280 3,772 5,403
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £790 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 87 197
10th Percentile £35.05 £27.34 £21.08
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.78 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.70 £83.38 £75.00
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 14 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 14 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 -106 62 £513 -18.97% 66
North of England -68 14 £500 +17.65% 50
South East -57 11 £506 +19.12% 64
East of England -24 7 £550 +10.55% 27
North West -37 7 £575 +39.39% 25
West Midlands -57 7 £455 -4.21% 13
Midlands -60 7 £455 -9.00% 28
Yorkshire -56 5 £500 +5.26% 14
North East - 2 £475 - 13
.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 (3.92%) CMS
2 3 (2.94%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.96%) Confluence
4 1 (0.98%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.98%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 72 (70.59%) Azure
2 47 (46.08%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (26.47%) Serverless
4 24 (23.53%) Azure Functions
5 20 (19.61%) Azure AKS
5 20 (19.61%) Entra ID
6 19 (18.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 19 (18.63%) Azure Logic Apps
6 19 (18.63%) Azure Monitor
7 18 (17.65%) Azure Service Bus
8 17 (16.67%) AWS
8 17 (16.67%) GitHub
8 17 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (13.73%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (8.82%) Azure Event Grid
11 8 (7.84%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 8 (7.84%) Azure Machine Learning
11 8 (7.84%) SaaS
12 7 (6.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.90%) Network Security
2 2 (1.96%) 3GPP
2 2 (1.96%) HTTP
2 2 (1.96%) RTCP
2 2 (1.96%) RTP
2 2 (1.96%) SSL
2 2 (1.96%) XCAP
3 1 (0.98%) DNS
3 1 (0.98%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (37.25%) SQL Server
2 12 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (8.82%) NoSQL
3 9 (8.82%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.86%) Oracle Database
5 5 (4.90%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.96%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.96%) Redis
8 1 (0.98%) Big Data
8 1 (0.98%) DataStage
8 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.98%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.98%) Parquet
8 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (23.53%) Git
2 9 (8.82%) JIRA
3 5 (4.90%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.98%) AppVeyor
4 1 (0.98%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.98%) GitLab
4 1 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.98%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 23 (22.55%) Finance
3 13 (12.75%) Banking
4 10 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.90%) Front Office
6 4 (3.92%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.92%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.94%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.96%) Billing
8 2 (1.96%) Retail
9 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Legal
9 1 (0.98%) Military
Job Titles
1 69 (67.65%) Developer
2 34 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 25 (24.51%) Senior
4 17 (16.67%) Azure Developer
4 17 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 15 (14.71%) C# Developer
5 15 (14.71%) Senior .NET Developer
6 14 (13.73%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (10.78%) Software Engineer
8 9 (8.82%) Architect
9 8 (7.84%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (6.86%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (4.90%) .NET Software Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 5 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) Backend Developer
11 5 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 5 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (3.92%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (100.00%) .NET
2 48 (47.06%) React
3 38 (37.25%) .NET Framework
4 27 (26.47%) AngularJS
5 24 (23.53%) ASP.NET
5 24 (23.53%) RESTful
6 21 (20.59%) HTML
7 18 (17.65%) CSS
8 17 (16.67%) REST
9 16 (15.69%) Node.js
10 10 (9.80%) Entity Framework
11 9 (8.82%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (8.82%) OAuth
12 8 (7.84%) OpenID
12 8 (7.84%) PyTorch
12 8 (7.84%) TensorFlow
13 7 (6.86%) ARM Templates
13 7 (6.86%) ASP.NET MVC
13 7 (6.86%) WPF
14 6 (5.88%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.61%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.78%) AI Agents
2 11 (10.78%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (10.78%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (7.84%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (5.88%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.90%) Credit Risk
5 5 (4.90%) Market Risk
6 4 (3.92%) NHS
7 3 (2.94%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.94%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.96%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.98%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.86%) Windows
2 1 (0.98%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (73.53%) CI/CD
2 67 (65.69%) DevOps
3 50 (49.02%) Agile
4 42 (41.18%) Microservices
5 33 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 26 (25.49%) AI
8 21 (20.59%) Test Automation
9 19 (18.63%) Software Engineering
10 17 (16.67%) API Management
10 17 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (16.67%) RBAC
11 16 (15.69%) Containerisation
12 14 (13.73%) Clean Code
13 12 (11.76%) Analytics
13 12 (11.76%) MVC
14 11 (10.78%) Data Modelling
14 11 (10.78%) Machine Learning
14 11 (10.78%) Mentoring
14 11 (10.78%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 85 (83.33%) C#
2 47 (46.08%) SQL
3 28 (27.45%) Python
4 27 (26.47%) JavaScript
5 18 (17.65%) TypeScript
6 15 (14.71%) Bicep
7 7 (6.86%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.88%) Bash
9 5 (4.90%) Java
9 5 (4.90%) PHP
10 4 (3.92%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.94%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.98%) Perl
12 1 (0.98%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (7.84%) Azure Certification
2 6 (5.88%) Degree
3 5 (4.90%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.86%) QA
2 4 (3.92%) HL7
3 3 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.94%) WCAG
4 2 (1.96%) MiFID
5 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.98%) EMIR
System Software
1 21 (20.59%) Docker
2 14 (13.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (25.49%) Terraform
2 16 (15.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (27.45%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.75%) Oracle
3 10 (9.80%) Databricks
4 8 (7.84%) OpenAI
5 6 (5.88%) Sitecore
6 4 (3.92%) Brio
7 3 (2.94%) Google
7 3 (2.94%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.98%) Okta
8 1 (0.98%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow