.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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 324 250
Rank change year-on-year -155 -74 -28
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 100 153 334
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.62% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.26% 2.79% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 123 247
10th Percentile £401 £400 £384
25th Percentile £450 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £558 £580
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% -3.88% -5.31%
75th Percentile £586 £706 £700
90th Percentile £644 £825 £780
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £561
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.46% -6.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £45.80
25th Percentile - - £54.85
Median hourly rate - - £69.45
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - £87.50
UK median hourly rate - - £69.45
% change year-on-year - - +26.28%

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 7,966 5,484 7,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.21% 22.39% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,329 3,802 5,345
10th Percentile £358 £365 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 89 180
10th Percentile £34.00 £28.76 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £37.49
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.85 £83.17 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

.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 18 April 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 18 April 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 54 £500 -20.00% 58
North of England -61 19 £500 +21.21% 40
South East -49 13 £488 +21.88% 55
Yorkshire -50 10 £525 +10.53% 10
Midlands -63 9 £455 -9.00% 20
West Midlands -57 8 £460 -3.16% 10
North West -47 7 £531 +28.79% 23
East of England -32 4 £550 +10.55% 25
South West -29 2 - - 15
North East - 2 £475 - 8
East Midlands -38 1 £450 -10.00% 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 4 (4.00%) CMS
2 3 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.00%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (2.00%) Confluence
4 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.00%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Endur
1 1 (1.00%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 72 (72.00%) Azure
2 47 (47.00%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (27.00%) Serverless
4 24 (24.00%) Azure AKS
4 24 (24.00%) Azure Functions
5 20 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 20 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 20 (20.00%) GitHub
6 19 (19.00%) AWS
6 19 (19.00%) Entra ID
7 18 (18.00%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (17.00%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (15.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 13 (13.00%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (9.00%) Azure Event Grid
13 8 (8.00%) Azure API Management
13 8 (8.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
13 8 (8.00%) Azure Machine Learning
13 8 (8.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.00%) 3GPP
1 5 (5.00%) Network Security
1 5 (5.00%) RTP
2 3 (3.00%) Wireshark
3 2 (2.00%) HTTP
3 2 (2.00%) RTCP
3 2 (2.00%) SSL
3 2 (2.00%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (39.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (11.00%) NoSQL
4 8 (8.00%) Relational Database
5 7 (7.00%) Oracle Database
6 5 (5.00%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.00%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.00%) DataStage
9 1 (1.00%) Parquet
9 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (28.00%) Git
2 9 (9.00%) JIRA
3 5 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.00%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.00%) GitLab
5 1 (1.00%) NUnit
5 1 (1.00%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.00%) Finance
3 12 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 11 (11.00%) Banking
5 9 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.00%) Front Office
6 4 (4.00%) Health Technology
7 3 (3.00%) Aviation
7 3 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.00%) Fire and Rescue
7 3 (3.00%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.00%) Police
8 2 (2.00%) Billing
8 2 (2.00%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.00%) Retail
9 1 (1.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 65 (65.00%) Developer
2 32 (32.00%) .NET Developer
3 25 (25.00%) Senior
4 17 (17.00%) Senior Developer
5 16 (16.00%) Azure Developer
6 15 (15.00%) C# Developer
6 15 (15.00%) Senior .NET Developer
7 14 (14.00%) Software Engineer
8 11 (11.00%) Architect
9 10 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (9.00%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (7.00%) Azure Architect
11 7 (7.00%) C# .NET Developer
12 6 (6.00%) Backend Developer
12 6 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (6.00%) Technical Architect
13 5 (5.00%) .NET Software Engineer
13 5 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 5 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
14 4 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (100.00%) .NET
2 47 (47.00%) React
3 40 (40.00%) .NET Framework
4 27 (27.00%) RESTful
5 24 (24.00%) ASP.NET
6 23 (23.00%) AngularJS
7 19 (19.00%) HTML
8 17 (17.00%) Node.js
8 17 (17.00%) REST
9 16 (16.00%) CSS
10 13 (13.00%) Entity Framework
11 10 (10.00%) OAuth
12 9 (9.00%) ASP.NET Web API
13 8 (8.00%) OpenID
13 8 (8.00%) PyTorch
13 8 (8.00%) TensorFlow
14 7 (7.00%) ARM Templates
14 7 (7.00%) ASP.NET MVC
14 7 (7.00%) YAML
15 6 (6.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.00%) Cloud Native
2 14 (14.00%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (12.00%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (11.00%) AI Agents
5 7 (7.00%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (5.00%) Credit Risk
6 5 (5.00%) Market Risk
6 5 (5.00%) Product Ownership
7 4 (4.00%) NHS
8 3 (3.00%) Algorithms
8 3 (3.00%) Fixed Income
8 3 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (3.00%) Robotics
9 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (2.00%) Media Streaming
9 2 (2.00%) Wiki
10 1 (1.00%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.00%) Windows
2 3 (3.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (74.00%) CI/CD
2 72 (72.00%) DevOps
3 47 (47.00%) Agile
4 46 (46.00%) Microservices
5 29 (29.00%) AI
6 26 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (23.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (22.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 22 (22.00%) Software Engineering
8 22 (22.00%) Test Automation
9 19 (19.00%) Containerisation
10 17 (17.00%) RBAC
11 16 (16.00%) API Management
12 12 (12.00%) Clean Code
12 12 (12.00%) Event-Driven
12 12 (12.00%) Mentoring
12 12 (12.00%) MVC
13 11 (11.00%) Analytics
13 11 (11.00%) API Development
13 11 (11.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 86 (86.00%) C#
2 42 (42.00%) SQL
3 28 (28.00%) Python
4 25 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 19 (19.00%) TypeScript
6 17 (17.00%) Bicep
7 7 (7.00%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.00%) Bash
8 5 (5.00%) PHP
9 4 (4.00%) Java
10 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (8.00%) Azure Certification
1 8 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.00%) Degree
3 5 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.00%) QA
2 4 (4.00%) HL7
3 3 (3.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.00%) WCAG
5 1 (1.00%) EMIR
5 1 (1.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 29 (29.00%) Docker
2 13 (13.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (32.00%) Terraform
2 19 (19.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.00%) Oracle
3 10 (10.00%) Databricks
4 8 (8.00%) OpenAI
5 6 (6.00%) Sitecore
6 4 (4.00%) Brio
7 3 (3.00%) Google
7 3 (3.00%) ION Trading
8 1 (1.00%) OpenLink
8 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow