.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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 386 269
Rank change year-on-year -101 -117 -41
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 143 123 289
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.44% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.45% 1.77% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 71 208
10th Percentile £379 £350 £400
25th Percentile £406 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £536
Median % change year-on-year - -6.76% -6.74%
75th Percentile £621 £613 £646
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - £52.05
25th Percentile £45.00 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £46.25 - £80.00
75th Percentile £50.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile £52.25 - £88.00
UK median hourly rate £46.25 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

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 9,865 6,963 8,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.26% 25.03% 24.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,473 4,764 5,521
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 163 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.32 £27.38
25th Percentile £50.56 £42.05 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.30 £71.60 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £66.83 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +27.30% -14.77% -1.44%

.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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -87 64 £593 +5.33% 77
South East -55 24 £500 +25.00% 52
North of England -58 22 £500 -1.48% 45
South West -33 18 £413 +10.00% 15
Yorkshire -27 17 £475 -9.52% 11
Midlands -43 10 £450 -10.00% 28
West Midlands -41 9 £450 - 18
East of England -32 3 £525 +5.00% 22
North West -42 3 £550 +15.79% 28
North East - 2 - - 7
East Midlands -14 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 25 (17.48%) Confluence
2 5 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.10%) CMS
4 2 (1.40%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.40%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.70%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.70%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.70%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.70%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Endur
1 1 (0.70%) Findur
1 1 (0.70%) Sage 50
1 1 (0.70%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 98 (68.53%) Azure
2 52 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (27.27%) AWS
4 34 (23.78%) GitHub
5 16 (11.19%) Serverless
6 13 (9.09%) Azure AKS
6 13 (9.09%) Azure Functions
6 13 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
7 12 (8.39%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (8.39%) PaaS
8 10 (6.99%) Azure App Service
8 10 (6.99%) Entra ID
9 9 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (5.59%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (5.59%) Power Platform
11 7 (4.90%) Azure API Management
11 7 (4.90%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (4.90%) IaaS
12 5 (3.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (3.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.20%) 3GPP
1 6 (4.20%) RTP
1 6 (4.20%) Wireshark
2 2 (1.40%) DHCP
2 2 (1.40%) DNS
2 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (37.76%) SQL Server
2 18 (12.59%) NoSQL
3 14 (9.79%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (9.79%) Relational Database
4 13 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (7.69%) Geospatial Data
6 8 (5.59%) Power BI
7 4 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.40%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.40%) Db2
8 2 (1.40%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.40%) Parquet
8 2 (1.40%) Redis
8 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.70%) Big Data
9 1 (0.70%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 48 (33.57%) Git
2 23 (16.08%) JIRA
3 11 (7.69%) MSI
4 10 (6.99%) GitLab
4 10 (6.99%) Jenkins
5 9 (6.29%) Visual Studio
6 7 (4.90%) TeamCity
7 5 (3.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (2.80%) JetBrains Rider
8 4 (2.80%) SpecFlow
9 3 (2.10%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.40%) NUnit
11 1 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.70%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.70%) Moq
11 1 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.70%) Rational Rhapsody
11 1 (0.70%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 47 (32.87%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.98%) Finance
3 24 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.49%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.29%) Banking
6 8 (5.59%) Front Office
7 5 (3.50%) Aviation
7 5 (3.50%) Fire and Rescue
7 5 (3.50%) Police
8 3 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.10%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.10%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.10%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (1.40%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.40%) Legal
9 2 (1.40%) Marketing
9 2 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.40%) Retail
9 2 (1.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 99 (69.23%) Developer
2 57 (39.86%) .NET Developer
3 39 (27.27%) Senior
4 28 (19.58%) Senior Developer
5 27 (18.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 22 (15.38%) C# Developer
7 19 (13.29%) Software Engineer
8 16 (11.19%) Senior .NET Developer
9 14 (9.79%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 12 (8.39%) Azure Developer
10 12 (8.39%) C# .NET Developer
10 12 (8.39%) React Developer
10 12 (8.39%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (6.99%) Senior C# Developer
12 9 (6.29%) C# Software Engineer
13 8 (5.59%) .NET Software Engineer
13 8 (5.59%) Architect
13 8 (5.59%) Lead
13 8 (5.59%) Senior React Developer
14 7 (4.90%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (100.00%) .NET
2 75 (52.45%) REST
3 59 (41.26%) .NET Framework
4 50 (34.97%) RESTful
5 40 (27.97%) React
6 37 (25.87%) ASP.NET
7 28 (19.58%) Terraform
8 26 (18.18%) Entity Framework
9 25 (17.48%) CSS
10 24 (16.78%) HTML
11 23 (16.08%) AngularJS
12 18 (12.59%) Kafka
12 18 (12.59%) Web Services
13 16 (11.19%) WPF
14 15 (10.49%) CSS3
14 15 (10.49%) HTML5
15 11 (7.69%) ATL
15 11 (7.69%) COM
15 11 (7.69%) JSON
15 11 (7.69%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 52 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 20 (13.99%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (13.29%) Product Ownership
4 18 (12.59%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (9.79%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (9.79%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.20%) Wiki
7 5 (3.50%) Robotics
8 4 (2.80%) Credit Risk
8 4 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.10%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.10%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.40%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.40%) Equities
10 2 (1.40%) NHS
10 2 (1.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.29%) Windows
2 11 (7.69%) Linux
3 2 (1.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (67.83%) CI/CD
2 78 (54.55%) DevOps
3 69 (48.25%) Agile
4 60 (41.96%) Microservices
5 47 (32.87%) Full-Stack Development
6 40 (27.97%) Test Automation
7 39 (27.27%) Software Engineering
8 34 (23.78%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (20.98%) Containerisation
10 29 (20.28%) Deployment Automation
11 27 (18.88%) Event-Driven
12 26 (18.18%) API Development
12 26 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 26 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
13 25 (17.48%) Design Patterns
14 23 (16.08%) AI
14 23 (16.08%) API Design
15 21 (14.69%) SOLID
16 19 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 19 (13.29%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 127 (88.81%) C#
2 60 (41.96%) SQL
3 51 (35.66%) JavaScript
4 46 (32.17%) TypeScript
5 35 (24.48%) Python
6 20 (13.99%) Bicep
7 6 (4.20%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.80%) C++
8 4 (2.80%) Java
9 3 (2.10%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.10%) XAML
10 2 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.70%) C
11 1 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (19.58%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.49%) Degree
4 11 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.20%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.50%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.50%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.40%) PhD
8 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.89%) QA
2 14 (9.79%) Accessibility
3 13 (9.09%) WCAG
4 11 (7.69%) NCSC
5 3 (2.10%) Basel III
6 2 (1.40%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.40%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.70%) GRC
7 1 (0.70%) HL7
7 1 (0.70%) PSD2
7 1 (0.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 50 (34.97%) Docker
2 14 (9.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (30.07%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.90%) Ansible
3 1 (0.70%) Istio
3 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (40.56%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.20%) Centrify
2 6 (4.20%) CyberArk
3 4 (2.80%) IBM
3 4 (2.80%) Oracle
4 3 (2.10%) DevExpress
5 2 (1.40%) Cisco
5 2 (1.40%) Google
5 2 (1.40%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.40%) SAP
5 2 (1.40%) VMware
6 1 (0.70%) Calypso
6 1 (0.70%) Databricks
6 1 (0.70%) FIS
6 1 (0.70%) Murex
6 1 (0.70%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.70%) Sage
6 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.70%) Temenos