.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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 316 230
Rank change year-on-year -76 -86 -41
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 126 201 433
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.64% 1.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.90% 2.92% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 159 315
10th Percentile £360 £380 £374
25th Percentile £431 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £654 £650 £688
90th Percentile £728 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £575
% change year-on-year -2.44% -10.87% -
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 6,640 6,890 8,861
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.89% 21.99% 22.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,473 4,400 6,517
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -7.34% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 117 180
10th Percentile £31.10 £27.00 £37.73
25th Percentile £42.88 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.48 £73.85 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.53
% change year-on-year -16.92% +17.05% -14.57%

.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 29 October 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 29 October 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 -67 71 £598 - 119
South East +11 19 £450 -5.26% 129
North of England -34 13 £525 +10.53% 104
East of England -7 7 £500 - 32
North West -22 7 £525 +13.51% 60
Midlands -26 7 £480 -4.00% 45
Yorkshire -27 6 £525 +7.69% 30
South West +11 5 £375 -40.48% 23
West Midlands -20 4 £413 -17.50% 22
East Midlands -15 3 £510 +3.03% 22
.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
2 2 (1.59%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.79%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (2.38%) 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 82 (65.08%) Azure
2 47 (37.30%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (17.46%) Azure Service Bus
4 21 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 21 (16.67%) Serverless
5 17 (13.49%) Azure Functions
6 16 (12.70%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (10.32%) Azure Logic Apps
8 12 (9.52%) AWS
8 12 (9.52%) Entra ID
9 11 (8.73%) GitHub
10 10 (7.94%) Azure AKS
11 9 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (4.76%) Azure API Management
12 6 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (4.76%) Power Automate
12 6 (4.76%) Power Platform
13 5 (3.97%) PaaS
13 5 (3.97%) SaaS
14 4 (3.17%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.59%) Internet
1 2 (1.59%) SSL
2 1 (0.79%) DNS
2 1 (0.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (32.54%) SQL Server
2 15 (11.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (10.32%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.76%) Redis
5 6 (4.76%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.17%) Power BI
8 3 (2.38%) Big Data
8 3 (2.38%) MySQL
9 2 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.59%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.59%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (12.70%) Git
2 6 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.97%) JIRA
4 4 (3.17%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.59%) Postman
6 2 (1.59%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.59%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.79%) Ant
7 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.79%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.79%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.79%) Gradle
7 1 (0.79%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.79%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (0.79%) JUnit
7 1 (0.79%) NUnit
7 1 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.79%) Xcode
General
1 37 (29.37%) Finance
2 32 (25.40%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 13 (10.32%) Banking
5 12 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.35%) Front Office
7 6 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.97%) Electronics
8 5 (3.97%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.97%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.97%) Marketing
8 5 (3.97%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.17%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.59%) Billing
10 2 (1.59%) Local Government
10 2 (1.59%) Retail
11 1 (0.79%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.79%) Legal
11 1 (0.79%) Military
11 1 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 88 (69.84%) Developer
2 48 (38.10%) .NET Developer
3 40 (31.75%) Senior
4 32 (25.40%) Senior Developer
5 26 (20.63%) C# Developer
6 21 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
7 19 (15.08%) Azure Developer
7 19 (15.08%) Full-Stack Developer
8 18 (14.29%) Lead
9 17 (13.49%) C# .NET Developer
10 12 (9.52%) Lead Developer
11 10 (7.94%) Architect
11 10 (7.94%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 10 (7.94%) Lead C# Developer
12 9 (7.14%) Lead .NET Developer
12 9 (7.14%) Senior C# Developer
13 8 (6.35%) Senior C# .NET Developer
13 8 (6.35%) Software Engineer
14 6 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
14 6 (4.76%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (100.00%) .NET
2 29 (23.02%) ASP.NET
2 29 (23.02%) React
3 27 (21.43%) .NET Framework
4 24 (19.05%) AngularJS
5 23 (18.25%) HTML
6 22 (17.46%) RESTful
7 21 (16.67%) CSS
8 20 (15.87%) REST
9 10 (7.94%) SOAP
10 9 (7.14%) Entity Framework
11 8 (6.35%) ARM Templates
11 8 (6.35%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
12 7 (5.56%) OAuth
13 6 (4.76%) Node.js
14 5 (3.97%) Blazor
14 5 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (3.97%) XML
15 4 (3.17%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.90%) Product Ownership
3 13 (10.32%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (6.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (5.56%) Fixed Income
6 7 (5.56%) Hedge funds
7 5 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (3.17%) Derivative
8 4 (3.17%) Mobile App
9 3 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.59%) NHS
11 1 (0.79%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.79%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.79%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.79%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.76%) Android
2 5 (3.97%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.17%) Windows
4 3 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 72 (57.14%) DevOps
2 71 (56.35%) Agile
3 38 (30.16%) Microservices
4 32 (25.40%) Full-Stack Development
5 29 (23.02%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (17.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (15.08%) OO
7 19 (15.08%) TDD
8 18 (14.29%) Clean Code
8 18 (14.29%) Design Patterns
8 18 (14.29%) Scrum
8 18 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 17 (13.49%) SOLID
10 15 (11.90%) Event-Driven
11 14 (11.11%) Mentoring
11 14 (11.11%) Test Automation
12 12 (9.52%) API Development
12 12 (9.52%) Code Quality
12 12 (9.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 108 (85.71%) C#
2 59 (46.83%) SQL
3 40 (31.75%) JavaScript
4 16 (12.70%) Python
5 14 (11.11%) Java
5 14 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 14 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 11 (8.73%) Bicep
7 7 (5.56%) Bash
8 6 (4.76%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.38%) PHP
9 3 (2.38%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.38%) VBA
10 2 (1.59%) Perl
11 1 (0.79%) C++
11 1 (0.79%) JSX
11 1 (0.79%) Korn
11 1 (0.79%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (4.76%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.97%) Azure Certification
2 5 (3.97%) Degree
3 4 (3.17%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.79%) ITIL 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%) WCAG
5 1 (0.79%) EMIR
5 1 (0.79%) HL7
System Software
1 11 (8.73%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (19.84%) Terraform
2 10 (7.94%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.59%) Grafana
3 2 (1.59%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.79%) Istio
Vendors
1 37 (29.37%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.14%) Oracle
3 6 (4.76%) SAP
4 4 (3.17%) Portware
5 2 (1.59%) Databricks
6 1 (0.79%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.79%) Brio
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco
6 1 (0.79%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.79%) Okta
6 1 (0.79%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.79%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.79%) Reuters
6 1 (0.79%) Salesforce