.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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 336 255
Rank change year-on-year -165 -81 -25
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 97 148 331
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.60% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.20% 2.68% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 108 243
10th Percentile £379 £384 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £612 £669 £700
90th Percentile £675 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £47.61
25th Percentile £46.25 - £54.85
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £80.00
75th Percentile £48.75 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - £87.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +45.45%

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 8,088 5,520 7,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.15% 22.56% 20.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,337 3,835 5,486
10th Percentile £363 £360 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £653 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 109 248
10th Percentile £30.82 £31.90 £22.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%
75th Percentile £73.23 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% +21.21% -23.85%

.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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -129 44 £585 -3.91% 46
North of England -69 19 £523 +10.00% 51
South East -73 16 £563 +63.64% 48
Midlands -58 10 £450 -9.09% 23
West Midlands -44 9 £455 - 11
Yorkshire -54 9 £524 +8.55% 13
North West -37 7 £575 +39.82% 29
South West -22 6 £425 -29.17% 12
East of England -23 3 £550 +34.15% 18
North East - 3 £475 - 10
East Midlands -30 1 £450 -9.09% 12
.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 7 (7.22%) Confluence
2 6 (6.19%) CMS
3 3 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.09%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (3.09%) Umbraco
4 2 (2.06%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Endur
1 1 (1.03%) Findur
1 1 (1.03%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 64 (65.98%) Azure
2 34 (35.05%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (22.68%) AWS
4 13 (13.40%) GitHub
5 12 (12.37%) Serverless
6 11 (11.34%) Azure AKS
7 10 (10.31%) Azure Functions
7 10 (10.31%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (8.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (8.25%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (6.19%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (6.19%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (6.19%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (6.19%) Power Platform
10 5 (5.15%) Entra ID
11 4 (4.12%) SaaS
12 3 (3.09%) GCP
12 3 (3.09%) PaaS
13 2 (2.06%) Azure API Management
13 2 (2.06%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.25%) 3GPP
1 8 (8.25%) RTP
2 6 (6.19%) Wireshark
3 2 (2.06%) DHCP
3 2 (2.06%) DNS
3 2 (2.06%) HTTP
3 2 (2.06%) RTCP
3 2 (2.06%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.06%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (43.30%) SQL Server
2 14 (14.43%) NoSQL
3 12 (12.37%) Relational Database
4 9 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (7.22%) Oracle Database
6 6 (6.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (6.19%) Power BI
7 4 (4.12%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.09%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (3.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.03%) Parquet
9 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (27.84%) Git
2 15 (15.46%) JIRA
3 7 (7.22%) GitLab
4 6 (6.19%) TeamCity
5 3 (3.09%) MSI
6 2 (2.06%) NUnit
7 1 (1.03%) Claude Code
7 1 (1.03%) Moq
7 1 (1.03%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.03%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (31.96%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.71%) Finance
3 12 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.31%) Banking
4 10 (10.31%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.19%) Front Office
6 5 (5.15%) Aviation
6 5 (5.15%) Fire and Rescue
6 5 (5.15%) Police
7 4 (4.12%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.09%) Retail
9 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.06%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (2.06%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.03%) Automotive
10 1 (1.03%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 68 (70.10%) Developer
2 33 (34.02%) .NET Developer
3 26 (26.80%) Senior
4 24 (24.74%) Senior Developer
5 21 (21.65%) C# Developer
6 16 (16.49%) Senior .NET Developer
7 15 (15.46%) Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (14.43%) Software Engineer
9 12 (12.37%) Azure Developer
10 10 (10.31%) Architect
10 10 (10.31%) C# .NET Developer
11 7 (7.22%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 7 (7.22%) React Developer
11 7 (7.22%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (6.19%) Senior C# Developer
12 6 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (5.15%) Senior C# .NET Developer
13 5 (5.15%) Senior React Developer
14 4 (4.12%) Azure Architect
14 4 (4.12%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (100.00%) .NET
2 42 (43.30%) .NET Framework
3 41 (42.27%) React
4 35 (36.08%) RESTful
5 26 (26.80%) ASP.NET
6 25 (25.77%) HTML
6 25 (25.77%) REST
7 22 (22.68%) CSS
8 17 (17.53%) AngularJS
8 17 (17.53%) Entity Framework
9 12 (12.37%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (9.28%) Node.js
11 8 (8.25%) HTML5
11 8 (8.25%) OAuth
12 7 (7.22%) JSON
12 7 (7.22%) Kafka
12 7 (7.22%) PySpark
12 7 (7.22%) YAML
13 6 (6.19%) ASP.NET MVC
13 6 (6.19%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 26 (26.80%) Cloud Native
2 17 (17.53%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (13.40%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (10.31%) Product Ownership
5 7 (7.22%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (5.15%) Robotics
7 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
8 3 (3.09%) AI Agents
8 3 (3.09%) Algorithms
8 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (3.09%) Fixed Income
9 2 (2.06%) Credit Risk
9 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.06%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (2.06%) FMCG
9 2 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (2.06%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (2.06%) Media Streaming
9 2 (2.06%) PKI
9 2 (2.06%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.25%) Linux
2 6 (6.19%) Windows
3 2 (2.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (65.98%) CI/CD
1 64 (65.98%) DevOps
2 50 (51.55%) Agile
3 42 (43.30%) Microservices
4 28 (28.87%) Test Automation
5 26 (26.80%) Software Engineering
6 24 (24.74%) Full-Stack Development
7 20 (20.62%) AI
7 20 (20.62%) Event-Driven
8 19 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (16.49%) Containerisation
9 16 (16.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 16 (16.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (12.37%) Data Modelling
10 12 (12.37%) TDD
11 11 (11.34%) API Development
11 11 (11.34%) Deployment Automation
11 11 (11.34%) Scrum
12 10 (10.31%) API Design
12 10 (10.31%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 85 (87.63%) C#
2 40 (41.24%) SQL
3 29 (29.90%) JavaScript
3 29 (29.90%) TypeScript
4 24 (24.74%) Python
5 11 (11.34%) Bicep
6 3 (3.09%) Java
7 2 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.03%) C++
8 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (13.40%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.28%) Degree
2 9 (9.28%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.15%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.12%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.40%) QA
2 7 (7.22%) WCAG
3 6 (6.19%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.09%) NCSC
5 2 (2.06%) Basel III
5 2 (2.06%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (1.03%) EMIR
6 1 (1.03%) HL7
6 1 (1.03%) MiFID
System Software
1 31 (31.96%) Docker
2 4 (4.12%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (21.65%) Kubernetes
2 18 (18.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (22.68%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.37%) Oracle
3 6 (6.19%) Sitecore
4 3 (3.09%) Google
4 3 (3.09%) ION Trading
5 2 (2.06%) Cisco
5 2 (2.06%) VMware
6 1 (1.03%) Brio
6 1 (1.03%) IBM
6 1 (1.03%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.03%) OpenLink
6 1 (1.03%) SAP
6 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow