.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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 325 253
Rank change year-on-year -110 -72 -61
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 113 177 344
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.64% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.60% 2.92% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 139 256
10th Percentile £383 £379 £355
25th Percentile £438 £456 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £558 £594
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% -6.11% -1.04%
75th Percentile £615 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £805 £719
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% -2.13%
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 7,060 6,067 7,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.28% 21.79% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,712 3,873 5,700
10th Percentile £356 £358 £363
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £763
UK median daily rate £509 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.39% -2.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 70 166
10th Percentile £32.72 £26.25 £31.63
25th Percentile £45.00 £43.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.20
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +19.74% -19.70%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.48 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -1.60% +14.68% -16.15%

.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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -69 69 £500 -16.67% 67
South East -11 16 £438 -5.41% 87
North of England -37 14 £500 +18.34% 57
Yorkshire -44 7 £513 +0.49% 11
East of England -16 6 £500 -4.76% 23
North West -37 5 £475 +13.10% 36
Midlands -44 4 £450 -10.00% 41
East Midlands -26 2 £519 +3.75% 27
West Midlands -37 2 £413 -15.38% 14
North East - 2 £475 - 10
South West -11 1 - - 24
.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 (2.65%) Confluence
2 2 (1.77%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.88%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Aladdin
1 3 (2.65%) Fidessa
1 3 (2.65%) thinkFolio
2 2 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.88%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 80 (70.80%) Azure
2 49 (43.36%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (31.86%) Serverless
4 31 (27.43%) Azure Functions
5 30 (26.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 26 (23.01%) Azure Logic Apps
7 23 (20.35%) Azure Service Bus
8 22 (19.47%) Azure AKS
8 22 (19.47%) Azure Monitor
9 17 (15.04%) Entra ID
10 16 (14.16%) GitHub
10 16 (14.16%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (12.39%) AWS
12 13 (11.50%) Azure Key Vault
13 11 (9.73%) Azure Event Grid
14 9 (7.96%) Azure API Management
14 9 (7.96%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (7.96%) PaaS
15 8 (7.08%) Azure Cognitive Services
15 8 (7.08%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.42%) Network Security
2 2 (1.77%) Internet
2 2 (1.77%) SSL
3 1 (0.88%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (32.74%) SQL Server
2 15 (13.27%) NoSQL
3 11 (9.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (7.08%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.42%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.65%) Big Data
6 3 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.77%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.77%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.77%) Redis
8 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.88%) DataStage
8 1 (0.88%) MySQL
8 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.88%) Power BI
8 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (19.47%) Git
2 6 (5.31%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.42%) JIRA
4 3 (2.65%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.65%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.77%) Postman
6 1 (0.88%) AppVeyor
6 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 36 (31.86%) Social Skills
2 35 (30.97%) Finance
3 18 (15.93%) Banking
4 12 (10.62%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.08%) Front Office
6 7 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.19%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.54%) Health Technology
7 4 (3.54%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.77%) Billing
9 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.88%) Legal
9 1 (0.88%) Local Government
9 1 (0.88%) Military
9 1 (0.88%) Publishing
9 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 70 (61.95%) Developer
2 35 (30.97%) .NET Developer
3 29 (25.66%) Senior
4 19 (16.81%) Azure Developer
4 19 (16.81%) Senior Developer
5 16 (14.16%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (12.39%) Senior .NET Developer
7 12 (10.62%) Architect
8 11 (9.73%) Software Engineer
9 10 (8.85%) C# Developer
10 9 (7.96%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 7 (6.19%) Azure Architect
11 7 (6.19%) Lead
11 7 (6.19%) Senior DevOps
12 6 (5.31%) .NET Software Engineer
12 6 (5.31%) Azure Administrator
12 6 (5.31%) Backend Developer
12 6 (5.31%) Database Developer
12 6 (5.31%) DBA
12 6 (5.31%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (100.00%) .NET
2 31 (27.43%) .NET Framework
2 31 (27.43%) React
3 29 (25.66%) AngularJS
4 26 (23.01%) RESTful
5 23 (20.35%) ASP.NET
6 16 (14.16%) HTML
6 16 (14.16%) Node.js
6 16 (14.16%) REST
7 14 (12.39%) CSS
8 8 (7.08%) PyTorch
8 8 (7.08%) TensorFlow
9 7 (6.19%) ARM Templates
9 7 (6.19%) WPF
10 6 (5.31%) GraphQL
10 6 (5.31%) OAuth
11 5 (4.42%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (4.42%) Entity Framework
11 5 (4.42%) FHIR
11 5 (4.42%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (22.12%) Cloud Native
2 14 (12.39%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.96%) Product Ownership
4 8 (7.08%) AI Agents
5 7 (6.19%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (5.31%) Fixed Income
7 5 (4.42%) Credit Risk
7 5 (4.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (4.42%) Market Risk
7 5 (4.42%) NHS
8 4 (3.54%) Hedge funds
9 3 (2.65%) Derivative
9 3 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.08%) Windows
2 2 (1.77%) Linux
3 1 (0.88%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (72.57%) CI/CD
2 70 (61.95%) DevOps
3 65 (57.52%) Agile
4 52 (46.02%) Microservices
5 35 (30.97%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (30.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 23 (20.35%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (18.58%) Software Engineering
9 19 (16.81%) API Management
9 19 (16.81%) Design Patterns
10 18 (15.93%) Containerisation
11 16 (14.16%) Test Automation
12 15 (13.27%) Mentoring
12 15 (13.27%) RBAC
13 14 (12.39%) AI
13 14 (12.39%) Clean Code
13 14 (12.39%) Unit Testing
14 13 (11.50%) Analytics
15 12 (10.62%) Data Modelling
15 12 (10.62%) OO
Programming Languages
1 94 (83.19%) C#
2 52 (46.02%) SQL
3 29 (25.66%) JavaScript
4 20 (17.70%) Python
5 17 (15.04%) Bicep
6 11 (9.73%) TypeScript
7 7 (6.19%) Bash
7 7 (6.19%) Java
8 6 (5.31%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.31%) T-SQL
9 5 (4.42%) PHP
10 4 (3.54%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.77%) Perl
12 1 (0.88%) C++
12 1 (0.88%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (7.96%) Azure Certification
2 8 (7.08%) Degree
3 6 (5.31%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.65%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) QA
2 5 (4.42%) HL7
2 5 (4.42%) MiFID
3 4 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.54%) WCAG
4 3 (2.65%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.88%) EMIR
System Software
1 22 (19.47%) Docker
2 12 (10.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (22.12%) Terraform
2 19 (16.81%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (31.86%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.85%) Databricks
3 8 (7.08%) OpenAI
4 6 (5.31%) Oracle
5 4 (3.54%) Brio
6 3 (2.65%) Portware
7 2 (1.77%) Google
7 2 (1.77%) ION Trading
7 2 (1.77%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.88%) Okta
8 1 (0.88%) Ping Identity