.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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 317 281
Rank change year-on-year -133 -36 -92
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 104 164 300
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.64% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.39% 2.84% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 132 230
10th Percentile £406 £406 £361
25th Percentile £454 £468 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £599 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.49% -0.21% -
75th Percentile £600 £700 £688
90th Percentile £704 £825 £738
UK median daily rate £492 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -14.43% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
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 7,508 5,766 7,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.89% 22.49% 20.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,040 3,737 5,525
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £530 £534
% change year-on-year -3.30% -0.75% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 74 185
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.80 £23.25
25th Percentile £50.81 £51.56 £44.60
Median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.55 £76.37 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%

.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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -76 63 £500 -23.08% 57
South East -28 12 £488 +6.85% 58
North of England -60 12 £494 +17.91% 56
Midlands -57 8 £450 -10.00% 25
East of England -22 7 £550 +10.55% 24
West Midlands -43 6 £450 -5.26% 11
North West -31 5 £488 +18.18% 38
Yorkshire -50 5 £500 +5.26% 11
East Midlands -29 2 £519 +3.75% 14
North East - 2 £475 - 8
South West -25 1 - - 18
.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 (3.85%) CMS
2 3 (2.88%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.96%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.96%) Confluence
3 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.96%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.96%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.96%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.96%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 71 (68.27%) Azure
2 45 (43.27%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (25.96%) Serverless
4 24 (23.08%) Azure Functions
5 21 (20.19%) Azure Logic Apps
6 20 (19.23%) Azure Monitor
6 20 (19.23%) Azure Service Bus
7 19 (18.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 19 (18.27%) Entra ID
8 18 (17.31%) Azure AKS
9 17 (16.35%) GitHub
9 17 (16.35%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (14.42%) AWS
11 13 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
12 11 (10.58%) Azure Event Grid
13 9 (8.65%) Azure API Management
13 9 (8.65%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (7.69%) Azure Cognitive Services
14 8 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
15 7 (6.73%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.81%) Network Security
2 2 (1.92%) 3GPP
2 2 (1.92%) HTTP
2 2 (1.92%) RTCP
2 2 (1.92%) RTP
2 2 (1.92%) SSL
2 2 (1.92%) XCAP
3 1 (0.96%) DNS
3 1 (0.96%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (39.42%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (8.65%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.73%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.77%) Oracle Database
6 4 (3.85%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.92%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.92%) Redis
8 1 (0.96%) Big Data
8 1 (0.96%) DataStage
8 1 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.96%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (19.23%) Git
2 7 (6.73%) JIRA
3 6 (5.77%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.88%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.92%) Postman
6 1 (0.96%) AppVeyor
6 1 (0.96%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.96%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.96%) REST Assured
General
1 35 (33.65%) Social Skills
2 26 (25.00%) Finance
3 15 (14.42%) Banking
4 9 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.77%) Front Office
6 4 (3.85%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.85%) Health Technology
6 4 (3.85%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.92%) Billing
7 2 (1.92%) Retail
8 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Legal
8 1 (0.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 64 (61.54%) Developer
2 32 (30.77%) .NET Developer
3 24 (23.08%) Senior
4 15 (14.42%) Azure Developer
5 14 (13.46%) C# Developer
5 14 (13.46%) Senior Developer
5 14 (13.46%) Software Engineer
6 13 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (11.54%) Senior .NET Developer
8 11 (10.58%) Architect
9 8 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (6.73%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (5.77%) Azure Architect
11 6 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (4.81%) .NET Software Engineer
12 5 (4.81%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 5 (4.81%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (4.81%) Backend Developer
12 5 (4.81%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (4.81%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (100.00%) .NET
2 41 (39.42%) React
3 38 (36.54%) .NET Framework
4 25 (24.04%) ASP.NET
5 24 (23.08%) RESTful
6 23 (22.12%) AngularJS
7 19 (18.27%) HTML
8 16 (15.38%) CSS
9 15 (14.42%) Node.js
10 14 (13.46%) REST
11 9 (8.65%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (8.65%) Entity Framework
12 8 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (7.69%) OAuth
12 8 (7.69%) PyTorch
12 8 (7.69%) TensorFlow
13 7 (6.73%) WPF
14 6 (5.77%) ARM Templates
14 6 (5.77%) GraphQL
14 6 (5.77%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.31%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.58%) AI Agents
2 11 (10.58%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (9.62%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (7.69%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.81%) Credit Risk
5 5 (4.81%) Market Risk
6 4 (3.85%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.85%) NHS
7 3 (2.88%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.88%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.92%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.92%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.96%) Derivative
9 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.96%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (0.96%) Android
2 1 (0.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (71.15%) CI/CD
2 64 (61.54%) DevOps
3 53 (50.96%) Agile
4 39 (37.50%) Microservices
5 33 (31.73%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (29.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 25 (24.04%) AI
8 23 (22.12%) Software Engineering
9 18 (17.31%) API Management
9 18 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (16.35%) Test Automation
11 16 (15.38%) RBAC
12 15 (14.42%) Clean Code
12 15 (14.42%) Containerisation
13 14 (13.46%) Design Patterns
14 13 (12.50%) Mentoring
14 13 (12.50%) MVC
15 12 (11.54%) OOP
16 11 (10.58%) Analytics
16 11 (10.58%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 87 (83.65%) C#
2 49 (47.12%) SQL
3 27 (25.96%) JavaScript
4 25 (24.04%) Python
5 17 (16.35%) TypeScript
6 14 (13.46%) Bicep
7 6 (5.77%) Bash
7 6 (5.77%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.81%) PHP
8 5 (4.81%) T-SQL
9 4 (3.85%) Java
9 4 (3.85%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.96%) C++
10 1 (0.96%) Perl
10 1 (0.96%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 6 (5.77%) Degree
2 6 (5.77%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.73%) QA
2 4 (3.85%) HL7
3 3 (2.88%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.88%) MiFID
3 3 (2.88%) WCAG
4 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.96%) EMIR
System Software
1 20 (19.23%) Docker
2 13 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (22.12%) Terraform
2 14 (13.46%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (28.85%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.50%) Oracle
3 10 (9.62%) Databricks
4 8 (7.69%) OpenAI
5 6 (5.77%) Sitecore
6 4 (3.85%) Brio
7 3 (2.88%) Google
7 3 (2.88%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.96%) Okta
8 1 (0.96%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.96%) Portware