.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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 360 251
Rank change year-on-year -131 -109 -22
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 123 152 332
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.56% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.45% 2.51% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 101 248
10th Percentile £377 £350 £382
25th Percentile £408 £438 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £548
Median % change year-on-year - -8.68% -6.69%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £691
90th Percentile £664 £775 £754
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.31% -10.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile - - £47.61
25th Percentile - - £54.85
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £46.88 - £85.00
90th Percentile £48.00 - £87.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +60.00%

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 8,467 6,064 7,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.87% 22.21% 21.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,557 4,172 5,262
10th Percentile £363 £355 £356
25th Percentile £430 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £746 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £543
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 135 243
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £23.84
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.61 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

.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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -116 50 £585 +2.86% 43
North of England -66 23 £524 +6.89% 33
South East -62 22 £513 +28.13% 39
Yorkshire -42 15 £500 +2.04% 9
South West -28 14 £425 -29.17% 9
Midlands -50 10 £450 -8.16% 17
West Midlands -49 9 £425 - 8
North West -46 7 £575 +22.99% 13
East of England -20 3 £575 +35.29% 16
East Midlands -14 1 £450 -8.16% 9
North East - 1 - - 13
.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 21 (17.07%) Confluence
2 4 (3.25%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.44%) CMS
4 2 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.63%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.81%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.81%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Endur
1 1 (0.81%) Findur
1 1 (0.81%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 91 (73.98%) Azure
2 49 (39.84%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (24.39%) AWS
4 26 (21.14%) GitHub
5 16 (13.01%) Azure AKS
5 16 (13.01%) Serverless
6 14 (11.38%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (10.57%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (9.76%) Azure Functions
8 12 (9.76%) Entra ID
9 11 (8.94%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (8.13%) Azure App Service
10 10 (8.13%) PaaS
11 9 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (5.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (5.69%) IaaS
12 7 (5.69%) Power Platform
13 6 (4.88%) Azure API Management
13 6 (4.88%) SaaS
14 4 (3.25%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.50%) 3GPP
1 8 (6.50%) RTP
2 6 (4.88%) Wireshark
3 2 (1.63%) DHCP
3 2 (1.63%) DNS
3 2 (1.63%) HTTP
3 2 (1.63%) RTCP
3 2 (1.63%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.63%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (39.02%) SQL Server
2 18 (14.63%) NoSQL
3 15 (12.20%) Relational Database
4 12 (9.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (8.94%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (6.50%) Geospatial Data
7 7 (5.69%) Power BI
8 6 (4.88%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.44%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.63%) Redis
10 2 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.81%) Db2
11 1 (0.81%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.81%) Parquet
11 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 41 (33.33%) Git
2 23 (18.70%) JIRA
3 8 (6.50%) GitLab
3 8 (6.50%) MSI
3 8 (6.50%) Visual Studio
4 6 (4.88%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.88%) TeamCity
5 4 (3.25%) JetBrains Rider
5 4 (3.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.63%) NUnit
6 2 (1.63%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.81%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.81%) Moq
7 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
General
1 32 (26.02%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.95%) Finance
3 14 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.57%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.50%) Banking
6 5 (4.07%) Aviation
6 5 (4.07%) Fire and Rescue
6 5 (4.07%) Police
7 3 (2.44%) Front Office
7 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.44%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.44%) Retail
8 2 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.63%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.63%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.63%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.81%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 89 (72.36%) Developer
2 48 (39.02%) .NET Developer
3 29 (23.58%) Senior
4 26 (21.14%) Senior Developer
5 24 (19.51%) Full-Stack Developer
6 23 (18.70%) C# Developer
7 17 (13.82%) Software Engineer
8 16 (13.01%) Senior .NET Developer
9 15 (12.20%) Azure Developer
10 12 (9.76%) C# .NET Developer
11 11 (8.94%) Architect
11 11 (8.94%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 11 (8.94%) React Developer
12 9 (7.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (6.50%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (5.69%) Lead
14 7 (5.69%) Senior C# Developer
14 7 (5.69%) Senior React Developer
15 5 (4.07%) C# Software Engineer
15 5 (4.07%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (100.00%) .NET
2 58 (47.15%) REST
3 57 (46.34%) .NET Framework
4 48 (39.02%) React
5 41 (33.33%) RESTful
6 31 (25.20%) ASP.NET
7 27 (21.95%) Entity Framework
8 26 (21.14%) HTML
9 25 (20.33%) CSS
10 21 (17.07%) AngularJS
11 14 (11.38%) ASP.NET Web API
12 13 (10.57%) HTML5
13 12 (9.76%) CSS3
13 12 (9.76%) Web Services
14 10 (8.13%) OAuth
14 10 (8.13%) WPF
15 8 (6.50%) ATL
15 8 (6.50%) COM
15 8 (6.50%) MFC
15 8 (6.50%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 40 (32.52%) Cloud Native
2 17 (13.82%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (13.01%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (13.01%) Product Ownership
4 11 (8.94%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (7.32%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (4.07%) Robotics
7 4 (3.25%) Wiki
8 3 (2.44%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.63%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.63%) Equities
9 2 (1.63%) FMCG
9 2 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.63%) Media Streaming
9 2 (1.63%) NHS
9 2 (1.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.57%) Windows
2 9 (7.32%) Linux
3 2 (1.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (69.11%) CI/CD
2 77 (62.60%) DevOps
3 61 (49.59%) Agile
4 52 (42.28%) Microservices
5 40 (32.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 38 (30.89%) Test Automation
7 34 (27.64%) Software Engineering
8 23 (18.70%) Containerisation
9 22 (17.89%) Event-Driven
10 21 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (16.26%) AI
11 20 (16.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 19 (15.45%) API Development
13 18 (14.63%) Deployment Automation
13 18 (14.63%) SOLID
14 17 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (13.82%) TDD
15 16 (13.01%) Design Patterns
16 15 (12.20%) API Design
16 15 (12.20%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 108 (87.80%) C#
2 49 (39.84%) SQL
3 43 (34.96%) TypeScript
4 42 (34.15%) JavaScript
5 32 (26.02%) Python
6 17 (13.82%) Bicep
7 4 (3.25%) Java
8 3 (2.44%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.63%) C++
9 2 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.63%) XAML
10 1 (0.81%) C
10 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 18 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.32%) Degree
4 5 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.07%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.25%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.63%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.63%) PhD
7 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.01%) QA
2 11 (8.94%) Accessibility
3 10 (8.13%) WCAG
4 8 (6.50%) NCSC
5 2 (1.63%) Basel III
5 2 (1.63%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 43 (34.96%) Docker
2 13 (10.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (26.83%) Kubernetes
2 25 (20.33%) Terraform
3 5 (4.07%) Ansible
4 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (36.59%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.32%) Oracle
3 4 (3.25%) Centrify
3 4 (3.25%) CyberArk
4 3 (2.44%) IBM
5 2 (1.63%) Cisco
5 2 (1.63%) DevExpress
5 2 (1.63%) Google
5 2 (1.63%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.63%) VMware
6 1 (0.81%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.81%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.81%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.81%) SAP
6 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow