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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 353 256
Rank change year-on-year -147 -97 -29
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 123 153 332
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.56% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.45% 2.52% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 101 248
10th Percentile £376 £350 £382
25th Percentile £406 £438 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -8.26% -7.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £688
90th Percentile £668 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £516
% change year-on-year - -3.15% -11.90%
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 8,468 6,083 7,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.87% 22.25% 21.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,549 4,191 5,234
10th Percentile £363 £353 £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 £749 £775 £801
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £543
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 136 243
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.25 £24.00
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 £67.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.51 £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 23 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 23 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 -112 49 £580 +1.98% 42
North of England -64 23 £524 +6.89% 34
South East -68 23 £513 +28.13% 36
South West -28 15 £419 -30.21% 8
Yorkshire -44 15 £500 +2.04% 8
Midlands -51 10 £450 -8.16% 15
West Midlands -54 9 £425 - 6
North West -44 7 £575 +22.99% 15
East of England -26 2 - - 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 23 (18.70%) Confluence
2 4 (3.25%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.63%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.63%) CMS
3 2 (1.63%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.81%) ColdFusion
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Endur
1 1 (0.81%) Findur
1 1 (0.81%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 92 (74.80%) Azure
2 51 (41.46%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (23.58%) AWS
4 26 (21.14%) GitHub
5 17 (13.82%) Azure AKS
6 16 (13.01%) Serverless
7 15 (12.20%) Azure Monitor
8 14 (11.38%) Azure Key Vault
9 13 (10.57%) Entra ID
10 12 (9.76%) Azure Functions
11 11 (8.94%) Azure App Service
11 11 (8.94%) Azure Service Bus
11 11 (8.94%) PaaS
12 9 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (6.50%) IaaS
14 7 (5.69%) Azure API Management
14 7 (5.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (5.69%) Power Platform
15 6 (4.88%) SaaS
16 5 (4.07%) 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 47 (38.21%) SQL Server
2 19 (15.45%) NoSQL
3 14 (11.38%) Relational Database
4 13 (10.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (8.94%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (7.32%) Geospatial Data
7 7 (5.69%) Power BI
8 6 (4.88%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.44%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.63%) Parquet
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%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 43 (34.96%) Git
2 25 (20.33%) JIRA
3 9 (7.32%) MSI
4 8 (6.50%) GitLab
4 8 (6.50%) Visual Studio
5 6 (4.88%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.88%) TeamCity
6 4 (3.25%) JetBrains Rider
6 4 (3.25%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.63%) NUnit
7 2 (1.63%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.81%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.81%) Moq
8 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
General
1 32 (26.02%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.95%) Finance
3 14 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (11.38%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.50%) Banking
5 5 (4.07%) Aviation
5 5 (4.07%) Fire and Rescue
5 5 (4.07%) Police
6 3 (2.44%) Front Office
6 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.44%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.44%) Retail
7 2 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.63%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.63%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.63%) Prime Brokerage
7 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
8 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 22 (17.89%) C# Developer
7 17 (13.82%) Software Engineer
8 16 (13.01%) Senior .NET Developer
9 15 (12.20%) Azure Developer
10 11 (8.94%) Architect
10 11 (8.94%) C# .NET Developer
10 11 (8.94%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 11 (8.94%) React Developer
11 9 (7.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (6.50%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (5.69%) Lead
13 7 (5.69%) Senior C# Developer
13 7 (5.69%) Senior React Developer
14 5 (4.07%) C# Software Engineer
14 5 (4.07%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (100.00%) .NET
2 60 (48.78%) REST
3 58 (47.15%) .NET Framework
4 48 (39.02%) React
5 43 (34.96%) RESTful
6 30 (24.39%) ASP.NET
7 28 (22.76%) Entity Framework
8 27 (21.95%) HTML
9 26 (21.14%) CSS
10 20 (16.26%) AngularJS
11 14 (11.38%) HTML5
12 13 (10.57%) ASP.NET Web API
12 13 (10.57%) CSS3
13 12 (9.76%) Web Services
14 11 (8.94%) OAuth
14 11 (8.94%) WPF
15 9 (7.32%) ATL
15 9 (7.32%) COM
15 9 (7.32%) MFC
15 9 (7.32%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 41 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 17 (13.82%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (13.82%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (13.01%) Product Ownership
4 11 (8.94%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (8.13%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (4.07%) Robotics
6 5 (4.07%) Wiki
7 3 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.63%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.63%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.63%) Equities
8 2 (1.63%) FMCG
8 2 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.63%) Media Streaming
8 2 (1.63%) NHS
8 2 (1.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.38%) Windows
2 9 (7.32%) Linux
3 2 (1.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (69.92%) CI/CD
2 78 (63.41%) DevOps
3 61 (49.59%) Agile
4 53 (43.09%) Microservices
5 41 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 40 (32.52%) Test Automation
7 33 (26.83%) Software Engineering
8 24 (19.51%) Containerisation
9 22 (17.89%) Event-Driven
9 22 (17.89%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (16.26%) API Development
10 20 (16.26%) Deployment Automation
10 20 (16.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 19 (15.45%) AI
11 19 (15.45%) SOLID
12 18 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (13.82%) Design Patterns
13 17 (13.82%) TDD
14 16 (13.01%) API Design
14 16 (13.01%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 108 (87.80%) C#
2 50 (40.65%) SQL
3 44 (35.77%) TypeScript
4 42 (34.15%) JavaScript
5 34 (27.64%) Python
6 19 (15.45%) Bicep
7 4 (3.25%) Java
7 4 (3.25%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.63%) C++
8 2 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.63%) XAML
9 1 (0.81%) C
9 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (18.70%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.45%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.32%) Degree
4 5 (4.07%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.07%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.63%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.63%) PhD
6 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.01%) QA
2 12 (9.76%) Accessibility
3 11 (8.94%) WCAG
4 9 (7.32%) NCSC
5 2 (1.63%) Basel III
5 2 (1.63%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 44 (35.77%) Docker
2 14 (11.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (27.64%) Kubernetes
2 27 (21.95%) Terraform
3 5 (4.07%) Ansible
4 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (38.21%) 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%) 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
6 1 (0.81%) Sitecore