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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 395 276
Rank change year-on-year -96 -119 -39
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 149 126 271
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.45% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.51% 1.76% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 70 199
10th Percentile £400 £355 £400
25th Percentile £413 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% -7.50% -4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £655 £650
90th Percentile £701 £716 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.00 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £46.25 - £80.00
75th Percentile £50.00 - £86.25
90th Percentile £52.25 - £88.50
UK median hourly rate £46.25 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

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 9,885 7,166 8,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.60% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,507 4,847 5,303
10th Percentile £381 £356 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -0.68%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 172 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.29 £35.50
25th Percentile £54.53 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.83 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.69% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £70.00 £74.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%

.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 October 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 October 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 -89 67 £600 - 136
South East -57 26 £500 +11.11% 76
North of England -62 22 £488 -7.14% 71
Yorkshire -21 18 £468 -10.95% 19
South West -22 18 £413 +10.00% 14
West Midlands -36 8 £400 -3.03% 20
Midlands -53 8 £400 -18.37% 36
East of England -24 5 £525 +5.00% 30
North West -54 2 £550 +4.76% 37
North East - 2 - - 16
.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 27 (18.12%) Confluence
2 5 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.01%) CMS
4 2 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.34%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.67%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.67%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.67%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.67%) nginx
5 1 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Sage 50
1 1 (0.67%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 101 (67.79%) Azure
2 55 (36.91%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (28.19%) AWS
4 31 (20.81%) GitHub
5 17 (11.41%) Azure Key Vault
6 15 (10.07%) Serverless
7 14 (9.40%) Azure AKS
7 14 (9.40%) Azure App Service
7 14 (9.40%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (8.72%) PaaS
9 12 (8.05%) Azure Functions
9 12 (8.05%) Entra ID
10 9 (6.04%) IaaS
11 8 (5.37%) Azure API Management
11 8 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (5.37%) Power Platform
12 7 (4.70%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (4.70%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (4.03%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (3.36%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.03%) 3GPP
1 6 (4.03%) RTP
1 6 (4.03%) Wireshark
2 2 (1.34%) DHCP
2 2 (1.34%) DNS
2 2 (1.34%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (38.93%) SQL Server
2 21 (14.09%) NoSQL
3 16 (10.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 16 (10.74%) Relational Database
4 15 (10.07%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (7.38%) Geospatial Data
6 8 (5.37%) Power BI
7 4 (2.68%) Parquet
7 4 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.01%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.34%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.34%) Db2
9 2 (1.34%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.34%) Redis
9 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.67%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.67%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 54 (36.24%) Git
2 25 (16.78%) JIRA
3 11 (7.38%) MSI
3 11 (7.38%) Visual Studio
4 10 (6.71%) GitLab
4 10 (6.71%) Jenkins
5 7 (4.70%) TeamCity
6 5 (3.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.68%) JetBrains Rider
7 4 (2.68%) SpecFlow
8 3 (2.01%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.34%) NUnit
10 1 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.67%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.67%) Moq
10 1 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.67%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.67%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 49 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 35 (23.49%) Finance
3 26 (17.45%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.74%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.71%) Front Office
6 9 (6.04%) Banking
7 5 (3.36%) Aviation
7 5 (3.36%) Fire and Rescue
7 5 (3.36%) Police
8 4 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.01%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.01%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.01%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (1.34%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.34%) Legal
10 2 (1.34%) Marketing
10 2 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.34%) Retail
10 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 105 (70.47%) Developer
2 59 (39.60%) .NET Developer
3 42 (28.19%) Senior
4 30 (20.13%) Full-Stack Developer
4 30 (20.13%) Senior Developer
5 23 (15.44%) C# Developer
6 19 (12.75%) Senior .NET Developer
6 19 (12.75%) Software Engineer
7 15 (10.07%) C# .NET Developer
8 14 (9.40%) Azure Developer
8 14 (9.40%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 13 (8.72%) React Developer
10 12 (8.05%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (7.38%) Senior C# Developer
12 9 (6.04%) Architect
12 9 (6.04%) Lead
13 8 (5.37%) .NET Software Engineer
13 8 (5.37%) C# Software Engineer
13 8 (5.37%) Senior C# .NET Developer
13 8 (5.37%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (100.00%) .NET
2 80 (53.69%) REST
3 64 (42.95%) .NET Framework
4 54 (36.24%) RESTful
5 46 (30.87%) React
6 41 (27.52%) ASP.NET
7 31 (20.81%) Entity Framework
8 28 (18.79%) Terraform
9 25 (16.78%) CSS
10 24 (16.11%) AngularJS
10 24 (16.11%) HTML
11 20 (13.42%) Web Services
11 20 (13.42%) WPF
12 18 (12.08%) Kafka
13 15 (10.07%) CSS3
13 15 (10.07%) HTML5
14 14 (9.40%) ASP.NET Web API
15 13 (8.72%) JSON
16 11 (7.38%) ATL
16 11 (7.38%) GeoJSON
Miscellaneous
1 54 (36.24%) Cloud Native
2 23 (15.44%) Product Ownership
3 21 (14.09%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (12.75%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (10.07%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (9.40%) Onboarding
7 8 (5.37%) Wiki
8 5 (3.36%) Credit Risk
8 5 (3.36%) Robotics
9 4 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (2.68%) Market Risk
10 3 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (2.01%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (2.01%) NHS
10 3 (2.01%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.34%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.09%) Windows
2 11 (7.38%) Linux
3 2 (1.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (67.11%) CI/CD
2 81 (54.36%) DevOps
3 73 (48.99%) Agile
4 56 (37.58%) Microservices
5 51 (34.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 47 (31.54%) Test Automation
7 42 (28.19%) Software Engineering
8 36 (24.16%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (22.82%) Deployment Automation
10 29 (19.46%) Containerisation
11 27 (18.12%) Event-Driven
12 26 (17.45%) Design Patterns
12 26 (17.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 25 (16.78%) AI
13 25 (16.78%) API Design
14 24 (16.11%) Infrastructure as Code
15 23 (15.44%) API Development
15 23 (15.44%) SOLID
16 21 (14.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 21 (14.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 132 (88.59%) C#
2 65 (43.62%) SQL
3 52 (34.90%) JavaScript
4 49 (32.89%) TypeScript
5 40 (26.85%) Python
6 22 (14.77%) Bicep
7 9 (6.04%) T-SQL
8 5 (3.36%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.36%) XAML
9 4 (2.68%) C++
9 4 (2.68%) Java
10 2 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.34%) VBA
11 1 (0.67%) C
11 1 (0.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 29 (19.46%) Security Cleared
2 23 (15.44%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.08%) Degree
4 12 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.70%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.70%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.68%) PhD
7 2 (1.34%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.42%) QA
2 14 (9.40%) Accessibility
3 13 (8.72%) WCAG
4 11 (7.38%) NCSC
5 3 (2.01%) Basel III
6 2 (1.34%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.34%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.67%) GDPR
7 1 (0.67%) GRC
7 1 (0.67%) HL7
7 1 (0.67%) ITGC
7 1 (0.67%) PSD2
7 1 (0.67%) SEPA
System Software
1 49 (32.89%) Docker
2 16 (10.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (27.52%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.70%) Ansible
3 1 (0.67%) Istio
3 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (40.94%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.03%) Centrify
2 6 (4.03%) CyberArk
3 4 (2.68%) IBM
3 4 (2.68%) Oracle
4 3 (2.01%) DevExpress
5 2 (1.34%) Cisco
5 2 (1.34%) Google
5 2 (1.34%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.34%) SAP
5 2 (1.34%) VMware
5 2 (1.34%) WSO2
6 1 (0.67%) Calypso
6 1 (0.67%) Databricks
6 1 (0.67%) FIS
6 1 (0.67%) Murex
6 1 (0.67%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.67%) Sage
6 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.67%) Temenos