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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 341 260
Rank change year-on-year -155 -81 -35
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 96 147 337
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.61% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.18% 2.69% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 108 247
10th Percentile £378 £384 £400
25th Percentile £444 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £611 £669 £700
90th Percentile £675 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £545
% change year-on-year - -8.26% -8.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £47.61
25th Percentile £46.25 - £54.85
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £80.00
75th Percentile £48.75 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - £87.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +45.45%

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 8,108 5,455 7,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.22% 22.56% 20.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,343 3,782 5,423
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £414 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £633 £656 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 105 244
10th Percentile £31.62 £31.07 £22.58
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £79.60 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%

.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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -121 47 £593 -2.67% 55
North of England -68 19 £523 +10.00% 63
South East -66 15 £525 +52.73% 52
Midlands -51 10 £450 -10.00% 27
West Midlands -49 9 £455 - 14
Yorkshire -62 9 £524 +8.55% 18
North West -40 7 £575 +39.82% 35
East of England -25 3 £550 +34.15% 20
South West -27 3 £425 -29.17% 14
North East - 3 £475 - 11
East Midlands -28 1 £450 -10.00% 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 6 (6.25%) CMS
2 4 (4.17%) Confluence
3 3 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.13%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (3.13%) Umbraco
4 2 (2.08%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Endur
1 1 (1.04%) Findur
1 1 (1.04%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 63 (65.63%) Azure
2 32 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (22.92%) AWS
4 14 (14.58%) Serverless
5 12 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 12 (12.50%) GitHub
6 11 (11.46%) Azure Service Bus
7 10 (10.42%) Azure AKS
7 10 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (9.38%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (7.29%) Entra ID
11 6 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (6.25%) PaaS
11 6 (6.25%) Power Platform
11 6 (6.25%) SaaS
12 4 (4.17%) IaaS
13 3 (3.13%) GCP
14 2 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.33%) 3GPP
1 8 (8.33%) RTP
2 6 (6.25%) Wireshark
3 2 (2.08%) DHCP
3 2 (2.08%) DNS
3 2 (2.08%) HTTP
3 2 (2.08%) RTCP
3 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.08%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (43.75%) SQL Server
2 14 (14.58%) NoSQL
3 12 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 9 (9.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (7.29%) Oracle Database
7 6 (6.25%) Power BI
8 4 (4.17%) MongoDB
9 3 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.04%) Parquet
10 1 (1.04%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (25.00%) Git
2 12 (12.50%) JIRA
3 7 (7.29%) GitLab
4 6 (6.25%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.08%) NUnit
6 1 (1.04%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.04%) Moq
6 1 (1.04%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.04%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.96%) Finance
3 12 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.42%) Banking
5 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.25%) Front Office
7 5 (5.21%) Aviation
7 5 (5.21%) Fire and Rescue
7 5 (5.21%) Police
8 4 (4.17%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.13%) Retail
10 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.08%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.04%) Automotive
11 1 (1.04%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 65 (67.71%) Developer
2 33 (34.38%) .NET Developer
3 24 (25.00%) Senior
4 22 (22.92%) Senior Developer
5 21 (21.88%) C# Developer
6 16 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
7 15 (15.63%) Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (14.58%) Software Engineer
9 13 (13.54%) Architect
10 12 (12.50%) Azure Developer
11 10 (10.42%) C# .NET Developer
12 7 (7.29%) Azure Architect
12 7 (7.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 7 (7.29%) React Developer
12 7 (7.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (6.25%) Senior C# Developer
13 6 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (6.25%) Technical Architect
14 5 (5.21%) Senior C# .NET Developer
14 5 (5.21%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (100.00%) .NET
2 40 (41.67%) React
3 38 (39.58%) .NET Framework
4 32 (33.33%) RESTful
5 25 (26.04%) ASP.NET
6 22 (22.92%) REST
7 21 (21.88%) HTML
8 18 (18.75%) CSS
9 17 (17.71%) AngularJS
10 16 (16.67%) Entity Framework
11 11 (11.46%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (9.38%) Node.js
13 8 (8.33%) OAuth
14 7 (7.29%) JSON
14 7 (7.29%) Kafka
14 7 (7.29%) PySpark
14 7 (7.29%) YAML
15 6 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
15 6 (6.25%) Blazor
15 6 (6.25%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 25 (26.04%) Cloud Native
2 17 (17.71%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (11.46%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (9.38%) Product Ownership
5 7 (7.29%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (5.21%) Robotics
7 3 (3.13%) AI Agents
7 3 (3.13%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.13%) Fixed Income
8 2 (2.08%) Credit Risk
8 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (2.08%) FMCG
8 2 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (2.08%) Media Streaming
8 2 (2.08%) PKI
8 2 (2.08%) Wiki
9 1 (1.04%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.33%) Linux
2 3 (3.13%) Windows
3 2 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (65.63%) CI/CD
1 63 (65.63%) DevOps
2 46 (47.92%) Agile
3 42 (43.75%) Microservices
4 25 (26.04%) Software Engineering
4 25 (26.04%) Test Automation
5 21 (21.88%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (20.83%) Event-Driven
7 19 (19.79%) AI
7 19 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 16 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (13.54%) Containerisation
10 12 (12.50%) Data Modelling
10 12 (12.50%) Migration
10 12 (12.50%) TDD
11 11 (11.46%) Scrum
12 10 (10.42%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (10.42%) Mentoring
12 10 (10.42%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 81 (84.38%) C#
2 42 (43.75%) SQL
3 25 (26.04%) JavaScript
3 25 (26.04%) TypeScript
4 21 (21.88%) Python
5 11 (11.46%) Bicep
6 3 (3.13%) Java
7 2 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.08%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.04%) C++
8 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (9.38%) Degree
1 9 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.29%) Azure Certification
3 6 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.21%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.17%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.54%) QA
2 4 (4.17%) WCAG
3 2 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.08%) Basel III
3 2 (2.08%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.04%) EMIR
4 1 (1.04%) HL7
4 1 (1.04%) MiFID
System Software
1 27 (28.13%) Docker
2 6 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (18.75%) Kubernetes
1 18 (18.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.50%) Oracle
3 6 (6.25%) Sitecore
4 3 (3.13%) Google
4 3 (3.13%) ION Trading
5 2 (2.08%) Cisco
5 2 (2.08%) VMware
6 1 (1.04%) Brio
6 1 (1.04%) IBM
6 1 (1.04%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.04%) OpenLink
6 1 (1.04%) SAP
6 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow