.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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 410 322 231
Rank change year-on-year -88 -91 -44
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 122 192 410
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.62% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.76% 2.83% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 153 298
10th Percentile £385 £384 £367
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £558 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% -3.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £648 £675 £684
90th Percentile £750 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £68.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 6,951 6,776 8,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.66% 21.84% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,681 4,305 6,202
10th Percentile £350 £360 £369
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £630 £669 £675
90th Percentile £726 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 107 178
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £35.52
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.40 £65.00 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +19.20% -16.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -12.70%

.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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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 -60 73 £525 -12.50% 67
South East +1 19 £450 -2.70% 83
North of England -49 12 £525 +16.67% 48
East of England -11 7 £500 -4.76% 23
North West -23 7 £525 +16.67% 27
Midlands -32 5 £450 -10.00% 29
Yorkshire -34 5 £520 +14.29% 15
West Midlands -18 3 £413 -17.50% 14
South West -4 2 - - 18
East Midlands -15 2 £519 +3.75% 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 3 (2.46%) Confluence
2 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.82%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.28%) Aladdin
1 4 (3.28%) Fidessa
1 4 (3.28%) thinkFolio
2 3 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.82%) Eikon
3 1 (0.82%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.82%) Maximo
3 1 (0.82%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 81 (66.39%) Azure
2 47 (38.52%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (22.95%) Serverless
4 24 (19.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 23 (18.85%) Azure Service Bus
6 22 (18.03%) Azure Functions
7 19 (15.57%) Azure Monitor
8 18 (14.75%) Azure Logic Apps
9 17 (13.93%) Azure AKS
10 16 (13.11%) GitHub
11 15 (12.30%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (11.48%) AWS
13 12 (9.84%) Entra ID
14 10 (8.20%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (7.38%) Azure API Management
15 9 (7.38%) Azure Event Grid
15 9 (7.38%) Azure Key Vault
16 6 (4.92%) Azure Cognitive Services
16 6 (4.92%) Azure Machine Learning
16 6 (4.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.46%) Network Security
2 2 (1.64%) Internet
2 2 (1.64%) SSL
3 1 (0.82%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (30.33%) SQL Server
2 13 (10.66%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (10.66%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.74%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.28%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.46%) Big Data
5 3 (2.46%) Power BI
6 2 (1.64%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.64%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.64%) Redis
7 1 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.82%) DataStage
7 1 (0.82%) MySQL
7 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (16.39%) Git
2 6 (4.92%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.28%) Cypress.io
3 4 (3.28%) JIRA
4 2 (1.64%) Postman
4 2 (1.64%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.64%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.82%) Ant
5 1 (0.82%) AppVeyor
5 1 (0.82%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.82%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.82%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.82%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.82%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.82%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.82%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (0.82%) JUnit
5 1 (0.82%) NUnit
5 1 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 38 (31.15%) Finance
1 38 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.30%) Banking
3 14 (11.48%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.56%) Front Office
6 7 (5.74%) Financial Institution
7 6 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.28%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.64%) Billing
9 2 (1.64%) Electronics
9 2 (1.64%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.64%) Local Government
9 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.64%) Marketing
9 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.82%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.82%) Publishing
10 1 (0.82%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 83 (68.03%) Developer
2 40 (32.79%) .NET Developer
3 36 (29.51%) Senior
4 27 (22.13%) Senior Developer
5 18 (14.75%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (13.93%) C# Developer
7 16 (13.11%) Azure Developer
7 16 (13.11%) Senior .NET Developer
8 13 (10.66%) Lead
9 10 (8.20%) Software Engineer
10 9 (7.38%) Architect
10 9 (7.38%) C# .NET Developer
10 9 (7.38%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 7 (5.74%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.74%) Senior DevOps
12 6 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
13 5 (4.10%) .NET Software Engineer
13 5 (4.10%) Angular Developer
13 5 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (4.10%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (100.00%) .NET
2 32 (26.23%) .NET Framework
3 31 (25.41%) React
4 29 (23.77%) AngularJS
5 27 (22.13%) RESTful
6 24 (19.67%) ASP.NET
7 21 (17.21%) REST
8 17 (13.93%) HTML
9 15 (12.30%) CSS
10 11 (9.02%) Node.js
11 10 (8.20%) SOAP
12 8 (6.56%) Entity Framework
13 7 (5.74%) OAuth
13 7 (5.74%) WPF
14 6 (4.92%) GraphQL
14 6 (4.92%) PyTorch
14 6 (4.92%) TensorFlow
15 5 (4.10%) ARM Templates
15 5 (4.10%) ASP.NET MVC
15 5 (4.10%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.03%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.84%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (9.84%) Product Ownership
3 9 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (6.56%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (5.74%) Fixed Income
5 7 (5.74%) Hedge funds
6 6 (4.92%) AI Agents
7 4 (3.28%) Credit Risk
7 4 (3.28%) Derivative
7 4 (3.28%) Market Risk
7 4 (3.28%) NHS
8 3 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.46%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.82%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.82%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.56%) Windows
2 2 (1.64%) Linux
3 1 (0.82%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (63.11%) CI/CD
2 73 (59.84%) DevOps
3 70 (57.38%) Agile
4 44 (36.07%) Microservices
5 34 (27.87%) Full-Stack Development
5 34 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (18.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (16.39%) Design Patterns
8 19 (15.57%) Software Engineering
9 18 (14.75%) Clean Code
9 18 (14.75%) OO
10 15 (12.30%) Event-Driven
10 15 (12.30%) Scrum
10 15 (12.30%) TDD
11 14 (11.48%) SOLID
12 13 (10.66%) API Development
12 13 (10.66%) Containerisation
12 13 (10.66%) Mentoring
12 13 (10.66%) Test Automation
13 12 (9.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 105 (86.07%) C#
2 55 (45.08%) SQL
3 38 (31.15%) JavaScript
4 22 (18.03%) Python
5 13 (10.66%) Java
6 10 (8.20%) Bicep
6 10 (8.20%) TypeScript
7 8 (6.56%) Bash
7 8 (6.56%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.74%) T-SQL
9 5 (4.10%) PHP
10 4 (3.28%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.64%) Perl
11 2 (1.64%) VBA
12 1 (0.82%) C++
12 1 (0.82%) Korn
12 1 (0.82%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (4.10%) Azure Certification
1 5 (4.10%) Degree
1 5 (4.10%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.64%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.38%) QA
2 5 (4.10%) MiFID
3 4 (3.28%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.46%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.46%) HL7
4 3 (2.46%) WCAG
5 1 (0.82%) EMIR
System Software
1 17 (13.93%) Docker
2 9 (7.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (20.49%) Terraform
2 15 (12.30%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.82%) Grafana
4 1 (0.82%) Istio
4 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (29.51%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.56%) Databricks
2 8 (6.56%) Oracle
3 6 (4.92%) OpenAI
4 4 (3.28%) Portware
5 3 (2.46%) Brio
5 3 (2.46%) SAP
6 1 (0.82%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.82%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.82%) Okta
6 1 (0.82%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.82%) Reuters
6 1 (0.82%) Salesforce