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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 323 248
Rank change year-on-year -150 -75 -24
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 101 155 342
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.63% 0.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.27% 2.82% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 124 251
10th Percentile £402 £400 £385
25th Percentile £453 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £566 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% -1.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £728 £700
90th Percentile £636 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £492 £525 £551
% change year-on-year -6.29% -4.76% -8.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £47.61
25th Percentile - - £54.85
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - £87.00
UK median hourly rate - - £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 7,933 5,504 7,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.90% 22.38% 20.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,304 3,816 5,356
10th Percentile £358 £368 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -3.05% -2.65%
75th Percentile £625 £668 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 98 198
10th Percentile £33.75 £29.90 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.56 £39.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £82.36 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

.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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -115 53 £500 -20.00% 55
North of England -61 19 £513 +24.24% 41
South East -69 15 £488 +21.88% 51
Yorkshire -53 10 £525 +10.53% 8
Midlands -56 9 £455 -9.00% 20
West Midlands -50 8 £460 -3.16% 11
North West -39 7 £575 +39.39% 24
East of England -39 4 £550 +10.55% 25
South West -42 2 - - 15
North East - 2 £475 - 9
East Midlands -38 1 £450 -10.00% 9
.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 4 (3.96%) CMS
2 3 (2.97%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.97%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (1.98%) Confluence
4 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.99%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Endur
1 1 (0.99%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 74 (73.27%) Azure
2 47 (46.53%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (27.72%) Serverless
4 25 (24.75%) Azure AKS
5 24 (23.76%) Azure Functions
6 21 (20.79%) AWS
7 20 (19.80%) Azure Logic Apps
7 20 (19.80%) Azure Service Bus
7 20 (19.80%) GitHub
8 19 (18.81%) Entra ID
9 18 (17.82%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (16.83%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (14.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 14 (13.86%) Azure Key Vault
13 10 (9.90%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (8.91%) Azure Event Grid
15 8 (7.92%) Azure API Management
15 8 (7.92%) Azure Cognitive Services
15 8 (7.92%) Azure Machine Learning
15 8 (7.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.95%) 3GPP
1 5 (4.95%) Network Security
1 5 (4.95%) RTP
2 3 (2.97%) Wireshark
3 2 (1.98%) HTTP
3 2 (1.98%) RTCP
3 2 (1.98%) SSL
3 2 (1.98%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (37.62%) SQL Server
2 12 (11.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (11.88%) NoSQL
3 8 (7.92%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.93%) Oracle Database
5 5 (4.95%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.98%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.99%) DataStage
8 1 (0.99%) Parquet
8 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (25.74%) Git
2 10 (9.90%) JIRA
3 5 (4.95%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.97%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.99%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.99%) GitLab
5 1 (0.99%) NUnit
5 1 (0.99%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.99%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (33.66%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.81%) Finance
3 12 (11.88%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.89%) Banking
5 9 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.96%) Front Office
6 4 (3.96%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.97%) Aviation
7 3 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.97%) Fire and Rescue
7 3 (2.97%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.97%) Police
8 2 (1.98%) Billing
8 2 (1.98%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.98%) Retail
9 1 (0.99%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 66 (65.35%) Developer
2 33 (32.67%) .NET Developer
3 24 (23.76%) Senior
4 17 (16.83%) Azure Developer
4 17 (16.83%) Senior Developer
5 15 (14.85%) C# Developer
5 15 (14.85%) Senior .NET Developer
6 14 (13.86%) Software Engineer
7 11 (10.89%) Architect
8 9 (8.91%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (8.91%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (6.93%) Azure Architect
9 7 (6.93%) C# .NET Developer
10 6 (5.94%) .NET Software Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) Backend Developer
10 6 (5.94%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) Technical Architect
11 5 (4.95%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 5 (4.95%) Senior DevOps
12 4 (3.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (100.00%) .NET
2 47 (46.53%) React
3 39 (38.61%) .NET Framework
4 27 (26.73%) RESTful
5 24 (23.76%) AngularJS
5 24 (23.76%) ASP.NET
6 18 (17.82%) HTML
6 18 (17.82%) REST
7 17 (16.83%) Node.js
8 15 (14.85%) CSS
9 12 (11.88%) Entity Framework
10 10 (9.90%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (8.91%) OAuth
12 8 (7.92%) OpenID
12 8 (7.92%) PyTorch
12 8 (7.92%) TensorFlow
13 7 (6.93%) ARM Templates
13 7 (6.93%) ASP.NET MVC
14 6 (5.94%) OAuth2
14 6 (5.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (22.77%) Cloud Native
2 15 (14.85%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (13.86%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (10.89%) AI Agents
5 7 (6.93%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (4.95%) Credit Risk
6 5 (4.95%) Market Risk
6 5 (4.95%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.96%) NHS
8 3 (2.97%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.97%) Fixed Income
8 3 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.97%) Robotics
9 2 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.98%) Media Streaming
9 2 (1.98%) Wiki
10 1 (0.99%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.94%) Windows
2 3 (2.97%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (72.28%) CI/CD
1 73 (72.28%) DevOps
2 48 (47.52%) Agile
3 47 (46.53%) Microservices
4 29 (28.71%) AI
5 27 (26.73%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (23.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (21.78%) Software Engineering
7 22 (21.78%) Test Automation
8 21 (20.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (19.80%) Containerisation
10 17 (16.83%) RBAC
11 16 (15.84%) API Management
12 13 (12.87%) Event-Driven
13 12 (11.88%) MVC
14 11 (10.89%) Analytics
14 11 (10.89%) API Development
14 11 (10.89%) Clean Code
14 11 (10.89%) Machine Learning
14 11 (10.89%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 88 (87.13%) C#
2 43 (42.57%) SQL
3 28 (27.72%) Python
4 26 (25.74%) JavaScript
5 20 (19.80%) TypeScript
6 18 (17.82%) Bicep
7 7 (6.93%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.95%) Bash
8 5 (4.95%) PHP
9 4 (3.96%) Java
10 1 (0.99%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (8.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.92%) Azure Certification
3 7 (6.93%) Degree
4 6 (5.94%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.98%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.92%) QA
2 4 (3.96%) HL7
3 3 (2.97%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.98%) WCAG
5 1 (0.99%) EMIR
5 1 (0.99%) MiFID
System Software
1 31 (30.69%) Docker
2 13 (12.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (32.67%) Terraform
2 21 (20.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 30 (29.70%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.88%) Oracle
3 10 (9.90%) Databricks
4 8 (7.92%) OpenAI
5 6 (5.94%) Sitecore
6 4 (3.96%) Brio
7 3 (2.97%) Google
7 3 (2.97%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.99%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow