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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 334 247
Rank change year-on-year -157 -87 -13
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 94 153 340
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.63% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 2.80% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 117 245
10th Percentile £403 £388 £399
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £700
90th Percentile £640 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -9.17%
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 7,884 5,455 7,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.24% 22.29% 20.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,228 3,776 5,342
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £629 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 99 230
10th Percentile £30.98 £32.65 £22.42
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.95
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

.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 18 May 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 18 May 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 46 £525 -14.99% 56
North of England -67 20 £523 +17.75% 55
South East -67 14 £506 +47.27% 56
Yorkshire -55 10 £524 +10.26% 17
Midlands -60 9 £455 -9.00% 23
West Midlands -49 8 £460 -3.16% 14
North West -37 7 £575 +39.82% 29
South West -25 3 £425 -29.17% 16
East of England -30 3 £550 +10.55% 23
North East - 3 £475 - 10
East Midlands -32 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 5 (5.32%) CMS
2 3 (3.19%) Confluence
2 3 (3.19%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.19%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (2.13%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Endur
1 1 (1.06%) Findur
1 1 (1.06%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 65 (69.15%) Azure
2 40 (42.55%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (22.34%) Serverless
4 19 (20.21%) AWS
5 18 (19.15%) Azure AKS
5 18 (19.15%) Azure Functions
6 15 (15.96%) Azure Logic Apps
6 15 (15.96%) Azure Service Bus
6 15 (15.96%) GitHub
7 13 (13.83%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (10.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 10 (10.64%) Azure Key Vault
8 10 (10.64%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (10.64%) Entra ID
9 7 (7.45%) PaaS
10 6 (6.38%) SaaS
11 4 (4.26%) Azure App Service
11 4 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (4.26%) Azure Event Grid
11 4 (4.26%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.45%) 3GPP
1 7 (7.45%) RTP
2 5 (5.32%) Wireshark
3 2 (2.13%) HTTP
3 2 (2.13%) Network Security
3 2 (2.13%) RTCP
3 2 (2.13%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (41.49%) SQL Server
2 13 (13.83%) NoSQL
3 11 (11.70%) Relational Database
4 10 (10.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (7.45%) Oracle Database
6 5 (5.32%) MongoDB
6 5 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (4.26%) Power BI
8 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.06%) Parquet
9 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (26.60%) Git
2 11 (11.70%) JIRA
3 5 (5.32%) GitLab
3 5 (5.32%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.06%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.06%) Moq
5 1 (1.06%) NUnit
5 1 (1.06%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.06%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.21%) Finance
3 11 (11.70%) Banking
4 9 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.51%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.32%) Front Office
7 4 (4.26%) Aviation
7 4 (4.26%) Fire and Rescue
7 4 (4.26%) Police
8 3 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.19%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.13%) Health Technology
9 2 (2.13%) Retail
10 1 (1.06%) Automotive
10 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.06%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (67.02%) Developer
2 31 (32.98%) .NET Developer
3 24 (25.53%) Senior
4 19 (20.21%) Senior Developer
5 17 (18.09%) C# Developer
6 14 (14.89%) Azure Developer
6 14 (14.89%) Senior .NET Developer
6 14 (14.89%) Software Engineer
7 13 (13.83%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (11.70%) Architect
9 9 (9.57%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (7.45%) Azure Architect
11 6 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (6.38%) Technical Architect
12 5 (5.32%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 5 (5.32%) React Developer
12 5 (5.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 4 (4.26%) C# Architect
13 4 (4.26%) IT Architect
13 4 (4.26%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (100.00%) .NET
2 41 (43.62%) React
3 36 (38.30%) .NET Framework
4 28 (29.79%) RESTful
5 24 (25.53%) ASP.NET
6 19 (20.21%) AngularJS
6 19 (20.21%) HTML
6 19 (20.21%) REST
7 16 (17.02%) CSS
8 14 (14.89%) Entity Framework
9 12 (12.77%) Node.js
10 11 (11.70%) ASP.NET Web API
11 8 (8.51%) OAuth
12 7 (7.45%) ASP.NET MVC
13 6 (6.38%) OpenID
13 6 (6.38%) YAML
14 5 (5.32%) HTML5
14 5 (5.32%) Kafka
14 5 (5.32%) PySpark
14 5 (5.32%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (24.47%) Cloud Native
2 19 (20.21%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (11.70%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (7.45%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (6.38%) AI Agents
6 5 (5.32%) Product Ownership
7 4 (4.26%) Robotics
8 3 (3.19%) Algorithms
8 3 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (3.19%) Fixed Income
9 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (2.13%) Media Streaming
9 2 (2.13%) NHS
9 2 (2.13%) Wiki
10 1 (1.06%) Credit Risk
10 1 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (1.06%) Legacy Code
10 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.32%) Linux
2 1 (1.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (71.28%) DevOps
2 64 (68.09%) CI/CD
3 47 (50.00%) Agile
4 44 (46.81%) Microservices
5 24 (25.53%) Test Automation
6 22 (23.40%) AI
6 22 (23.40%) Software Engineering
7 20 (21.28%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (20.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (19.15%) Containerisation
9 18 (19.15%) Event-Driven
10 15 (15.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 13 (13.83%) Data Modelling
11 13 (13.83%) Migration
12 11 (11.70%) API Management
12 11 (11.70%) Mentoring
12 11 (11.70%) TDD
13 10 (10.64%) RBAC
13 10 (10.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 82 (87.23%) C#
2 41 (43.62%) SQL
3 24 (25.53%) JavaScript
4 23 (24.47%) Python
5 22 (23.40%) TypeScript
6 14 (14.89%) Bicep
7 4 (4.26%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.13%) Bash
8 2 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.13%) Java
8 2 (2.13%) PHP
9 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (9.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.51%) Azure Certification
2 8 (8.51%) Degree
3 6 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.57%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) WCAG
3 2 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.13%) HL7
4 1 (1.06%) Basel III
4 1 (1.06%) EMIR
4 1 (1.06%) MiFID
System Software
1 30 (31.91%) Docker
2 6 (6.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (24.47%) Terraform
2 20 (21.28%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (21.28%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.70%) Oracle
3 6 (6.38%) Sitecore
4 3 (3.19%) Databricks
4 3 (3.19%) Google
4 3 (3.19%) ION Trading
4 3 (3.19%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.13%) Brio
6 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.06%) OpenLink
6 1 (1.06%) SAP
6 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow