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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 382 270
Rank change year-on-year -117 -112 -29
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 143 120 287
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.43% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.46% 1.72% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 68 206
10th Percentile £379 £354 £399
25th Percentile £406 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £541
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% -6.00% -5.87%
75th Percentile £625 £614 £649
90th Percentile £700 £715 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - £52.05
25th Percentile £45.00 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £46.25 - £80.00
75th Percentile £50.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile £52.25 - £88.00
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 9,810 6,989 8,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.28% 25.17% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,442 4,764 5,468
10th Percentile £375 £354 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £673
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 163 177
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.32 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.70 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.35% -12.48% -3.85%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £66.66 £53.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +25.18% -13.56% -2.99%

.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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -96 65 £600 +0.42% 167
South East -64 24 £500 +11.11% 78
North of England -65 22 £500 -4.76% 88
South West -33 18 £413 +10.00% 18
Yorkshire -33 18 £475 -9.52% 21
Midlands -41 9 £425 -15.00% 44
West Midlands -46 8 £400 - 30
East of England -22 3 £525 +5.00% 33
North West -47 2 £550 +10.00% 47
North East - 2 - - 21
East Midlands -13 1 £450 -10.00% 14
.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 25 (17.48%) Confluence
2 5 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.10%) CMS
4 2 (1.40%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.40%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.70%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.70%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.70%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.70%) nginx
5 1 (0.70%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Endur
1 1 (0.70%) Findur
1 1 (0.70%) Sage 50
1 1 (0.70%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 96 (67.13%) Azure
2 52 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (29.37%) AWS
4 32 (22.38%) GitHub
5 14 (9.79%) Serverless
6 13 (9.09%) Azure AKS
6 13 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
7 12 (8.39%) PaaS
8 11 (7.69%) Azure Functions
8 11 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (6.99%) Azure App Service
10 9 (6.29%) Entra ID
10 9 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (5.59%) Power Platform
12 7 (4.90%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (4.90%) Azure API Management
12 7 (4.90%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (4.90%) IaaS
13 6 (4.20%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (3.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.20%) 3GPP
1 6 (4.20%) RTP
1 6 (4.20%) Wireshark
2 2 (1.40%) DHCP
2 2 (1.40%) DNS
2 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (37.06%) SQL Server
2 18 (12.59%) NoSQL
3 15 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (9.79%) Relational Database
5 12 (8.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (7.69%) Geospatial Data
7 8 (5.59%) Power BI
8 4 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.10%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.40%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.40%) Db2
10 2 (1.40%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.40%) Parquet
10 2 (1.40%) Redis
10 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.70%) OLTP
11 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (32.87%) Git
2 23 (16.08%) JIRA
3 11 (7.69%) MSI
4 10 (6.99%) GitLab
4 10 (6.99%) Jenkins
5 9 (6.29%) Visual Studio
6 7 (4.90%) TeamCity
7 5 (3.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (2.80%) JetBrains Rider
8 4 (2.80%) SpecFlow
9 3 (2.10%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.40%) NUnit
11 1 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.70%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.70%) Moq
11 1 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.70%) Rational Rhapsody
11 1 (0.70%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 49 (34.27%) Social Skills
2 31 (21.68%) Finance
3 24 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (11.89%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.29%) Banking
6 8 (5.59%) Front Office
7 5 (3.50%) Aviation
7 5 (3.50%) Fire and Rescue
7 5 (3.50%) Police
8 3 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.10%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.10%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.10%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (1.40%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.40%) Legal
9 2 (1.40%) Marketing
9 2 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.40%) Retail
9 2 (1.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 98 (68.53%) Developer
2 55 (38.46%) .NET Developer
3 40 (27.97%) Senior
4 28 (19.58%) Senior Developer
5 26 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
6 22 (15.38%) C# Developer
7 18 (12.59%) Software Engineer
8 16 (11.19%) Senior .NET Developer
9 13 (9.09%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 12 (8.39%) Azure Developer
10 12 (8.39%) C# .NET Developer
10 12 (8.39%) React Developer
10 12 (8.39%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (6.99%) Architect
11 10 (6.99%) Senior C# Developer
12 8 (5.59%) .NET Software Engineer
12 8 (5.59%) C# Software Engineer
12 8 (5.59%) Lead
12 8 (5.59%) Senior React Developer
13 7 (4.90%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (100.00%) .NET
2 75 (52.45%) REST
3 60 (41.96%) .NET Framework
4 47 (32.87%) RESTful
5 41 (28.67%) React
6 38 (26.57%) ASP.NET
7 28 (19.58%) Terraform
8 26 (18.18%) Entity Framework
9 24 (16.78%) CSS
10 23 (16.08%) HTML
11 21 (14.69%) AngularJS
12 18 (12.59%) Kafka
12 18 (12.59%) Web Services
12 18 (12.59%) WPF
13 14 (9.79%) CSS3
13 14 (9.79%) HTML5
14 12 (8.39%) ASP.NET Web API
15 11 (7.69%) ATL
15 11 (7.69%) GeoJSON
15 11 (7.69%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 53 (37.06%) Cloud Native
2 20 (13.99%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (13.29%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (13.29%) Product Ownership
4 14 (9.79%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (9.79%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.20%) Wiki
6 5 (3.50%) Robotics
7 4 (2.80%) Credit Risk
7 4 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.80%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.10%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.40%) Equities
9 2 (1.40%) FMCG
9 2 (1.40%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.40%) NHS
9 2 (1.40%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.29%) Windows
2 11 (7.69%) Linux
3 2 (1.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (66.43%) CI/CD
2 76 (53.15%) DevOps
3 67 (46.85%) Agile
4 57 (39.86%) Microservices
5 46 (32.17%) Full-Stack Development
6 40 (27.97%) Software Engineering
6 40 (27.97%) Test Automation
7 34 (23.78%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (20.98%) Containerisation
8 30 (20.98%) Deployment Automation
9 26 (18.18%) Event-Driven
9 26 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (17.48%) API Development
10 25 (17.48%) Design Patterns
10 25 (17.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 23 (16.08%) AI
11 23 (16.08%) API Design
12 22 (15.38%) SOLID
13 19 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (13.29%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 125 (87.41%) C#
2 59 (41.26%) SQL
3 53 (37.06%) JavaScript
4 49 (34.27%) TypeScript
5 37 (25.87%) Python
6 20 (13.99%) Bicep
7 6 (4.20%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.80%) C++
8 4 (2.80%) Java
9 3 (2.10%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.10%) XAML
10 2 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.70%) C
11 1 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (20.98%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.78%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.19%) Degree
4 12 (8.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.20%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.50%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.50%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.40%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.40%) PhD
8 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.89%) QA
2 14 (9.79%) Accessibility
3 13 (9.09%) WCAG
4 11 (7.69%) NCSC
5 3 (2.10%) Basel III
6 2 (1.40%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.40%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.70%) GRC
7 1 (0.70%) HL7
7 1 (0.70%) PSD2
7 1 (0.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 50 (34.97%) Docker
2 14 (9.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (29.37%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.90%) Ansible
3 1 (0.70%) Istio
3 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (39.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.20%) Centrify
2 6 (4.20%) CyberArk
3 5 (3.50%) Oracle
4 4 (2.80%) IBM
5 3 (2.10%) DevExpress
6 2 (1.40%) Cisco
6 2 (1.40%) Google
6 2 (1.40%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.40%) SAP
6 2 (1.40%) VMware
6 2 (1.40%) WSO2
7 1 (0.70%) Databricks
7 1 (0.70%) FIS
7 1 (0.70%) Murex
7 1 (0.70%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.70%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) Temenos