.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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 369 250
Rank change year-on-year -115 -119 -14
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 139 136 311
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.49% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.64% 2.24% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 82 230
10th Percentile £374 £380 £382
25th Percentile £406 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £536
Median % change year-on-year - -6.76% -6.74%
75th Percentile £619 £613 £675
90th Percentile £700 £755 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile - - £47.61
25th Percentile - - £54.85
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £46.88 - £85.00
90th Percentile £48.00 - £87.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +23.08%

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 8,460 6,078 7,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.50% 22.04% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,523 4,158 5,022
10th Percentile £368 £350 £359
25th Percentile £432 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 158 214
10th Percentile £28.44 £31.25 £24.05
25th Percentile £45.31 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% -1.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £55.63
% change year-on-year +18.45% -1.35% -6.54%

.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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -103 59 £600 +7.48% 112
North of England -66 24 £523 -0.48% 55
South East -68 24 £500 +25.00% 64
South West -29 18 £413 +10.00% 17
Yorkshire -33 17 £475 -9.52% 9
Midlands -37 9 £425 -13.27% 20
West Midlands -50 8 £400 - 13
North West -51 6 £575 +21.05% 27
East of England -27 3 £525 +5.00% 30
East Midlands -17 1 £450 -8.16% 7
North East - 1 - - 20
.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 26 (18.71%) Confluence
2 5 (3.60%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.16%) CMS
4 2 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.44%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.72%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.72%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.72%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Endur
1 1 (0.72%) Findur
1 1 (0.72%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 99 (71.22%) Azure
2 52 (37.41%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (27.34%) AWS
4 32 (23.02%) GitHub
5 18 (12.95%) Serverless
6 16 (11.51%) Azure AKS
7 14 (10.07%) Azure Functions
7 14 (10.07%) Azure Key Vault
7 14 (10.07%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (9.35%) PaaS
9 11 (7.91%) Azure App Service
9 11 (7.91%) Azure Service Bus
9 11 (7.91%) Entra ID
10 9 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (5.76%) IaaS
11 8 (5.76%) Power Platform
12 7 (5.04%) Azure API Management
12 7 (5.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (4.32%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (3.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.32%) 3GPP
1 6 (4.32%) RTP
1 6 (4.32%) Wireshark
2 2 (1.44%) DHCP
2 2 (1.44%) DNS
2 2 (1.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (38.13%) SQL Server
2 20 (14.39%) NoSQL
3 14 (10.07%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (10.07%) Relational Database
4 12 (8.63%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (7.91%) Geospatial Data
6 8 (5.76%) Power BI
7 4 (2.88%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.44%) Db2
8 2 (1.44%) Parquet
8 2 (1.44%) Redis
8 2 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 50 (35.97%) Git
2 24 (17.27%) JIRA
3 11 (7.91%) MSI
4 10 (7.19%) GitLab
5 8 (5.76%) Jenkins
5 8 (5.76%) Visual Studio
6 7 (5.04%) TeamCity
7 5 (3.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (2.88%) JetBrains Rider
9 3 (2.16%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.44%) NUnit
10 2 (1.44%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.72%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.72%) Moq
11 1 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.72%) Rational Rhapsody
11 1 (0.72%) REST Assured
General
1 44 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.42%) Finance
3 22 (15.83%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.51%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.04%) Banking
6 6 (4.32%) Front Office
7 5 (3.60%) Aviation
7 5 (3.60%) Fire and Rescue
7 5 (3.60%) Police
8 3 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.16%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.44%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.44%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.44%) Legal
9 2 (1.44%) Marketing
9 2 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.44%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (1.44%) Retail
9 2 (1.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 100 (71.94%) Developer
2 57 (41.01%) .NET Developer
3 34 (24.46%) Senior
4 28 (20.14%) Senior Developer
5 27 (19.42%) Full-Stack Developer
6 21 (15.11%) C# Developer
7 17 (12.23%) Senior .NET Developer
7 17 (12.23%) Software Engineer
8 15 (10.79%) Azure Developer
9 13 (9.35%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 13 (9.35%) React Developer
10 12 (8.63%) C# .NET Developer
11 11 (7.91%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (6.47%) Senior C# Developer
12 9 (6.47%) Senior React Developer
13 8 (5.76%) Lead
14 7 (5.04%) Architect
14 7 (5.04%) C# Software Engineer
14 7 (5.04%) Senior C# .NET Developer
15 6 (4.32%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (100.00%) .NET
2 73 (52.52%) REST
3 59 (42.45%) .NET Framework
4 51 (36.69%) RESTful
5 46 (33.09%) React
6 38 (27.34%) ASP.NET
7 27 (19.42%) Entity Framework
8 26 (18.71%) AngularJS
9 25 (17.99%) CSS
9 25 (17.99%) HTML
10 18 (12.95%) Web Services
11 16 (11.51%) CSS3
11 16 (11.51%) HTML5
12 15 (10.79%) WPF
13 14 (10.07%) Kafka
14 11 (7.91%) ATL
14 11 (7.91%) COM
14 11 (7.91%) GeoJSON
14 11 (7.91%) JSON
14 11 (7.91%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 51 (36.69%) Cloud Native
2 21 (15.11%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (12.23%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (12.23%) Product Ownership
4 14 (10.07%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (9.35%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.32%) Wiki
7 5 (3.60%) Robotics
8 4 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.44%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.44%) Equities
9 2 (1.44%) FMCG
9 2 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.44%) NHS
9 2 (1.44%) PKI
9 2 (1.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.95%) Windows
2 10 (7.19%) Linux
3 2 (1.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (69.06%) CI/CD
2 80 (57.55%) DevOps
3 69 (49.64%) Agile
4 63 (45.32%) Microservices
5 46 (33.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 41 (29.50%) Test Automation
7 35 (25.18%) Software Engineering
8 30 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (20.86%) Containerisation
10 28 (20.14%) API Development
10 28 (20.14%) Deployment Automation
11 25 (17.99%) Event-Driven
11 25 (17.99%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (17.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 23 (16.55%) API Design
13 23 (16.55%) Design Patterns
14 21 (15.11%) AI
15 20 (14.39%) SOLID
16 19 (13.67%) DevSecOps
17 18 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 124 (89.21%) C#
2 56 (40.29%) SQL
3 52 (37.41%) JavaScript
4 46 (33.09%) TypeScript
5 36 (25.90%) Python
6 21 (15.11%) Bicep
7 5 (3.60%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.88%) C++
8 4 (2.88%) Java
8 4 (2.88%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.44%) XAML
10 1 (0.72%) C
10 1 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (20.14%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.83%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.35%) Degree
4 9 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.60%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.60%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.16%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.44%) PhD
8 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.23%) QA
2 14 (10.07%) Accessibility
3 13 (9.35%) WCAG
4 11 (7.91%) NCSC
5 2 (1.44%) Basel III
5 2 (1.44%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.72%) HL7
System Software
1 49 (35.25%) Docker
2 15 (10.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (29.50%) Kubernetes
2 30 (21.58%) Terraform
3 7 (5.04%) Ansible
4 1 (0.72%) Istio
4 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (40.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.32%) Centrify
2 6 (4.32%) CyberArk
3 4 (2.88%) IBM
4 3 (2.16%) DevExpress
4 3 (2.16%) Oracle
5 2 (1.44%) Cisco
5 2 (1.44%) VMware
6 1 (0.72%) Google
6 1 (0.72%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.72%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.72%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.72%) SAP
6 1 (0.72%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.72%) Sitecore