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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 318 261
Rank change year-on-year -174 -57 -31
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 91 151 340
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.62% 0.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.15% 2.76% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 119 247
10th Percentile £403 £390 £393
25th Percentile £451 £462 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £700
90th Percentile £642 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £496 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -5.52% -4.55% -8.33%
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 7,883 5,472 7,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.38% 22.35% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,221 3,793 5,322
10th Percentile £363 £365 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £534
% change year-on-year - -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 104 228
10th Percentile £34.75 £33.25 £22.27
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.20 £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 £65.01
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.88 £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 11 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 11 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 -104 48 £513 -17.01% 60
North of England -62 18 £513 +15.49% 46
South East -65 12 £506 +47.27% 48
Yorkshire -49 9 £525 +10.53% 13
Midlands -64 9 £455 -9.00% 27
West Midlands -53 8 £460 -3.16% 16
North West -41 7 £575 +39.82% 25
East of England -31 3 £550 +10.55% 28
South West -34 2 - - 14
North East - 2 £475 - 9
East Midlands -39 1 £450 -10.00% 11
.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 (4.40%) CMS
2 3 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.30%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (2.20%) Confluence
4 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.10%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Endur
1 1 (1.10%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 64 (70.33%) Azure
2 40 (43.96%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (23.08%) AWS
4 20 (21.98%) Serverless
5 18 (19.78%) Azure AKS
6 17 (18.68%) Azure Functions
7 15 (16.48%) Azure Service Bus
7 15 (16.48%) GitHub
8 14 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
9 13 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (10.99%) Entra ID
11 9 (9.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (9.89%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (9.89%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (7.69%) PaaS
13 6 (6.59%) SaaS
14 4 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (4.40%) Azure Event Grid
14 4 (4.40%) IaaS
14 4 (4.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.59%) 3GPP
1 6 (6.59%) RTP
2 4 (4.40%) Wireshark
3 2 (2.20%) HTTP
3 2 (2.20%) Network Security
3 2 (2.20%) RTCP
3 2 (2.20%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 12 (13.19%) NoSQL
3 10 (10.99%) Relational Database
4 9 (9.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (7.69%) Oracle Database
6 5 (5.49%) MongoDB
6 5 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (4.40%) Power BI
8 1 (1.10%) DataStage
8 1 (1.10%) Parquet
8 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (27.47%) Git
2 10 (10.99%) JIRA
3 5 (5.49%) GitLab
4 4 (4.40%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.10%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.10%) Moq
6 1 (1.10%) NUnit
6 1 (1.10%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.10%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (32.97%) Social Skills
2 20 (21.98%) Finance
3 12 (13.19%) Banking
4 9 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.40%) Aviation
6 4 (4.40%) Fire and Rescue
6 4 (4.40%) Front Office
6 4 (4.40%) Police
7 3 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.30%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.20%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.10%) Automotive
9 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (67.03%) Developer
2 32 (35.16%) .NET Developer
3 24 (26.37%) Senior
4 19 (20.88%) Senior Developer
5 17 (18.68%) C# Developer
6 15 (16.48%) Senior .NET Developer
7 13 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (14.29%) Software Engineer
8 12 (13.19%) Azure Developer
9 11 (12.09%) Architect
10 9 (9.89%) C# .NET Developer
11 7 (7.69%) Azure Architect
12 6 (6.59%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (6.59%) Technical Architect
13 5 (5.49%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 5 (5.49%) React Developer
13 5 (5.49%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 4 (4.40%) C# Architect
14 4 (4.40%) IT Support
14 4 (4.40%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (100.00%) .NET
2 41 (45.05%) React
3 37 (40.66%) .NET Framework
4 28 (30.77%) RESTful
5 23 (25.27%) ASP.NET
6 19 (20.88%) REST
7 18 (19.78%) HTML
8 17 (18.68%) AngularJS
9 15 (16.48%) CSS
10 13 (14.29%) Entity Framework
11 12 (13.19%) Node.js
12 11 (12.09%) ASP.NET Web API
13 7 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
13 7 (7.69%) OAuth
14 6 (6.59%) YAML
15 5 (5.49%) HTML5
15 5 (5.49%) Kafka
15 5 (5.49%) OpenID
15 5 (5.49%) PySpark
15 5 (5.49%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.27%) Cloud Native
2 19 (20.88%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (6.59%) AI Agents
6 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
6 4 (4.40%) Robotics
7 3 (3.30%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.30%) Credit Risk
7 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.30%) Fixed Income
7 3 (3.30%) Market Risk
8 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.20%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (2.20%) Media Streaming
8 2 (2.20%) NHS
8 2 (2.20%) Wiki
9 1 (1.10%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.40%) Linux
1 4 (4.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (72.53%) DevOps
2 63 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 44 (48.35%) Agile
4 43 (47.25%) Microservices
5 24 (26.37%) Test Automation
6 22 (24.18%) AI
7 21 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
7 21 (23.08%) Software Engineering
8 19 (20.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (19.78%) Containerisation
9 18 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (18.68%) Event-Driven
11 14 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 13 (14.29%) Data Modelling
13 12 (13.19%) Migration
14 11 (12.09%) Mentoring
15 10 (10.99%) API Management
15 10 (10.99%) MVC
15 10 (10.99%) Roadmaps
15 10 (10.99%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 79 (86.81%) C#
2 39 (42.86%) SQL
3 23 (25.27%) Python
4 22 (24.18%) JavaScript
4 22 (24.18%) TypeScript
5 14 (15.38%) Bicep
6 4 (4.40%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.20%) Bash
7 2 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.20%) Java
7 2 (2.20%) PHP
7 2 (2.20%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (9.89%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.79%) Azure Certification
2 8 (8.79%) Degree
3 6 (6.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.59%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.79%) QA
2 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.20%) HL7
2 2 (2.20%) WCAG
3 1 (1.10%) EMIR
3 1 (1.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 29 (31.87%) Docker
2 6 (6.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (25.27%) Terraform
2 19 (20.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.19%) Oracle
3 6 (6.59%) Sitecore
4 4 (4.40%) Databricks
5 3 (3.30%) Google
5 3 (3.30%) ION Trading
5 3 (3.30%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.20%) Brio
7 1 (1.10%) OpenLink
7 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow