.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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 320 281
Rank change year-on-year -122 -39 -84
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 108 171 309
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.65% 0.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.48% 2.91% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 136 235
10th Percentile £405 £419 £363
25th Percentile £456 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £600 £700 £681
90th Percentile £705 £825 £723
UK median daily rate £496 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.74% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.40%

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 7,311 5,867 7,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.88% 22.33% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,898 3,751 5,599
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £657
90th Percentile £738 £788 £751
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £534
% change year-on-year -4.65% +0.66% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 76 182
10th Percentile £34.40 £26.38 £25.85
25th Percentile £50.00 £49.31 £45.96
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.13 £66.19 £69.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.03 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%

.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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -82 67 £513 -21.15% 63
South East -28 14 £425 -8.11% 64
North of England -53 11 £500 +17.65% 54
East of England -23 7 £550 +10.55% 23
Midlands -58 6 £460 -8.00% 30
Yorkshire -53 5 £500 +5.26% 11
North West -31 4 £581 +40.91% 35
West Midlands -40 4 £460 -3.16% 12
East Midlands -32 2 £519 +3.75% 18
North East - 2 £475 - 9
South West -20 1 - - 17
.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 (3.70%) CMS
2 3 (2.78%) Confluence
2 3 (2.78%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.93%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.93%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.93%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.93%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 73 (67.59%) Azure
2 47 (43.52%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (28.70%) Serverless
4 28 (25.93%) Azure Functions
5 24 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
6 23 (21.30%) Azure Monitor
7 22 (20.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 21 (19.44%) Azure AKS
9 20 (18.52%) Azure Service Bus
10 18 (16.67%) Entra ID
11 17 (15.74%) GitHub
11 17 (15.74%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (13.89%) AWS
13 12 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (10.19%) Azure Event Grid
15 9 (8.33%) Azure API Management
15 9 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (7.41%) Azure Cognitive Services
16 8 (7.41%) Azure Machine Learning
17 7 (6.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.63%) Network Security
2 2 (1.85%) Internet
2 2 (1.85%) SSL
3 1 (0.93%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (37.96%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.19%) NoSQL
3 10 (9.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 7 (6.48%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.63%) Oracle Database
7 4 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.78%) Big Data
9 2 (1.85%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.85%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.85%) Redis
10 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.93%) DataStage
10 1 (0.93%) Power BI
10 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (21.30%) Git
2 8 (7.41%) JIRA
3 6 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.85%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.85%) Postman
6 1 (0.93%) AppVeyor
6 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
General
1 36 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 31 (28.70%) Finance
3 18 (16.67%) Banking
4 10 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.56%) Front Office
7 4 (3.70%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.70%) Health Technology
7 4 (3.70%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.85%) Billing
9 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Legal
9 1 (0.93%) Military
9 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (62.96%) Developer
2 34 (31.48%) .NET Developer
3 26 (24.07%) Senior
4 17 (15.74%) Azure Developer
5 16 (14.81%) Senior Developer
6 14 (12.96%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (12.96%) Senior .NET Developer
7 13 (12.04%) Software Engineer
8 12 (11.11%) C# Developer
9 11 (10.19%) Architect
10 7 (6.48%) Azure Architect
10 7 (6.48%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (6.48%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (5.56%) Administrator
11 6 (5.56%) Azure Administrator
11 6 (5.56%) Database Developer
11 6 (5.56%) DBA
11 6 (5.56%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 5 (4.63%) .NET Software Engineer
12 5 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (100.00%) .NET
2 39 (36.11%) React
3 37 (34.26%) .NET Framework
4 27 (25.00%) AngularJS
5 26 (24.07%) ASP.NET
5 26 (24.07%) RESTful
6 18 (16.67%) HTML
6 18 (16.67%) Node.js
7 15 (13.89%) CSS
8 14 (12.96%) REST
9 8 (7.41%) PyTorch
9 8 (7.41%) TensorFlow
10 7 (6.48%) ASP.NET MVC
10 7 (6.48%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (6.48%) OAuth
10 7 (6.48%) WPF
11 6 (5.56%) ARM Templates
11 6 (5.56%) Entity Framework
11 6 (5.56%) GraphQL
12 5 (4.63%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 22 (20.37%) Cloud Native
2 14 (12.96%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (10.19%) AI Agents
4 10 (9.26%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (7.41%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.63%) Credit Risk
6 5 (4.63%) Market Risk
7 4 (3.70%) Fixed Income
7 4 (3.70%) NHS
8 3 (2.78%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.85%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.93%) Derivative
10 1 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.93%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.41%) Windows
2 2 (1.85%) Linux
3 1 (0.93%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (71.30%) CI/CD
2 68 (62.96%) DevOps
3 57 (52.78%) Agile
4 48 (44.44%) Microservices
5 36 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (29.63%) Full-Stack Development
7 24 (22.22%) AI
8 22 (20.37%) Software Engineering
9 20 (18.52%) Test Automation
10 18 (16.67%) API Management
10 18 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (14.81%) Containerisation
11 16 (14.81%) Design Patterns
12 15 (13.89%) Clean Code
12 15 (13.89%) RBAC
13 14 (12.96%) Mentoring
14 13 (12.04%) Event-Driven
15 12 (11.11%) Analytics
15 12 (11.11%) Data Modelling
15 12 (11.11%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 91 (84.26%) C#
2 53 (49.07%) SQL
3 29 (26.85%) JavaScript
4 25 (23.15%) Python
5 16 (14.81%) TypeScript
6 14 (12.96%) Bicep
7 7 (6.48%) Bash
8 6 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.56%) T-SQL
9 5 (4.63%) Java
9 5 (4.63%) PHP
10 4 (3.70%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.85%) Perl
12 1 (0.93%) C++
12 1 (0.93%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 7 (6.48%) Degree
3 6 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.48%) QA
2 4 (3.70%) HL7
2 4 (3.70%) WCAG
3 3 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.78%) MiFID
4 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.93%) EMIR
System Software
1 20 (18.52%) Docker
2 12 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (21.30%) Terraform
2 15 (13.89%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (28.70%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.11%) Oracle
3 10 (9.26%) Databricks
4 8 (7.41%) OpenAI
5 5 (4.63%) Sitecore
6 4 (3.70%) Brio
7 3 (2.78%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.85%) Google
9 1 (0.93%) Okta
9 1 (0.93%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.93%) Portware