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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 334 259
Rank change year-on-year -104 -75 -71
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 102 161 326
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.60% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.45% 2.72% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 131 239
10th Percentile £404 £405 £358
25th Percentile £457 £461 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £637 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £719
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £68.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 7,048 5,926 7,743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.14% 21.99% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,723 3,793 5,554
10th Percentile £356 £360 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £673
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £510 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 70 168
10th Percentile £32.31 £26.25 £29.36
25th Percentile £44.01 £44.17 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +14.09% -15.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £75.10 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 16 January 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 January 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 -59 62 £500 -16.67% 58
South East -15 15 £425 -8.11% 78
North of England -45 12 £500 +17.65% 57
Yorkshire -47 6 £500 -1.96% 11
East of England -17 5 £500 -4.76% 24
North West -21 4 £575 +37.31% 37
Midlands -51 4 £450 -10.00% 30
East Midlands -32 2 £519 +3.75% 19
West Midlands -37 2 £413 -15.38% 11
North East - 2 £475 - 9
South West -16 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 3 (2.94%) Confluence
2 2 (1.96%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.98%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.98%) CMS
3 1 (0.98%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.98%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.98%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.98%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.98%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 71 (69.61%) Azure
2 45 (44.12%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (32.35%) Serverless
4 30 (29.41%) Azure Functions
5 24 (23.53%) Azure Logic Apps
6 23 (22.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 22 (21.57%) Azure AKS
7 22 (21.57%) Azure Monitor
8 20 (19.61%) Azure Service Bus
9 17 (16.67%) Entra ID
10 15 (14.71%) GitHub
10 15 (14.71%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (11.76%) Azure Key Vault
12 11 (10.78%) AWS
12 11 (10.78%) Azure Event Grid
13 9 (8.82%) Azure API Management
13 9 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (7.84%) Azure Cognitive Services
14 8 (7.84%) Azure Machine Learning
14 8 (7.84%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.90%) Network Security
2 2 (1.96%) Internet
2 2 (1.96%) SSL
3 1 (0.98%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (34.31%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (9.80%) NoSQL
4 7 (6.86%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.90%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.94%) Big Data
7 2 (1.96%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.96%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.96%) Redis
8 1 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.98%) DataStage
8 1 (0.98%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.98%) Power BI
8 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (20.59%) Git
2 6 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.90%) JIRA
4 3 (2.94%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.94%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.96%) Postman
6 1 (0.98%) AppVeyor
6 1 (0.98%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.98%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 33 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 31 (30.39%) Finance
3 17 (16.67%) Banking
4 12 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 6 (5.88%) Front Office
7 4 (3.92%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.96%) Billing
8 2 (1.96%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Legal
9 1 (0.98%) Local Government
9 1 (0.98%) Military
9 1 (0.98%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (60.78%) Developer
2 31 (30.39%) .NET Developer
3 27 (26.47%) Senior
4 17 (16.67%) Azure Developer
4 17 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 13 (12.75%) Senior .NET Developer
6 12 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (10.78%) C# Developer
8 10 (9.80%) Architect
8 10 (9.80%) Software Engineer
9 7 (6.86%) Azure Architect
9 7 (6.86%) C# .NET Developer
9 7 (6.86%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 7 (6.86%) Lead
9 7 (6.86%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (5.88%) Administrator
10 6 (5.88%) Azure Administrator
10 6 (5.88%) Backend Developer
10 6 (5.88%) Database Developer
10 6 (5.88%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (100.00%) .NET
2 31 (30.39%) .NET Framework
3 30 (29.41%) React
4 24 (23.53%) AngularJS
4 24 (23.53%) RESTful
5 23 (22.55%) ASP.NET
6 16 (15.69%) Node.js
7 14 (13.73%) HTML
8 13 (12.75%) REST
9 12 (11.76%) CSS
10 8 (7.84%) PyTorch
10 8 (7.84%) TensorFlow
11 7 (6.86%) Entity Framework
11 7 (6.86%) OAuth
11 7 (6.86%) WPF
12 6 (5.88%) ARM Templates
12 6 (5.88%) GraphQL
13 5 (4.90%) ASP.NET MVC
13 5 (4.90%) FHIR
13 5 (4.90%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.59%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.84%) AI Agents
3 8 (7.84%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (7.84%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.90%) Credit Risk
4 5 (4.90%) Market Risk
4 5 (4.90%) NHS
5 4 (3.92%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.96%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.98%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.98%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.98%) Derivative
8 1 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.98%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.84%) Windows
2 2 (1.96%) Linux
3 1 (0.98%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (73.53%) CI/CD
2 64 (62.75%) DevOps
3 58 (56.86%) Agile
4 47 (46.08%) Microservices
5 35 (34.31%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (28.43%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (18.63%) API Management
8 18 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (17.65%) Software Engineering
9 17 (16.67%) Containerisation
10 16 (15.69%) Design Patterns
10 16 (15.69%) Test Automation
11 15 (14.71%) Mentoring
11 15 (14.71%) RBAC
12 14 (13.73%) AI
13 12 (11.76%) Analytics
13 12 (11.76%) Clean Code
13 12 (11.76%) Data Modelling
14 11 (10.78%) OOP
14 11 (10.78%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 85 (83.33%) C#
2 48 (47.06%) SQL
3 27 (26.47%) JavaScript
4 20 (19.61%) Python
5 15 (14.71%) Bicep
6 11 (10.78%) TypeScript
7 7 (6.86%) Bash
7 7 (6.86%) Java
8 6 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.88%) T-SQL
9 5 (4.90%) PHP
10 4 (3.92%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.96%) Perl
12 1 (0.98%) C++
12 1 (0.98%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (8.82%) Azure Certification
2 8 (7.84%) Degree
3 5 (4.90%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.86%) QA
2 5 (4.90%) HL7
2 5 (4.90%) WCAG
3 4 (3.92%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.94%) MiFID
5 1 (0.98%) EMIR
System Software
1 21 (20.59%) Docker
2 12 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (22.55%) Terraform
2 17 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (31.37%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.80%) Databricks
3 8 (7.84%) OpenAI
4 6 (5.88%) Oracle
5 4 (3.92%) Brio
6 2 (1.96%) Google
6 2 (1.96%) ION Trading
6 2 (1.96%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.98%) Okta
7 1 (0.98%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.98%) Portware