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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 323 250
Rank change year-on-year -169 -73 -25
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 98 153 345
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.63% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.24% 2.80% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 122 253
10th Percentile £406 £391 £388
25th Percentile £456 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £552 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% +0.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £709 £700
90th Percentile £648 £825 £785
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -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 7,934 5,468 7,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.55% 22.43% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,278 3,784 5,309
10th Percentile £363 £370 £350
25th Percentile £424 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 102 223
10th Percentile £32.50 £30.55 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.25 £51.25 £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 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.03 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year - +38.77% -27.94%

.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 5 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 5 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 -105 53 £513 -18.00% 60
North of England -51 20 £513 +24.24% 46
South East -66 12 £506 +35.00% 47
Yorkshire -41 11 £525 +10.53% 12
Midlands -69 9 £455 -9.00% 21
West Midlands -51 8 £460 -3.16% 12
North West -35 7 £575 +39.39% 25
East of England -45 3 £550 +10.55% 25
South West -39 2 - - 17
North East - 2 £475 - 9
East Midlands -39 1 £450 -10.00% 9
.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 (4.08%) CMS
2 3 (3.06%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.06%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (2.04%) Confluence
4 1 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.02%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Endur
1 1 (1.02%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 70 (71.43%) Azure
2 43 (43.88%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (24.49%) AWS
4 23 (23.47%) Serverless
5 22 (22.45%) Azure AKS
6 19 (19.39%) Azure Functions
7 18 (18.37%) Azure Service Bus
8 17 (17.35%) Azure Logic Apps
8 17 (17.35%) GitHub
9 15 (15.31%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (13.27%) Entra ID
11 12 (12.24%) Azure Key Vault
12 11 (11.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 11 (11.22%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (7.14%) Azure Event Grid
13 7 (7.14%) PaaS
14 6 (6.12%) Azure Cognitive Services
14 6 (6.12%) Azure Machine Learning
14 6 (6.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.12%) 3GPP
1 6 (6.12%) RTP
2 4 (4.08%) Wireshark
3 3 (3.06%) Network Security
4 2 (2.04%) HTTP
4 2 (2.04%) RTCP
4 2 (2.04%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (40.82%) SQL Server
2 12 (12.24%) NoSQL
3 11 (11.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (9.18%) Relational Database
5 7 (7.14%) Oracle Database
6 5 (5.10%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (3.06%) Power BI
9 1 (1.02%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.02%) DataStage
9 1 (1.02%) Parquet
9 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (27.55%) Git
2 10 (10.20%) JIRA
3 4 (4.08%) GitLab
3 4 (4.08%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.04%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.02%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.02%) Moq
5 1 (1.02%) NUnit
5 1 (1.02%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.02%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (33.67%) Social Skills
2 22 (22.45%) Finance
3 13 (13.27%) Banking
4 11 (11.22%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.08%) Aviation
6 4 (4.08%) Fire and Rescue
6 4 (4.08%) Front Office
6 4 (4.08%) Health Technology
6 4 (4.08%) Police
7 3 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.04%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.02%) Automotive
9 1 (1.02%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (67.35%) Developer
2 34 (34.69%) .NET Developer
3 25 (25.51%) Senior
4 20 (20.41%) Senior Developer
5 16 (16.33%) C# Developer
5 16 (16.33%) Senior .NET Developer
6 15 (15.31%) Azure Developer
6 15 (15.31%) Software Engineer
7 12 (12.24%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (11.22%) Architect
9 8 (8.16%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (7.14%) Azure Architect
11 6 (6.12%) .NET Software Engineer
11 6 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (6.12%) Technical Architect
12 5 (5.10%) Backend Developer
13 4 (4.08%) Database Developer
13 4 (4.08%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 4 (4.08%) IT Architect
13 4 (4.08%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (100.00%) .NET
2 45 (45.92%) React
3 39 (39.80%) .NET Framework
4 31 (31.63%) RESTful
5 23 (23.47%) ASP.NET
6 20 (20.41%) AngularJS
7 18 (18.37%) HTML
7 18 (18.37%) REST
8 15 (15.31%) CSS
8 15 (15.31%) Node.js
9 13 (13.27%) Entity Framework
10 11 (11.22%) ASP.NET Web API
11 7 (7.14%) ASP.NET MVC
11 7 (7.14%) OAuth
12 6 (6.12%) PyTorch
12 6 (6.12%) TensorFlow
12 6 (6.12%) YAML
13 5 (5.10%) HTML5
13 5 (5.10%) OpenID
13 5 (5.10%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (25.51%) Cloud Native
2 18 (18.37%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (9.18%) AI Agents
5 7 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (5.10%) Credit Risk
6 5 (5.10%) Market Risk
6 5 (5.10%) Product Ownership
7 4 (4.08%) NHS
7 4 (4.08%) Robotics
8 3 (3.06%) Algorithms
8 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (3.06%) Fixed Income
9 2 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (2.04%) Media Streaming
9 2 (2.04%) Wiki
10 1 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (1.02%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.12%) Windows
2 4 (4.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (72.45%) DevOps
2 70 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 48 (48.98%) Agile
3 48 (48.98%) Microservices
4 25 (25.51%) AI
5 23 (23.47%) Full-Stack Development
5 23 (23.47%) Software Engineering
5 23 (23.47%) Test Automation
6 22 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (20.41%) Containerisation
9 16 (16.33%) Event-Driven
10 13 (13.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 12 (12.24%) API Management
11 12 (12.24%) Clean Code
11 12 (12.24%) Data Modelling
11 12 (12.24%) Mentoring
11 12 (12.24%) Migration
11 12 (12.24%) MVC
12 11 (11.22%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 86 (87.76%) C#
2 42 (42.86%) SQL
3 25 (25.51%) Python
4 23 (23.47%) JavaScript
4 23 (23.47%) TypeScript
5 16 (16.33%) Bicep
6 4 (4.08%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.04%) Bash
7 2 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.04%) Java
7 2 (2.04%) PHP
7 2 (2.04%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.02%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (9.18%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.16%) Azure Certification
2 8 (8.16%) Degree
3 6 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.12%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.04%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.16%) QA
2 4 (4.08%) HL7
3 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.04%) WCAG
4 1 (1.02%) EMIR
4 1 (1.02%) MiFID
System Software
1 32 (32.65%) Docker
2 8 (8.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (27.55%) Terraform
2 20 (20.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (25.51%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.24%) Oracle
3 7 (7.14%) Databricks
4 6 (6.12%) OpenAI
4 6 (6.12%) Sitecore
5 4 (4.08%) Brio
6 3 (3.06%) Google
6 3 (3.06%) ION Trading
7 1 (1.02%) OpenLink
7 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow