.NET Core Contracts in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET Core over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 257 222
Rank change year-on-year -90 -35 -19
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 152 345 550
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.57% 0.93% 1.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.55% 4.34% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 254 401
10th Percentile £352 £400 £413
25th Percentile £438 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £659 £700 £700
90th Percentile £818 £763 £806
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £586
% change year-on-year -7.41% -7.85% +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
10th Percentile - £47.61 -
25th Percentile - £54.85 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +45.45% -12.07%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £57.50
90th Percentile - £87.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +60.00% -21.38%

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 5,960 7,946 10,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.44% 21.35% 22.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,103 5,536 8,047
10th Percentile £355 £350 £384
25th Percentile £413 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £780 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 266 143
10th Percentile £30.60 £23.80 £31.60
25th Percentile £45.31 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £57.63 £58.30 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -10.31% +19.82%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.30 £74.47 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing .NET Core as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Core in England.

Daily rate trend for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Core in England.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Core in England

.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 July 2025. 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 -81 100 £575 - 159
South East +45 22 £400 -14.89% 88
North of England -8 13 £490 +5.95% 120
Yorkshire +3 8 £483 +20.63% 28
South West +14 6 £600 -14.29% 23
Midlands +11 5 £490 -6.67% 34
North West -1 5 £525 +10.53% 77
East of England +30 3 £470 +44.62% 42
East Midlands -1 3 £490 -8.84% 12
West Midlands +7 2 - - 21
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.29%) Umbraco
2 3 (1.97%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.66%) CMS
3 1 (0.66%) Confluence
3 1 (0.66%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.66%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.66%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.32%) Fidessa
1 2 (1.32%) thinkFolio
2 1 (0.66%) Eikon
2 1 (0.66%) Maximo
2 1 (0.66%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.66%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 90 (59.21%) Azure
2 40 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (19.08%) AWS
4 19 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 13 (8.55%) Serverless
6 12 (7.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 11 (7.24%) Entra ID
8 10 (6.58%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (6.58%) Azure Storage
9 9 (5.92%) Azure Functions
9 9 (5.92%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (5.92%) Power Platform
10 8 (5.26%) Power Automate
11 7 (4.61%) Azure AKS
11 7 (4.61%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (4.61%) SaaS
12 5 (3.29%) GCP
12 5 (3.29%) GitHub
13 4 (2.63%) Azure Table
13 4 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (27.63%) SQL Server
2 26 (17.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (9.21%) Relational Database
4 12 (7.89%) NoSQL
5 8 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 8 (5.26%) Power BI
6 5 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.63%) MySQL
7 4 (2.63%) Redis
8 2 (1.32%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.66%) MS Access
9 1 (0.66%) Parquet
9 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (13.16%) Git
2 7 (4.61%) JIRA
3 5 (3.29%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.63%) Moq
4 4 (2.63%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.97%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.97%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.32%) GitLab
6 2 (1.32%) NUnit
6 2 (1.32%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.66%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.66%) Ant
7 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.66%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.66%) Gradle
7 1 (0.66%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.66%) JUnit
7 1 (0.66%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.66%) Xcode
General
1 44 (28.95%) Finance
2 30 (19.74%) Social Skills
3 22 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (11.18%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.24%) Banking
5 11 (7.24%) Front Office
6 8 (5.26%) Electronics
6 8 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.26%) Marketing
6 8 (5.26%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.29%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.66%) Back Office
9 1 (0.66%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.66%) Local Government
9 1 (0.66%) Retail
9 1 (0.66%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 118 (77.63%) Developer
2 59 (38.82%) .NET Developer
3 43 (28.29%) C# Developer
3 43 (28.29%) Senior
4 35 (23.03%) Senior Developer
5 25 (16.45%) Full-Stack Developer
6 20 (13.16%) C# .NET Developer
6 20 (13.16%) Senior .NET Developer
7 19 (12.50%) Lead
8 17 (11.18%) Azure Developer
9 16 (10.53%) Senior C# Developer
10 15 (9.87%) Lead Developer
11 13 (8.55%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 12 (7.89%) C++ Developer
12 12 (7.89%) Lead .NET Developer
12 12 (7.89%) Senior C# .NET Developer
12 12 (7.89%) Software Engineer
13 11 (7.24%) C++/C# Developer
13 11 (7.24%) React Developer
14 10 (6.58%) Lead C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (100.00%) .NET
2 38 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 35 (23.03%) .NET Framework
4 34 (22.37%) React
5 29 (19.08%) AngularJS
6 23 (15.13%) HTML
7 22 (14.47%) CSS
8 21 (13.82%) REST
9 20 (13.16%) Web Services
10 19 (12.50%) Entity Framework
10 19 (12.50%) RESTful
11 18 (11.84%) WCF
12 14 (9.21%) ASP.NET MVC
13 13 (8.55%) Kafka
14 10 (6.58%) ASP.NET Web API
14 10 (6.58%) Blazor
15 9 (5.92%) XML
16 8 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
16 8 (5.26%) OAuth
17 7 (4.61%) Dapper ORM
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (9.87%) Product Ownership
3 14 (9.21%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (7.24%) Legacy Applications
5 8 (5.26%) Cloud Native
6 7 (4.61%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.29%) N-Tier
8 4 (2.63%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.63%) Hedge funds
8 4 (2.63%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.97%) Derivative
9 3 (1.97%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.97%) NHS
9 3 (1.97%) TWAP
9 3 (1.97%) VWAP
10 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.32%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
11 1 (0.66%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.26%) Windows
2 5 (3.29%) Android
2 5 (3.29%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (48.03%) Agile
1 73 (48.03%) DevOps
2 57 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 44 (28.95%) Full-Stack Development
4 32 (21.05%) Microservices
5 31 (20.39%) TDD
6 24 (15.79%) Scrum
7 23 (15.13%) OO
8 22 (14.47%) SOLID
9 20 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (13.16%) Software Engineering
10 19 (12.50%) MVC
11 18 (11.84%) API Development
11 18 (11.84%) BDD
12 17 (11.18%) Analytics
12 17 (11.18%) Test Automation
13 16 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (10.53%) Front End Development
14 15 (9.87%) Infrastructure as Code
15 13 (8.55%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 127 (83.55%) C#
2 69 (45.39%) SQL
3 41 (26.97%) JavaScript
4 20 (13.16%) PowerShell
4 20 (13.16%) Python
5 18 (11.84%) TypeScript
6 15 (9.87%) C++
7 10 (6.58%) Bicep
8 9 (5.92%) T-SQL
9 8 (5.26%) Java
10 5 (3.29%) VBA
11 4 (2.63%) Bash
12 3 (1.97%) Go
12 3 (1.97%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.32%) VB
13 2 (1.32%) VB6
14 1 (0.66%) JSX
14 1 (0.66%) Korn
Qualifications
1 10 (6.58%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (3.95%) Degree
3 5 (3.29%) MCPD
3 5 (3.29%) MCSD
4 4 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.63%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.32%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.26%) QA
2 4 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.32%) MiFID
3 2 (1.32%) WCAG
4 1 (0.66%) EMIR
System Software
1 16 (10.53%) Docker
2 12 (7.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (18.42%) Terraform
2 18 (11.84%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.29%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.63%) Grafana
5 1 (0.66%) Ansible
5 1 (0.66%) Istio
Vendors
1 48 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 23 (15.13%) Oracle
3 9 (5.92%) SAP
4 3 (1.97%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.32%) Cisco
5 2 (1.32%) IBM
5 2 (1.32%) Portware
5 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.66%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.66%) Brio
6 1 (0.66%) Databricks
6 1 (0.66%) Google
6 1 (0.66%) NEC
6 1 (0.66%) Pardot
6 1 (0.66%) Reuters
6 1 (0.66%) Splunk
6 1 (0.66%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.66%) Workday