.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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 430 333 243
Rank change year-on-year -97 -90 -52
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 119 181 369
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.62% 0.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.69% 2.84% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 142 271
10th Percentile £383 £382 £363
25th Percentile £438 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £615 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £719
UK median daily rate £500 £535 £575
% change year-on-year -6.54% -6.96% -2.13%
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 7,026 6,380 8,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.37% 21.87% 21.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,694 4,091 5,916
10th Percentile £350 £358 £374
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.09%
75th Percentile £630 £666 £675
90th Percentile £736 £800 £768
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 85 167
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.80
25th Percentile £43.75 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%

.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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 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 -55 74 £500 -16.67% 52
South East -9 18 £450 -2.70% 69
North of England -50 12 £525 +16.67% 58
East of England -10 7 £500 -4.76% 20
North West -33 6 £513 +17.14% 35
Yorkshire -41 6 £525 +2.94% 14
Midlands -37 4 £450 -10.00% 20
East Midlands -29 2 £519 +3.75% 12
West Midlands -33 2 £413 -15.38% 8
South West -3 1 - - 13
.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 (2.52%) Confluence
2 2 (1.68%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.84%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.36%) Aladdin
1 4 (3.36%) Fidessa
1 4 (3.36%) thinkFolio
2 2 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.84%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 82 (68.91%) Azure
2 50 (42.02%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (30.25%) Serverless
4 30 (25.21%) Azure Functions
5 28 (23.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 27 (22.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 26 (21.85%) Azure Service Bus
8 22 (18.49%) Azure Monitor
9 21 (17.65%) Azure AKS
10 17 (14.29%) Entra ID
11 16 (13.45%) GitHub
11 16 (13.45%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (11.76%) AWS
13 13 (10.92%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (9.24%) Azure Event Grid
15 9 (7.56%) Azure API Management
15 9 (7.56%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (7.56%) PaaS
16 8 (6.72%) Azure Cognitive Services
16 8 (6.72%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.20%) Network Security
2 2 (1.68%) Internet
2 2 (1.68%) SSL
3 1 (0.84%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (31.09%) SQL Server
2 14 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 13 (10.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (5.88%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.20%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.52%) Big Data
7 2 (1.68%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.68%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.68%) Redis
8 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.84%) DataStage
8 1 (0.84%) MySQL
8 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.84%) Power BI
8 1 (0.84%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (18.49%) Git
2 6 (5.04%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.36%) Cypress.io
3 4 (3.36%) JIRA
4 3 (2.52%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.68%) Postman
6 1 (0.84%) Ant
6 1 (0.84%) AppVeyor
6 1 (0.84%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.84%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.84%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.84%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.84%) JUnit
6 1 (0.84%) NUnit
6 1 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 41 (34.45%) Social Skills
2 37 (31.09%) Finance
3 20 (16.81%) Banking
4 11 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.40%) Front Office
6 8 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.88%) Financial Institution
8 5 (4.20%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.52%) Health Technology
9 3 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.68%) Billing
11 1 (0.84%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.84%) Legal
11 1 (0.84%) Local Government
11 1 (0.84%) Military
11 1 (0.84%) Publishing
11 1 (0.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 76 (63.87%) Developer
2 38 (31.93%) .NET Developer
3 32 (26.89%) Senior
4 22 (18.49%) Senior Developer
5 19 (15.97%) Azure Developer
6 17 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (11.76%) Senior .NET Developer
8 13 (10.92%) Architect
9 11 (9.24%) C# Developer
10 10 (8.40%) Software Engineer
11 9 (7.56%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 8 (6.72%) Lead
13 7 (5.88%) Azure Architect
13 7 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
14 6 (5.04%) Administrator
14 6 (5.04%) Azure Administrator
14 6 (5.04%) Backend Developer
14 6 (5.04%) C# .NET Developer
14 6 (5.04%) DBA
14 6 (5.04%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (100.00%) .NET
2 31 (26.05%) .NET Framework
2 31 (26.05%) React
3 29 (24.37%) AngularJS
4 27 (22.69%) RESTful
5 23 (19.33%) ASP.NET
6 17 (14.29%) REST
7 16 (13.45%) HTML
7 16 (13.45%) Node.js
8 13 (10.92%) CSS
9 8 (6.72%) PyTorch
9 8 (6.72%) TensorFlow
10 7 (5.88%) ARM Templates
10 7 (5.88%) OAuth
10 7 (5.88%) WPF
11 6 (5.04%) Entity Framework
11 6 (5.04%) GraphQL
11 6 (5.04%) SOAP
12 5 (4.20%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (4.20%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 25 (21.01%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.40%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.72%) AI Agents
4 8 (6.72%) Fixed Income
4 8 (6.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (5.88%) Hedge funds
5 7 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.20%) Credit Risk
6 5 (4.20%) Market Risk
7 4 (3.36%) Derivative
7 4 (3.36%) NHS
8 3 (2.52%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.84%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.84%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.84%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.56%) Windows
2 2 (1.68%) Linux
3 1 (0.84%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 73 (61.34%) DevOps
3 66 (55.46%) Agile
4 52 (43.70%) Microservices
5 37 (31.09%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
7 25 (21.01%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (16.81%) Design Patterns
8 20 (16.81%) Software Engineering
9 19 (15.97%) API Management
10 17 (14.29%) Containerisation
11 16 (13.45%) Clean Code
11 16 (13.45%) Test Automation
12 15 (12.61%) OO
12 15 (12.61%) RBAC
13 14 (11.76%) AI
13 14 (11.76%) Event-Driven
13 14 (11.76%) Mentoring
14 13 (10.92%) Analytics
14 13 (10.92%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 100 (84.03%) C#
2 54 (45.38%) SQL
3 34 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 22 (18.49%) Python
5 17 (14.29%) Bicep
6 11 (9.24%) TypeScript
7 10 (8.40%) Java
8 7 (5.88%) Bash
9 6 (5.04%) PowerShell
9 6 (5.04%) T-SQL
10 5 (4.20%) PHP
11 4 (3.36%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.68%) Perl
13 1 (0.84%) C++
13 1 (0.84%) Korn
13 1 (0.84%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 7 (5.88%) Degree
2 6 (5.04%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.40%) QA
2 6 (5.04%) MiFID
3 4 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.36%) HL7
4 3 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.52%) WCAG
5 2 (1.68%) EMIR
System Software
1 20 (16.81%) Docker
2 12 (10.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (21.85%) Terraform
2 17 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (30.25%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.40%) Databricks
3 8 (6.72%) OpenAI
4 6 (5.04%) Oracle
5 4 (3.36%) Portware
6 3 (2.52%) Brio
7 2 (1.68%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.84%) Okta
8 1 (0.84%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.84%) SAP