.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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 255 219
Rank change year-on-year -77 -36 -27
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 153 338 614
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.63% 0.91% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.81% 4.50% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 245 456
10th Percentile £391 £391 £413
25th Percentile £457 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £553 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% -7.92% +9.09%
75th Percentile £759 £700 £700
90th Percentile £825 £788 £806
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 3
10th Percentile - £47.61 £49.30
25th Percentile - £54.85 £50.50
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +45.45% -0.90%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £57.50
90th Percentile - £87.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +45.45% -8.33%

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 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

.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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -77 103 £625 +4.17% 130
South East +49 21 £375 -20.21% 80
North of England +10 11 £413 +3.13% 108
Midlands +23 7 £500 -6.98% 55
North West +11 7 £413 -13.16% 68
East Midlands +13 6 £500 -9.09% 23
East of England +32 4 £498 +4.74% 37
Yorkshire +5 4 £475 +58.33% 26
South West +11 3 £655 -6.43% 31
West Midlands +12 1 £475 +18.75% 30
.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 6 (3.92%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (2.61%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.31%) Confluence
3 2 (1.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.65%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.65%) CMS
4 1 (0.65%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.65%) MQSeries
Applications
1 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.31%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.65%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 78 (50.98%) Azure
2 31 (20.26%) AWS
3 28 (18.30%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (10.46%) Serverless
5 14 (9.15%) Azure Functions
6 12 (7.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 11 (7.19%) Azure Logic Apps
7 11 (7.19%) Azure Service Bus
7 11 (7.19%) Azure Storage
8 9 (5.88%) Entra ID
9 8 (5.23%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (5.23%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.27%) Azure AKS
11 5 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (3.27%) GCP
11 5 (3.27%) Power Automate
12 4 (2.61%) GitHub
12 4 (2.61%) PaaS
12 4 (2.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.96%) HTTP
2 1 (0.65%) Firewall
2 1 (0.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (22.88%) SQL Server
2 19 (12.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (9.15%) Relational Database
4 13 (8.50%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (5.88%) MongoDB
5 9 (5.88%) NoSQL
6 7 (4.58%) Power BI
7 5 (3.27%) MySQL
8 2 (1.31%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.31%) Redis
8 2 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.65%) MS Access
9 1 (0.65%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 20 (13.07%) Git
2 7 (4.58%) JIRA
3 6 (3.92%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.27%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.61%) Moq
6 3 (1.96%) GitLab
6 3 (1.96%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.31%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.31%) NUnit
7 2 (1.31%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.65%) Postman
8 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.65%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 51 (33.33%) Finance
2 36 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 29 (18.95%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.76%) Front Office
5 15 (9.80%) Banking
6 10 (6.54%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.92%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.61%) Law
9 3 (1.96%) Electronics
9 3 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.96%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.96%) Marketing
9 3 (1.96%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Advertising
11 1 (0.65%) Aviation
11 1 (0.65%) Back Office
11 1 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 109 (71.24%) Developer
2 48 (31.37%) .NET Developer
3 43 (28.10%) C# Developer
4 38 (24.84%) Senior
5 25 (16.34%) Senior Developer
6 23 (15.03%) C++ Developer
7 22 (14.38%) C++/C# Developer
7 22 (14.38%) Software Engineer
8 20 (13.07%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (9.15%) Senior .NET Developer
10 13 (8.50%) Lead
11 12 (7.84%) React Developer
12 11 (7.19%) C# .NET Developer
12 11 (7.19%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 10 (6.54%) Senior C# Developer
14 9 (5.88%) Azure Developer
14 9 (5.88%) Lead Developer
15 8 (5.23%) Software Developer
16 7 (4.58%) C# Software Engineer
16 7 (4.58%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (100.00%) .NET
2 49 (32.03%) ASP.NET
3 39 (25.49%) .NET Framework
4 29 (18.95%) AngularJS
5 28 (18.30%) Kafka
5 28 (18.30%) WCF
6 26 (16.99%) React
6 26 (16.99%) Web Services
7 23 (15.03%) Entity Framework
8 21 (13.73%) HTML
9 20 (13.07%) CSS
10 15 (9.80%) REST
11 14 (9.15%) RESTful
12 13 (8.50%) Blazor
13 12 (7.84%) ASP.NET MVC
13 12 (7.84%) ASP.NET Web API
14 11 (7.19%) ASP.NET Core
15 8 (5.23%) OAuth
16 7 (4.58%) Dapper ORM
16 7 (4.58%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 20 (13.07%) Legacy Applications
3 11 (7.19%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (6.54%) Cloud Native
5 9 (5.88%) Algorithms
6 7 (4.58%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (4.58%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.27%) N-Tier
7 5 (3.27%) TWAP
7 5 (3.27%) VWAP
8 2 (1.31%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.31%) NHS
8 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.31%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.65%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.65%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.65%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.54%) Windows
2 3 (1.96%) Linux
3 1 (0.65%) Android
3 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (46.41%) Agile
2 62 (40.52%) DevOps
3 50 (32.68%) CI/CD
4 48 (31.37%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (19.61%) Software Engineering
6 29 (18.95%) Analytics
7 27 (17.65%) Microservices
8 22 (14.38%) Front End Development
9 21 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (13.07%) TDD
11 19 (12.42%) Test Automation
12 18 (11.76%) MVC
13 16 (10.46%) OO
14 15 (9.80%) Scrum
14 15 (9.80%) SOLID
14 15 (9.80%) Unit Testing
15 14 (9.15%) OOP
16 13 (8.50%) Multithreading
17 12 (7.84%) BDD
17 12 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 119 (77.78%) C#
2 57 (37.25%) SQL
3 35 (22.88%) JavaScript
4 31 (20.26%) C++
5 21 (13.73%) Python
6 14 (9.15%) T-SQL
7 11 (7.19%) PowerShell
7 11 (7.19%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.58%) Go
8 7 (4.58%) PL/SQL
9 5 (3.27%) Bicep
10 3 (1.96%) Bash
10 3 (1.96%) VBA
11 2 (1.31%) VB
11 2 (1.31%) VB6
12 1 (0.65%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (5.23%) Microsoft Certification
1 8 (5.23%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.92%) Degree
2 6 (3.92%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.27%) MCPD
3 5 (3.27%) MCSD
4 2 (1.31%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.61%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.96%) QA
2 3 (1.96%) WCAG
3 2 (1.31%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 22 (14.38%) Docker
2 7 (4.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (18.30%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.80%) Terraform
3 3 (1.96%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.31%) Grafana
5 1 (0.65%) Ansible
5 1 (0.65%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 35 (22.88%) Microsoft
2 32 (20.92%) Oracle
3 6 (3.92%) MuleSoft
4 3 (1.96%) Databricks
4 3 (1.96%) SAP
4 3 (1.96%) Workday
5 2 (1.31%) IBM
5 2 (1.31%) Murex
6 1 (0.65%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.65%) Cisco
6 1 (0.65%) Google
6 1 (0.65%) NEC
6 1 (0.65%) Pardot
6 1 (0.65%) Rackspace
6 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.65%) Splunk
6 1 (0.65%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.65%) VMware