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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 333 236
Rank change year-on-year -79 -97 -48
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 121 187 393
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.61% 1.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.74% 2.80% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 149 289
10th Percentile £381 £396 £372
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £675
90th Percentile £746 £765 £728
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -
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 6,949 6,675 8,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.34% 21.83% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,671 4,252 6,119
10th Percentile £350 £358 £369
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 99 174
10th Percentile £31.10 £26.45 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.33 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.66% -15.72%

.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 6 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 6 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 -60 73 £500 -16.67% 65
South East +3 19 £450 -2.70% 78
North of England -49 12 £525 +16.67% 64
East of England -8 7 £500 -4.76% 21
North West -29 6 £513 +17.14% 35
Yorkshire -33 6 £525 +2.94% 19
Midlands -38 5 £450 -10.00% 23
West Midlands -24 3 £413 -15.38% 11
East Midlands -18 2 £519 +3.75% 12
South West -4 1 - - 14
.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 (2.48%) Confluence
2 2 (1.65%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.83%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Aladdin
1 4 (3.31%) Fidessa
1 4 (3.31%) thinkFolio
2 2 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.83%) Eikon
3 1 (0.83%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.83%) Maximo
3 1 (0.83%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 79 (65.29%) Azure
2 48 (39.67%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (26.45%) Serverless
4 28 (23.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 26 (21.49%) Azure Functions
6 25 (20.66%) Azure Service Bus
7 22 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
7 22 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
8 21 (17.36%) Azure AKS
9 17 (14.05%) GitHub
10 16 (13.22%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (11.57%) AWS
11 14 (11.57%) Entra ID
12 12 (9.92%) Azure Key Vault
13 11 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
14 9 (7.44%) Azure API Management
14 9 (7.44%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (6.61%) Azure Cognitive Services
15 8 (6.61%) Azure Machine Learning
16 7 (5.79%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.13%) Network Security
2 2 (1.65%) Internet
2 2 (1.65%) SSL
3 1 (0.83%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (30.58%) SQL Server
2 14 (11.57%) NoSQL
3 11 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (6.61%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.13%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.48%) Big Data
7 2 (1.65%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.65%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.65%) Redis
8 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.83%) DataStage
8 1 (0.83%) MySQL
8 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.83%) Power BI
8 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (17.36%) Git
2 6 (4.96%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.31%) Cypress.io
3 4 (3.31%) JIRA
4 2 (1.65%) Postman
4 2 (1.65%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.83%) Ant
5 1 (0.83%) AppVeyor
5 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.83%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.83%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.83%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (0.83%) JUnit
5 1 (0.83%) NUnit
5 1 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (32.23%) Social Skills
2 36 (29.75%) Finance
3 18 (14.88%) Banking
4 12 (9.92%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.61%) Front Office
6 7 (5.79%) Financial Institution
7 6 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.31%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.48%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.65%) Billing
11 1 (0.83%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.83%) Legal
11 1 (0.83%) Local Government
11 1 (0.83%) Military
11 1 (0.83%) Publishing
11 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 83 (68.60%) Developer
2 38 (31.40%) .NET Developer
3 34 (28.10%) Senior
4 24 (19.83%) Senior Developer
5 18 (14.88%) Azure Developer
6 17 (14.05%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (12.40%) C# Developer
8 13 (10.74%) Senior .NET Developer
9 10 (8.26%) Lead
9 10 (8.26%) Software Engineer
10 9 (7.44%) Architect
10 9 (7.44%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 7 (5.79%) C# .NET Developer
11 7 (5.79%) Senior DevOps
12 6 (4.96%) Administrator
12 6 (4.96%) Azure Administrator
12 6 (4.96%) Database Developer
12 6 (4.96%) DBA
13 5 (4.13%) Angular Developer
13 5 (4.13%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (100.00%) .NET
2 33 (27.27%) .NET Framework
2 33 (27.27%) React
3 31 (25.62%) AngularJS
4 27 (22.31%) RESTful
5 25 (20.66%) ASP.NET
6 19 (15.70%) REST
7 15 (12.40%) HTML
7 15 (12.40%) Node.js
8 13 (10.74%) CSS
9 9 (7.44%) SOAP
10 8 (6.61%) PyTorch
10 8 (6.61%) TensorFlow
11 7 (5.79%) Entity Framework
11 7 (5.79%) OAuth
11 7 (5.79%) WPF
12 6 (4.96%) GraphQL
13 5 (4.13%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (4.13%) WinForms
14 4 (3.31%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.01%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.92%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.26%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (8.26%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.61%) AI Agents
4 8 (6.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (6.61%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (5.79%) Fixed Income
5 7 (5.79%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.31%) Credit Risk
6 4 (3.31%) Derivative
6 4 (3.31%) Market Risk
6 4 (3.31%) NHS
7 3 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.65%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.83%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.83%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.61%) Windows
2 2 (1.65%) Linux
3 1 (0.83%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (67.77%) CI/CD
2 72 (59.50%) DevOps
3 70 (57.85%) Agile
4 49 (40.50%) Microservices
5 37 (30.58%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (28.93%) Full-Stack Development
7 23 (19.01%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (16.53%) Design Patterns
9 19 (15.70%) Clean Code
9 19 (15.70%) Software Engineering
10 18 (14.88%) OO
11 17 (14.05%) Containerisation
12 15 (12.40%) Event-Driven
12 15 (12.40%) Test Automation
13 14 (11.57%) API Management
13 14 (11.57%) Scrum
14 13 (10.74%) AI
14 13 (10.74%) Analytics
14 13 (10.74%) Mentoring
14 13 (10.74%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 107 (88.43%) C#
2 52 (42.98%) SQL
3 38 (31.40%) JavaScript
4 24 (19.83%) Python
5 13 (10.74%) Java
6 12 (9.92%) Bicep
7 10 (8.26%) TypeScript
8 7 (5.79%) Bash
9 6 (4.96%) T-SQL
10 5 (4.13%) PHP
10 5 (4.13%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.31%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.65%) Perl
13 1 (0.83%) C++
13 1 (0.83%) Korn
13 1 (0.83%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (4.96%) Degree
1 6 (4.96%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.31%) Azure Certification
2 4 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.48%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.26%) QA
2 5 (4.13%) MiFID
3 4 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.31%) HL7
4 3 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.48%) WCAG
5 1 (0.83%) EMIR
System Software
1 20 (16.53%) Docker
2 10 (8.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (19.83%) Terraform
2 17 (14.05%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (28.93%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.26%) Databricks
3 8 (6.61%) OpenAI
3 8 (6.61%) Oracle
4 4 (3.31%) Portware
5 3 (2.48%) Brio
6 1 (0.83%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.83%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.83%) Okta
6 1 (0.83%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.83%) Reuters
6 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.83%) SAP