.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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 337 262
Rank change year-on-year -168 -75 -30
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 94 146 334
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.61% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.17% 2.70% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 108 242
10th Percentile £378 £384 £400
25th Percentile £444 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £611 £669 £700
90th Percentile £675 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £545
% change year-on-year - -8.26% -9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £47.61
25th Percentile £46.25 - £54.85
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £80.00
75th Percentile £48.75 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - £87.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 - £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 8,012 5,403 7,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.18% 22.52% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,287 3,737 5,386
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £790 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £521 £536
% change year-on-year +0.86% -2.85% -2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 106 239
10th Percentile £31.03 £31.28 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.00 £43.70 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

.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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -122 45 £593 -4.06% 58
North of England -68 19 £523 +10.00% 61
South East -65 15 £525 +52.73% 52
Midlands -58 10 £450 -10.00% 28
West Midlands -51 9 £455 - 14
Yorkshire -59 9 £524 +8.55% 17
North West -28 7 £575 +39.82% 34
East of England -31 3 £550 +34.15% 21
South West -35 3 £425 -29.17% 15
North East - 3 £475 - 11
East Midlands -30 1 £450 -10.00% 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 6 (6.38%) CMS
2 4 (4.26%) Confluence
3 3 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.19%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (3.19%) Umbraco
4 2 (2.13%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Endur
1 1 (1.06%) Findur
1 1 (1.06%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 61 (64.89%) Azure
2 31 (32.98%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (22.34%) AWS
4 14 (14.89%) Serverless
5 12 (12.77%) Azure Functions
6 11 (11.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 11 (11.70%) GitHub
7 10 (10.64%) Azure AKS
8 9 (9.57%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (8.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (7.45%) Entra ID
11 6 (6.38%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (6.38%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (6.38%) PaaS
11 6 (6.38%) SaaS
12 4 (4.26%) IaaS
12 4 (4.26%) Power Platform
13 3 (3.19%) GCP
14 2 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.51%) 3GPP
1 8 (8.51%) RTP
2 6 (6.38%) Wireshark
3 2 (2.13%) DHCP
3 2 (2.13%) DNS
3 2 (2.13%) HTTP
3 2 (2.13%) RTCP
3 2 (2.13%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.13%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (43.62%) SQL Server
2 14 (14.89%) NoSQL
3 11 (11.70%) Relational Database
4 9 (9.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (7.45%) Oracle Database
5 7 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.26%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.26%) Power BI
7 3 (3.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.06%) Parquet
8 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (25.53%) Git
2 12 (12.77%) JIRA
3 6 (6.38%) GitLab
3 6 (6.38%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.13%) NUnit
5 1 (1.06%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.06%) Moq
5 1 (1.06%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.06%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.34%) Finance
3 11 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.57%) Banking
5 8 (8.51%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.38%) Front Office
7 5 (5.32%) Aviation
7 5 (5.32%) Fire and Rescue
7 5 (5.32%) Police
8 3 (3.19%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.19%) Retail
9 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.13%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.06%) Automotive
10 1 (1.06%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 63 (67.02%) Developer
2 31 (32.98%) .NET Developer
3 22 (23.40%) Senior
4 20 (21.28%) C# Developer
4 20 (21.28%) Senior Developer
5 14 (14.89%) Senior .NET Developer
5 14 (14.89%) Software Engineer
6 13 (13.83%) Architect
6 13 (13.83%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (12.77%) Azure Developer
8 9 (9.57%) C# .NET Developer
9 7 (7.45%) Azure Architect
10 6 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (6.38%) Technical Architect
11 5 (5.32%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 5 (5.32%) React Developer
11 5 (5.32%) Senior C# Developer
11 5 (5.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (4.26%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (100.00%) .NET
2 38 (40.43%) React
3 37 (39.36%) .NET Framework
4 31 (32.98%) RESTful
5 25 (26.60%) ASP.NET
6 21 (22.34%) HTML
6 21 (22.34%) REST
7 18 (19.15%) CSS
8 17 (18.09%) AngularJS
9 16 (17.02%) Entity Framework
10 11 (11.70%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (9.57%) Node.js
12 8 (8.51%) OAuth
13 7 (7.45%) JSON
13 7 (7.45%) YAML
14 6 (6.38%) ASP.NET MVC
14 6 (6.38%) Blazor
14 6 (6.38%) Kafka
14 6 (6.38%) OpenID
14 6 (6.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 24 (25.53%) Cloud Native
2 16 (17.02%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (11.70%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (9.57%) Product Ownership
5 7 (7.45%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (5.32%) Robotics
7 3 (3.19%) AI Agents
7 3 (3.19%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.19%) Fixed Income
8 2 (2.13%) Credit Risk
8 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (2.13%) FMCG
8 2 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (2.13%) Media Streaming
8 2 (2.13%) PKI
8 2 (2.13%) Wiki
9 1 (1.06%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.51%) Linux
2 3 (3.19%) Windows
3 2 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (65.96%) DevOps
2 61 (64.89%) CI/CD
3 45 (47.87%) Agile
4 40 (42.55%) Microservices
5 25 (26.60%) Software Engineering
6 24 (25.53%) Test Automation
7 19 (20.21%) AI
7 19 (20.21%) Event-Driven
7 19 (20.21%) Full-Stack Development
8 18 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (15.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 12 (12.77%) Containerisation
11 12 (12.77%) Migration
11 12 (12.77%) TDD
12 11 (11.70%) Data Modelling
13 10 (10.64%) Roadmaps
13 10 (10.64%) Scrum
14 9 (9.57%) Deployment Automation
14 9 (9.57%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 79 (84.04%) C#
2 42 (44.68%) SQL
3 23 (24.47%) JavaScript
3 23 (24.47%) TypeScript
4 19 (20.21%) Python
5 11 (11.70%) Bicep
6 3 (3.19%) Java
7 2 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.06%) C++
8 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (9.57%) Degree
1 9 (9.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.45%) Azure Certification
3 6 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.32%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.26%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.83%) QA
2 4 (4.26%) WCAG
3 2 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.13%) Basel III
3 2 (2.13%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.06%) EMIR
4 1 (1.06%) HL7
4 1 (1.06%) MiFID
System Software
1 26 (27.66%) Docker
2 6 (6.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (19.15%) Terraform
2 17 (18.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (22.34%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.77%) Oracle
3 6 (6.38%) Sitecore
4 3 (3.19%) Google
4 3 (3.19%) ION Trading
5 2 (2.13%) Cisco
5 2 (2.13%) VMware
6 1 (1.06%) Brio
6 1 (1.06%) IBM
6 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.06%) OpenLink
6 1 (1.06%) SAP
6 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow