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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 255 230
Rank change year-on-year -74 -25 -41
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 152 340 559
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.63% 0.94% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.81% 4.55% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 247 412
10th Percentile £388 £393 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £695
90th Percentile £825 £788 £806
UK median daily rate £525 £548 £600
% change year-on-year -4.11% -8.75% +9.09%
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% -8.33%
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 5,401 7,473 11,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.25% 20.55% 23.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,745 5,302 8,243
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -0.88%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £798 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 229 133
10th Percentile £32.35 £22.35 £26.60
25th Percentile £50.27 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +28.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.58 £75.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

.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 16 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 16 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 -91 102 £618 +7.40% 167
South East +53 20 £344 -26.86% 108
North of England +10 12 £444 +8.90% 154
Midlands +13 7 £500 -4.76% 62
Yorkshire +13 6 £475 +58.33% 43
East Midlands +10 6 £500 -6.98% 23
North West +1 6 £411 -13.42% 94
South West +9 5 £600 -14.29% 31
East of England +27 4 £498 +4.74% 44
West Midlands +9 1 £475 +18.75% 35
.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 (3.95%) BizTalk Server
1 6 (3.95%) Umbraco
2 1 (0.66%) CMS
2 1 (0.66%) Confluence
2 1 (0.66%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.66%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.66%) MQSeries
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.66%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 81 (53.29%) Azure
2 32 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (19.74%) AWS
4 15 (9.87%) Serverless
5 13 (8.55%) Azure Functions
5 13 (8.55%) Azure Service Bus
6 12 (7.89%) Azure Storage
6 12 (7.89%) Entra ID
7 11 (7.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 11 (7.24%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (5.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (5.92%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.95%) Azure AKS
9 6 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (3.95%) Power Automate
10 5 (3.29%) GCP
10 5 (3.29%) GitHub
10 5 (3.29%) SaaS
11 3 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.97%) HTTP
2 1 (0.66%) Firewall
2 1 (0.66%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 21 (13.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (9.87%) Relational Database
4 12 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (6.58%) NoSQL
6 9 (5.92%) MongoDB
7 8 (5.26%) Power BI
8 4 (2.63%) MySQL
8 4 (2.63%) Redis
9 2 (1.32%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.66%) MS Access
10 1 (0.66%) Parquet
10 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (13.16%) Git
2 8 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.95%) JIRA
4 4 (2.63%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.63%) Moq
5 3 (1.97%) GitLab
5 3 (1.97%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.32%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.32%) NUnit
6 2 (1.32%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.66%) Postman
7 1 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.66%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 48 (31.58%) Finance
2 32 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 25 (16.45%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.21%) Front Office
5 13 (8.55%) Banking
5 13 (8.55%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.95%) Electronics
6 6 (3.95%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.95%) Marketing
6 6 (3.95%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.29%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.63%) Law
9 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Advertising
10 1 (0.66%) Back Office
10 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.66%) Police
Job Titles
1 110 (72.37%) Developer
2 55 (36.18%) .NET Developer
3 44 (28.95%) C# Developer
4 40 (26.32%) Senior
5 30 (19.74%) Senior Developer
6 20 (13.16%) C++ Developer
7 19 (12.50%) C++/C# Developer
7 19 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
7 19 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
7 19 (12.50%) Software Engineer
8 16 (10.53%) C# .NET Developer
8 16 (10.53%) Lead
9 14 (9.21%) Azure Developer
9 14 (9.21%) Senior C# Developer
10 12 (7.89%) Lead Developer
10 12 (7.89%) React Developer
11 11 (7.24%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 10 (6.58%) Senior C# .NET Developer
13 9 (5.92%) Software Developer
14 8 (5.26%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (100.00%) .NET
2 48 (31.58%) ASP.NET
3 34 (22.37%) .NET Framework
4 28 (18.42%) AngularJS
5 27 (17.76%) React
6 26 (17.11%) WCF
7 25 (16.45%) Web Services
8 24 (15.79%) Kafka
9 23 (15.13%) HTML
10 22 (14.47%) CSS
11 20 (13.16%) Entity Framework
12 16 (10.53%) RESTful
13 15 (9.87%) REST
14 14 (9.21%) Blazor
15 13 (8.55%) ASP.NET MVC
16 12 (7.89%) ASP.NET Web API
17 11 (7.24%) ASP.NET Core
18 8 (5.26%) OAuth
19 7 (4.61%) JSON
19 7 (4.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 18 (11.84%) Legacy Applications
3 11 (7.24%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (7.24%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.58%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (4.61%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.29%) N-Tier
7 5 (3.29%) TWAP
7 5 (3.29%) VWAP
8 2 (1.32%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.32%) NHS
8 2 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.66%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.66%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.66%) Solar Panel
9 1 (0.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.24%) Windows
2 3 (1.97%) Android
2 3 (1.97%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.97%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (47.37%) Agile
2 66 (43.42%) DevOps
3 52 (34.21%) CI/CD
4 46 (30.26%) Full-Stack Development
5 28 (18.42%) Microservices
5 28 (18.42%) Software Engineering
6 25 (16.45%) Analytics
7 22 (14.47%) TDD
8 20 (13.16%) Front End Development
9 19 (12.50%) MVC
10 17 (11.18%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (11.18%) Test Automation
11 16 (10.53%) BDD
11 16 (10.53%) OO
11 16 (10.53%) Scrum
11 16 (10.53%) SOLID
12 15 (9.87%) Unit Testing
13 14 (9.21%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (8.55%) API Development
14 13 (8.55%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 120 (78.95%) C#
2 61 (40.13%) SQL
3 36 (23.68%) JavaScript
4 27 (17.76%) C++
5 20 (13.16%) Python
6 16 (10.53%) PowerShell
7 14 (9.21%) T-SQL
8 13 (8.55%) TypeScript
9 8 (5.26%) Bicep
10 7 (4.61%) Go
10 7 (4.61%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.97%) Bash
11 3 (1.97%) VBA
12 2 (1.32%) Java
12 2 (1.32%) VB
12 2 (1.32%) VB6
Qualifications
1 9 (5.92%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.95%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.29%) Degree
4 5 (3.29%) MCPD
4 5 (3.29%) MCSD
5 3 (1.97%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.97%) Accessibility
1 3 (1.97%) QA
2 2 (1.32%) Government Security Classifications
2 2 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (13.82%) Docker
2 10 (6.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (18.42%) Kubernetes
2 19 (12.50%) Terraform
3 4 (2.63%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.97%) Grafana
5 1 (0.66%) Ansible
Vendors
1 40 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 31 (20.39%) Oracle
3 6 (3.95%) MuleSoft
3 6 (3.95%) SAP
4 3 (1.97%) Databricks
4 3 (1.97%) Workday
5 2 (1.32%) Cisco
5 2 (1.32%) IBM
6 1 (0.66%) Google
6 1 (0.66%) NEC
6 1 (0.66%) Pardot
6 1 (0.66%) Rackspace
6 1 (0.66%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.66%) Splunk
6 1 (0.66%) TIBCO