.NET Core Contract Job Trends in London

.NET Core
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring .NET Core skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 253 183
Rank change year-on-year -54 -70 -27
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 73 135 276
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.52% 0.86% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.96% 3.29% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 110 204
10th Percentile £366 £325 £440
25th Percentile £461 £505 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £616
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -2.64% -5.19%
75th Percentile £688 £679 £700
90th Percentile £772 £725 £738
England median daily rate £500 £557 £575
% change year-on-year -10.15% -3.22% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

.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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,726 4,098 5,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.43% 26.09% 25.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,527 2,683 3,887
10th Percentile £360 £381 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £663 £708 £700
90th Percentile £785 £838 £800
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 34
10th Percentile £34.19 £35.00 £32.90
25th Percentile £43.77 £38.25 £36.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.55% -7.14%
75th Percentile £63.56 £61.50 £72.00
90th Percentile £87.63 £65.00 £83.84
England median hourly rate £57.40 £65.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -11.69% +18.66% -15.72%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in London

.NET Core
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing .NET Core.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in London over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Core in London

.NET Core
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing .NET Core.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 25 November 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
Central London -23 7 £650 +8.33% 39
South London - 5 £500 - 1
.NET Core
England

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (2.74%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Aladdin
1 4 (5.48%) Fidessa
1 4 (5.48%) thinkFolio
2 3 (4.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.37%) Eikon
3 1 (1.37%) ION Anvil
3 1 (1.37%) Maximo
3 1 (1.37%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 50 (68.49%) Azure
2 25 (34.25%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (26.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 18 (24.66%) Azure Service Bus
5 17 (23.29%) Serverless
6 16 (21.92%) Azure Logic Apps
7 13 (17.81%) Azure AKS
8 12 (16.44%) Azure Functions
9 11 (15.07%) AWS
9 11 (15.07%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (13.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (13.70%) GitHub
11 9 (12.33%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (9.59%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (9.59%) Entra ID
13 6 (8.22%) Azure Cognitive Services
13 6 (8.22%) Azure Event Grid
13 6 (8.22%) Azure Machine Learning
14 5 (6.85%) Azure App Service
15 4 (5.48%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (35.62%) SQL Server
2 13 (17.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (15.07%) NoSQL
4 6 (8.22%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.11%) Big Data
5 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.74%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.74%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.74%) Power BI
7 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.37%) DataStage
7 1 (1.37%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (19.18%) Git
2 4 (5.48%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.74%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.37%) AppVeyor
4 1 (1.37%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.37%) JetBrains Rider
4 1 (1.37%) JIRA
4 1 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (43.84%) Finance
2 29 (39.73%) Social Skills
3 15 (20.55%) Banking
4 8 (10.96%) Front Office
5 7 (9.59%) Financial Institution
6 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (8.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (6.85%) Public Sector
8 4 (5.48%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.37%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.37%) Electronics
9 1 (1.37%) Local Government
9 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.37%) Marketing
9 1 (1.37%) Publishing
9 1 (1.37%) Social Housing
9 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (72.60%) Developer
2 22 (30.14%) .NET Developer
3 14 (19.18%) C# Developer
3 14 (19.18%) Senior
4 12 (16.44%) Senior Developer
5 11 (15.07%) Azure Developer
6 10 (13.70%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (12.33%) Lead
8 8 (10.96%) Senior .NET Developer
9 7 (9.59%) C# .NET Developer
10 6 (8.22%) Architect
11 5 (6.85%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 4 (5.48%) .NET Architect
12 4 (5.48%) Administrator
12 4 (5.48%) Azure Administrator
12 4 (5.48%) Backend Developer
12 4 (5.48%) Database Developer
12 4 (5.48%) DBA
12 4 (5.48%) Lead C# Developer
12 4 (5.48%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (100.00%) .NET
2 22 (30.14%) React
3 18 (24.66%) AngularJS
4 15 (20.55%) .NET Framework
5 13 (17.81%) REST
6 11 (15.07%) ASP.NET
6 11 (15.07%) RESTful
7 10 (13.70%) Node.js
8 9 (12.33%) CSS
8 9 (12.33%) HTML
9 7 (9.59%) SOAP
10 6 (8.22%) PyTorch
10 6 (8.22%) TensorFlow
10 6 (8.22%) WPF
11 5 (6.85%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (5.48%) FIX Protocol
12 4 (5.48%) Kafka
12 4 (5.48%) WinForms
13 3 (4.11%) ASP.NET Web API
13 3 (4.11%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.92%) Cloud Native
2 9 (12.33%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (12.33%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (12.33%) Product Ownership
3 8 (10.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (9.59%) Fixed Income
4 7 (9.59%) Hedge funds
5 6 (8.22%) AI Agents
6 4 (5.48%) Credit Risk
6 4 (5.48%) Derivative
6 4 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (5.48%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.37%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.37%) Equities
7 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.59%) Windows
2 2 (2.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (65.75%) CI/CD
2 39 (53.42%) DevOps
3 38 (52.05%) Agile
4 33 (45.21%) Microservices
5 18 (24.66%) Full-Stack Development
5 18 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (20.55%) OO
7 13 (17.81%) Clean Code
7 13 (17.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (15.07%) Test Automation
9 10 (13.70%) Scrum
10 9 (12.33%) Data Modelling
10 9 (12.33%) Design Patterns
10 9 (12.33%) Event-Driven
10 9 (12.33%) TDD
11 8 (10.96%) Analytics
11 8 (10.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 8 (10.96%) OOP
11 8 (10.96%) SOLID
11 8 (10.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 66 (90.41%) C#
2 38 (52.05%) SQL
3 23 (31.51%) JavaScript
4 17 (23.29%) Python
5 9 (12.33%) Java
6 7 (9.59%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.22%) Bicep
8 5 (6.85%) T-SQL
9 3 (4.11%) Bash
9 3 (4.11%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.74%) Perl
10 2 (2.74%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (2.74%) Azure Certification
1 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (2.74%) Degree
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.37%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) MiFID
2 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.74%) QA
3 1 (1.37%) EMIR
System Software
1 8 (10.96%) Docker
2 6 (8.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (20.55%) Terraform
2 10 (13.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.37%) Grafana
3 1 (1.37%) Istio
3 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (31.51%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.96%) Databricks
3 6 (8.22%) OpenAI
4 5 (6.85%) Oracle
5 4 (5.48%) Portware
6 1 (1.37%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.37%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.37%) Okta
6 1 (1.37%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.37%) Reuters
6 1 (1.37%) SAP