.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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 254 185
Rank change year-on-year -51 -69 -30
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 73 136 273
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.51% 0.85% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.94% 3.29% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 111 202
10th Percentile £366 £325 £440
25th Percentile £463 £505 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -3.23% -4.62%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £770 £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 3,761 4,133 5,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.47% 25.98% 26.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,547 2,702 3,856
10th Percentile £359 £380 £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 £656 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 22 34
10th Percentile £34.48 £35.13 £32.90
25th Percentile £43.13 £38.31 £36.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.76% -7.14%
75th Percentile £63.38 £62.25 £72.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £70.40 £83.84
England median hourly rate £57.30 £65.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -11.85% +20.93% -17.31%

.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 28 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 28 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 -29 6 £644 +7.29% 42
South London - 6 £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
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 2 (2.74%) 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 49 (67.12%) Azure
2 24 (32.88%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (28.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 18 (24.66%) Azure Service Bus
4 18 (24.66%) Serverless
5 17 (23.29%) Azure Logic Apps
6 14 (19.18%) Azure AKS
7 13 (17.81%) Azure Functions
8 12 (16.44%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (15.07%) AWS
10 10 (13.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (13.70%) GitHub
11 9 (12.33%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (10.96%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (10.96%) Entra ID
13 7 (9.59%) Azure Cognitive Services
13 7 (9.59%) Azure Event Grid
13 7 (9.59%) Azure Machine Learning
14 6 (8.22%) Azure App Service
15 4 (5.48%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (35.62%) SQL Server
2 12 (16.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (16.44%) NoSQL
3 7 (9.59%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.48%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.11%) Big Data
6 2 (2.74%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.74%) Hadoop
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 28 (38.36%) Social Skills
3 16 (21.92%) Banking
4 8 (10.96%) Front Office
5 7 (9.59%) Financial Institution
6 6 (8.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
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%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.37%) Marketing
9 1 (1.37%) Publishing
9 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (75.34%) Developer
2 23 (31.51%) .NET Developer
3 14 (19.18%) C# Developer
3 14 (19.18%) Senior
4 12 (16.44%) Azure Developer
4 12 (16.44%) Senior Developer
5 10 (13.70%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (12.33%) Lead
7 8 (10.96%) Senior .NET Developer
8 7 (9.59%) C# .NET Developer
9 6 (8.22%) Architect
10 5 (6.85%) Administrator
10 5 (6.85%) Azure Administrator
10 5 (6.85%) Database Developer
10 5 (6.85%) DBA
10 5 (6.85%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 4 (5.48%) .NET Architect
11 4 (5.48%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 4 (5.48%) Backend Developer
11 4 (5.48%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (100.00%) .NET
2 22 (30.14%) React
3 19 (26.03%) AngularJS
4 15 (20.55%) .NET Framework
5 12 (16.44%) ASP.NET
5 12 (16.44%) Node.js
6 11 (15.07%) REST
7 10 (13.70%) RESTful
8 7 (9.59%) CSS
8 7 (9.59%) HTML
8 7 (9.59%) PyTorch
8 7 (9.59%) TensorFlow
9 6 (8.22%) SOAP
9 6 (8.22%) WPF
10 5 (6.85%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (5.48%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (5.48%) Kafka
11 4 (5.48%) WinForms
12 3 (4.11%) ASP.NET Web API
12 3 (4.11%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.29%) Cloud Native
2 10 (13.70%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (12.33%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (12.33%) Product Ownership
4 8 (10.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (9.59%) AI Agents
5 7 (9.59%) Fixed Income
5 7 (9.59%) Hedge funds
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%) Agile
3 38 (52.05%) DevOps
4 34 (46.58%) Microservices
5 19 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (24.66%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (21.92%) OO
8 13 (17.81%) Clean Code
9 12 (16.44%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (16.44%) Test Automation
10 10 (13.70%) Scrum
11 9 (12.33%) Analytics
11 9 (12.33%) Data Modelling
11 9 (12.33%) Design Patterns
11 9 (12.33%) Event-Driven
11 9 (12.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (12.33%) TDD
12 8 (10.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 8 (10.96%) OOP
12 8 (10.96%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 67 (91.78%) C#
2 37 (50.68%) SQL
3 22 (30.14%) JavaScript
4 17 (23.29%) Python
5 9 (12.33%) Java
6 6 (8.22%) Bicep
6 6 (8.22%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.48%) T-SQL
8 3 (4.11%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.74%) Bash
9 2 (2.74%) Perl
9 2 (2.74%) VBA
10 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (2.74%) Degree
2 1 (1.37%) Azure 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 9 (12.33%) Docker
2 6 (8.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (20.55%) Terraform
2 10 (13.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (31.51%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.33%) Databricks
3 7 (9.59%) 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