.NET Core Contracts in London

.NET Core
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 173 169
Rank change year-on-year -77 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 103 243 419
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.82% 1.36% 1.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.15% 5.44% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 170 324
10th Percentile £463 £425 £475
25th Percentile £518 £500 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £825 £719 £738
90th Percentile - £800 £819
England median daily rate £566 £553 £600
% change year-on-year +2.49% -7.92% +9.09%

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 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing .NET Core as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core in London

.NET Core
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Core in London.

Daily rate trend for .NET Core in London

.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Core in London

.NET Core
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Core in London.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Core in London

.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 1 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
Central London -17 17 £600 +20.00% 20
West London +9 3 £550 -5.38% 2
.NET Core
England

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (5.83%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (1.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.94%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.97%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.97%) MQSeries
Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.91%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (48.54%) Azure
2 18 (17.48%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (15.53%) AWS
4 14 (13.59%) Serverless
5 12 (11.65%) Azure Functions
6 11 (10.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 11 (10.68%) Azure Service Bus
7 10 (9.71%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (7.77%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (6.80%) Azure Storage
9 7 (6.80%) Entra ID
10 6 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (5.83%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.88%) GCP
11 4 (3.88%) GitHub
12 3 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.91%) Power Automate
12 3 (2.91%) PowerApps
13 2 (1.94%) Azure API Management
13 2 (1.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.91%) HTTP
2 1 (0.97%) Firewall
2 1 (0.97%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (24.27%) SQL Server
2 13 (12.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (9.71%) Relational Database
4 8 (7.77%) NoSQL
5 7 (6.80%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.85%) Power BI
7 4 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.94%) Redis
8 2 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.97%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 9 (8.74%) Git
2 6 (5.83%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.88%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.91%) GitLab
4 3 (2.91%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.94%) JIRA
5 2 (1.94%) Moq
5 2 (1.94%) NUnit
6 1 (0.97%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.97%) Postman
6 1 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.97%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 41 (39.81%) Finance
2 33 (32.04%) Social Skills
3 27 (26.21%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (17.48%) Front Office
5 15 (14.56%) Banking
6 6 (5.83%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.83%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.94%) Electronics
8 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.94%) Marketing
8 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.94%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.97%) Advertising
9 1 (0.97%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 75 (72.82%) Developer
2 35 (33.98%) C# Developer
3 27 (26.21%) .NET Developer
4 26 (25.24%) Senior
5 23 (22.33%) C++ Developer
6 22 (21.36%) C++/C# Developer
7 18 (17.48%) Senior Developer
8 15 (14.56%) Software Engineer
9 12 (11.65%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (9.71%) Lead
11 9 (8.74%) Senior .NET Developer
12 8 (7.77%) React Developer
12 8 (7.77%) Senior C# Developer
13 7 (6.80%) C# .NET Developer
13 7 (6.80%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 7 (6.80%) Lead Developer
13 7 (6.80%) Software Developer
14 6 (5.83%) .NET Software Engineer
14 6 (5.83%) Azure Developer
14 6 (5.83%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (100.00%) .NET
2 42 (40.78%) ASP.NET
3 28 (27.18%) WCF
4 27 (26.21%) Kafka
5 26 (25.24%) .NET Framework
5 26 (25.24%) Web Services
6 18 (17.48%) AngularJS
7 16 (15.53%) Entity Framework
8 14 (13.59%) React
9 13 (12.62%) HTML
10 12 (11.65%) Blazor
10 12 (11.65%) CSS
11 11 (10.68%) ASP.NET Core
12 10 (9.71%) ASP.NET MVC
13 9 (8.74%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (8.74%) RESTful
14 8 (7.77%) REST
15 7 (6.80%) Dapper ORM
16 6 (5.83%) OAuth
17 5 (4.85%) StructureMap
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 20 (19.42%) Legacy Applications
3 9 (8.74%) Algorithms
4 8 (7.77%) Cloud Native
4 8 (7.77%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.85%) N-Tier
5 5 (4.85%) TWAP
5 5 (4.85%) VWAP
6 3 (2.91%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.94%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.97%) Derivative
8 1 (0.97%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.97%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.97%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.97%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.97%) NHS
8 1 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.77%) Windows
2 2 (1.94%) Linux
3 1 (0.97%) Android
3 1 (0.97%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (52.43%) Agile
2 45 (43.69%) DevOps
3 34 (33.01%) CI/CD
3 34 (33.01%) Full-Stack Development
4 27 (26.21%) Analytics
5 21 (20.39%) Microservices
6 19 (18.45%) Software Engineering
7 16 (15.53%) Front End Development
8 15 (14.56%) MVC
8 15 (14.56%) TDD
9 14 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (12.62%) Multithreading
10 13 (12.62%) OOP
11 12 (11.65%) OO
11 12 (11.65%) Test Automation
11 12 (11.65%) Unit Testing
12 11 (10.68%) BDD
13 10 (9.71%) Algorithmic Trading
13 10 (9.71%) SDLC
13 10 (9.71%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 82 (79.61%) C#
2 33 (32.04%) SQL
3 31 (30.10%) C++
4 20 (19.42%) JavaScript
5 16 (15.53%) Python
6 14 (13.59%) T-SQL
7 7 (6.80%) Go
8 6 (5.83%) PL/SQL
8 6 (5.83%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.83%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.91%) VBA
10 2 (1.94%) VB
10 2 (1.94%) VB6
11 1 (0.97%) Bicep
11 1 (0.97%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (4.85%) Degree
2 5 (4.85%) MCPD
2 5 (4.85%) MCSD
2 5 (4.85%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.91%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.94%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.94%) Government Security Classifications
1 2 (1.94%) QA
1 2 (1.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (18.45%) Docker
2 5 (4.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (21.36%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.83%) Terraform
3 1 (0.97%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (26.21%) Oracle
2 25 (24.27%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.83%) MuleSoft
4 3 (2.91%) Databricks
5 2 (1.94%) IBM
5 2 (1.94%) Murex
5 2 (1.94%) SAP
6 1 (0.97%) Cisco
6 1 (0.97%) Pardot
6 1 (0.97%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.97%) Splunk
6 1 (0.97%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.97%) Workday