.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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 238 195
Rank change year-on-year -69 -43 -41
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 69 123 225
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.48% 0.85% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.81% 3.32% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 98 166
10th Percentile £357 £325 £431
25th Percentile £463 £507 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £768 £825 £738
England median daily rate £500 £558 £594
% change year-on-year -10.31% -6.11% -1.04%

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 3,809 3,704 4,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.41% 25.56% 25.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,574 2,414 3,512
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £672 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 19 31
10th Percentile £35.08 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £43.44 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -19.68%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.40 £72.80 £77.50
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.74% -19.70%

.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 2 January 2026.

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 2 January 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
South London - 7 £500 - 1
Central London -28 3 £638 +6.25% 41
.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 (2.90%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Aladdin
1 3 (4.35%) Fidessa
1 3 (4.35%) thinkFolio
2 2 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.45%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 49 (71.01%) Azure
2 26 (37.68%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 23 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 23 (33.33%) Serverless
4 19 (27.54%) Azure Functions
5 18 (26.09%) Azure Service Bus
6 16 (23.19%) Azure AKS
7 14 (20.29%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (17.39%) Entra ID
9 11 (15.94%) AWS
9 11 (15.94%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (14.49%) GitHub
10 10 (14.49%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (11.59%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 8 (11.59%) Azure Event Grid
12 8 (11.59%) Azure Machine Learning
13 7 (10.14%) Azure App Service
14 6 (8.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (36.23%) SQL Server
2 14 (20.29%) NoSQL
3 11 (15.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (11.59%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.80%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.35%) Big Data
7 2 (2.90%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.90%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.45%) DataStage
8 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (23.19%) Git
2 3 (4.35%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.45%) AppVeyor
3 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (43.48%) Finance
2 25 (36.23%) Social Skills
3 18 (26.09%) Banking
4 8 (11.59%) Front Office
5 7 (10.14%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.80%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (66.67%) Developer
2 19 (27.54%) .NET Developer
3 14 (20.29%) Azure Developer
4 10 (14.49%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (14.49%) Senior
5 9 (13.04%) Architect
5 9 (13.04%) C# Developer
6 7 (10.14%) Senior Developer
7 6 (8.70%) Administrator
7 6 (8.70%) Azure Administrator
7 6 (8.70%) Database Developer
7 6 (8.70%) DBA
7 6 (8.70%) Lead
7 6 (8.70%) Senior .NET Developer
8 5 (7.25%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 5 (7.25%) Azure Architect
8 5 (7.25%) Backend Developer
8 5 (7.25%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 5 (7.25%) Technical Architect
9 4 (5.80%) Angular Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (100.00%) .NET
2 19 (27.54%) AngularJS
3 18 (26.09%) React
4 15 (21.74%) Node.js
5 13 (18.84%) .NET Framework
6 12 (17.39%) ASP.NET
7 11 (15.94%) RESTful
8 9 (13.04%) REST
9 8 (11.59%) HTML
9 8 (11.59%) PyTorch
9 8 (11.59%) TensorFlow
10 7 (10.14%) CSS
11 6 (8.70%) WPF
12 5 (7.25%) Kafka
12 5 (7.25%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (5.80%) WinForms
14 3 (4.35%) ARM Templates
14 3 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
14 3 (4.35%) FIX Protocol
15 2 (2.90%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 20 (28.99%) Cloud Native
2 14 (20.29%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (11.59%) AI Agents
4 7 (10.14%) Product Ownership
5 6 (8.70%) Fixed Income
6 5 (7.25%) Credit Risk
6 5 (7.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (7.25%) Market Risk
7 4 (5.80%) Hedge funds
8 3 (4.35%) Derivative
8 3 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
10 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
10 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.59%) Windows
2 2 (2.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (76.81%) CI/CD
2 40 (57.97%) Microservices
3 39 (56.52%) DevOps
4 34 (49.28%) Agile
5 19 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (20.29%) Test Automation
8 12 (17.39%) API Management
8 12 (17.39%) Data Modelling
8 12 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (17.39%) RBAC
9 11 (15.94%) OO
10 10 (14.49%) Analytics
10 10 (14.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (13.04%) AI
11 9 (13.04%) Data Protection
11 9 (13.04%) Machine Learning
12 8 (11.59%) Clean Code
12 8 (11.59%) OOP
12 8 (11.59%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 58 (84.06%) C#
2 37 (53.62%) SQL
3 17 (24.64%) JavaScript
4 14 (20.29%) Python
5 13 (18.84%) Bicep
6 6 (8.70%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.80%) Java
7 4 (5.80%) T-SQL
8 3 (4.35%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.90%) Bash
9 2 (2.90%) Perl
10 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (5.80%) Azure Certification
1 4 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (5.80%) Degree
2 1 (1.45%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) MiFID
2 3 (4.35%) QA
3 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.45%) EMIR
4 1 (1.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (13.04%) Active Directory
1 9 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (23.19%) Terraform
2 11 (15.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.49%) Databricks
3 8 (11.59%) OpenAI
4 4 (5.80%) Oracle
5 3 (4.35%) Portware
6 2 (2.90%) ION Trading
7 1 (1.45%) Okta
7 1 (1.45%) Ping Identity