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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 248 178
Rank change year-on-year -48 -70 -25
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 72 132 282
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.52% 0.85% 1.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.94% 3.27% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 108 210
10th Percentile £364 £325 £440
25th Percentile £463 £504 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £610
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -1.64% -6.15%
75th Percentile £694 £675 £700
90th Percentile £774 £708 £750
England median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -2.13%

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 3,704 4,037 5,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.51% 26.04% 26.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,524 2,639 3,953
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £712 £700
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 21 37
10th Percentile £31.77 £35.00 £33.80
25th Percentile £42.50 £38.25 £36.84
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -22.41% -0.85%
75th Percentile £63.19 £61.43 £72.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £71.00 £87.94
England median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -13.46% +18.18% -15.38%

.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 18 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 18 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 -28 7 £650 - 71
South London - 4 £500 - 2
.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 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Aladdin
1 4 (5.56%) Fidessa
1 4 (5.56%) thinkFolio
2 3 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.39%) Eikon
3 1 (1.39%) ION Anvil
3 1 (1.39%) Maximo
3 1 (1.39%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 48 (66.67%) Azure
2 23 (31.94%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (26.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 17 (23.61%) Azure Service Bus
5 16 (22.22%) Serverless
6 15 (20.83%) Azure Logic Apps
7 12 (16.67%) Azure AKS
7 12 (16.67%) Azure Functions
8 11 (15.28%) AWS
9 10 (13.89%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (12.50%) GitHub
11 8 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (8.33%) Entra ID
13 5 (6.94%) Azure App Service
13 5 (6.94%) Azure Cognitive Services
13 5 (6.94%) Azure Event Grid
13 5 (6.94%) Azure Machine Learning
14 4 (5.56%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (36.11%) SQL Server
2 13 (18.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (13.89%) NoSQL
4 6 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.17%) Big Data
5 3 (4.17%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.78%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.78%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.78%) Power BI
7 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.39%) DataStage
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (19.44%) Git
2 4 (5.56%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.78%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.39%) AppVeyor
4 1 (1.39%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.39%) JetBrains Rider
4 1 (1.39%) JIRA
4 1 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (45.83%) Finance
2 28 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 15 (20.83%) Banking
4 8 (11.11%) Front Office
5 7 (9.72%) Financial Institution
6 6 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
8 4 (5.56%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.39%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.39%) Electronics
9 1 (1.39%) Local Government
9 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.39%) Marketing
9 1 (1.39%) Publishing
9 1 (1.39%) Social Housing
9 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (72.22%) Developer
2 22 (30.56%) .NET Developer
3 15 (20.83%) C# Developer
4 14 (19.44%) Senior
5 12 (16.67%) Senior Developer
6 10 (13.89%) Azure Developer
6 10 (13.89%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (12.50%) Lead
8 8 (11.11%) Senior .NET Developer
9 7 (9.72%) C# .NET Developer
10 6 (8.33%) Architect
11 5 (6.94%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 4 (5.56%) .NET Architect
12 4 (5.56%) Administrator
12 4 (5.56%) Angular Developer
12 4 (5.56%) Azure Administrator
12 4 (5.56%) Database Developer
12 4 (5.56%) DBA
12 4 (5.56%) Lead C# Developer
12 4 (5.56%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (100.00%) .NET
2 20 (27.78%) React
3 17 (23.61%) AngularJS
4 15 (20.83%) .NET Framework
5 13 (18.06%) REST
6 10 (13.89%) ASP.NET
6 10 (13.89%) RESTful
7 9 (12.50%) CSS
7 9 (12.50%) HTML
7 9 (12.50%) Node.js
8 7 (9.72%) SOAP
9 6 (8.33%) WPF
10 5 (6.94%) PyTorch
10 5 (6.94%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (6.94%) TensorFlow
11 4 (5.56%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (5.56%) Kafka
11 4 (5.56%) WinForms
12 3 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
12 3 (4.17%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 9 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 8 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (9.72%) Fixed Income
4 7 (9.72%) Hedge funds
5 5 (6.94%) AI Agents
6 4 (5.56%) Credit Risk
6 4 (5.56%) Derivative
6 4 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (5.56%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.39%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.39%) Equities
7 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.72%) Windows
2 2 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (63.89%) CI/CD
2 37 (51.39%) DevOps
3 36 (50.00%) Agile
4 32 (44.44%) Microservices
5 18 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 18 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (20.83%) OO
7 13 (18.06%) Clean Code
8 12 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (15.28%) Test Automation
10 10 (13.89%) Scrum
11 9 (12.50%) Data Modelling
11 9 (12.50%) Design Patterns
11 9 (12.50%) Event-Driven
11 9 (12.50%) TDD
12 8 (11.11%) Analytics
12 8 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 8 (11.11%) OOP
12 8 (11.11%) SOLID
13 7 (9.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 66 (91.67%) C#
2 37 (51.39%) SQL
3 22 (30.56%) JavaScript
4 16 (22.22%) Python
5 9 (12.50%) Java
6 7 (9.72%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.94%) Bicep
7 5 (6.94%) T-SQL
8 3 (4.17%) Bash
8 3 (4.17%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.78%) Perl
9 2 (2.78%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (2.78%) Degree
2 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.94%) MiFID
2 2 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.78%) QA
3 1 (1.39%) EMIR
System Software
1 7 (9.72%) Docker
2 6 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (19.44%) Terraform
2 9 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.39%) Grafana
3 1 (1.39%) Istio
3 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.72%) Databricks
3 5 (6.94%) OpenAI
3 5 (6.94%) Oracle
4 4 (5.56%) Portware
5 1 (1.39%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.39%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.39%) Okta
5 1 (1.39%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.39%) Reuters
5 1 (1.39%) SAP