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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 274 168
Rank change year-on-year -107 -106 +12
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 53 94 245
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.69% 1.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.18% 2.65% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 59 182
10th Percentile £391 £394 £399
25th Percentile £453 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £679
90th Percentile £720 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £545
% change year-on-year - -8.26% -7.00%

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 4,510 3,553 4,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.63% 26.19% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,989 2,488 3,247
10th Percentile £390 £374 £376
25th Percentile £450 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £725
90th Percentile £782 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +1.16% -5.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 25
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.20 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% +20.00% -43.18%
75th Percentile £61.50 £60.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.50 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -8.16%

.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 July 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 28 July 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
Central London -12 6 £663 +1.92% 30
South London - 2 £700 - 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 (3.77%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.89%) CMS
2 1 (1.89%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.89%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Endur
1 1 (1.89%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 37 (69.81%) Azure
2 24 (45.28%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (24.53%) AWS
4 12 (22.64%) GitHub
5 8 (15.09%) Serverless
6 7 (13.21%) Power Platform
7 6 (11.32%) Azure Functions
8 5 (9.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (9.43%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (7.55%) Azure AKS
9 4 (7.55%) Azure App Service
9 4 (7.55%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (7.55%) Entra ID
9 4 (7.55%) IaaS
9 4 (7.55%) PaaS
9 4 (7.55%) SaaS
10 3 (5.66%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (5.66%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (3.77%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) DHCP
1 2 (3.77%) DNS
1 2 (3.77%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (60.38%) SQL Server
2 11 (20.75%) Relational Database
3 8 (15.09%) NoSQL
4 7 (13.21%) Power BI
5 6 (11.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (9.43%) Oracle Database
7 4 (7.55%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.77%) Db2
9 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Git
2 8 (15.09%) GitLab
3 6 (11.32%) Visual Studio
4 5 (9.43%) JIRA
5 4 (7.55%) JetBrains Rider
6 2 (3.77%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.89%) Moq
7 1 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.89%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (43.40%) Finance
2 18 (33.96%) Social Skills
3 12 (22.64%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (15.09%) Banking
5 5 (9.43%) Front Office
6 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.66%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.77%) Health Technology
8 2 (3.77%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (3.77%) Prime Brokerage
9 1 (1.89%) Legal
9 1 (1.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (75.47%) Developer
2 19 (35.85%) .NET Developer
3 17 (32.08%) C# Developer
4 15 (28.30%) Senior
5 14 (26.42%) Full-Stack Developer
6 13 (24.53%) Senior Developer
7 9 (16.98%) Senior .NET Developer
7 9 (16.98%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (15.09%) C# .NET Developer
8 8 (15.09%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 7 (13.21%) Architect
9 7 (13.21%) React Developer
9 7 (13.21%) Senior C# Developer
9 7 (13.21%) Senior React Developer
9 7 (13.21%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (9.43%) Azure Developer
10 5 (9.43%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 5 (9.43%) Senior C# .NET Developer
11 3 (5.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 3 (5.66%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (100.00%) .NET
2 28 (52.83%) REST
3 26 (49.06%) React
4 21 (39.62%) .NET Framework
5 18 (33.96%) ASP.NET
6 15 (28.30%) RESTful
7 9 (16.98%) Kafka
8 8 (15.09%) HTML
9 7 (13.21%) CSS
9 7 (13.21%) Entity Framework
9 7 (13.21%) PySpark
10 6 (11.32%) AngularJS
10 6 (11.32%) Blazor
11 5 (9.43%) Redux
12 4 (7.55%) ASP.NET MVC
12 4 (7.55%) ASP.NET Web API
12 4 (7.55%) HTML5
12 4 (7.55%) Middleware
12 4 (7.55%) Node.js
12 4 (7.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (39.62%) Cloud Native
2 12 (22.64%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (11.32%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (11.32%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (7.55%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (7.55%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.77%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (3.77%) Equities
6 2 (3.77%) PKI
7 1 (1.89%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.89%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.89%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.89%) NHS
7 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.89%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Windows
2 3 (5.66%) Linux
3 2 (3.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (66.04%) CI/CD
2 32 (60.38%) DevOps
3 29 (54.72%) Microservices
4 21 (39.62%) Agile
5 20 (37.74%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (30.19%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (28.30%) Test Automation
8 14 (26.42%) Event-Driven
9 13 (24.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 11 (20.75%) AI
10 11 (20.75%) Containerisation
11 10 (18.87%) Software Engineering
12 9 (16.98%) Data Modelling
13 8 (15.09%) API Design
13 8 (15.09%) Deployment Automation
13 8 (15.09%) OO
13 8 (15.09%) SDLC
13 8 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (15.09%) Technical Debt
13 8 (15.09%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 50 (94.34%) C#
2 25 (47.17%) TypeScript
3 21 (39.62%) JavaScript
3 21 (39.62%) SQL
4 18 (33.96%) Python
5 3 (5.66%) C++
6 2 (3.77%) Bicep
6 2 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.77%) Java
7 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.55%) DV Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) Degree
3 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) QA
2 2 (3.77%) Basel III
2 2 (3.77%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (20.75%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (20.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.66%) Terraform
3 1 (1.89%) Istio
Vendors
1 16 (30.19%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.09%) Oracle
3 4 (7.55%) IBM
4 2 (3.77%) Cisco
4 2 (3.77%) DevExpress
4 2 (3.77%) VMware
5 1 (1.89%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.89%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.89%) Sitecore