.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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 242 183
Rank change year-on-year -67 -59 -23
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 73 135 262
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.51% 0.86% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.94% 3.31% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 110 194
10th Percentile £357 £325 £440
25th Percentile £462 £505 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -3.23% -4.62%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £768 £733 £738
England median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -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 3,756 4,078 4,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.15% 25.94% 26.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,540 2,668 3,761
10th Percentile £356 £375 £400
25th Percentile £424 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £653 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £504 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.36% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 20 31
10th Percentile £34.16 £36.13 £32.00
25th Percentile £43.44 £38.44 £36.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -15.22% -7.63%
75th Percentile £63.19 £63.13 £72.83
90th Percentile £77.03 £71.90 £86.56
England median hourly rate £57.30 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -11.85% +21.50% -17.69%

.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 4 December 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 4 December 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
South London - 7 £500 - 1
Central London -29 5 £638 +6.25% 35
.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 1 (1.37%) 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 25 (34.25%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (30.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 20 (27.40%) Azure Service Bus
5 19 (26.03%) Serverless
6 18 (24.66%) Azure Logic Apps
7 15 (20.55%) Azure AKS
8 14 (19.18%) Azure Functions
9 13 (17.81%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (15.07%) AWS
10 11 (15.07%) GitHub
11 10 (13.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (13.70%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (13.70%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (12.33%) Entra ID
13 8 (10.96%) Azure Cognitive Services
13 8 (10.96%) Azure Event Grid
13 8 (10.96%) Azure Machine Learning
14 7 (9.59%) Azure App Service
15 4 (5.48%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.85%) 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 31 (42.47%) Finance
2 28 (38.36%) Social Skills
3 17 (23.29%) Banking
4 8 (10.96%) Front Office
5 7 (9.59%) Financial Institution
6 6 (8.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.48%) Investment Banking
7 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.37%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 54 (73.97%) Developer
2 21 (28.77%) .NET Developer
3 13 (17.81%) C# Developer
3 13 (17.81%) Senior
4 12 (16.44%) Azure Developer
5 10 (13.70%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (13.70%) Senior Developer
6 8 (10.96%) Lead
7 6 (8.22%) Architect
7 6 (8.22%) C# .NET Developer
7 6 (8.22%) Senior .NET Developer
8 5 (6.85%) Administrator
8 5 (6.85%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 5 (6.85%) Azure Administrator
8 5 (6.85%) Database Developer
8 5 (6.85%) DBA
8 5 (6.85%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 4 (5.48%) .NET Architect
9 4 (5.48%) Angular Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (100.00%) .NET
2 23 (31.51%) React
3 20 (27.40%) AngularJS
4 15 (20.55%) .NET Framework
5 13 (17.81%) Node.js
6 12 (16.44%) ASP.NET
7 11 (15.07%) REST
8 10 (13.70%) RESTful
9 8 (10.96%) PyTorch
9 8 (10.96%) TensorFlow
10 7 (9.59%) CSS
10 7 (9.59%) HTML
11 6 (8.22%) SOAP
11 6 (8.22%) WPF
12 5 (6.85%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (5.48%) FIX Protocol
13 4 (5.48%) Kafka
13 4 (5.48%) WinForms
14 3 (4.11%) ASP.NET Web API
14 3 (4.11%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.29%) Cloud Native
2 11 (15.07%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (10.96%) AI Agents
3 8 (10.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (10.96%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (10.96%) Product Ownership
4 7 (9.59%) Fixed Income
4 7 (9.59%) Hedge funds
5 4 (5.48%) Credit Risk
5 4 (5.48%) Derivative
5 4 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (5.48%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.37%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.37%) Equities
6 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.59%) Windows
2 2 (2.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (68.49%) CI/CD
2 39 (53.42%) Agile
2 39 (53.42%) DevOps
3 36 (49.32%) Microservices
4 20 (27.40%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (24.66%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (20.55%) OO
7 13 (17.81%) Clean Code
7 13 (17.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (16.44%) Test Automation
9 10 (13.70%) Analytics
9 10 (13.70%) Data Modelling
9 10 (13.70%) Event-Driven
9 10 (13.70%) Scrum
9 10 (13.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (12.33%) Design Patterns
10 9 (12.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 8 (10.96%) Machine Learning
11 8 (10.96%) OOP
11 8 (10.96%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 67 (91.78%) C#
2 37 (50.68%) SQL
3 23 (31.51%) JavaScript
4 18 (24.66%) Python
5 9 (12.33%) Java
6 8 (10.96%) Bicep
7 6 (8.22%) TypeScript
8 4 (5.48%) T-SQL
9 3 (4.11%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.74%) Bash
10 2 (2.74%) Perl
11 1 (1.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (4.11%) 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 3 (4.11%) QA
3 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.37%) EMIR
System Software
1 10 (13.70%) Docker
2 7 (9.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (21.92%) Terraform
2 11 (15.07%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (31.51%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.70%) Databricks
3 8 (10.96%) 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