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

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 247 172
Rank change year-on-year -63 -75 -15
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 71 132 264
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.50% 0.85% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.91% 3.28% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 108 195
10th Percentile £357 £325 £440
25th Percentile £461 £520 £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 £770 £775 £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 3,717 4,025 5,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.00% 25.80% 25.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,514 2,632 3,816
10th Percentile £357 £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 £656 £708 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 31
10th Percentile £34.16 £35.00 £32.00
25th Percentile £43.44 £38.25 £36.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -21.74% -7.63%
75th Percentile £63.19 £62.50 £72.83
90th Percentile £77.03 £71.00 £86.56
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -12.46% +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 11 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 11 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 -
Central London -25 3 £638 +6.25% 40
.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 (2.82%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Aladdin
1 4 (5.63%) Fidessa
1 4 (5.63%) thinkFolio
2 2 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.41%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 49 (69.01%) Azure
2 26 (36.62%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (32.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 20 (28.17%) Azure Service Bus
4 20 (28.17%) Serverless
5 19 (26.76%) Azure Logic Apps
6 16 (22.54%) Azure AKS
7 15 (21.13%) Azure Functions
8 14 (19.72%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (15.49%) AWS
9 11 (15.49%) GitHub
10 10 (14.08%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (14.08%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (12.68%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (12.68%) Entra ID
12 8 (11.27%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 8 (11.27%) Azure Event Grid
12 8 (11.27%) Azure Machine Learning
13 7 (9.86%) Azure App Service
14 4 (5.63%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (32.39%) SQL Server
2 13 (18.31%) NoSQL
3 11 (15.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (9.86%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.63%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.23%) Big Data
7 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.82%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.41%) DataStage
8 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (21.13%) Git
2 4 (5.63%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.82%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.41%) AppVeyor
4 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.41%) JIRA
4 1 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 31 (43.66%) Finance
2 28 (39.44%) Social Skills
3 18 (25.35%) Banking
4 8 (11.27%) Front Office
5 7 (9.86%) Financial Institution
6 6 (8.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.63%) Investment Banking
7 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (73.24%) Developer
2 19 (26.76%) .NET Developer
3 13 (18.31%) Azure Developer
4 12 (16.90%) Senior
5 11 (15.49%) C# Developer
6 10 (14.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (12.68%) Senior Developer
8 8 (11.27%) Lead
9 6 (8.45%) Administrator
9 6 (8.45%) Architect
9 6 (8.45%) Azure Administrator
9 6 (8.45%) Database Developer
9 6 (8.45%) DBA
10 5 (7.04%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 5 (7.04%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (7.04%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 5 (7.04%) Senior .NET Developer
11 4 (5.63%) .NET Architect
11 4 (5.63%) Angular Developer
11 4 (5.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (100.00%) .NET
2 23 (32.39%) React
3 19 (26.76%) AngularJS
4 14 (19.72%) Node.js
5 13 (18.31%) .NET Framework
5 13 (18.31%) ASP.NET
6 10 (14.08%) REST
6 10 (14.08%) RESTful
7 8 (11.27%) PyTorch
7 8 (11.27%) TensorFlow
8 7 (9.86%) CSS
8 7 (9.86%) HTML
9 6 (8.45%) SOAP
10 5 (7.04%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (7.04%) WPF
11 4 (5.63%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (5.63%) Kafka
11 4 (5.63%) WinForms
12 3 (4.23%) ASP.NET Web API
12 3 (4.23%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.35%) Cloud Native
2 12 (16.90%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (11.27%) AI Agents
3 8 (11.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (11.27%) Product Ownership
4 7 (9.86%) Fixed Income
4 7 (9.86%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (9.86%) Hedge funds
5 4 (5.63%) Credit Risk
5 4 (5.63%) Derivative
5 4 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (5.63%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.41%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.41%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.86%) Windows
2 2 (2.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (71.83%) CI/CD
2 39 (54.93%) Agile
2 39 (54.93%) DevOps
3 36 (50.70%) Microservices
4 20 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (25.35%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (22.54%) OO
7 13 (18.31%) Clean Code
7 13 (18.31%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (18.31%) Test Automation
8 11 (15.49%) Data Modelling
9 10 (14.08%) Analytics
9 10 (14.08%) Event-Driven
9 10 (14.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (12.68%) Design Patterns
10 9 (12.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 9 (12.68%) Scrum
11 8 (11.27%) OOP
11 8 (11.27%) RBAC
11 8 (11.27%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 65 (91.55%) C#
2 36 (50.70%) SQL
3 22 (30.99%) JavaScript
4 18 (25.35%) Python
5 9 (12.68%) Java
6 8 (11.27%) Bicep
7 6 (8.45%) TypeScript
8 4 (5.63%) T-SQL
9 3 (4.23%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.82%) Bash
10 2 (2.82%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (4.23%) Degree
2 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.41%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) MiFID
2 3 (4.23%) QA
3 2 (2.82%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.41%) EMIR
System Software
1 10 (14.08%) Docker
2 7 (9.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (22.54%) Terraform
2 11 (15.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (30.99%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.08%) Databricks
3 8 (11.27%) OpenAI
4 4 (5.63%) Portware
5 3 (4.23%) Oracle
6 1 (1.41%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.41%) Okta
6 1 (1.41%) Ping Identity