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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 270 166
Rank change year-on-year -103 -104 +11
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 51 102 254
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.26% 0.75% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 2.89% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 65 183
10th Percentile £404 £399 £409
25th Percentile £415 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £557
Median % change year-on-year - +3.32% -10.96%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £700
90th Percentile £638 £825 £800
England median daily rate £488 £505 £550
% change year-on-year -3.47% -8.18% -6.78%

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 4,522 3,527 4,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.77% 26.08% 27.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,998 2,452 3,469
10th Percentile £384 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £718
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 24 26
10th Percentile £24.63 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.06 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +20.55% -40.74%
75th Percentile £70.69 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £91.88 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -10.31%

.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 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 11 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 -18 5 £625 -3.85% 26
.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 (3.92%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Endur
1 1 (1.96%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 32 (62.75%) Azure
2 22 (43.14%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (29.41%) AWS
4 10 (19.61%) GitHub
5 7 (13.73%) Power Platform
5 7 (13.73%) Serverless
6 6 (11.76%) SaaS
7 5 (9.80%) Azure Functions
7 5 (9.80%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (7.84%) Azure AKS
8 4 (7.84%) Azure App Service
8 4 (7.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (7.84%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (7.84%) Entra ID
8 4 (7.84%) IaaS
8 4 (7.84%) PaaS
9 3 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.96%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) DHCP
1 2 (3.92%) DNS
1 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 15 (29.41%) Relational Database
3 8 (15.69%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (13.73%) NoSQL
4 7 (13.73%) Oracle Database
4 7 (13.73%) Power BI
5 5 (9.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (5.88%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (17.65%) Git
2 8 (15.69%) GitLab
3 5 (9.80%) JIRA
3 5 (9.80%) Visual Studio
4 4 (7.84%) JetBrains Rider
5 2 (3.92%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.96%) Moq
General
1 22 (43.14%) Finance
2 14 (27.45%) Social Skills
3 10 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (19.61%) Banking
4 4 (7.84%) Front Office
4 4 (7.84%) Investment Banking
4 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.92%) Prime Brokerage
6 1 (1.96%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 40 (78.43%) Developer
2 19 (37.25%) .NET Developer
3 18 (35.29%) C# Developer
4 13 (25.49%) Senior
5 12 (23.53%) Full-Stack Developer
5 12 (23.53%) Senior Developer
6 8 (15.69%) Architect
6 8 (15.69%) C# .NET Developer
6 8 (15.69%) Senior .NET Developer
6 8 (15.69%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (13.73%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (11.76%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 6 (11.76%) Senior C# Developer
9 5 (9.80%) Azure Developer
9 5 (9.80%) React Developer
9 5 (9.80%) Senior React Developer
10 4 (7.84%) C# Architect
10 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (7.84%) IT Architect
10 4 (7.84%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (100.00%) .NET
2 27 (52.94%) React
3 23 (45.10%) .NET Framework
4 22 (43.14%) REST
5 16 (31.37%) RESTful
6 15 (29.41%) ASP.NET
7 9 (17.65%) HTML
8 7 (13.73%) CSS
8 7 (13.73%) Kafka
8 7 (13.73%) PySpark
9 6 (11.76%) Entity Framework
10 5 (9.80%) Blazor
10 5 (9.80%) Redux
11 4 (7.84%) ASP.NET Web API
11 4 (7.84%) Middleware
11 4 (7.84%) Node.js
12 3 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
12 3 (5.88%) HTML5
12 3 (5.88%) OAuth
12 3 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (43.14%) Cloud Native
2 12 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (13.73%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (7.84%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (7.84%) Product Ownership
6 3 (5.88%) AI Agents
7 2 (3.92%) Algorithms
7 2 (3.92%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (3.92%) Equities
7 2 (3.92%) Fixed Income
7 2 (3.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (3.92%) PKI
8 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.96%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.96%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.96%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.88%) Linux
1 3 (5.88%) Windows
2 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 30 (58.82%) DevOps
3 25 (49.02%) Microservices
4 19 (37.25%) Agile
4 19 (37.25%) Full-Stack Development
5 17 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 14 (27.45%) Event-Driven
7 13 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (23.53%) AI
8 12 (23.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 12 (23.53%) Software Engineering
9 11 (21.57%) Technical Debt
10 9 (17.65%) Containerisation
10 9 (17.65%) Roadmaps
11 8 (15.69%) Data Modelling
11 8 (15.69%) OO
12 7 (13.73%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (13.73%) Deployment Automation
12 7 (13.73%) Refactoring
12 7 (13.73%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 47 (92.16%) C#
2 26 (50.98%) TypeScript
3 22 (43.14%) SQL
4 20 (39.22%) Python
5 18 (35.29%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.92%) Bicep
6 2 (3.92%) C++
6 2 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.92%) Java
7 1 (1.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.80%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.84%) DV Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.92%) Degree
5 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) Basel III
2 2 (3.92%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (17.65%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (19.61%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) Oracle
2 11 (21.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.92%) Cisco
3 2 (3.92%) IBM
3 2 (3.92%) ION Trading
3 2 (3.92%) VMware
4 1 (1.96%) DevExpress
4 1 (1.96%) OpenLink