.NET Core Contracts in London

.NET Core
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring .NET Core skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET Core over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 179 176
Rank change year-on-year -81 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 100 254 384
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.75% 1.44% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.85% 5.34% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 183 289
10th Percentile £400 £414 £463
25th Percentile £469 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £709 £700 £775
90th Percentile £825 £800 £806
England median daily rate £520 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -5.45% -6.78% +2.61%

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 3,504 4,755 6,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.38% 26.99% 26.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,442 3,490 5,129
10th Percentile £375 £375 £413
25th Percentile £428 £462 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £713 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £813
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 42
10th Percentile £31.50 £16.25 £31.18
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £47.50
Median hourly rate £48.22 £42.50 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -36.80% +37.97%
75th Percentile £62.81 £61.97 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £75.00 £86.20
England median hourly rate £57.75 £58.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.94% -10.31% +21.50%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing .NET Core as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core in London

.NET Core
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Core in London.

Daily rate trend for .NET Core in London

.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Core in London

.NET Core
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Core in London.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Core in London

.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 5 July 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 -20 12 £650 +30.00% 87
West London -1 3 £550 -4.35% 6
.NET Core
England

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.00%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.00%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.00%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.00%) MQSeries
3 1 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Aladdin
1 2 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.00%) Fidessa
1 2 (2.00%) thinkFolio
2 1 (1.00%) Eikon
2 1 (1.00%) Maximo
2 1 (1.00%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 58 (58.00%) Azure
2 25 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (19.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 15 (15.00%) AWS
5 12 (12.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 12 (12.00%) Serverless
6 10 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (9.00%) Entra ID
8 8 (8.00%) Azure Functions
8 8 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (6.00%) Power Platform
10 5 (5.00%) Azure Storage
10 5 (5.00%) Power Automate
11 4 (4.00%) Azure Pipelines
11 4 (4.00%) GCP
11 4 (4.00%) GitHub
11 4 (4.00%) PowerApps
12 3 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (3.00%) PaaS
13 2 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (33.00%) SQL Server
2 18 (18.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 10 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.00%) Power BI
5 4 (4.00%) Redis
6 2 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.00%) MS Access
7 1 (1.00%) MySQL
7 1 (1.00%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (9.00%) Git
2 4 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.00%) JIRA
4 2 (2.00%) GitLab
4 2 (2.00%) Moq
4 2 (2.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.00%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.00%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (1.00%) NUnit
5 1 (1.00%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (34.00%) Finance
2 27 (27.00%) Social Skills
3 19 (19.00%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.00%) Banking
4 11 (11.00%) Front Office
5 10 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.00%) Investment Banking
8 4 (4.00%) Electronics
8 4 (4.00%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.00%) Marketing
8 4 (4.00%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.00%) Back Office
9 1 (1.00%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.00%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.00%) Local Government
9 1 (1.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 77 (77.00%) Developer
2 36 (36.00%) .NET Developer
3 31 (31.00%) C# Developer
4 27 (27.00%) Senior
5 22 (22.00%) Senior Developer
6 16 (16.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (13.00%) Lead
8 12 (12.00%) C# .NET Developer
8 12 (12.00%) C++ Developer
8 12 (12.00%) Senior .NET Developer
9 11 (11.00%) Azure Developer
9 11 (11.00%) C++/C# Developer
10 9 (9.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 9 (9.00%) Lead Developer
10 9 (9.00%) Senior C# Developer
11 7 (7.00%) React Developer
11 7 (7.00%) Software Engineer
12 6 (6.00%) Lead .NET Developer
12 6 (6.00%) Lead C# Developer
13 5 (5.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (100.00%) .NET
2 31 (31.00%) ASP.NET
3 26 (26.00%) .NET Framework
4 22 (22.00%) React
5 20 (20.00%) AngularJS
6 19 (19.00%) Web Services
7 18 (18.00%) WCF
8 16 (16.00%) CSS
8 16 (16.00%) HTML
9 14 (14.00%) Entity Framework
10 13 (13.00%) Kafka
11 12 (12.00%) ASP.NET MVC
11 12 (12.00%) REST
12 11 (11.00%) RESTful
13 8 (8.00%) ASP.NET Web API
13 8 (8.00%) Blazor
14 7 (7.00%) Dapper ORM
14 7 (7.00%) SOAP
15 6 (6.00%) ASP.NET Core
15 6 (6.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (11.00%) Legacy Applications
3 10 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (7.00%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (7.00%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.00%) N-Tier
6 4 (4.00%) Algorithms
6 4 (4.00%) Hedge funds
7 3 (3.00%) Derivative
7 3 (3.00%) Fixed Income
7 3 (3.00%) TWAP
7 3 (3.00%) VWAP
8 2 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.00%) Driving Licence
9 1 (1.00%) Data Fabric
9 1 (1.00%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.00%) Low-Code
9 1 (1.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.00%) Windows
2 4 (4.00%) Android
2 4 (4.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (53.00%) Agile
2 44 (44.00%) DevOps
3 36 (36.00%) CI/CD
4 30 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 26 (26.00%) Microservices
6 23 (23.00%) TDD
7 19 (19.00%) Scrum
8 16 (16.00%) MVC
8 16 (16.00%) OO
9 15 (15.00%) Analytics
10 14 (14.00%) BDD
10 14 (14.00%) SOLID
11 13 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (11.00%) Front End Development
12 11 (11.00%) Test Automation
13 10 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 10 (10.00%) Multithreading
13 10 (10.00%) Software Engineering
13 10 (10.00%) Unit Testing
14 9 (9.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 84 (84.00%) C#
2 43 (43.00%) SQL
3 26 (26.00%) JavaScript
4 15 (15.00%) C++
4 15 (15.00%) Python
5 12 (12.00%) PowerShell
5 12 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 9 (9.00%) T-SQL
7 7 (7.00%) Java
8 5 (5.00%) Bicep
8 5 (5.00%) VBA
9 3 (3.00%) Go
9 3 (3.00%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.00%) VB
10 2 (2.00%) VB6
11 1 (1.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (5.00%) Degree
2 5 (5.00%) MCPD
2 5 (5.00%) MCSD
3 4 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.00%) QA
2 2 (2.00%) MiFID
2 2 (2.00%) WCAG
3 1 (1.00%) EMIR
System Software
1 12 (12.00%) Docker
2 10 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (13.00%) Terraform
2 11 (11.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.00%) Ansible
3 1 (1.00%) Grafana
3 1 (1.00%) Istio
3 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (18.00%) Oracle
3 4 (4.00%) SAP
4 3 (3.00%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.00%) Cisco
5 2 (2.00%) IBM
5 2 (2.00%) Portware
6 1 (1.00%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.00%) Databricks
6 1 (1.00%) Pardot
6 1 (1.00%) Reuters
6 1 (1.00%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.00%) Splunk
6 1 (1.00%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.00%) Workday