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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 255 173
Rank change year-on-year -98 -82 +3
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 53 103 251
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.30% 0.82% 1.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.27% 3.15% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 80 178
10th Percentile £413 £463 £418
25th Percentile £484 £518 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £719
90th Percentile £638 - £800
England median daily rate £500 £554 £550
% change year-on-year -9.75% +0.73% -8.33%

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 4,183 3,268 4,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.49% 26.00% 25.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,793 2,294 3,338
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £432 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 27
10th Percentile £23.00 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £35.00 £23.99
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.24%
75th Percentile £61.63 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £68.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

.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 6 May 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 6 May 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
South London - 5 £500 -
Central London -30 3 £625 +6.38% 29
.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 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Endur
1 1 (1.89%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 37 (69.81%) Azure
2 27 (50.94%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (30.19%) Azure Logic Apps
4 14 (26.42%) Serverless
5 13 (24.53%) AWS
6 12 (22.64%) Azure Functions
6 12 (22.64%) Azure Service Bus
7 11 (20.75%) Azure AKS
8 10 (18.87%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (16.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (16.98%) Entra ID
9 9 (16.98%) GitHub
9 9 (16.98%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (15.09%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (11.32%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 6 (11.32%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (11.32%) Azure Event Grid
11 6 (11.32%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (9.43%) SaaS
13 4 (7.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (56.60%) SQL Server
2 9 (16.98%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (15.09%) Relational Database
4 7 (13.21%) Oracle Database
5 6 (11.32%) NoSQL
6 5 (9.43%) MongoDB
7 4 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (5.66%) Power BI
9 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.89%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 13 (24.53%) Git
2 5 (9.43%) JIRA
3 4 (7.55%) GitLab
4 1 (1.89%) Moq
4 1 (1.89%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (39.62%) Finance
2 15 (28.30%) Social Skills
3 13 (24.53%) Banking
4 7 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.55%) Front Office
6 3 (5.66%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.77%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 41 (77.36%) Developer
2 19 (35.85%) .NET Developer
3 14 (26.42%) C# Developer
4 11 (20.75%) Azure Developer
4 11 (20.75%) Senior
5 9 (16.98%) Senior Developer
6 8 (15.09%) Architect
7 7 (13.21%) Senior .NET Developer
8 6 (11.32%) C# .NET Developer
9 5 (9.43%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (7.55%) Azure Architect
10 4 (7.55%) Backend Developer
10 4 (7.55%) C# Architect
10 4 (7.55%) Database Developer
10 4 (7.55%) IT Architect
10 4 (7.55%) IT Support
10 4 (7.55%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (7.55%) Technical Architect
10 4 (7.55%) Tester
11 3 (5.66%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (100.00%) .NET
2 23 (43.40%) .NET Framework
3 22 (41.51%) React
4 17 (32.08%) RESTful
5 13 (24.53%) ASP.NET
6 11 (20.75%) Node.js
7 10 (18.87%) AngularJS
7 10 (18.87%) HTML
8 7 (13.21%) CSS
8 7 (13.21%) REST
9 6 (11.32%) ASP.NET Web API
9 6 (11.32%) PyTorch
9 6 (11.32%) TensorFlow
10 5 (9.43%) WPF
11 4 (7.55%) ASP.NET MVC
11 4 (7.55%) HTML5
11 4 (7.55%) Kafka
11 4 (7.55%) OAuth
11 4 (7.55%) PySpark
11 4 (7.55%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 18 (33.96%) Cloud Native
2 14 (26.42%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (20.75%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (16.98%) AI Agents
5 7 (13.21%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (9.43%) Credit Risk
6 5 (9.43%) Market Risk
7 3 (5.66%) Algorithms
7 3 (5.66%) Fixed Income
8 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.89%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (71.70%) DevOps
2 37 (69.81%) CI/CD
3 29 (54.72%) Microservices
4 19 (35.85%) Agile
5 18 (33.96%) AI
5 18 (33.96%) Test Automation
6 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (20.75%) API Management
7 11 (20.75%) Event-Driven
7 11 (20.75%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (16.98%) Data Modelling
8 9 (16.98%) Machine Learning
8 9 (16.98%) RBAC
8 9 (16.98%) Roadmaps
8 9 (16.98%) Software Engineering
9 8 (15.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (15.09%) MVC
9 8 (15.09%) OO
10 7 (13.21%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 45 (84.91%) C#
2 28 (52.83%) SQL
3 20 (37.74%) Python
4 14 (26.42%) TypeScript
5 13 (24.53%) JavaScript
6 12 (22.64%) Bicep
7 2 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.77%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.89%) Java
8 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (7.55%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.77%) Degree
2 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.77%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) QA
2 2 (3.77%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.89%) EMIR
3 1 (1.89%) MiFID
3 1 (1.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (16.98%) Docker
2 6 (11.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (22.64%) Terraform
2 9 (16.98%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (26.42%) Microsoft
2 12 (22.64%) Oracle
3 7 (13.21%) Databricks
4 6 (11.32%) OpenAI
5 3 (5.66%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.89%) OpenLink