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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 283 184
Rank change year-on-year -100 -99 -6
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 60 86 234
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.30% 0.64% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.14% 2.20% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 49 173
10th Percentile £404 £393 £388
25th Percentile £484 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £701 £675 £671
90th Percentile £726 £805 £746
England median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% -6.96%

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 5,272 3,917 4,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.28% 29.16% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,535 2,731 3,508
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £455 £431 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £690 £716
90th Percentile £763 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 29 23
10th Percentile £26.40 £30.41 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.63 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.44 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +37.17% -44.03%
75th Percentile £62.25 £62.50 £49.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £75.10 £64.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% -6.13%

.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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -13 8 £625 -3.85% 39
South London - 4 £713 - 1
.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 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.67%) CMS
2 1 (1.67%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.67%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Endur
1 1 (1.67%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 37 (61.67%) Azure
2 23 (38.33%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (31.67%) AWS
4 15 (25.00%) GitHub
5 8 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 8 (13.33%) Serverless
6 6 (10.00%) Azure Functions
6 6 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (6.67%) Azure AKS
8 4 (6.67%) Azure App Service
8 4 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (6.67%) Entra ID
8 4 (6.67%) IaaS
8 4 (6.67%) PaaS
8 4 (6.67%) SaaS
9 3 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) DHCP
1 2 (3.33%) DNS
1 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (55.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (18.33%) Relational Database
3 9 (15.00%) NoSQL
4 8 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (13.33%) Power BI
5 6 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (6.67%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.33%) Db2
7 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) Git
2 10 (16.67%) GitLab
3 6 (10.00%) Visual Studio
4 4 (6.67%) JetBrains Rider
5 3 (5.00%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
6 2 (3.33%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.67%) JIRA
7 1 (1.67%) Moq
7 1 (1.67%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.67%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.67%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 22 (36.67%) Finance
3 18 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.67%) Banking
4 7 (11.67%) Front Office
5 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.33%) Health Technology
6 2 (3.33%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.33%) Prime Brokerage
7 1 (1.67%) Legal
7 1 (1.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (73.33%) Developer
2 24 (40.00%) .NET Developer
3 18 (30.00%) Senior
4 15 (25.00%) C# Developer
4 15 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (23.33%) Senior Developer
6 10 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
6 10 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (15.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 8 (13.33%) C# .NET Developer
8 8 (13.33%) React Developer
8 8 (13.33%) Senior C# Developer
8 8 (13.33%) Senior React Developer
9 6 (10.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 6 (10.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
10 5 (8.33%) Azure Developer
11 4 (6.67%) Architect
11 4 (6.67%) Software Engineer
11 4 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
12 3 (5.00%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (100.00%) .NET
2 34 (56.67%) REST
3 25 (41.67%) React
4 22 (36.67%) ASP.NET
5 20 (33.33%) .NET Framework
6 18 (30.00%) RESTful
7 13 (21.67%) Kafka
8 8 (13.33%) AngularJS
8 8 (13.33%) PySpark
9 7 (11.67%) Blazor
9 7 (11.67%) Entity Framework
10 6 (10.00%) Redux
10 6 (10.00%) Web Services
11 5 (8.33%) ASP.NET Core
11 5 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (8.33%) Node.js
11 5 (8.33%) Terraform
12 4 (6.67%) Middleware
12 4 (6.67%) SOAP
13 3 (5.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 27 (45.00%) Cloud Native
2 15 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (11.67%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (8.33%) Product Ownership
5 4 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (5.00%) Credit Risk
7 2 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (3.33%) Equities
7 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (3.33%) Market Risk
7 2 (3.33%) PKI
7 2 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.67%) NHS
8 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.67%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.33%) Windows
2 4 (6.67%) Linux
3 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (71.67%) CI/CD
2 35 (58.33%) Microservices
3 32 (53.33%) DevOps
4 27 (45.00%) Agile
5 22 (36.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 22 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (28.33%) Event-Driven
6 17 (28.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 13 (21.67%) Containerisation
7 13 (21.67%) Test Automation
8 12 (20.00%) AI
8 12 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
9 11 (18.33%) API Design
9 11 (18.33%) Software Engineering
9 11 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (16.67%) Data Modelling
10 10 (16.67%) SDLC
10 10 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
11 9 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (15.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 58 (96.67%) C#
2 26 (43.33%) SQL
3 25 (41.67%) JavaScript
4 24 (40.00%) TypeScript
5 17 (28.33%) Python
6 5 (8.33%) T-SQL
7 4 (6.67%) C++
8 2 (3.33%) Bicep
8 2 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (3.33%) Java
9 1 (1.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.67%) Degree
2 4 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 4 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) QA
2 2 (3.33%) Basel III
2 2 (3.33%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (21.67%) Docker
2 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (21.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (28.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.67%) IBM
3 3 (5.00%) DevExpress
3 3 (5.00%) Oracle
4 2 (3.33%) Cisco
4 2 (3.33%) VMware
5 1 (1.67%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.67%) Sitecore