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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 246 173
Rank change year-on-year -121 -73 +8
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 47 103 249
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.26% 0.83% 1.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.14% 3.19% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 78 176
10th Percentile £406 £462 £416
25th Percentile £473 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £609 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +5.88% -11.54%
75th Percentile £600 £819 £719
90th Percentile £638 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -8.26% -0.91% -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 4,129 3,230 4,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.10% 26.06% 25.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,737 2,265 3,341
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £436 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 15 24
10th Percentile £22.79 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £34.13 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +31.25% -40.52%
75th Percentile £60.12 £66.25 £63.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £83.75 £72.60
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 15 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 15 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 - 3 £500 -
Central London -21 2 £625 +8.70% 33
.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 (2.13%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Endur
1 1 (2.13%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 30 (63.83%) Azure
2 25 (53.19%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (27.66%) Azure Logic Apps
3 13 (27.66%) Serverless
4 11 (23.40%) Azure Functions
5 9 (19.15%) AWS
5 9 (19.15%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (17.02%) Azure AKS
7 7 (14.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (14.89%) Azure Key Vault
7 7 (14.89%) GitHub
7 7 (14.89%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (12.77%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (12.77%) Entra ID
9 5 (10.64%) SaaS
10 4 (8.51%) PaaS
10 4 (8.51%) Power Platform
11 3 (6.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (6.38%) Azure Event Grid
11 3 (6.38%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (59.57%) SQL Server
2 9 (19.15%) Relational Database
3 7 (14.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (14.89%) Oracle Database
4 6 (12.77%) NoSQL
5 5 (10.64%) MongoDB
5 5 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (8.51%) Power BI
7 1 (2.13%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 9 (19.15%) Git
2 5 (10.64%) GitLab
2 5 (10.64%) JIRA
3 1 (2.13%) Moq
3 1 (2.13%) SpecFlow
3 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (38.30%) Finance
2 12 (25.53%) Banking
2 12 (25.53%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.64%) Front Office
5 3 (6.38%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Prime Brokerage
6 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (74.47%) Developer
2 15 (31.91%) .NET Developer
2 15 (31.91%) C# Developer
3 9 (19.15%) Senior
4 8 (17.02%) Architect
4 8 (17.02%) Azure Developer
5 7 (14.89%) C# .NET Developer
5 7 (14.89%) Senior Developer
6 6 (12.77%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (10.64%) Senior .NET Developer
8 4 (8.51%) Azure Architect
8 4 (8.51%) C# Architect
8 4 (8.51%) Database Developer
8 4 (8.51%) IT Architect
8 4 (8.51%) IT Support
8 4 (8.51%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (8.51%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (8.51%) Technical Architect
8 4 (8.51%) Tester
9 3 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (100.00%) .NET
2 20 (42.55%) React
3 19 (40.43%) .NET Framework
4 14 (29.79%) RESTful
5 13 (27.66%) ASP.NET
6 10 (21.28%) HTML
7 8 (17.02%) Node.js
7 8 (17.02%) REST
8 7 (14.89%) AngularJS
8 7 (14.89%) CSS
9 6 (12.77%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (10.64%) Kafka
10 5 (10.64%) PySpark
11 4 (8.51%) ASP.NET MVC
11 4 (8.51%) HTML5
11 4 (8.51%) OAuth
11 4 (8.51%) Redux
12 3 (6.38%) OpenID
12 3 (6.38%) PyTorch
12 3 (6.38%) Reactive Extensions
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.04%) Cloud Native
2 15 (31.91%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (17.02%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (14.89%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (12.77%) AI Agents
6 3 (6.38%) Algorithms
6 3 (6.38%) Fixed Income
7 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (2.13%) Credit Risk
8 1 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (2.13%) Legacy Code
8 1 (2.13%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (70.21%) DevOps
2 31 (65.96%) CI/CD
3 26 (55.32%) Microservices
4 19 (40.43%) Test Automation
5 17 (36.17%) Agile
6 15 (31.91%) AI
7 12 (25.53%) Event-Driven
7 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (23.40%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (21.28%) Data Modelling
10 9 (19.15%) API Management
10 9 (19.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 9 (19.15%) Roadmaps
10 9 (19.15%) Software Engineering
11 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (14.89%) Data Protection
12 7 (14.89%) Deployment Automation
12 7 (14.89%) OO
12 7 (14.89%) Refactoring
12 7 (14.89%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 39 (82.98%) C#
2 25 (53.19%) SQL
3 18 (38.30%) Python
4 15 (31.91%) TypeScript
5 12 (25.53%) JavaScript
6 10 (21.28%) Bicep
7 2 (4.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.13%) Java
8 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.26%) Degree
2 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.13%) Basel III
3 1 (2.13%) EMIR
3 1 (2.13%) MiFID
3 1 (2.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (17.02%) Docker
2 4 (8.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (21.28%) Terraform
2 8 (17.02%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (25.53%) Oracle
2 10 (21.28%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.51%) Databricks
4 3 (6.38%) ION Trading
4 3 (6.38%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.13%) OpenLink