.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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 180 187
Rank change year-on-year -110 +7 -30
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 72 232 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.54% 1.44% 1.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.06% 5.17% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 166 222
10th Percentile £391 £399 £450
25th Percentile £462 £463 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% -12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £738
90th Percentile £775 £725 £799
England median daily rate £509 £541 £575
% change year-on-year -6.00% -5.87% -

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 3,503 4,485 5,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.08% 27.77% 25.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,401 3,076 4,240
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £713
90th Percentile £825 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £553
% change year-on-year -7.27% -0.45% -3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 21 41
10th Percentile £31.77 £23.80 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.17 £36.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £51.97 £42.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% -34.62% +12.07%
75th Percentile £62.81 £61.43 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £75.00 £86.56
England median hourly rate £54.85 £62.93 £61.25
% change year-on-year -12.84% +2.74% -2.26%

.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
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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 -30 7 £650 +8.33% 46
West London -18 2 £552 -4.00% 1
.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 2 (2.78%) Umbraco
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Aladdin
1 4 (5.56%) Fidessa
1 4 (5.56%) thinkFolio
2 2 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.39%) Eikon
3 1 (1.39%) ION Anvil
3 1 (1.39%) Maximo
3 1 (1.39%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 51 (70.83%) Azure
2 25 (34.72%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (29.17%) Azure Service Bus
4 15 (20.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 14 (19.44%) Serverless
6 11 (15.28%) Azure Logic Apps
7 10 (13.89%) Azure Functions
8 8 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (11.11%) Entra ID
9 7 (9.72%) Azure AKS
10 6 (8.33%) AWS
11 5 (6.94%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (6.94%) Azure Pipelines
12 3 (4.17%) GitHub
12 3 (4.17%) PaaS
12 3 (4.17%) Power Automate
12 3 (4.17%) Power Platform
13 2 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (2.78%) PowerApps
14 1 (1.39%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 15 (20.83%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (20.83%) NoSQL
3 8 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 7 (9.72%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.56%) Redis
6 3 (4.17%) Power BI
7 2 (2.78%) Big Data
7 2 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.39%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.39%) MySQL
8 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (11.11%) Git
2 3 (4.17%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.78%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.78%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.39%) JetBrains Rider
4 1 (1.39%) JIRA
4 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (40.28%) Finance
2 21 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 13 (18.06%) Banking
4 10 (13.89%) Front Office
5 8 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 7 (9.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.56%) Financial Institution
7 4 (5.56%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.78%) Electronics
8 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.78%) Marketing
8 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.39%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.39%) Local Government
9 1 (1.39%) Publishing
9 1 (1.39%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 53 (73.61%) Developer
2 26 (36.11%) .NET Developer
3 21 (29.17%) Senior
4 18 (25.00%) C# Developer
5 17 (23.61%) Senior Developer
6 13 (18.06%) Azure Developer
7 11 (15.28%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (15.28%) Lead
8 10 (13.89%) Senior .NET Developer
9 9 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (9.72%) Architect
10 7 (9.72%) Lead Developer
11 6 (8.33%) Lead C# Developer
11 6 (8.33%) Senior C# Developer
12 5 (6.94%) Angular Developer
12 5 (6.94%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 4 (5.56%) Azure Administrator
13 4 (5.56%) Backend Developer
13 4 (5.56%) Lead .NET Developer
13 4 (5.56%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (100.00%) .NET
2 19 (26.39%) ASP.NET
3 16 (22.22%) AngularJS
3 16 (22.22%) React
4 14 (19.44%) .NET Framework
5 13 (18.06%) CSS
5 13 (18.06%) HTML
6 11 (15.28%) REST
7 10 (13.89%) RESTful
8 7 (9.72%) ASP.NET MVC
8 7 (9.72%) SOAP
9 6 (8.33%) Entity Framework
9 6 (8.33%) Web Services
10 5 (6.94%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (6.94%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (5.56%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (5.56%) Kafka
11 4 (5.56%) Node.js
11 4 (5.56%) WCF
11 4 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.28%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 9 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (11.11%) Hedge funds
3 8 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 7 (9.72%) Fixed Income
5 5 (6.94%) Derivative
6 3 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.17%) N-Tier
7 2 (2.78%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.39%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.39%) Equities
8 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.56%) Android
1 4 (5.56%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.17%) Linux
2 3 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (55.56%) Agile
2 37 (51.39%) DevOps
3 36 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 26 (36.11%) Microservices
5 18 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (23.61%) Scrum
7 15 (20.83%) OO
7 15 (20.83%) TDD
8 12 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (15.28%) Test Automation
10 10 (13.89%) Performance Optimisation
11 9 (12.50%) BDD
11 9 (12.50%) Clean Code
11 9 (12.50%) Design Patterns
11 9 (12.50%) SOLID
12 8 (11.11%) Event-Driven
12 8 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 8 (11.11%) MVC
12 8 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 65 (90.28%) C#
2 36 (50.00%) SQL
3 20 (27.78%) JavaScript
4 12 (16.67%) Python
5 11 (15.28%) TypeScript
6 9 (12.50%) Java
7 7 (9.72%) PowerShell
8 5 (6.94%) Bicep
8 5 (6.94%) T-SQL
9 3 (4.17%) VBA
10 2 (2.78%) Bash
11 1 (1.39%) Perl
11 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (5.56%) Degree
2 4 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.17%) MCPD
3 3 (4.17%) MCSD
3 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) MiFID
2 3 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.39%) EMIR
3 1 (1.39%) QA
3 1 (1.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (13.89%) Terraform
2 7 (9.72%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.39%) Grafana
3 1 (1.39%) Istio
3 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (26.39%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.56%) Oracle
2 4 (5.56%) Portware
3 2 (2.78%) Cisco
3 2 (2.78%) SAP
4 1 (1.39%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.39%) IBM
4 1 (1.39%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.39%) Okta
4 1 (1.39%) Ping Identity
4 1 (1.39%) Reuters
4 1 (1.39%) Splunk