.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 citing .NET Core skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 299 239
Rank change year-on-year -96 -60 -77
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 75 71 148
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.37% 0.52% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.37% 1.76% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 36 120
10th Percentile £450 £359 £359
25th Percentile £500 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £598 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% -0.42% -3.61%
75th Percentile £700 £681 £675
90th Percentile £738 £768 £700
England median daily rate £500 £508 £550
% change year-on-year -1.48% -7.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £46.25 - -

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 citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

6 months to
30 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,490 4,044 4,664
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 26.96% 29.60% 29.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,744 2,763 3,108
10th Percentile £400 £363 £381
25th Percentile £456 £425 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £700
90th Percentile £753 £775 £838
England median daily rate £537 £516 £550
% change year-on-year +4.07% -6.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 30 20
10th Percentile £36.00 £31.52 £35.16
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.67 £38.44
Median hourly rate £53.00 £52.72 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% +11.58% -22.86%
75th Percentile £62.25 £62.19 £63.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £87.63 £75.50
England median hourly rate £66.07 £54.85 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.46% -15.62% +13.04%

.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 30 October 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 30 October 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -22 11 £625 -3.85% 4
South London -5 4 £713 +42.50%
.NET Core
England

.NET Core Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1.NET100.0%75
2REST50.7%38
3ASP.NET41.3%31
4React40.0%30
5.NET Framework34.7%26
6RESTful32.0%24
7Kafka25.3%19
8AngularJS17.3%13
8Entity Framework17.3%13
10ASP.NET MVC14.7%11
11ASP.NET Core13.3%10
12ASP.NET Web API12.0%9
12Terraform12.0%9
14PySpark9.3%7
15Blazor8.0%6
15Web Services8.0%6
15WPF8.0%6
18JSON6.7%5
18Middleware6.7%5
18Node.js6.7%5