.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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 302 189
Rank change year-on-year -89 -113 -10
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 67 73 218
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.33% 0.54% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.25% 1.82% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 37 161
10th Percentile £437 £389 £400
25th Percentile £503 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £675
90th Percentile £729 £766 £725
England median daily rate £500 £509 £550
% change year-on-year -1.72% -7.50% -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 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

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 5,359 4,004 4,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.33% 29.71% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,619 2,736 3,352
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £450 £431 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £703
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £537 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 32 22
10th Percentile £26.19 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.19 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £43.75 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.82% +22.28% -32.27%
75th Percentile £66.06 £61.56 £62.23
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.60
England median hourly rate £65.83 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.69% -15.38% +8.33%

.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 2 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 2 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -26 10 £625 -3.85% 11
South London - 4 £713 -
.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 (2.99%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) CMS
2 1 (1.49%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.49%) MQSeries
2 1 (1.49%) nginx
2 1 (1.49%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 40 (59.70%) Azure
2 24 (35.82%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (34.33%) AWS
4 17 (25.37%) GitHub
5 8 (11.94%) Power Platform
6 7 (10.45%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (8.96%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (8.96%) Serverless
8 5 (7.46%) Azure App Service
8 5 (7.46%) Azure Key Vault
8 5 (7.46%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (5.97%) Azure Functions
9 4 (5.97%) Entra ID
9 4 (5.97%) IaaS
9 4 (5.97%) PaaS
9 4 (5.97%) SaaS
10 3 (4.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (4.48%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (2.99%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) DHCP
1 2 (2.99%) DNS
1 2 (2.99%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.49%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (56.72%) SQL Server
2 12 (17.91%) Relational Database
3 11 (16.42%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (11.94%) NoSQL
4 8 (11.94%) Power BI
5 6 (8.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.99%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.99%) Db2
7 2 (2.99%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.49%) Big Data
8 1 (1.49%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (1.49%) OLAP
8 1 (1.49%) OLTP
8 1 (1.49%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (16.42%) Git
2 10 (14.93%) GitLab
3 6 (8.96%) Visual Studio
4 4 (5.97%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.97%) JetBrains Rider
5 3 (4.48%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.99%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.49%) JIRA
7 1 (1.49%) Moq
7 1 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.49%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.49%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (40.30%) Social Skills
2 26 (38.81%) Finance
3 22 (32.84%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (14.93%) Front Office
5 9 (13.43%) Banking
6 6 (8.96%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.48%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.48%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (2.99%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.99%) Health Technology
8 2 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.49%) Law
9 1 (1.49%) Legal
9 1 (1.49%) Local Government
9 1 (1.49%) Marketing
9 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (68.66%) Developer
2 29 (43.28%) .NET Developer
3 26 (38.81%) Senior
4 18 (26.87%) Senior Developer
5 15 (22.39%) C# Developer
6 14 (20.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (20.90%) Senior .NET Developer
7 10 (14.93%) C# .NET Developer
7 10 (14.93%) Senior C# Developer
7 10 (14.93%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (11.94%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 8 (11.94%) React Developer
8 8 (11.94%) Senior C# .NET Developer
8 8 (11.94%) Senior React Developer
9 7 (10.45%) Architect
9 7 (10.45%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (8.96%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 4 (5.97%) Software Developer
11 4 (5.97%) Software Engineer
12 3 (4.48%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (100.00%) .NET
2 38 (56.72%) REST
3 28 (41.79%) React
4 25 (37.31%) ASP.NET
5 22 (32.84%) .NET Framework
6 19 (28.36%) RESTful
7 17 (25.37%) Kafka
8 10 (14.93%) AngularJS
9 9 (13.43%) Entity Framework
9 9 (13.43%) Terraform
10 8 (11.94%) PySpark
11 7 (10.45%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (10.45%) ASP.NET MVC
11 7 (10.45%) Blazor
12 6 (8.96%) Redux
12 6 (8.96%) Web Services
13 5 (7.46%) SOAP
13 5 (7.46%) WPF
14 4 (5.97%) JSON
14 4 (5.97%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 32 (47.76%) Cloud Native
2 14 (20.90%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (14.93%) Product Ownership
4 9 (13.43%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (7.46%) Credit Risk
6 4 (5.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (5.97%) Market Risk
7 3 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (4.48%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (4.48%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.99%) Equities
8 2 (2.99%) NHS
8 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.99%) PKI
8 2 (2.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (2.99%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.96%) Windows
2 5 (7.46%) Linux
3 2 (2.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (68.66%) CI/CD
2 34 (50.75%) Microservices
3 33 (49.25%) DevOps
4 31 (46.27%) Agile
5 24 (35.82%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (34.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (28.36%) Event-Driven
7 19 (28.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 15 (22.39%) Containerisation
9 14 (20.90%) AI
9 14 (20.90%) SDLC
9 14 (20.90%) Software Engineering
9 14 (20.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (20.90%) Test Automation
10 13 (19.40%) Deployment Automation
11 12 (17.91%) API Design
12 11 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (16.42%) Migration
12 11 (16.42%) Translating Business Requirements
13 10 (14.93%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 62 (92.54%) C#
2 28 (41.79%) SQL
3 27 (40.30%) JavaScript
3 27 (40.30%) TypeScript
4 19 (28.36%) Python
5 8 (11.94%) T-SQL
6 4 (5.97%) C++
7 2 (2.99%) Bicep
7 2 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.99%) Java
7 2 (2.99%) VBA
8 1 (1.49%) VB
8 1 (1.49%) XAML
Qualifications
1 9 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.45%) Degree
3 6 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.97%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) Basel III
3 2 (2.99%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.49%) GDPR
4 1 (1.49%) GRC
4 1 (1.49%) ITGC
4 1 (1.49%) PSD2
4 1 (1.49%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (23.88%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (22.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.49%) Istio
Vendors
1 21 (31.34%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.97%) IBM
2 4 (5.97%) Oracle
3 3 (4.48%) DevExpress
4 2 (2.99%) Cisco
4 2 (2.99%) VMware
4 2 (2.99%) WSO2
5 1 (1.49%) Brio
5 1 (1.49%) Calypso
5 1 (1.49%) Databricks
5 1 (1.49%) FIS
5 1 (1.49%) Google
5 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.49%) Murex
5 1 (1.49%) SAP
5 1 (1.49%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.49%) Syncfusion
5 1 (1.49%) Temenos