.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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 232 166
Rank change year-on-year -76 -66 -14
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 68 154 307
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.51% 0.97% 1.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.93% 3.63% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 122 224
10th Percentile £360 £364 £443
25th Percentile £463 £466 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £593 £623
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -4.82% -0.40%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £713
90th Percentile £772 £700 £775
England median daily rate £510 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -7.27% -4.35% -

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 3,516 4,245 5,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.23% 26.87% 25.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,388 2,796 4,076
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £788 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 38
10th Percentile £31.52 £36.30 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.67 £39.19 £40.20
Median hourly rate £52.72 £47.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -21.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £62.19 £62.23 £73.24
90th Percentile £87.63 £74.60 £90.00
England median hourly rate £54.70 £65.00 £55.56
% change year-on-year -15.85% +16.99% -14.52%

.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 25 October 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 25 October 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 -26 7 £650 +8.33% 62
.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 (2.94%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Aladdin
1 4 (5.88%) Fidessa
1 4 (5.88%) thinkFolio
2 3 (4.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.47%) Eikon
3 1 (1.47%) ION Anvil
3 1 (1.47%) Maximo
3 1 (1.47%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 44 (64.71%) Azure
2 23 (33.82%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (23.53%) Azure Service Bus
4 14 (20.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 13 (19.12%) Serverless
6 9 (13.24%) Azure Functions
6 9 (13.24%) Azure Logic Apps
7 7 (10.29%) AWS
8 6 (8.82%) Azure AKS
9 5 (7.35%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (7.35%) Entra ID
10 4 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (5.88%) Azure Pipelines
10 4 (5.88%) GitHub
10 4 (5.88%) Power Automate
10 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.94%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.94%) PaaS
12 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (39.71%) SQL Server
2 11 (16.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (16.18%) NoSQL
3 6 (8.82%) MongoDB
4 5 (7.35%) Redis
5 4 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.41%) Big Data
7 2 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.94%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.94%) Power BI
8 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.47%) MySQL
8 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (14.71%) Git
2 4 (5.88%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.94%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.47%) AppVeyor
4 1 (1.47%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.47%) JetBrains Rider
4 1 (1.47%) JIRA
4 1 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (42.65%) Finance
2 24 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 13 (19.12%) Banking
4 8 (11.76%) Front Office
5 6 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (7.35%) Financial Institution
6 5 (7.35%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.88%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.94%) Electronics
8 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.94%) Marketing
8 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.47%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.47%) Local Government
9 1 (1.47%) Publishing
9 1 (1.47%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 47 (69.12%) Developer
2 24 (35.29%) .NET Developer
3 18 (26.47%) C# Developer
4 16 (23.53%) Senior
5 13 (19.12%) Senior Developer
6 12 (17.65%) Lead
7 11 (16.18%) Azure Developer
7 11 (16.18%) C# .NET Developer
8 10 (14.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (13.24%) Senior .NET Developer
10 7 (10.29%) Architect
10 7 (10.29%) Lead C# Developer
10 7 (10.29%) Lead Developer
11 5 (7.35%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 4 (5.88%) Angular Developer
12 4 (5.88%) Azure Administrator
12 4 (5.88%) Backend Developer
12 4 (5.88%) DBA
12 4 (5.88%) Lead .NET Developer
12 4 (5.88%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (100.00%) .NET
2 17 (25.00%) React
3 15 (22.06%) ASP.NET
4 14 (20.59%) CSS
4 14 (20.59%) HTML
5 12 (17.65%) REST
6 11 (16.18%) AngularJS
7 9 (13.24%) .NET Framework
8 8 (11.76%) RESTful
9 7 (10.29%) SOAP
10 5 (7.35%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
11 4 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (5.88%) Kafka
11 4 (5.88%) Node.js
11 4 (5.88%) XML
12 3 (4.41%) ASP.NET MVC
13 2 (2.94%) Entity Framework
13 2 (2.94%) Jest
13 2 (2.94%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) Cloud Native
2 10 (14.71%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (13.24%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (13.24%) Product Ownership
4 8 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (10.29%) Fixed Income
5 7 (10.29%) Hedge funds
6 4 (5.88%) Derivative
7 1 (1.47%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.47%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.47%) Equities
7 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.88%) Android
1 4 (5.88%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.41%) Linux
2 3 (4.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (57.35%) CI/CD
2 36 (52.94%) Agile
3 33 (48.53%) DevOps
4 26 (38.24%) Microservices
5 17 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (20.59%) OO
7 13 (19.12%) Scrum
8 12 (17.65%) Clean Code
8 12 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (16.18%) TDD
9 11 (16.18%) Test Automation
10 9 (13.24%) Data Modelling
10 9 (13.24%) SOLID
11 8 (11.76%) Event-Driven
12 7 (10.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 7 (10.29%) Software Engineering
13 6 (8.82%) Investment Management
13 6 (8.82%) Kanban
13 6 (8.82%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 61 (89.71%) C#
2 33 (48.53%) SQL
3 22 (32.35%) JavaScript
4 11 (16.18%) TypeScript
5 10 (14.71%) Java
5 10 (14.71%) Python
6 7 (10.29%) PowerShell
7 5 (7.35%) Bicep
8 4 (5.88%) T-SQL
9 3 (4.41%) Bash
9 3 (4.41%) VBA
10 2 (2.94%) Perl
10 2 (2.94%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (4.41%) SC Cleared
1 3 (4.41%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.94%) Degree
3 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.35%) MiFID
2 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.94%) QA
3 1 (1.47%) EMIR
System Software
1 6 (8.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (14.71%) Terraform
2 4 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.47%) Grafana
3 1 (1.47%) Istio
3 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.35%) Oracle
3 4 (5.88%) Portware
4 2 (2.94%) SAP
5 1 (1.47%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.47%) Cisco
5 1 (1.47%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.47%) Okta
5 1 (1.47%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.47%) Reuters