.NET Core Contracts in London

.NET Core
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring .NET Core skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET Core over the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 182 176
Rank change year-on-year -61 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 98 242 393
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.80% 1.39% 1.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.09% 5.39% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 170 300
10th Percentile £462 £413 £475
25th Percentile £513 £466 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +7.40% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £800 £714 £750
90th Percentile £825 £800 £806
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%

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 3,176 4,492 6,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.99% 25.81% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,227 3,358 5,167
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £725
90th Percentile £838 £838 £810
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 25 37
10th Percentile £31.16 £16.25 £30.45
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £46.25
Median hourly rate £38.91 £42.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% -39.29% +45.71%
75th Percentile £57.19 £62.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.80 £85.80
England median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +28.71%

.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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Core in London.

Daily rate trend for .NET Core in London

.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in London over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Core in London

.NET Core
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Core in London.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Core in London

.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 24 May 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 -16 11 £575 +15.00% 18
West London +8 3 £550 -4.35% 15
.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 4 (4.08%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.04%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.02%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.02%) MQSeries
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (53.06%) Azure
2 21 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
4 13 (13.27%) AWS
5 12 (12.24%) Serverless
6 11 (11.22%) Entra ID
7 10 (10.20%) Azure Functions
8 9 (9.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 9 (9.18%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (8.16%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (6.12%) Power Platform
11 5 (5.10%) Azure Storage
11 5 (5.10%) GitHub
12 4 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (4.08%) GCP
13 3 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (3.06%) Power Automate
13 3 (3.06%) PowerApps
14 2 (2.04%) Azure API Management
14 2 (2.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.06%) HTTP
2 1 (1.02%) Firewall
2 1 (1.02%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (27.55%) SQL Server
2 12 (12.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (11.22%) Relational Database
4 9 (9.18%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.10%) MongoDB
5 5 (5.10%) Power BI
5 5 (5.10%) Redis
6 3 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.02%) MS Access
8 1 (1.02%) MySQL
8 1 (1.02%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (9.18%) Git
2 4 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.06%) GitLab
4 2 (2.04%) JIRA
4 2 (2.04%) Moq
4 2 (2.04%) NUnit
5 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.02%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.02%) Postman
5 1 (1.02%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 36 (36.73%) Finance
2 26 (26.53%) Social Skills
3 23 (23.47%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (14.29%) Front Office
5 13 (13.27%) Banking
6 8 (8.16%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.10%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.06%) Electronics
8 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.06%) Marketing
8 3 (3.06%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.02%) Advertising
9 1 (1.02%) Back Office
9 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (74.49%) Developer
2 34 (34.69%) C# Developer
3 31 (31.63%) .NET Developer
4 24 (24.49%) Senior
5 19 (19.39%) C++ Developer
5 19 (19.39%) Senior Developer
6 18 (18.37%) C++/C# Developer
7 13 (13.27%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (12.24%) Lead
8 12 (12.24%) Software Engineer
9 10 (10.20%) Azure Developer
9 10 (10.20%) C# .NET Developer
9 10 (10.20%) Senior .NET Developer
10 9 (9.18%) Lead Developer
10 9 (9.18%) Senior C# Developer
11 8 (8.16%) React Developer
12 7 (7.14%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 7 (7.14%) Software Developer
13 6 (6.12%) .NET Software Engineer
13 6 (6.12%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (100.00%) .NET
2 38 (38.78%) ASP.NET
3 25 (25.51%) WCF
4 24 (24.49%) .NET Framework
4 24 (24.49%) Web Services
5 22 (22.45%) Kafka
6 18 (18.37%) AngularJS
7 17 (17.35%) React
8 14 (14.29%) Entity Framework
8 14 (14.29%) HTML
9 13 (13.27%) CSS
10 11 (11.22%) ASP.NET MVC
10 11 (11.22%) Blazor
10 11 (11.22%) RESTful
11 9 (9.18%) ASP.NET Core
11 9 (9.18%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (8.16%) REST
13 7 (7.14%) Dapper ORM
14 6 (6.12%) OAuth
14 6 (6.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 17 (17.35%) Legacy Applications
3 8 (8.16%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (7.14%) Algorithms
5 6 (6.12%) Cloud Native
6 5 (5.10%) N-Tier
6 5 (5.10%) TWAP
6 5 (5.10%) VWAP
7 4 (4.08%) Product Ownership
8 3 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (2.04%) Driving Licence
10 1 (1.02%) Data Fabric
10 1 (1.02%) Derivative
10 1 (1.02%) Hedge funds
10 1 (1.02%) Legacy Code
10 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
10 1 (1.02%) NHS
10 1 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.14%) Windows
2 4 (4.08%) Android
2 4 (4.08%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (54.08%) Agile
2 42 (42.86%) DevOps
3 33 (33.67%) CI/CD
3 33 (33.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 22 (22.45%) Analytics
5 21 (21.43%) Microservices
6 17 (17.35%) TDD
7 16 (16.33%) MVC
7 16 (16.33%) Software Engineering
8 13 (13.27%) BDD
8 13 (13.27%) Front End Development
8 13 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (13.27%) Scrum
8 13 (13.27%) Unit Testing
9 11 (11.22%) Multithreading
9 11 (11.22%) OO
10 10 (10.20%) Code Quality
10 10 (10.20%) OOP
10 10 (10.20%) Test Automation
11 9 (9.18%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 79 (80.61%) C#
2 32 (32.65%) SQL
3 24 (24.49%) C++
4 19 (19.39%) JavaScript
5 13 (13.27%) Python
6 10 (10.20%) PowerShell
7 9 (9.18%) T-SQL
7 9 (9.18%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.10%) Go
9 4 (4.08%) Bicep
9 4 (4.08%) PL/SQL
10 3 (3.06%) VBA
11 2 (2.04%) Java
11 2 (2.04%) VB
11 2 (2.04%) VB6
Qualifications
1 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (5.10%) Degree
2 5 (5.10%) MCPD
2 5 (5.10%) MCSD
3 4 (4.08%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.04%) QA
1 2 (2.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (15.31%) Docker
2 9 (9.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (16.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (1.02%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (27.55%) Microsoft
2 23 (23.47%) Oracle
3 4 (4.08%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.06%) Databricks
4 3 (3.06%) SAP
5 2 (2.04%) Cisco
5 2 (2.04%) IBM
6 1 (1.02%) Pardot
6 1 (1.02%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.02%) Splunk
6 1 (1.02%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.02%) Workday