.NET Core Contracts in Manchester

.NET Core
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 88 100
Rank change year-on-year +14 +12 -5
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 5 8 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.54% 0.53% 0.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.09% 2.22% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 12
10th Percentile £403 £388 £414
25th Percentile £406 £463 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% - +6.74%
75th Percentile £419 £492 £488
90th Percentile £558 £509 £533
North West median daily rate £413 £475 £538
% change year-on-year -13.16% -11.63% +20.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

.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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 239 361 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 25.81% 23.80% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 283 310
10th Percentile £400 £375 £336
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £581
90th Percentile £638 £825 £639
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £67.00 -
25th Percentile £76.25 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £71.87 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% +59.71% +143.24%
75th Percentile £88.75 £76.75 -
90th Percentile - £81.60 -
North West median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing .NET Core as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core in Manchester

.NET Core
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for .NET Core in Manchester

.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Core in Manchester

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (40.00%) React Developer
4 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Head of Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (20.00%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Blazor
3 1 (20.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Web Design
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle