.NET Core Contracts in the Midlands

.NET Core
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 104 127 130
Rank change year-on-year +23 +3 0
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 7 6 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.37% 0.22% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.19% 1.56% 6.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 25
10th Percentile £445 £369 £330
25th Percentile £450 £409 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +26.47% +0.83%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £445
90th Percentile £565 £594 £488
England median daily rate £566 £553 £600
% change year-on-year +2.49% -7.92% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

.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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 319 384 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.67% 13.93% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 272 464
10th Percentile £319 £276 £313
25th Percentile £400 £362 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.06%
75th Percentile £575 £622 £588
90th Percentile £660 £725 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 0
10th Percentile £23.96 £10.90 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £14.13 -
Median hourly rate £30.71 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% - -
75th Percentile £33.91 £40.00 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core in the Midlands

.NET Core
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for .NET Core in the Midlands

.NET Core
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
East Midlands +13 6 £500 -9.09% 23
West Midlands +12 1 £475 +18.75% 30
.NET Core
England

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) AWS CodeBuild
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (42.86%) MySQL
2 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Law
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Angular Developer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior C# Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
2 3 (42.86%) React
2 3 (42.86%) REST
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 2 (28.57%) Entity Framework
4 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
4 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C#
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle