.NET Core Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

.NET Core
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring .NET Core skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 111 116
Rank change year-on-year -45 +5 +33
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 4 11 20
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.13% 0.47% 0.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.63% 2.60% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 8
10th Percentile £410 £449 £394
25th Percentile £416 £450 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £541 £550 £481
90th Percentile £580 £554 £506
England median daily rate £500 £558 £575
% change year-on-year -10.31% -3.04% -4.17%

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 635 423 379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.40% 18.12% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 272 283
10th Percentile £360 £350 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £550
90th Percentile £688 £725 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 7
10th Percentile £20.25 - £17.35
25th Percentile £25.12 £26.25 £19.16
Median hourly rate £38.61 £27.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.38% -9.84% +55.10%
75th Percentile £50.00 £28.75 £49.88
90th Percentile £63.63 - £59.60
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in the Midlands

.NET Core
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing .NET Core.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 14 December 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 -25 2 £519 +3.75% 12
West Midlands -36 2 £413 -15.38% 8
.NET Core
England

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) LINQ
2 1 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Kanban
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) API Management
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft