.NET Core Contracts in the North of England

.NET Core
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 155 165 156
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 -22
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 11 20 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.42% 1.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.61% 2.22% 5.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 43
10th Percentile £385 - £425
25th Percentile £403 £275 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -20.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £575
90th Percentile £538 £490 £586
England median daily rate £566 £553 £600
% change year-on-year +2.49% -7.92% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate - - £49.00
75th Percentile - - £49.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £80.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +45.45% -0.90%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

.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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 685 900 1,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.79% 18.88% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 615 875
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £558 £596 £597
90th Percentile £650 £691 £675
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 10
10th Percentile £65.25 £13.87 £44.28
25th Percentile £68.81 £21.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £86.46 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.22% -26.11% +48.81%
75th Percentile £99.42 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £72.50 £71.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core in the North of England

.NET Core
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Core in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for .NET Core in the North of England

.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for .NET Core in the North of England

.NET Core
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Core in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Core in the North of England

.NET Core
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +11 7 £413 -13.16% 97
Yorkshire +5 4 £475 +58.33% 51
.NET Core
England

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) C# Developer
3 3 (27.27%) .NET Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) React Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) .NET Architect
5 1 (9.09%) .NET Technical Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Head of Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Head of Software Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior C# .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (36.36%) .NET Framework
3 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 1 (9.09%) Blazor
3 1 (9.09%) Kafka
3 1 (9.09%) RESTful
3 1 (9.09%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Microservices
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Web Design
4 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
4 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven
4 1 (9.09%) Front End Development
4 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
4 1 (9.09%) MVC
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Management
4 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) C#
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle