.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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 157 149
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +12
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 13 23 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.37% 0.48% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.86% 2.52% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 39
10th Percentile £388 £275 £410
25th Percentile £406 £378 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -5.13% +8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £575
90th Percentile - £503 £586
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +6.19%

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 699 914 1,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.64% 18.95% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 596 819
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £388 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.06% -3.90% +1.94%
75th Percentile £545 £600 £600
90th Percentile £622 £711 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 29 6
10th Percentile £46.00 £13.87 £37.77
25th Percentile - £37.63 £39.89
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.18 £48.09
Median % change year-on-year +51.58% -3.97% -28.76%
75th Percentile £88.75 £71.50 £60.31
90th Percentile £94.63 £72.90 £63.75
England median hourly rate £58.88 £58.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.51% -10.77% +23.81%

.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 28 June 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 28 June 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
Yorkshire +3 8 £483 +20.63% 50
North West +8 5 £413 -13.16% 93
.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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 3 (23.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Developer
2 7 (53.85%) C# Developer
3 5 (38.46%) .NET Developer
3 5 (38.46%) Senior
4 3 (23.08%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior .NET Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior C# .NET Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior C# Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Software Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) .NET Software Developer
5 2 (15.38%) C# Software Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior .NET Software Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior C# Software Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Head of Engineering
6 1 (7.69%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (23.08%) .NET Framework
3 2 (15.38%) ARM Templates
4 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.69%) FHIR
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
1 3 (23.08%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.69%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (15.38%) Clean Code
4 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (15.38%) Microservices
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (7.69%) Front End Development
5 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Management
5 1 (7.69%) TDD
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Waterfall
5 1 (7.69%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) C#
2 9 (69.23%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Brio
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle