.NET Core Contracts in the North West

.NET Core
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for .NET Core skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited .NET Core over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 120 111
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 -10
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 13 43 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.48% 1.36% 1.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.59% 7.28% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 30 63
10th Percentile £309 £425 £376
25th Percentile £397 £463 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £445
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +20.79% +8.54%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £505
90th Percentile £497 £586 £578
England median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £39.75
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £57.75
% change year-on-year +45.45% -4.76% +60.42%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

.NET Core is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 501 591 981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 18.50% 18.64% 24.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 465 738
10th Percentile £350 £338 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +24.24%
75th Percentile £598 £575 £588
90th Percentile £750 £650 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -2.22% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 22
10th Percentile £37.63 £38.52 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £39.60 £19.69
Median hourly rate £47.31 £42.80 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% +11.16% +13.24%
75th Percentile £71.87 £44.60 £58.13
90th Percentile £75.05 £44.84 £64.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +8.15%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core in the North West

.NET Core
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for .NET Core in the North West

.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in the North West over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Core in the North West

.NET Core
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET Core in the North West

.NET Core
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
Manchester +7 8 £475 - 42
Cheshire -14 4 £475 -13.64% 14
Merseyside +10 1 £400 -11.11% 9
.NET Core
England

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (15.38%) Umbraco
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) npm
3 3 (23.08%) Serverless
3 3 (23.08%) Yarn
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 3 (23.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
1 3 (23.08%) Jasmine
1 3 (23.08%) Karma Test Runner
1 3 (23.08%) Mocha
1 3 (23.08%) webpack
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 8 (61.54%) .NET Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Umbraco Developer
4 1 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead C# Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (69.23%) .NET Framework
3 8 (61.54%) React
4 6 (46.15%) Entity Framework
5 5 (38.46%) Web Services
6 4 (30.77%) AngularJS
7 3 (23.08%) Kafka
7 3 (23.08%) RESTful
8 2 (15.38%) CSS
8 2 (15.38%) HTML
8 2 (15.38%) REST
9 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
9 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 1 (7.69%) Blazor
9 1 (7.69%) jQuery
9 1 (7.69%) LINQ
9 1 (7.69%) OpenAPI
9 1 (7.69%) Sass
9 1 (7.69%) SOAP
9 1 (7.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Algorithms
1 3 (23.08%) Data Structures
1 3 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (15.38%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) OO
3 5 (38.46%) MVC
3 5 (38.46%) Scrum
3 5 (38.46%) SOLID
4 4 (30.77%) OOP
5 3 (23.08%) Asynchronous Programming
5 3 (23.08%) Design Patterns
5 3 (23.08%) Memory Management
5 3 (23.08%) Multithreading
6 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 2 (15.38%) Clean Code
6 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
6 2 (15.38%) Microservices
6 2 (15.38%) SDLC
6 2 (15.38%) System Integration Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) C#
2 7 (53.85%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.69%) Bicep
5 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform