.NET Core Contract Job Trends in Somerset

.NET Core
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring .NET Core skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.32% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £412 - -
25th Percentile £420 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 - -
75th Percentile £470 - -
90th Percentile £481 - -
South West median daily rate £425 £600 £700
% change year-on-year -29.17% -14.29% +64.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Somerset

.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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 67 12 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 17.72% 7.19% 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 10 15
10th Percentile £218 £406 £388
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £548 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +21.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £560 £649 £488
90th Percentile £595 £668 £525
South West median daily rate £525 £531 £525
% change year-on-year -1.18% +1.19% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.67% - -
75th Percentile £37.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +7.69%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

.NET Core job vacancy trend in Somerset

.NET Core
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

.NET Core
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 13 June 2026. 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
Taunton - 5 £444 - 2
.NET Core
South West

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Confluence
2 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
1 3 (60.00%) MSI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Architect
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Technical Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (60.00%) ATL
2 3 (60.00%) COM
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) CSS3
2 3 (60.00%) GeoJSON
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) HTML5
2 3 (60.00%) MFC
2 3 (60.00%) REST
2 3 (60.00%) RESTful
2 3 (60.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (80.00%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (40.00%) Wiki
5 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) API Design
3 3 (60.00%) Dependency Management
3 3 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (60.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (60.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (60.00%) SOLID
3 3 (60.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 3 (60.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 3 (60.00%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bicep
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (60.00%) NCSC
1 3 (60.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft