.NET Core Contracts in the South West

.NET Core
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 127 134
Rank change year-on-year +18 +7 +21
DemandTrendContract jobs citing .NET Core 4 16 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.21% 0.58% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.41% 3.73% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 12
10th Percentile - £618 £407
25th Percentile £313 £628 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £700 £631
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +10.89% +33.95%
75th Percentile £438 - £702
90th Percentile - - £712
England median daily rate £500 £530 £575
% change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - - £64.00
25th Percentile - £75.00 £66.25
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +10.06%
75th Percentile - £86.25 -
90th Percentile - £88.50 -
England median hourly rate - £80.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year - +18.52% +6.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

.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 South West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 284 429 531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.59% 15.58% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 253 402
10th Percentile £321 £350 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £533 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% +4.00% -2.38%
75th Percentile £603 £625 £638
90th Percentile £669 £700 £713
England median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 54 30
10th Percentile £61.33 £65.00 £48.32
25th Percentile £65.00 £67.19 £63.13
Median hourly rate £67.75 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £68.19 £74.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £79.87 £85.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £61.60 £62.50
% change year-on-year -10.71% -1.44% +4.17%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core in the South West

.NET Core
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

.NET Core
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing .NET Core.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing .NET Core

.NET Core
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +2 4 £375 -23.08% 5
.NET Core
England

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 1 (25.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Electronics
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (75.00%) Marketing
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Developer
2 3 (75.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 3 (75.00%) C# Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Lead
2 3 (75.00%) Lead .NET Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Lead C# Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Lead Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 3 (75.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior C# Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Umbraco Developer
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%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) BDD
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Digital Marketing
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (75.00%) OO
1 3 (75.00%) OWASP
1 3 (75.00%) Pair Programming
1 3 (75.00%) Programme Management
1 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 3 (75.00%) SOLID
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) SAP