.NET Core Contracts in the Thames Valley

.NET Core
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 90 142 142
Rank change year-on-year +52 0 -18
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 12 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.79% 0.11% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.36% 0.82% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 7
10th Percentile £266 £400 £425
25th Percentile £316 £447 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% +6.80% +0.49%
75th Percentile £455 £563 £566
90th Percentile £469 £570 £577
South East median daily rate £375 £470 £563
% change year-on-year -20.21% -16.44% +12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

.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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 275 367 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.20% 13.66% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 234 352
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £600 £617 £625
90th Percentile £650 £673 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 8
10th Percentile £23.35 £56.58 £52.90
25th Percentile £27.11 £56.65 £75.06
Median hourly rate £31.50 £61.60 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -48.86% -21.78% +20.23%
75th Percentile £77.19 - £80.25
90th Percentile £86.38 £62.00 £80.48
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core in the Thames Valley

.NET Core
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Core in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for .NET Core in the Thames Valley

.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Core in the Thames Valley

.NET Core
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +39 9 £450 -18.18% 4
Buckinghamshire +16 2 £311 -33.76% 10
Oxfordshire - 1 £195 - 7
.NET Core
South East

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (8.33%) CMS
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) Headless CMS
1 1 (8.33%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (25.00%) Azure Storage
4 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 2 (16.67%) Azure App Service
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Table
4 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (16.67%) Power Automate
4 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (8.33%) Azure API Management
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (8.33%) IaaS
5 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (16.67%) DocumentDB
2 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Parquet
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) .NET Developer
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
2 2 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Junior .NET Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Junior Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) React Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (41.67%) .NET Framework
2 5 (41.67%) Entity Framework
3 4 (33.33%) CSS
3 4 (33.33%) HTML
3 4 (33.33%) REST
4 3 (25.00%) ARM Templates
5 2 (16.67%) ADO
5 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (16.67%) Ember.js
5 2 (16.67%) NHibernate
5 2 (16.67%) React
5 2 (16.67%) RESTful
6 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
6 1 (8.33%) JSON
6 1 (8.33%) OAuth
6 1 (8.33%) OpenID
6 1 (8.33%) SAML
6 1 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (8.33%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) TDD
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Identity Management
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) API Development
5 2 (16.67%) Front End Development
5 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (16.67%) Log Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Pair Programming
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) SOLID
5 2 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) C#
2 9 (75.00%) SQL
3 4 (33.33%) Bicep
3 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (25.00%) Python
5 2 (16.67%) Bash
6 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (16.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle