.NET Core Contracts in the UK excluding London

.NET Core
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 294 259
Rank change year-on-year +2 -35 -55
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 51 96 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.47% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.16% 2.94% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 78 133
10th Percentile £313 £301 £360
25th Percentile £350 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £660 £568
90th Percentile £588 £700 £599
UK median daily rate £525 £548 £600
% change year-on-year -4.11% -8.75% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 4
10th Percentile - £47.61 £49.70
25th Percentile - £54.85 £51.50
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +45.45% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £60.63
90th Percentile - £87.00 £66.25
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +45.45% -8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

.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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,364 3,264 4,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.37% 16.11% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,637 2,138 3,144
10th Percentile £331 £325 £350
25th Percentile £402 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £689 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 212 88
10th Percentile £33.91 £21.81 £22.21
25th Percentile £55.19 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.36% +28.36%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.31 £73.94
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.95 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing .NET Core as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core in the UK excluding London

.NET Core
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Core in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for .NET Core in the UK excluding London

.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Core in the UK excluding London

.NET Core
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Core in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Core in the UK excluding London

.NET Core
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East +53 20 £344 -26.86% 100
North of England +10 12 £444 +8.90% 135
Midlands +13 7 £500 -4.76% 52
Yorkshire +13 6 £475 +58.33% 39
East Midlands +10 6 £500 -6.98% 20
North West +1 6 £411 -13.42% 80
South West +9 5 £600 -14.29% 29
East of England +27 4 £498 +4.74% 42
Scotland +4 2 £513 +47.48% 19
West Midlands +9 1 £475 +18.75% 28
Wales -1 1 £167 -52.27% 4
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (7.84%) Umbraco
2 1 (1.96%) Apache
2 1 (1.96%) CMS
2 1 (1.96%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.96%) IIS
2 1 (1.96%) nginx
2 1 (1.96%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.96%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 27 (52.94%) Azure
2 13 (25.49%) AWS
3 11 (21.57%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (9.80%) Azure AKS
4 5 (9.80%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (9.80%) Azure Storage
5 4 (7.84%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.84%) SaaS
6 3 (5.88%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (5.88%) Azure Table
6 3 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.88%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.92%) Azure App Service
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Stack
7 2 (3.92%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.92%) Firebase
8 1 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.96%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 7 (13.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.84%) Power BI
4 4 (7.84%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.88%) MySQL
6 2 (3.92%) DocumentDB
6 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.96%) Parquet
7 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (23.53%) Git
2 4 (7.84%) JIRA
3 2 (3.92%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.92%) Moq
3 2 (3.92%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.92%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.96%) tSQLt
General
1 10 (19.61%) Finance
2 8 (15.69%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.84%) Law
4 3 (5.88%) Electronics
4 3 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.88%) Marketing
4 3 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.92%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (70.59%) Developer
2 23 (45.10%) .NET Developer
3 12 (23.53%) Senior
4 11 (21.57%) C# Developer
5 9 (17.65%) Senior Developer
6 7 (13.73%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (13.73%) Senior .NET Developer
7 6 (11.76%) Lead
8 5 (9.80%) Azure Developer
8 5 (9.80%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (9.80%) Senior C# .NET Developer
8 5 (9.80%) Senior C# Developer
9 4 (7.84%) Lead .NET Developer
9 4 (7.84%) Lead Developer
9 4 (7.84%) Software Engineer
10 3 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (5.88%) Lead C# Developer
10 3 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (5.88%) Site Engineer
10 3 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (23.53%) AngularJS
3 11 (21.57%) .NET Framework
4 10 (19.61%) React
5 9 (17.65%) CSS
5 9 (17.65%) HTML
6 8 (15.69%) Entity Framework
7 7 (13.73%) ASP.NET
7 7 (13.73%) REST
8 5 (9.80%) ARM Templates
8 5 (9.80%) JSON
8 5 (9.80%) RESTful
9 4 (7.84%) ASP.NET Web API
10 3 (5.88%) ADO
10 3 (5.88%) Vue
10 3 (5.88%) XML
11 2 (3.92%) ASP.NET MVC
11 2 (3.92%) JMS
11 2 (3.92%) Middleware
11 2 (3.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.80%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.92%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.96%) Clustering
5 1 (1.96%) NHS
5 1 (1.96%) Replication
5 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.96%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) AIX
1 2 (3.92%) Linux
2 1 (1.96%) Unix
2 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (41.18%) DevOps
2 20 (39.22%) Agile
3 15 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 10 (19.61%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (17.65%) Software Engineering
6 8 (15.69%) SOLID
7 7 (13.73%) API Development
7 7 (13.73%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (13.73%) OWASP
8 6 (11.76%) Microservices
9 5 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (9.80%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (9.80%) OO
9 5 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (9.80%) Scrum
9 5 (9.80%) TDD
10 4 (7.84%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (7.84%) Identity Management
10 4 (7.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (7.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (74.51%) C#
2 27 (52.94%) SQL
3 15 (29.41%) JavaScript
4 8 (15.69%) PowerShell
5 5 (9.80%) Bicep
5 5 (9.80%) Python
5 5 (9.80%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.88%) Bash
6 3 (5.88%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.96%) Java
7 1 (1.96%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.96%) VB
7 1 (1.96%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.96%) Degree
2 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) NCSC
2 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.96%) HL7
2 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.88%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (23.53%) Terraform
2 6 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.84%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 13 (25.49%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.73%) Oracle
3 3 (5.88%) SAP
4 2 (3.92%) VMware
4 2 (3.92%) Workday
5 1 (1.96%) Google
5 1 (1.96%) NEC
5 1 (1.96%) Rackspace
5 1 (1.96%) RedGate