.NET Core Contracts

.NET Core
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 276 226
Rank change year-on-year -76 -50 -23
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 172 373 706
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.86% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.59% 4.16% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 278 532
10th Percentile £385 £363 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £689
90th Percentile £825 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 5
10th Percentile - £47.61 £46.40
25th Percentile - £54.85 £48.50
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +45.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £57.50
90th Percentile - £87.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £80.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +45.45% +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

.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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing .NET Core as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core in the UK

.NET Core
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for .NET Core in the UK

.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Core over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Core in the UK

.NET Core
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET Core in the UK

.NET Core
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England -85 151 £575 +4.07% 331
London -77 102 £625 +4.17% 96
Work from Home +27 82 £575 +11.22% 250
UK excluding London +8 48 £463 -2.63% 247
South East +45 20 £400 -14.89% 50
North of England +18 11 £413 +3.13% 88
Midlands +25 7 £500 -6.98% 49
North West +5 7 £413 -13.16% 54
East Midlands +13 6 £500 -9.09% 23
East of England +35 4 £498 +4.74% 27
Yorkshire +12 4 £475 +58.33% 20
South West +10 3 £655 -6.43% 20
Scotland +5 2 £513 +36.67% 11
West Midlands +14 1 £475 +18.75% 26
Wales +3 1 £167 -52.27% 6

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (3.49%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (2.33%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.16%) Confluence
3 2 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.58%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.58%) CMS
4 1 (0.58%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.58%) IIS
4 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.58%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.58%) nginx
4 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.74%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.16%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 96 (55.81%) Azure
2 42 (24.42%) AWS
3 34 (19.77%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (13.95%) Serverless
5 17 (9.88%) Azure Functions
6 15 (8.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 12 (6.98%) Azure Logic Apps
7 12 (6.98%) Azure Storage
8 11 (6.40%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (5.23%) Power Platform
10 8 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (4.65%) Entra ID
10 8 (4.65%) GCP
11 6 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.49%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (2.91%) Azure AKS
12 5 (2.91%) GitHub
12 5 (2.91%) Power Automate
13 4 (2.33%) Azure API Management
13 4 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.74%) HTTP
2 1 (0.58%) Firewall
2 1 (0.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (24.42%) SQL Server
2 19 (11.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (9.88%) NoSQL
4 15 (8.72%) Relational Database
5 14 (8.14%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (6.98%) MongoDB
7 8 (4.65%) Power BI
8 5 (2.91%) MySQL
9 3 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.16%) DocumentDB
10 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.58%) MS Access
11 1 (0.58%) Parquet
11 1 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (13.37%) Git
2 7 (4.07%) Jenkins
2 7 (4.07%) JIRA
3 6 (3.49%) NUnit
4 5 (2.91%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.33%) Moq
5 4 (2.33%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.74%) GitLab
6 3 (1.74%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.58%) Postman
8 1 (0.58%) ReSharper
8 1 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.58%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.58%) tSQLt
General
1 51 (29.65%) Finance
2 36 (20.93%) Social Skills
3 29 (16.86%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (13.95%) Public Sector
5 18 (10.47%) Front Office
6 15 (8.72%) Banking
7 6 (3.49%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.33%) Law
9 3 (1.74%) Electronics
9 3 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.74%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.74%) Marketing
9 3 (1.74%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Advertising
11 1 (0.58%) Aviation
11 1 (0.58%) Back Office
11 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 124 (72.09%) Developer
2 62 (36.05%) .NET Developer
3 43 (25.00%) C# Developer
4 38 (22.09%) Senior
5 25 (14.53%) Senior Developer
6 23 (13.37%) C++ Developer
6 23 (13.37%) Software Engineer
7 22 (12.79%) C++/C# Developer
8 20 (11.63%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (10.47%) Lead
10 14 (8.14%) Senior .NET Developer
11 13 (7.56%) Lead Developer
12 12 (6.98%) React Developer
13 11 (6.40%) C# .NET Developer
13 11 (6.40%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 9 (5.23%) Senior C# Developer
14 9 (5.23%) Software Developer
15 8 (4.65%) Azure Developer
15 8 (4.65%) C# Software Engineer
15 8 (4.65%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (100.00%) .NET
2 57 (33.14%) ASP.NET
3 47 (27.33%) .NET Framework
4 34 (19.77%) AngularJS
5 30 (17.44%) WCF
6 29 (16.86%) Kafka
6 29 (16.86%) React
7 28 (16.28%) Entity Framework
7 28 (16.28%) RESTful
7 28 (16.28%) Web Services
8 23 (13.37%) HTML
9 22 (12.79%) CSS
10 16 (9.30%) ASP.NET Web API
11 15 (8.72%) ASP.NET MVC
11 15 (8.72%) REST
12 14 (8.14%) OAuth
13 13 (7.56%) Blazor
14 10 (5.81%) ASP.NET Core
15 8 (4.65%) Vue
16 7 (4.07%) Dapper ORM
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 20 (11.63%) Legacy Applications
3 14 (8.14%) Cloud Native
3 14 (8.14%) Product Ownership
4 11 (6.40%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (5.23%) Algorithms
6 7 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.91%) N-Tier
7 5 (2.91%) TWAP
7 5 (2.91%) VWAP
8 2 (1.16%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.16%) NHS
8 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.40%) Windows
2 5 (2.91%) Linux
3 2 (1.16%) AIX
4 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (50.58%) Agile
2 80 (46.51%) DevOps
3 62 (36.05%) CI/CD
4 52 (30.23%) Full-Stack Development
5 39 (22.67%) Microservices
6 32 (18.60%) Software Engineering
7 30 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (17.44%) TDD
8 29 (16.86%) Analytics
9 25 (14.53%) Scrum
9 25 (14.53%) Test Automation
10 23 (13.37%) API Development
11 22 (12.79%) Front End Development
11 22 (12.79%) MVC
12 20 (11.63%) BDD
12 20 (11.63%) Containerisation
12 20 (11.63%) SOLID
13 18 (10.47%) Unit Testing
14 17 (9.88%) User Experience
15 16 (9.30%) OO
Programming Languages
1 134 (77.91%) C#
2 64 (37.21%) SQL
3 40 (23.26%) JavaScript
4 31 (18.02%) C++
5 21 (12.21%) Python
6 15 (8.72%) T-SQL
7 11 (6.40%) PowerShell
8 10 (5.81%) TypeScript
9 9 (5.23%) PL/SQL
10 7 (4.07%) Go
11 5 (2.91%) Bicep
12 3 (1.74%) Bash
12 3 (1.74%) VB
12 3 (1.74%) VB6
12 3 (1.74%) VBA
13 2 (1.16%) Java
14 1 (0.58%) XAML
Qualifications
1 9 (5.23%) Degree
2 8 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (4.65%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.49%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.91%) MCPD
4 5 (2.91%) MCSD
5 3 (1.74%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.16%) PhD
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.88%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.07%) QA
3 3 (1.74%) WCAG
4 2 (1.16%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (1.16%) NCSC
5 1 (0.58%) HL7
System Software
1 35 (20.35%) Docker
2 6 (3.49%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 41 (23.84%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.63%) Terraform
3 3 (1.74%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.16%) Grafana
5 1 (0.58%) Ansible
5 1 (0.58%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 35 (20.35%) Microsoft
2 34 (19.77%) Oracle
3 6 (3.49%) MuleSoft
4 3 (1.74%) Databricks
4 3 (1.74%) SAP
4 3 (1.74%) VMware
4 3 (1.74%) Workday
5 2 (1.16%) IBM
5 2 (1.16%) Murex
6 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.58%) Cisco
6 1 (0.58%) Google
6 1 (0.58%) NEC
6 1 (0.58%) Pardot
6 1 (0.58%) Rackspace
6 1 (0.58%) RedGate
6 1 (0.58%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.58%) Splunk
6 1 (0.58%) TIBCO