.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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 266 232
Rank change year-on-year -84 -34 -30
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 176 375 685
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.86% 1.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.64% 4.20% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 280 515
10th Percentile £356 £363 £413
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £670 £691 £691
90th Percentile £825 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.84% - +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 6,668 8,930 13,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.76% 20.57% 23.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,572 6,198 10,066
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 £787 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 235 153
10th Percentile £27.18 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +31.31%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.79 £74.78 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +36.84% -24.00% +27.55%

.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 3 May 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 3 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
England -75 153 £552 +0.14% 411
London -70 102 £625 +8.70% 126
Work from Home +20 84 £575 +13.58% 295
UK excluding London +17 51 £466 -1.84% 326
South East +39 21 £375 -20.21% 79
North of England +3 12 £413 +3.13% 116
Midlands +20 8 £500 -6.98% 53
East Midlands +18 7 £500 -9.09% 25
North West +4 7 £413 -13.16% 71
Yorkshire +6 5 £475 +58.33% 27
East of England +40 4 £498 +4.74% 38
South West -5 3 £655 -6.43% 31
Scotland +7 2 £513 +36.67% 17
West Midlands +11 1 £475 +18.75% 26
Wales +4 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 (3.41%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (2.27%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.14%) Confluence
3 2 (1.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.57%) Apache
4 1 (0.57%) CMS
4 1 (0.57%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.57%) IIS
4 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.57%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.57%) nginx
4 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.14%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 99 (56.25%) Azure
2 44 (25.00%) AWS
3 36 (20.45%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (13.07%) Serverless
5 16 (9.09%) Azure Functions
6 15 (8.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 12 (6.82%) Azure Logic Apps
7 12 (6.82%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (6.82%) Azure Storage
8 9 (5.11%) Entra ID
8 9 (5.11%) Power Platform
9 8 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (4.55%) GCP
10 6 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.84%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.84%) GitHub
11 5 (2.84%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.84%) SaaS
12 4 (2.27%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.70%) HTTP
2 1 (0.57%) Firewall
2 1 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (24.43%) SQL Server
2 19 (10.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (9.66%) NoSQL
4 16 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 15 (8.52%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (6.82%) MongoDB
7 8 (4.55%) Power BI
8 6 (3.41%) MySQL
9 3 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.14%) DocumentDB
10 2 (1.14%) Redis
10 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.57%) MS Access
11 1 (0.57%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 25 (14.20%) Git
2 8 (4.55%) JIRA
3 7 (3.98%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.41%) NUnit
5 5 (2.84%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.27%) Moq
6 4 (2.27%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.70%) GitLab
7 3 (1.70%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.14%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.57%) Postman
9 1 (0.57%) ReSharper
9 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.57%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.57%) tSQLt
General
1 51 (28.98%) Finance
2 36 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 29 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 17 (9.66%) Front Office
6 14 (7.95%) Banking
7 6 (3.41%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.27%) Law
9 3 (1.70%) Electronics
9 3 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.70%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.70%) Marketing
9 3 (1.70%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Advertising
11 1 (0.57%) Back Office
11 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 128 (72.73%) Developer
2 68 (38.64%) .NET Developer
3 45 (25.57%) C# Developer
4 40 (22.73%) Senior
5 27 (15.34%) Senior Developer
6 23 (13.07%) C++ Developer
6 23 (13.07%) Software Engineer
7 22 (12.50%) C++/C# Developer
8 20 (11.36%) Full-Stack Developer
9 19 (10.80%) Lead
10 16 (9.09%) Senior .NET Developer
11 14 (7.95%) Lead Developer
12 13 (7.39%) C# .NET Developer
12 13 (7.39%) React Developer
13 12 (6.82%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 11 (6.25%) Senior C# Developer
15 10 (5.68%) Software Developer
16 9 (5.11%) Azure Developer
16 9 (5.11%) Lead .NET Developer
17 8 (4.55%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (100.00%) .NET
2 57 (32.39%) ASP.NET
3 49 (27.84%) .NET Framework
4 34 (19.32%) AngularJS
5 31 (17.61%) React
6 30 (17.05%) RESTful
6 30 (17.05%) WCF
7 29 (16.48%) Kafka
8 28 (15.91%) Entity Framework
8 28 (15.91%) Web Services
9 24 (13.64%) HTML
10 23 (13.07%) CSS
11 18 (10.23%) REST
12 16 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
13 14 (7.95%) ASP.NET MVC
13 14 (7.95%) OAuth
14 13 (7.39%) Blazor
15 11 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
16 8 (4.55%) ARM Templates
16 8 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 20 (11.36%) Legacy Applications
3 14 (7.95%) Cloud Native
3 14 (7.95%) Product Ownership
4 11 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (5.11%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.84%) N-Tier
7 5 (2.84%) TWAP
7 5 (2.84%) VWAP
8 2 (1.14%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.14%) NHS
8 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.14%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.57%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.57%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.57%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.25%) Windows
2 5 (2.84%) Linux
3 2 (1.14%) AIX
4 1 (0.57%) Android
4 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (52.27%) Agile
2 83 (47.16%) DevOps
3 67 (38.07%) CI/CD
4 52 (29.55%) Full-Stack Development
5 40 (22.73%) Microservices
6 33 (18.75%) Software Engineering
7 32 (18.18%) TDD
8 30 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (16.48%) Analytics
10 28 (15.91%) Scrum
11 25 (14.20%) Test Automation
12 24 (13.64%) API Development
13 22 (12.50%) Front End Development
13 22 (12.50%) SOLID
14 21 (11.93%) MVC
15 20 (11.36%) BDD
15 20 (11.36%) Containerisation
16 17 (9.66%) Unit Testing
16 17 (9.66%) User Experience
17 16 (9.09%) OO
Programming Languages
1 138 (78.41%) C#
2 65 (36.93%) SQL
3 41 (23.30%) JavaScript
4 31 (17.61%) C++
5 20 (11.36%) Python
6 15 (8.52%) T-SQL
7 12 (6.82%) PowerShell
7 12 (6.82%) TypeScript
8 9 (5.11%) PL/SQL
9 7 (3.98%) Go
10 6 (3.41%) Bicep
11 3 (1.70%) Bash
11 3 (1.70%) VB
11 3 (1.70%) VB6
12 2 (1.14%) Java
12 2 (1.14%) VBA
13 1 (0.57%) XAML
Qualifications
1 9 (5.11%) Degree
2 8 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (3.98%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.84%) MCPD
4 5 (2.84%) MCSD
4 5 (2.84%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.70%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.14%) PhD
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.98%) QA
3 2 (1.14%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (1.14%) NCSC
3 2 (1.14%) WCAG
4 1 (0.57%) HL7
System Software
1 35 (19.89%) Docker
2 7 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 41 (23.30%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.36%) Terraform
3 3 (1.70%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.14%) Grafana
5 1 (0.57%) Ansible
5 1 (0.57%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 35 (19.89%) Microsoft
1 35 (19.89%) Oracle
2 6 (3.41%) MuleSoft
3 3 (1.70%) Databricks
3 3 (1.70%) SAP
3 3 (1.70%) VMware
3 3 (1.70%) Workday
4 2 (1.14%) IBM
4 2 (1.14%) Murex
5 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.57%) Cisco
5 1 (0.57%) Google
5 1 (0.57%) NEC
5 1 (0.57%) Pardot
5 1 (0.57%) Rackspace
5 1 (0.57%) RedGate
5 1 (0.57%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.57%) Splunk
5 1 (0.57%) TIBCO