.NET Core Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

.NET Core
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring .NET Core skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 110 104
Rank change year-on-year -24 -6 +64
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 4 1 18
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.19% 0.053% 0.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.96% 0.29% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £440
25th Percentile £406 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% - -
75th Percentile £419 - £509
90th Percentile - - £515
England median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -2.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

.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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 417 344 288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.95% 18.29% 14.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 192 204
10th Percentile £368 £396 £316
25th Percentile £449 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £602 £635 £575
90th Percentile £700 £736 £688
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 3
10th Percentile £27.21 £30.13 £17.20
25th Percentile £33.91 £35.94 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £48.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +178.57% -52.24%
75th Percentile - £63.44 £30.63
90th Percentile - £70.38 £38.50
England median hourly rate £56.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -13.85% +18.18% -15.38%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

.NET Core
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

.NET Core
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 November 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
Birmingham -3 1 £413 -17.50% 5
Coventry - 1 - - 4
Shropshire - 1 - - 1
Warwickshire - 1 - - 6
.NET Core
England

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (25.00%) Gradle
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
1 1 (25.00%) Xcode
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Lead .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (25.00%) React Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
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%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) Jest
2 1 (25.00%) LINQ
2 1 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) React Native
2 1 (25.00%) Redux
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Development
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) JSX
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes