Hybrid/Remote .NET Core Contract Job Trends

.NET Core
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring .NET Core skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 226 248
Rank change year-on-year -53 +22 -100
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 39 91 145
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.38% 0.75% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.46% 3.05% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 77 117
10th Percentile £383 £275 £320
25th Percentile £504 £330 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £694 £613 £650
90th Percentile £807 £700 £721
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.40%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

.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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,671 2,983 4,341
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.23% 24.59% 24.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,743 1,962 3,140
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 28 48
10th Percentile £31.00 £21.78 £40.22
25th Percentile £40.56 £32.88 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.25 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -7.55% +1.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £77.50
90th Percentile - £89.38 £90.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET Core and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

.NET Core job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

.NET Core
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing .NET Core.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing .NET Core over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

.NET Core daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

.NET Core
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing .NET Core.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.56%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (2.56%) Confluence
1 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Aladdin
1 4 (10.26%) Fidessa
1 4 (10.26%) thinkFolio
2 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.56%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 29 (74.36%) Azure
2 14 (35.90%) Azure Service Bus
3 13 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (23.08%) Serverless
5 7 (17.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (12.82%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (10.26%) GitHub
7 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (7.69%) AWS
8 3 (7.69%) Azure Functions
8 3 (7.69%) SaaS
9 2 (5.13%) Azure API Management
9 2 (5.13%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (5.13%) PaaS
9 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
10 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
10 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Internet
2 1 (2.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (51.28%) SQL Server
2 7 (17.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.56%) DataStage
4 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.56%) MySQL
4 1 (2.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Cypress.io
2 4 (10.26%) Git
3 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.56%) AppVeyor
4 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.56%) JIRA
4 1 (2.56%) NUnit
4 1 (2.56%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (2.56%) Postman
4 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 13 (33.33%) Finance
3 9 (23.08%) Public Sector
4 7 (17.95%) Banking
5 6 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (12.82%) Front Office
7 4 (10.26%) Investment Banking
8 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (5.13%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.56%) Billing
9 1 (2.56%) Legal
9 1 (2.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (56.41%) Developer
2 11 (28.21%) .NET Developer
3 9 (23.08%) Lead
3 9 (23.08%) Senior
4 6 (15.38%) C# Developer
4 6 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 5 (12.82%) Architect
6 4 (10.26%) .NET Architect
7 3 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Lead Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Team Leader
8 2 (5.13%) Angular Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Lead .NET Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Lead C# Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Software Engineering Team Leader
8 2 (5.13%) Software Team Leader
8 2 (5.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (100.00%) .NET
2 18 (46.15%) .NET Framework
3 12 (30.77%) React
4 9 (23.08%) SOAP
5 8 (20.51%) REST
6 7 (17.95%) AngularJS
7 6 (15.38%) ASP.NET
7 6 (15.38%) Entity Framework
7 6 (15.38%) RESTful
8 5 (12.82%) Jest
8 5 (12.82%) Next.js
9 4 (10.26%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (10.26%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET Web API
10 2 (5.13%) CSS
10 2 (5.13%) HTML
10 2 (5.13%) OAuth
10 2 (5.13%) OAuth2
10 2 (5.13%) XSLT
11 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Cloud Native
1 8 (20.51%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (17.95%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (17.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (17.95%) Product Ownership
3 6 (15.38%) Hedge funds
4 5 (12.82%) Fixed Income
5 4 (10.26%) Derivative
5 4 (10.26%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (7.69%) Client/Server
7 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
8 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
8 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (64.10%) DevOps
2 24 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 23 (58.97%) Agile
4 15 (38.46%) Microservices
5 13 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 11 (28.21%) Event-Driven
6 11 (28.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 10 (25.64%) Clean Code
8 9 (23.08%) SOLID
8 9 (23.08%) TDD
9 7 (17.95%) DevSecOps
9 7 (17.95%) OO
9 7 (17.95%) Test Automation
10 6 (15.38%) Design Patterns
10 6 (15.38%) Investment Management
10 6 (15.38%) Kanban
10 6 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
10 6 (15.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 30 (76.92%) C#
2 17 (43.59%) SQL
3 14 (35.90%) JavaScript
4 7 (17.95%) Python
5 6 (15.38%) Java
5 6 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.69%) T-SQL
7 2 (5.13%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.56%) Bash
8 1 (2.56%) Bicep
8 1 (2.56%) PHP
8 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.56%) Ruby
8 1 (2.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Degree
2 3 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 6 (15.38%) QA
1 6 (15.38%) WCAG
2 4 (10.26%) MiFID
3 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) Portware
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle
4 1 (2.56%) Databricks
4 1 (2.56%) ION Trading