.NET Core Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

.NET Core
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 221 238
Rank change year-on-year -7 +17 -80
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 82 115 219
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.80% 0.87% 0.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.98% 3.44% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 86 167
10th Percentile £330 £275 £400
25th Percentile £421 £334 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -21.74% +9.00%
75th Percentile £631 £550 £688
90th Percentile £825 £638 £790
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £575
% change year-on-year -2.44% -10.87% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +33.33% -5.66%

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 2,750 3,347 5,513
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.95% 25.42% 24.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,930 2,357 4,094
10th Percentile £350 £325 £373
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +3.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £649 £675 £660
90th Percentile £825 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 84 63
10th Percentile £31.25 £24.68 £26.10
25th Percentile £42.56 - £48.13
Median hourly rate £63.75 £43.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.26% -32.81% +6.67%
75th Percentile £67.00 £60.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £54.94 £53.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.21% -10.42% +6.50%

.NET Core
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing .NET Core as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

.NET Core trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

.NET Core
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing .NET Core.

.NET Core daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing .NET Core over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

.NET Core daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

.NET Core
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing .NET Core.

.NET Core hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (4.88%) Umbraco
2 1 (1.22%) CMS
2 1 (1.22%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Aladdin
1 3 (3.66%) Fidessa
1 3 (3.66%) thinkFolio
2 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 63 (76.83%) Azure
2 32 (39.02%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (20.73%) AWS
4 15 (18.29%) Azure Service Bus
5 10 (12.20%) Serverless
6 6 (7.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (6.10%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (6.10%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (4.88%) GCP
8 4 (4.88%) GitHub
9 3 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.44%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (2.44%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.44%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (2.44%) Firebase
11 1 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.22%) NuGet
11 1 (1.22%) PaaS
11 1 (1.22%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (31.71%) SQL Server
2 13 (15.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (12.20%) NoSQL
4 9 (10.98%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.88%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.88%) Redis
6 3 (3.66%) MySQL
6 3 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.22%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (15.85%) Git
2 5 (6.10%) Cypress.io
2 5 (6.10%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.88%) NUnit
4 2 (2.44%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.44%) JIRA
4 2 (2.44%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.44%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.22%) Android Studio
5 1 (1.22%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.22%) GitLab
5 1 (1.22%) Gradle
5 1 (1.22%) ReSharper
5 1 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.22%) Xcode
General
1 28 (34.15%) Finance
2 21 (25.61%) Public Sector
3 19 (23.17%) Social Skills
4 10 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (6.10%) Electronics
6 5 (6.10%) Front Office
6 5 (6.10%) Manufacturing
6 5 (6.10%) Marketing
6 5 (6.10%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.88%) Banking
8 3 (3.66%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.22%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 63 (76.83%) Developer
2 38 (46.34%) .NET Developer
3 23 (28.05%) C# Developer
4 22 (26.83%) Lead
5 20 (24.39%) Senior
6 18 (21.95%) Senior Developer
7 15 (18.29%) Lead Developer
8 14 (17.07%) Lead .NET Developer
9 12 (14.63%) Azure Developer
9 12 (14.63%) Senior .NET Developer
10 11 (13.41%) C# .NET Developer
11 9 (10.98%) Senior C# Developer
12 8 (9.76%) Lead C# Developer
13 6 (7.32%) Senior C# .NET Developer
14 5 (6.10%) Backend Developer
14 5 (6.10%) C++ Developer
14 5 (6.10%) C++/C# Developer
14 5 (6.10%) Full-Stack Developer
14 5 (6.10%) Software Engineer
15 4 (4.88%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (100.00%) .NET
2 26 (31.71%) React
3 21 (25.61%) ASP.NET
4 19 (23.17%) .NET Framework
5 17 (20.73%) RESTful
6 16 (19.51%) AngularJS
7 10 (12.20%) Entity Framework
7 10 (12.20%) REST
8 9 (10.98%) CSS
8 9 (10.98%) HTML
8 9 (10.98%) Kafka
8 9 (10.98%) WCF
9 8 (9.76%) Web Services
10 7 (8.54%) OAuth
10 7 (8.54%) SOAP
11 6 (7.32%) ASP.NET MVC
11 6 (7.32%) Jest
11 6 (7.32%) XML
12 5 (6.10%) OpenID
12 5 (6.10%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.63%) Greenfield Project
1 12 (14.63%) Product Ownership
2 10 (12.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (10.98%) Cloud Native
4 5 (6.10%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (6.10%) Hedge funds
4 5 (6.10%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.66%) Client/Server
6 3 (3.66%) Derivative
6 3 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.66%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.44%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.44%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (1.22%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.22%) NHS
8 1 (1.22%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.10%) Android
1 5 (6.10%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (69.51%) DevOps
2 51 (62.20%) Agile
3 41 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 24 (29.27%) Microservices
5 23 (28.05%) TDD
6 21 (25.61%) Scrum
7 17 (20.73%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (20.73%) Software Engineering
8 15 (18.29%) BDD
8 15 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (17.07%) API Development
9 14 (17.07%) Containerisation
9 14 (17.07%) SOLID
10 13 (15.85%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (14.63%) Front End Development
11 12 (14.63%) OO
12 11 (13.41%) Code Quality
12 11 (13.41%) Kanban
12 11 (13.41%) Mentoring
13 10 (12.20%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 70 (85.37%) C#
2 35 (42.68%) SQL
3 26 (31.71%) JavaScript
4 12 (14.63%) TypeScript
5 9 (10.98%) PowerShell
6 8 (9.76%) Python
7 6 (7.32%) Java
8 5 (6.10%) C++
9 4 (4.88%) Bicep
10 3 (3.66%) VBA
11 1 (1.22%) JSX
11 1 (1.22%) Ruby
11 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.10%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (2.44%) Degree
3 1 (1.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.22%) MCPD
3 1 (1.22%) MCSD
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.22%) PhD
3 1 (1.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.07%) Accessibility
2 8 (9.76%) QA
3 4 (4.88%) WCAG
4 3 (3.66%) MiFID
System Software
1 16 (19.51%) Docker
2 4 (4.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (19.51%) Terraform
2 14 (17.07%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (21.95%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.76%) Oracle
3 5 (6.10%) SAP
4 3 (3.66%) Portware
5 1 (1.22%) Brio
5 1 (1.22%) Google
5 1 (1.22%) IBM
5 1 (1.22%) Splunk