.NET Core Contracts with Work from Home Options

.NET Core
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for .NET Core skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited .NET Core over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 234 167
Rank change year-on-year -7 -67 -20
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 107 253 710
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.73% 1.05% 1.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.93% 4.20% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 196 600
10th Percentile £325 £413 £385
25th Percentile £403 £471 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £591 £688 £600
90th Percentile £688 £800 £713
UK median daily rate £545 £595 £550
% change year-on-year -8.40% +8.18% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £48.95
25th Percentile - - £52.25
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - -26.83% -
75th Percentile - - £63.63
90th Percentile - - £65.80
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +45.45% -10.57% +70.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

.NET Core is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,657 6,026 13,120
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.98% 25.00% 29.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,580 4,520 9,729
10th Percentile £342 £399 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -1.82% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £657 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 76 111
10th Percentile £24.23 £24.13 £22.50
25th Percentile - £45.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £66.27
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.13 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%

.NET Core
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing .NET Core as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

.NET Core trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing .NET Core over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

.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 a work from home option 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 16 (14.95%) CMS
2 4 (3.74%) Umbraco
3 3 (2.80%) Confluence
3 3 (2.80%) Kentico
4 2 (1.87%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.87%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.93%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.93%) IIS
5 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 78 (72.90%) Azure
2 49 (45.79%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (28.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 25 (23.36%) Azure Service Bus
5 15 (14.02%) Serverless
6 14 (13.08%) AWS
7 13 (12.15%) Entra ID
8 12 (11.21%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (10.28%) Azure Functions
10 9 (8.41%) PaaS
11 8 (7.48%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (7.48%) Azure Pipelines
12 6 (5.61%) NuGet
13 5 (4.67%) Azure API Management
13 5 (4.67%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (3.74%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (3.74%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (3.74%) GCP
14 4 (3.74%) IaaS
15 3 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.87%) DHCP
1 2 (1.87%) DNS
1 2 (1.87%) HTTP
1 2 (1.87%) VPN
2 1 (0.93%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (45.79%) SQL Server
2 14 (13.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (5.61%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.67%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.67%) Redis
5 4 (3.74%) MySQL
5 4 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.87%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.93%) SQLite
7 1 (0.93%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 24 (22.43%) Git
2 3 (2.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (2.80%) Bitbucket
2 3 (2.80%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.80%) JIRA
2 3 (2.80%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (1.87%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.87%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.93%) Checkstyle
4 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.93%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.93%) Selenium
4 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.93%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.93%) webpack
General
1 19 (17.76%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.82%) Public Sector
3 14 (13.08%) Finance
4 12 (11.21%) Back Office
5 4 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.74%) Front Office
5 4 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.80%) Banking
6 3 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.87%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Automotive
8 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (76.64%) Developer
2 40 (37.38%) .NET Developer
3 23 (21.50%) C# Developer
4 21 (19.63%) Senior
5 20 (18.69%) Senior Developer
6 15 (14.02%) Azure Developer
6 15 (14.02%) C# .NET Developer
7 14 (13.08%) Backend Developer
8 13 (12.15%) Full Stack Developer
9 12 (11.21%) Lead
10 11 (10.28%) Senior Backend Developer
11 9 (8.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 7 (6.54%) Architect
12 7 (6.54%) Lead Developer
12 7 (6.54%) React Developer
13 5 (4.67%) Senior C# Developer
13 5 (4.67%) Software Developer
14 4 (3.74%) Applications Developer
14 4 (3.74%) Senior .NET Developer
14 4 (3.74%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (100.00%) .NET
2 35 (32.71%) React
3 26 (24.30%) .NET Framework
4 25 (23.36%) CSS
5 24 (22.43%) ASP.NET
6 21 (19.63%) HTML
7 20 (18.69%) AngularJS
8 17 (15.89%) Entity Framework
9 15 (14.02%) jQuery
9 15 (14.02%) REST
10 13 (12.15%) XML
11 10 (9.35%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (7.48%) RESTful
13 7 (6.54%) ASP.NET Web API
13 7 (6.54%) SOAP
13 7 (6.54%) Vue
14 6 (5.61%) Blazor
14 6 (5.61%) Web Services
14 6 (5.61%) YAML
15 5 (4.67%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.21%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.48%) Mobile App
3 6 (5.61%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.74%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.80%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.87%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.87%) Contactless
7 2 (1.87%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.87%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.93%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.93%) Mobile Payment
8 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.93%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.74%) Windows
2 3 (2.80%) Linux
3 2 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.93%) Android
4 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (54.21%) DevOps
2 51 (47.66%) Agile
3 27 (25.23%) OO
4 26 (24.30%) Microservices
4 26 (24.30%) TDD
5 25 (23.36%) MVC
6 24 (22.43%) CI/CD
7 22 (20.56%) Full Stack Development
8 21 (19.63%) Clean Code
9 18 (16.82%) OOD
10 16 (14.95%) API Management
11 15 (14.02%) Scrum
12 13 (12.15%) SOLID
12 13 (12.15%) Unit Testing
13 12 (11.21%) B2C
13 12 (11.21%) Software Engineering
14 11 (10.28%) Front End Development
15 10 (9.35%) Problem-Solving
16 8 (7.48%) Computer Science
16 8 (7.48%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 81 (75.70%) C#
2 33 (30.84%) JavaScript
3 30 (28.04%) Bicep
4 25 (23.36%) SQL
5 21 (19.63%) PowerShell
6 18 (16.82%) TypeScript
7 12 (11.21%) Python
8 5 (4.67%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.87%) C++
9 2 (1.87%) Go
9 2 (1.87%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.87%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.93%) C
Qualifications
1 10 (9.35%) Degree
2 8 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.35%) Accessibility
1 10 (9.35%) WCAG
2 4 (3.74%) QA
3 3 (2.80%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.93%) MiFID
System Software
1 25 (23.36%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.54%) Docker
3 2 (1.87%) Terminal Services
3 2 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (9.35%) Terraform
2 9 (8.41%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.80%) Ansible
3 3 (2.80%) PowerCLI
4 2 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (36.45%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.67%) Oracle
3 3 (2.80%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.80%) Dell
3 3 (2.80%) HP
3 3 (2.80%) Xamarin
4 2 (1.87%) Adobe
4 2 (1.87%) MuleSoft
4 2 (1.87%) SAP
4 2 (1.87%) VMware
5 1 (0.93%) NEC
5 1 (0.93%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.93%) Salesforce