.NET Core Contracts

.NET Core
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 269 247 205
Rank change year-on-year -22 -42 -40
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 364 604 1,219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 1.08% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.02% 4.69% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 458 1,033
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £482 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £595 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +8.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £688 £695 £688
90th Percentile £753 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £458
% change year-on-year +3.16% +3.83% +7.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 13
10th Percentile £47.61 £47.25 £48.50
25th Percentile £54.85 £50.63 £49.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -10.57% +70.83%
75th Percentile £85.00 £60.63 £63.60
90th Percentile £87.00 £66.25 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +45.45% -10.57% +70.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

.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 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 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

.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 1 June 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET Core over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 1 June 2024. 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 -24 334 £550 -8.33% 420
London +11 244 £575 -11.54% 118
Work from Home -7 107 £488 -15.22% 322
UK excluding London -19 96 £490 +3.16% 330
South West +35 36 £700 +64.71% 35
North of England -16 20 £475 -9.52% 121
South East +5 17 £473 -12.09% 61
North West -7 12 £475 -13.64% 78
Scotland +27 9 £420 -16.00% 12
Yorkshire +16 8 £350 -27.27% 30
Midlands +2 8 £525 +23.53% 67
East Midlands -1 5 £538 +26.47% 31
Wales +12 4 £350 -17.65% 16
West Midlands +6 3 £400 -14.67% 36
East of England -2 2 £475 - 20

.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 27 (7.42%) Confluence
2 25 (6.87%) CMS
3 7 (1.92%) BizTalk Server
3 7 (1.92%) Umbraco
4 4 (1.10%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.82%) IIS
5 3 (0.82%) Kentico
5 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.55%) Apache
6 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.27%) EPiServer
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.27%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (1.92%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.27%) Aareon QL
2 1 (0.27%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.27%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 228 (62.64%) Azure
2 131 (35.99%) Azure DevOps
3 81 (22.25%) AWS
4 78 (21.43%) Azure Service Bus
5 74 (20.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 40 (10.99%) Azure Monitor
7 39 (10.71%) Entra ID
8 36 (9.89%) Serverless
9 27 (7.42%) GCP
10 23 (6.32%) Azure Functions
11 19 (5.22%) Azure Pipelines
12 18 (4.95%) Azure Logic Apps
13 17 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (4.12%) GitHub
14 15 (4.12%) PaaS
15 13 (3.57%) NuGet
16 12 (3.30%) Azure AKS
16 12 (3.30%) Azure App Service
16 12 (3.30%) Azure Event Grid
16 12 (3.30%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.92%) FTP
2 6 (1.65%) HTTP
3 2 (0.55%) DHCP
3 2 (0.55%) DNS
3 2 (0.55%) Firewall
3 2 (0.55%) SSL
3 2 (0.55%) VPN
4 1 (0.27%) Internet
4 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (40.11%) SQL Server
2 34 (9.34%) NoSQL
3 31 (8.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 19 (5.22%) Redis
5 16 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (3.85%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.92%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.65%) MySQL
9 5 (1.37%) Big Data
9 5 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (1.37%) SQLite
10 4 (1.10%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.27%) RavenDB
12 1 (0.27%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 78 (21.43%) Git
2 32 (8.79%) JIRA
3 28 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 25 (6.87%) Jenkins
5 24 (6.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 24 (6.59%) TeamCity
6 16 (4.40%) NUnit
7 12 (3.30%) Selenium
8 11 (3.02%) Cucumber
9 10 (2.75%) Moq
10 9 (2.47%) SpecFlow
10 9 (2.47%) Visual Studio
11 8 (2.20%) Octopus Deploy
11 8 (2.20%) SonarQube
12 7 (1.92%) Jasmine
13 5 (1.37%) Checkstyle
14 4 (1.10%) Cypress.io
14 4 (1.10%) JMeter
14 4 (1.10%) webpack
15 3 (0.82%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 62 (17.03%) Social Skills
2 52 (14.29%) Finance
3 36 (9.89%) Back Office
3 36 (9.89%) Front Office
3 36 (9.89%) Public Sector
4 35 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.95%) Aerospace
6 17 (4.67%) Banking
7 9 (2.47%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.20%) Local Government
9 7 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.82%) Automotive
12 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.55%) Games
12 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.27%) Aviation
13 1 (0.27%) Law
13 1 (0.27%) Legal
13 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 258 (70.88%) Developer
2 115 (31.59%) .NET Developer
3 71 (19.51%) Senior
4 66 (18.13%) C# Developer
5 60 (16.48%) Senior Developer
6 53 (14.56%) Software Engineer
7 40 (10.99%) Backend Developer
8 37 (10.16%) Full Stack Developer
9 36 (9.89%) Lead
10 35 (9.62%) C# .NET Developer
11 29 (7.97%) .NET Software Engineer
11 29 (7.97%) Senior Backend Developer
12 25 (6.87%) Azure Developer
13 23 (6.32%) Architect
14 21 (5.77%) Finance Manager
15 20 (5.49%) .NET Software Developer
15 20 (5.49%) Software Developer
16 18 (4.95%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 17 (4.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 16 (4.40%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 364 (100.00%) .NET
2 119 (32.69%) React
3 67 (18.41%) CSS
4 66 (18.13%) ASP.NET
5 65 (17.86%) .NET Framework
6 55 (15.11%) AngularJS
7 54 (14.84%) HTML
8 44 (12.09%) XML
9 34 (9.34%) RESTful
10 31 (8.52%) REST
11 30 (8.24%) jQuery
12 28 (7.69%) Blazor
12 28 (7.69%) Entity Framework
12 28 (7.69%) Kafka
13 26 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
14 25 (6.87%) ASP.NET Web API
15 19 (5.22%) YAML
16 17 (4.67%) ASP.NET MVC
17 15 (4.12%) Redux
18 14 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.07%) Product Ownership
2 26 (7.14%) Fixed Income
2 26 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 21 (5.77%) Equities
3 21 (5.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 19 (5.22%) Hedge funds
5 18 (4.95%) Cloud Native
6 15 (4.12%) Derivative
7 13 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.75%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.92%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.65%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.10%) Mobile Payment
12 3 (0.82%) Contactless
12 3 (0.82%) N-Tier
13 2 (0.55%) PKI
13 2 (0.55%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.55%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.79%) Linux
2 14 (3.85%) Windows
3 4 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.55%) VMS
5 1 (0.27%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (50.27%) Agile
2 176 (48.35%) DevOps
3 113 (31.04%) CI/CD
4 110 (30.22%) OO
5 106 (29.12%) TDD
6 79 (21.70%) Software Engineering
7 76 (20.88%) Microservices
8 71 (19.51%) Full Stack Development
9 61 (16.76%) Scrum
10 56 (15.38%) OOD
11 55 (15.11%) MVC
12 53 (14.56%) API Management
13 51 (14.01%) Clean Code
14 49 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
15 45 (12.36%) Continuous Integration
16 44 (12.09%) Test Automation
17 36 (9.89%) B2C
18 34 (9.34%) Deployment Automation
18 34 (9.34%) OOP
19 28 (7.69%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 281 (77.20%) C#
2 117 (32.14%) JavaScript
3 110 (30.22%) SQL
4 82 (22.53%) Bicep
5 75 (20.60%) TypeScript
6 72 (19.78%) PowerShell
7 58 (15.93%) Python
8 22 (6.04%) T-SQL
9 18 (4.95%) C++
10 17 (4.67%) PL/SQL
11 9 (2.47%) Java
12 8 (2.20%) Bash
13 7 (1.92%) Go
14 4 (1.10%) Perl
15 3 (0.82%) C
16 2 (0.55%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.27%) R
17 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (11.81%) Security Cleared
2 32 (8.79%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.04%) Degree
4 14 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.47%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.82%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.55%) HND
9 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.14%) WCAG
2 25 (6.87%) Accessibility
3 24 (6.59%) QA
4 5 (1.37%) MiFID
5 4 (1.10%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.27%) GDPR
7 1 (0.27%) HL7
System Software
1 75 (20.60%) Active Directory
2 30 (8.24%) Docker
3 4 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.55%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.55%) Terminal Services
4 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.55%) vSphere
5 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (12.36%) Kubernetes
2 28 (7.69%) Terraform
3 23 (6.32%) Ansible
3 23 (6.32%) PowerCLI
4 7 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.55%) Puppet
6 1 (0.27%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 110 (30.22%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.59%) Atlassian
3 23 (6.32%) Oracle
4 22 (6.04%) Dell
4 22 (6.04%) HP
5 10 (2.75%) TIBCO
6 7 (1.92%) MuleSoft
6 7 (1.92%) NEC
7 5 (1.37%) SAP
8 4 (1.10%) Optimizely
8 4 (1.10%) VMware
9 3 (0.82%) Xamarin
10 2 (0.55%) Adobe
10 2 (0.55%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.27%) Aareon
11 1 (0.27%) Capita
11 1 (0.27%) Civica
11 1 (0.27%) Google
11 1 (0.27%) IBM
11 1 (0.27%) Nintex