.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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 234 207
Rank change year-on-year -35 -27 -50
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 363 645 1,248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 1.13% 1.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.08% 4.87% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 485 1,046
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £694 £694 £688
90th Percentile £755 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 14
10th Percentile £47.61 £46.40 -
25th Percentile £54.85 £48.50 £48.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £57.75
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -4.76% +60.42%
75th Percentile £85.00 £57.50 £63.60
90th Percentile £87.00 £65.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +45.45% +4.76% +45.83%

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 8,906 13,255 23,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.94% 23.15% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,185 9,676 17,493
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 144 238
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.35
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.71
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.25 £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

.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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -19 334 £550 -8.33% 505
London +8 245 £575 -11.54% 140
Work from Home -29 105 £500 -13.04% 564
UK excluding London -26 94 £488 +2.63% 423
South West +35 36 £700 +64.71% 38
North of England -12 20 £408 -22.38% 154
South East +13 17 £473 -14.83% 80
North West -12 13 £475 -13.64% 89
Midlands -3 8 £525 +23.53% 86
Scotland +21 7 £320 -32.63% 21
Yorkshire +15 7 £300 -37.66% 48
East Midlands +4 5 £538 +26.47% 39
Wales +11 4 £350 -16.42% 26
West Midlands +13 3 £400 -14.67% 47
East of England +5 2 £475 - 23

.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 (7.44%) Confluence
2 25 (6.89%) CMS
3 8 (2.20%) BizTalk Server
4 7 (1.93%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.83%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.83%) IIS
5 3 (0.83%) Kentico
5 3 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.55%) Apache
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.28%) EPiServer
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (1.93%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.28%) Aareon QL
2 1 (0.28%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.28%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 223 (61.43%) Azure
2 132 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 83 (22.87%) AWS
4 78 (21.49%) Azure Service Bus
5 77 (21.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 42 (11.57%) Azure Monitor
7 37 (10.19%) Entra ID
8 36 (9.92%) Serverless
9 27 (7.44%) GCP
10 23 (6.34%) Azure Functions
11 19 (5.23%) Azure Pipelines
12 18 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (4.68%) Azure Logic Apps
14 14 (3.86%) PaaS
15 13 (3.58%) GitHub
15 13 (3.58%) NuGet
16 11 (3.03%) Azure AKS
16 11 (3.03%) Azure Storage
17 10 (2.75%) Azure App Service
17 10 (2.75%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.93%) 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 (0.28%) Internet
4 1 (0.28%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (41.05%) SQL Server
2 32 (8.82%) NoSQL
3 27 (7.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 19 (5.23%) Redis
5 16 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (4.13%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.93%) MySQL
8 7 (1.93%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.38%) SQLite
11 4 (1.10%) Big Data
12 3 (0.83%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.83%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.83%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.55%) RavenDB
14 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.28%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 79 (21.76%) Git
2 33 (9.09%) JIRA
3 28 (7.71%) Bitbucket
4 26 (7.16%) Jenkins
4 26 (7.16%) TeamCity
5 24 (6.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 18 (4.96%) NUnit
7 12 (3.31%) Selenium
8 11 (3.03%) Cucumber
9 10 (2.75%) Moq
10 9 (2.48%) Octopus Deploy
10 9 (2.48%) SpecFlow
10 9 (2.48%) Visual Studio
11 8 (2.20%) Jasmine
11 8 (2.20%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.38%) Checkstyle
13 4 (1.10%) JMeter
13 4 (1.10%) webpack
14 3 (0.83%) Karma Test Runner
14 3 (0.83%) Mocha
General
1 62 (17.08%) Social Skills
2 53 (14.60%) Finance
3 37 (10.19%) Back Office
4 36 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.92%) Front Office
5 34 (9.37%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.96%) Aerospace
7 16 (4.41%) Banking
8 8 (2.20%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.20%) Local Government
9 7 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.83%) Automotive
12 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.55%) Games
12 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.55%) Law
13 1 (0.28%) Aviation
13 1 (0.28%) Legal
13 1 (0.28%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 258 (71.07%) Developer
2 114 (31.40%) .NET Developer
3 77 (21.21%) Senior
4 69 (19.01%) C# Developer
5 65 (17.91%) Senior Developer
6 50 (13.77%) Software Engineer
7 40 (11.02%) Backend Developer
8 38 (10.47%) C# .NET Developer
9 36 (9.92%) Lead
10 35 (9.64%) Full Stack Developer
11 29 (7.99%) Senior Backend Developer
12 27 (7.44%) .NET Software Engineer
12 27 (7.44%) Azure Developer
13 21 (5.79%) Architect
13 21 (5.79%) Finance Manager
14 19 (5.23%) .NET Software Developer
14 19 (5.23%) Software Developer
15 17 (4.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 17 (4.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 16 (4.41%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 363 (100.00%) .NET
2 119 (32.78%) React
3 67 (18.46%) ASP.NET
4 64 (17.63%) CSS
5 63 (17.36%) .NET Framework
6 56 (15.43%) AngularJS
7 55 (15.15%) HTML
8 44 (12.12%) XML
9 32 (8.82%) REST
9 32 (8.82%) RESTful
10 30 (8.26%) Blazor
11 29 (7.99%) jQuery
12 27 (7.44%) Entity Framework
13 26 (7.16%) ASP.NET Core
13 26 (7.16%) ASP.NET Web API
14 24 (6.61%) Kafka
15 21 (5.79%) YAML
16 19 (5.23%) ASP.NET MVC
17 15 (4.13%) Redux
17 15 (4.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 26 (7.16%) Fixed Income
2 26 (7.16%) Greenfield Project
3 21 (5.79%) Equities
3 21 (5.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 20 (5.51%) Hedge funds
5 18 (4.96%) Cloud Native
6 15 (4.13%) Derivative
7 13 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.75%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.93%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.65%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.10%) Mobile Payment
13 3 (0.83%) Contactless
13 3 (0.83%) N-Tier
14 2 (0.55%) PKI
14 2 (0.55%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.55%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.54%) Linux
2 15 (4.13%) Windows
3 4 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.55%) VMS
5 1 (0.28%) Android
5 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (50.41%) Agile
2 179 (49.31%) DevOps
3 113 (31.13%) OO
4 111 (30.58%) CI/CD
5 109 (30.03%) TDD
6 79 (21.76%) Software Engineering
7 74 (20.39%) Microservices
8 69 (19.01%) Full Stack Development
9 59 (16.25%) OOD
10 58 (15.98%) MVC
10 58 (15.98%) Scrum
11 56 (15.43%) Clean Code
12 55 (15.15%) API Management
13 49 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
14 47 (12.95%) Continuous Integration
15 42 (11.57%) Test Automation
16 36 (9.92%) B2C
17 34 (9.37%) OOP
18 33 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
19 30 (8.26%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 281 (77.41%) C#
2 118 (32.51%) JavaScript
3 107 (29.48%) SQL
4 84 (23.14%) Bicep
5 73 (20.11%) TypeScript
6 70 (19.28%) PowerShell
7 59 (16.25%) Python
8 21 (5.79%) T-SQL
9 19 (5.23%) C++
9 19 (5.23%) PL/SQL
10 9 (2.48%) Java
11 8 (2.20%) Go
12 7 (1.93%) Bash
13 3 (0.83%) C
13 3 (0.83%) Perl
14 2 (0.55%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.28%) R
15 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (11.85%) Security Cleared
2 33 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.06%) Degree
4 14 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.20%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.83%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.55%) HND
9 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.44%) WCAG
2 26 (7.16%) Accessibility
3 24 (6.61%) QA
4 5 (1.38%) MiFID
5 4 (1.10%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.28%) GDPR
7 1 (0.28%) HL7
System Software
1 75 (20.66%) Active Directory
2 29 (7.99%) 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 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (11.02%) Kubernetes
2 30 (8.26%) Terraform
3 23 (6.34%) Ansible
3 23 (6.34%) PowerCLI
4 7 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.55%) Puppet
6 1 (0.28%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 110 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.89%) Oracle
3 24 (6.61%) Atlassian
4 22 (6.06%) Dell
4 22 (6.06%) HP
5 10 (2.75%) TIBCO
6 8 (2.20%) MuleSoft
7 7 (1.93%) NEC
8 5 (1.38%) SAP
9 4 (1.10%) Optimizely
9 4 (1.10%) VMware
10 3 (0.83%) Xamarin
11 2 (0.55%) Adobe
11 2 (0.55%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.28%) Aareon
12 1 (0.28%) Capita
12 1 (0.28%) Civica
12 1 (0.28%) Google
12 1 (0.28%) IBM
12 1 (0.28%) Nintex