.NET Core Contracts

.NET Core
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 248 206
Rank change year-on-year -24 -42 -39
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 362 603 1,200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 1.09% 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.93% 4.74% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 449 1,030
10th Percentile £383 £413 £400
25th Percentile £456 £488 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £700 £695 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +2.63% +2.59% +8.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 12
10th Percentile £47.61 £46.50 £48.50
25th Percentile £54.85 £48.75 £49.06
Median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £60.75
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -9.47% +68.75%
75th Percentile £85.00 £63.75 £63.95
90th Percentile £87.00 £67.50 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £62.50 £58.50
% change year-on-year +28.00% +6.84% +62.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

.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 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 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
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 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

.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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -29 332 £550 -8.33% 434
London +1 248 £575 -11.54% 95
Work from Home -7 107 £488 -15.22% 364
UK excluding London -28 90 £488 +2.63% 362
South West +27 32 £700 +64.71% 30
North of England -21 20 £475 -9.52% 125
South East +10 16 £473 -10.00% 84
North West -12 12 £475 -13.64% 77
Scotland +41 9 £420 -20.00% 15
Yorkshire +12 8 £400 -15.79% 35
Midlands -4 8 £525 +23.53% 64
East Midlands -5 5 £538 +26.47% 29
Wales +19 4 £350 -22.22% 13
West Midlands +9 3 £400 -14.67% 35
East of England -3 1 £325 -31.58% 36

.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 25 (6.91%) CMS
2 24 (6.63%) Confluence
3 6 (1.66%) Umbraco
4 5 (1.38%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.83%) IIS
5 3 (0.83%) Kentico
5 3 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.55%) Apache
6 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
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
1 224 (61.88%) Azure
2 127 (35.08%) Azure DevOps
3 85 (23.48%) AWS
4 77 (21.27%) Azure Service Bus
5 71 (19.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 39 (10.77%) Azure Monitor
7 38 (10.50%) Entra ID
8 36 (9.94%) Serverless
9 28 (7.73%) GCP
10 22 (6.08%) Azure Functions
11 20 (5.52%) Azure Pipelines
12 16 (4.42%) Azure Logic Apps
12 16 (4.42%) GitHub
13 15 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (3.87%) PaaS
15 13 (3.59%) Azure App Service
15 13 (3.59%) Azure Event Grid
15 13 (3.59%) NuGet
16 12 (3.31%) Azure AKS
17 11 (3.04%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.93%) FTP
2 6 (1.66%) 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%) 4G
4 1 (0.28%) 5G
4 1 (0.28%) Broadband
4 1 (0.28%) Internet
4 1 (0.28%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (40.06%) SQL Server
2 36 (9.94%) NoSQL
3 29 (8.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 19 (5.25%) Redis
5 17 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.31%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.21%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.66%) MySQL
9 5 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.38%) SQLite
10 4 (1.10%) Big Data
10 4 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.83%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.28%) RavenDB
13 1 (0.28%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 77 (21.27%) Git
2 30 (8.29%) JIRA
3 25 (6.91%) Bitbucket
4 24 (6.63%) TeamCity
5 23 (6.35%) Jenkins
6 21 (5.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 17 (4.70%) NUnit
8 12 (3.31%) Selenium
9 11 (3.04%) Cucumber
9 11 (3.04%) Moq
9 11 (3.04%) SpecFlow
9 11 (3.04%) Visual Studio
10 8 (2.21%) Octopus Deploy
10 8 (2.21%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.93%) Jasmine
12 5 (1.38%) Checkstyle
12 5 (1.38%) JMeter
13 4 (1.10%) webpack
14 3 (0.83%) Postman
14 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (16.30%) Social Skills
2 53 (14.64%) Finance
3 40 (11.05%) Back Office
4 36 (9.94%) Front Office
5 35 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (9.67%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.80%) Banking
7 18 (4.97%) Aerospace
8 10 (2.76%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.21%) Local Government
10 7 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.83%) Automotive
13 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.55%) Games
13 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.28%) Aviation
14 1 (0.28%) Law
14 1 (0.28%) Legal
14 1 (0.28%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 256 (70.72%) Developer
2 115 (31.77%) .NET Developer
3 71 (19.61%) Senior
4 67 (18.51%) C# Developer
5 60 (16.57%) Senior Developer
6 55 (15.19%) Software Engineer
7 40 (11.05%) Backend Developer
8 38 (10.50%) Full Stack Developer
8 38 (10.50%) Lead
9 34 (9.39%) C# .NET Developer
10 30 (8.29%) .NET Software Engineer
11 29 (8.01%) Senior Backend Developer
12 25 (6.91%) Architect
13 24 (6.63%) Azure Developer
14 21 (5.80%) Finance Manager
15 20 (5.52%) .NET Software Developer
16 19 (5.25%) Software Developer
17 18 (4.97%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 18 (4.97%) Full Stack .NET Developer
18 17 (4.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (100.00%) .NET
2 121 (33.43%) React
3 72 (19.89%) CSS
4 66 (18.23%) ASP.NET
5 63 (17.40%) .NET Framework
6 56 (15.47%) HTML
7 52 (14.36%) AngularJS
8 44 (12.15%) XML
9 35 (9.67%) RESTful
10 31 (8.56%) jQuery
10 31 (8.56%) REST
11 29 (8.01%) Kafka
12 28 (7.73%) Entity Framework
13 25 (6.91%) ASP.NET Core
13 25 (6.91%) Blazor
14 24 (6.63%) ASP.NET Web API
15 18 (4.97%) ASP.NET MVC
16 17 (4.70%) YAML
17 15 (4.14%) Redux
18 13 (3.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.12%) Product Ownership
2 26 (7.18%) Fixed Income
2 26 (7.18%) Greenfield Project
3 21 (5.80%) Equities
3 21 (5.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 19 (5.25%) Hedge funds
5 15 (4.14%) Cloud Native
5 15 (4.14%) Derivative
6 13 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.76%) Mobile App
8 8 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.93%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.93%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.10%) Mobile Payment
11 3 (0.83%) Contactless
11 3 (0.83%) N-Tier
11 3 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 2 (0.55%) PKI
12 2 (0.55%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.73%) Linux
2 12 (3.31%) 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
1 179 (49.45%) Agile
2 172 (47.51%) DevOps
3 109 (30.11%) OO
4 107 (29.56%) CI/CD
5 104 (28.73%) TDD
6 80 (22.10%) Software Engineering
7 76 (20.99%) Microservices
8 70 (19.34%) Full Stack Development
9 66 (18.23%) Scrum
10 55 (15.19%) MVC
10 55 (15.19%) OOD
11 51 (14.09%) API Management
12 50 (13.81%) Clean Code
13 48 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
14 44 (12.15%) Test Automation
15 43 (11.88%) Continuous Integration
16 36 (9.94%) B2C
17 32 (8.84%) OOP
18 31 (8.56%) Analytics
18 31 (8.56%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 287 (79.28%) C#
2 118 (32.60%) JavaScript
3 112 (30.94%) SQL
4 80 (22.10%) Bicep
5 76 (20.99%) TypeScript
6 69 (19.06%) PowerShell
7 51 (14.09%) Python
8 24 (6.63%) T-SQL
9 16 (4.42%) C++
10 15 (4.14%) PL/SQL
11 8 (2.21%) Java
12 7 (1.93%) Bash
13 5 (1.38%) Go
14 3 (0.83%) C
14 3 (0.83%) Perl
15 2 (0.55%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (10.77%) Security Cleared
2 29 (8.01%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.63%) Degree
4 14 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.21%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.93%) 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 26 (7.18%) WCAG
2 25 (6.91%) Accessibility
3 24 (6.63%) QA
4 6 (1.66%) MiFID
5 4 (1.10%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.28%) EMIR
7 1 (0.28%) GDPR
7 1 (0.28%) HL7
System Software
1 73 (20.17%) Active Directory
2 31 (8.56%) Docker
3 3 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.55%) Terminal Services
4 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.55%) vSphere
5 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 46 (12.71%) Kubernetes
2 27 (7.46%) Terraform
3 20 (5.52%) Ansible
3 20 (5.52%) PowerCLI
4 7 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 113 (31.22%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.80%) Atlassian
2 21 (5.80%) Oracle
3 19 (5.25%) Dell
3 19 (5.25%) HP
4 10 (2.76%) TIBCO
5 7 (1.93%) NEC
6 5 (1.38%) MuleSoft
6 5 (1.38%) SAP
7 4 (1.10%) Optimizely
8 3 (0.83%) VMware
8 3 (0.83%) Xamarin
9 2 (0.55%) Adobe
9 2 (0.55%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.28%) Aareon
10 1 (0.28%) Capita
10 1 (0.28%) Civica
10 1 (0.28%) Google
10 1 (0.28%) IBM
10 1 (0.28%) Nintex