.NET Core Contracts in the UK excluding London

.NET Core
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 311 283 227
Rank change year-on-year -28 -56 -45
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 90 148 352
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.65% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.64% 3.59% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 109 280
10th Percentile £313 £360 £363
25th Percentile £404 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +2.59% +8.94%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £538
90th Percentile £700 £600 £575
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 10
10th Percentile £47.61 £54.25 £48.50
25th Percentile £54.85 £56.88 £48.69
Median hourly rate £80.00 £62.50 £58.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% +6.84% +62.50%
75th Percentile £85.00 £66.88 £63.60
90th Percentile £87.00 £68.75 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £60.75
% change year-on-year +45.45% -9.47% +68.75%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

.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 in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,405 4,123 6,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.97% 18.17% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,204 3,067 4,324
10th Percentile £325 £350 £362
25th Percentile £410 £418 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £688 £652
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 90 140
10th Percentile £22.75 £22.47 £19.41
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.47 £78.12 £77.03
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing .NET Core as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core in the UK excluding London

.NET Core
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Core in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for .NET Core in the UK excluding London

.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Core in the UK excluding London

.NET Core
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Core in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Core in the UK excluding London

.NET Core
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET Core in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET Core in the UK excluding London

.NET Core
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region 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
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% 78
Scotland +41 9 £420 -20.00% 15
Yorkshire +12 8 £400 -15.79% 34
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% 37
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 24 (26.67%) Confluence
2 4 (4.44%) Umbraco
3 2 (2.22%) Apache
3 2 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.11%) CMS
4 1 (1.11%) Kentico
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.11%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 39 (43.33%) Azure
2 17 (18.89%) AWS
3 16 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (11.11%) Serverless
5 5 (5.56%) Azure Functions
5 5 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (4.44%) PaaS
7 3 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.33%) npm
7 3 (3.33%) Yarn
8 2 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.22%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.22%) GCP
8 2 (2.22%) GitHub
8 2 (2.22%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.22%) SaaS
9 1 (1.11%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.11%) Contentful
9 1 (1.11%) Contentstack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) HTTP
2 2 (2.22%) SSL
3 1 (1.11%) DHCP
3 1 (1.11%) DNS
3 1 (1.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (23.33%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.56%) SQLite
4 3 (3.33%) Redis
5 2 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.22%) Big Data
5 2 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.22%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.22%) MySQL
5 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.11%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 24 (26.67%) JIRA
2 23 (25.56%) Bitbucket
3 21 (23.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 20 (22.22%) Jenkins
5 16 (17.78%) Git
6 5 (5.56%) Checkstyle
6 5 (5.56%) SonarQube
7 4 (4.44%) webpack
8 3 (3.33%) Jasmine
8 3 (3.33%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (3.33%) Mocha
8 3 (3.33%) Selenium
9 2 (2.22%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.22%) JMeter
9 2 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (1.11%) Appium
10 1 (1.11%) Hudson
10 1 (1.11%) LabVIEW
10 1 (1.11%) MSTest
10 1 (1.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 27 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (20.00%) Aerospace
4 6 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.33%) Finance
5 3 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.22%) Automotive
6 2 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Aviation
7 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 69 (76.67%) Developer
2 33 (36.67%) .NET Developer
3 13 (14.44%) Software Engineer
4 8 (8.89%) Software Developer
5 7 (7.78%) C# Developer
5 7 (7.78%) Senior
6 6 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.44%) AWS Developer
8 4 (4.44%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Applications Developer
9 3 (3.33%) Senior Software Developer
9 3 (3.33%) Umbraco Developer
10 2 (2.22%) .NET Applications Developer
10 2 (2.22%) .NET Software Engineer
10 2 (2.22%) C# Software Engineer
10 2 (2.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 2 (2.22%) Senior .NET Developer
10 2 (2.22%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (2.22%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (100.00%) .NET
2 29 (32.22%) .NET Framework
3 18 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 16 (17.78%) React
5 15 (16.67%) RESTful
6 12 (13.33%) Entity Framework
7 11 (12.22%) Blazor
8 10 (11.11%) Web Services
9 9 (10.00%) CSS
10 8 (8.89%) ASP.NET
11 7 (7.78%) HTML
11 7 (7.78%) Kafka
11 7 (7.78%) REST
11 7 (7.78%) Vue
11 7 (7.78%) XML
12 6 (6.67%) jQuery
12 6 (6.67%) JSON
13 4 (4.44%) SOAP
14 3 (3.33%) Razor View Engine
14 3 (3.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.33%) Algorithms
1 3 (3.33%) Data Structures
1 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (3.33%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.22%) PKI
2 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.22%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.67%) Linux
2 3 (3.33%) Windows
2 3 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.22%) VMS
4 1 (1.11%) Android
4 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (43.33%) OO
2 30 (33.33%) Agile
2 30 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 28 (31.11%) OOP
4 27 (30.00%) DevOps
5 24 (26.67%) Configuration Management
6 23 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (24.44%) Deployment Automation
8 21 (23.33%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (23.33%) Task Automation
9 19 (21.11%) Infrastructure Automation
10 15 (16.67%) MVC
10 15 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 12 (13.33%) Microservices
12 11 (12.22%) Design Patterns
13 10 (11.11%) Test Automation
14 8 (8.89%) Code Quality
14 8 (8.89%) Full Stack Development
14 8 (8.89%) Scrum
15 7 (7.78%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 51 (56.67%) C#
2 25 (27.78%) PowerShell
3 22 (24.44%) Python
3 22 (24.44%) SQL
4 15 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.56%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.44%) Bash
6 4 (4.44%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.33%) C++
7 3 (3.33%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.22%) Java
8 2 (2.22%) Perl
9 1 (1.11%) Bicep
9 1 (1.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 33 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 25 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.78%) Degree
3 7 (7.78%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.22%) HND
6 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 1 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.11%) HL7
2 1 (1.11%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 5 (5.56%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.11%) Terminal Services
3 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (22.22%) Ansible
1 20 (22.22%) PowerCLI
2 7 (7.78%) Terraform
3 6 (6.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (23.33%) Atlassian
2 19 (21.11%) Dell
2 19 (21.11%) HP
3 8 (8.89%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.78%) Oracle
5 3 (3.33%) Xamarin
6 2 (2.22%) Adobe
6 2 (2.22%) SAP
6 2 (2.22%) VMware
7 1 (1.11%) Google
7 1 (1.11%) IBM