.NET Core Contracts in the UK excluding London

.NET Core
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 283 214
Rank change year-on-year -20 -69 -34
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 96 158 374
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.69% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.87% 3.82% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 120 292
10th Percentile £298 £360 £363
25th Percentile £404 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +3.83% +7.65%
75th Percentile £663 £575 £538
90th Percentile £700 £600 £575
UK median daily rate £545 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 12
10th Percentile £47.61 - -
25th Percentile £54.85 £52.50 £48.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £58.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -5.98% +62.50%
75th Percentile £85.00 £63.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £87.00 £67.50 £64.86
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 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 advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3,344 4,137 6,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.09% 18.15% 19.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,187 3,081 4,340
10th Percentile £325 £350 £360
25th Percentile £406 £425 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 87 136
10th Percentile £22.70 £22.20 £19.88
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £68.38 £75.00 £67.52
90th Percentile £74.45 £79.19 £77.16
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 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
South West +38 36 £700 +67.16% 37
North of England -13 20 £475 -9.52% 139
South East +4 17 £473 -12.09% 72
North West -9 12 £475 -13.64% 84
Scotland +27 9 £420 -16.00% 16
Yorkshire +14 8 £350 -27.27% 38
Midlands +1 8 £525 +23.53% 77
East Midlands +1 5 £538 +26.47% 36
Wales +15 4 £350 -16.42% 19
West Midlands +8 3 £400 -14.67% 41
East of England +1 2 £475 - 26
.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 27 (28.13%) Confluence
2 4 (4.17%) Umbraco
3 2 (2.08%) Apache
3 2 (2.08%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.04%) CMS
4 1 (1.04%) Kentico
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.04%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 43 (44.79%) Azure
2 17 (17.71%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (16.67%) AWS
4 10 (10.42%) Serverless
5 5 (5.21%) Azure Functions
5 5 (5.21%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (4.17%) PaaS
7 3 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.13%) npm
7 3 (3.13%) Yarn
8 2 (2.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.08%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.08%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.08%) GCP
8 2 (2.08%) GitHub
8 2 (2.08%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.08%) SaaS
9 1 (1.04%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.04%) Contentful
9 1 (1.04%) Contentstack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) HTTP
2 2 (2.08%) SSL
3 1 (1.04%) DHCP
3 1 (1.04%) DNS
3 1 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.92%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.21%) SQLite
4 3 (3.13%) MySQL
4 3 (3.13%) Redis
5 2 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.08%) Big Data
5 2 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.08%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.04%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 27 (28.13%) JIRA
2 26 (27.08%) Bitbucket
3 24 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 23 (23.96%) Jenkins
5 17 (17.71%) Git
6 5 (5.21%) Checkstyle
6 5 (5.21%) SonarQube
7 4 (4.17%) webpack
8 3 (3.13%) Jasmine
8 3 (3.13%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (3.13%) Mocha
8 3 (3.13%) Selenium
9 2 (2.08%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.08%) JMeter
9 2 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (1.04%) LabVIEW
10 1 (1.04%) MSTest
10 1 (1.04%) NUnit
10 1 (1.04%) TeamCity
10 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (32.29%) Social Skills
2 22 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (18.75%) Aerospace
4 6 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.17%) Finance
6 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.08%) Automotive
7 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Aviation
8 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 71 (73.96%) Developer
2 35 (36.46%) .NET Developer
3 13 (13.54%) Software Engineer
4 9 (9.38%) Senior
5 8 (8.33%) Software Developer
6 7 (7.29%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
7 6 (6.25%) C# Developer
8 4 (4.17%) AWS Developer
8 4 (4.17%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Applications Developer
9 3 (3.13%) Architect
9 3 (3.13%) Full Stack Developer
9 3 (3.13%) Senior .NET Developer
9 3 (3.13%) Senior Software Developer
9 3 (3.13%) Umbraco Developer
10 2 (2.08%) .NET Software Engineer
10 2 (2.08%) C# Software Engineer
10 2 (2.08%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (100.00%) .NET
2 30 (31.25%) .NET Framework
3 20 (20.83%) AngularJS
4 18 (18.75%) React
5 15 (15.63%) RESTful
6 12 (12.50%) Blazor
6 12 (12.50%) Entity Framework
7 10 (10.42%) Web Services
8 9 (9.38%) ASP.NET
8 9 (9.38%) CSS
9 7 (7.29%) HTML
9 7 (7.29%) Kafka
9 7 (7.29%) REST
9 7 (7.29%) Vue
9 7 (7.29%) XML
10 6 (6.25%) jQuery
10 6 (6.25%) JSON
11 4 (4.17%) SOAP
12 3 (3.13%) ASP.NET Web API
12 3 (3.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.13%) Algorithms
1 3 (3.13%) Data Structures
1 3 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (3.13%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.08%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.08%) PKI
2 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.08%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (28.13%) Linux
2 3 (3.13%) Windows
2 3 (3.13%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.08%) VMS
4 1 (1.04%) Android
4 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (43.75%) OO
2 33 (34.38%) CI/CD
3 32 (33.33%) Agile
4 31 (32.29%) OOP
5 29 (30.21%) DevOps
6 27 (28.13%) Configuration Management
7 25 (26.04%) Deployment Automation
7 25 (26.04%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
8 24 (25.00%) Task Automation
9 22 (22.92%) Infrastructure Automation
10 15 (15.63%) MVC
10 15 (15.63%) Software Engineering
11 13 (13.54%) Microservices
12 11 (11.46%) Design Patterns
13 10 (10.42%) Full Stack Development
13 10 (10.42%) Test Automation
14 9 (9.38%) Scrum
15 8 (8.33%) Code Quality
16 7 (7.29%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 52 (54.17%) C#
2 28 (29.17%) PowerShell
3 26 (27.08%) Python
4 24 (25.00%) SQL
5 14 (14.58%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.17%) Bash
7 4 (4.17%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.13%) C++
8 3 (3.13%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.08%) Java
9 2 (2.08%) Perl
10 1 (1.04%) Bicep
10 1 (1.04%) R
10 1 (1.04%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 36 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 28 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.29%) Degree
3 7 (7.29%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.08%) HND
6 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 1 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.04%) HL7
2 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.21%) Active Directory
1 5 (5.21%) Docker
2 3 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.08%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.04%) Terminal Services
4 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.04%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (23.96%) Ansible
1 23 (23.96%) PowerCLI
2 8 (8.33%) Terraform
3 6 (6.25%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.08%) Puppet
5 1 (1.04%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 22 (22.92%) Dell
2 22 (22.92%) HP
3 9 (9.38%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.29%) Oracle
5 3 (3.13%) VMware
5 3 (3.13%) Xamarin
6 2 (2.08%) Adobe
6 2 (2.08%) SAP
7 1 (1.04%) Google
7 1 (1.04%) IBM