.NET Core Job Trends in the Midlands

.NET Core
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 175 102
Rank change year-on-year -1 -73 +102
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 79 47 264
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.61% 0.93% 2.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.06% 6.14% 14.01%
Number of salaries quoted 76 41 251
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,688 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,625 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 785 766 1,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.04% 15.22% 16.09%
Number of salaries quoted 598 561 1,599
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £66,500 £66,240 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.39% +10.40% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in the Midlands

.NET Core
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in the Midlands

.NET Core
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 May 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands +16 51 £60,000 +14.29% 10
West Midlands -34 28 £60,000 +0.84% 15
.NET Core
England

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.33%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 43 (54.43%) Azure
2 17 (21.52%) AWS
3 13 (16.46%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (6.33%) npm
4 5 (6.33%) NuGet
4 5 (6.33%) SonarCloud
5 4 (5.06%) Azure AI
5 4 (5.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (5.06%) GitHub
5 4 (5.06%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (2.53%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.53%) Google Play
6 2 (2.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) Internet
2 1 (1.27%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (32.91%) SQL Server
2 20 (25.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 16 (20.25%) MongoDB
4 8 (10.13%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (7.59%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.80%) Redis
7 2 (2.53%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Git
2 1 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (6.33%) Games
2 3 (3.80%) Finance
3 2 (2.53%) Advertising
3 2 (2.53%) Retail
4 1 (1.27%) Marketing
4 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 71 (89.87%) Developer
2 32 (40.51%) .NET Developer
3 26 (32.91%) Senior
4 25 (31.65%) Software Developer
5 18 (22.78%) C# Developer
5 18 (22.78%) Senior Developer
6 11 (13.92%) C# .NET Developer
7 10 (12.66%) Senior Software Developer
8 8 (10.13%) React Developer
9 7 (8.86%) Senior C# Developer
10 6 (7.59%) Azure Developer
11 5 (6.33%) .NET Web Applications Developer
11 5 (6.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 5 (6.33%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (6.33%) C# Web Application Developer
11 5 (6.33%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (6.33%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (6.33%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (6.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (6.33%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (100.00%) .NET
2 30 (37.97%) ASP.NET
3 22 (27.85%) ASP.NET Core
4 21 (26.58%) React
5 20 (25.32%) Blazor
6 13 (16.46%) Entity Framework
6 13 (16.46%) Node.js
7 12 (15.19%) CSS
7 12 (15.19%) HTML
8 11 (13.92%) .NET Framework
9 10 (12.66%) ASP.NET Web API
10 8 (10.13%) ASP.NET MVC
10 8 (10.13%) LINQ
11 7 (8.86%) AngularJS
12 6 (7.59%) RESTful
13 5 (6.33%) DirectX
13 5 (6.33%) OpenGL
13 5 (6.33%) Vue
13 5 (6.33%) YAML
14 4 (5.06%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.92%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (6.33%) 3D Graphics
2 5 (6.33%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.06%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.53%) iPhone
4 2 (2.53%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.27%) Digital TV
5 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.33%) Linux
1 5 (6.33%) Windows
2 2 (2.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (49.37%) Full-Stack Development
2 18 (22.78%) CI/CD
3 17 (21.52%) DevOps
4 16 (20.25%) MVC
5 15 (18.99%) Agile
6 13 (16.46%) Microservices
7 8 (10.13%) Software Engineering
8 7 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (7.59%) Analytics
9 6 (7.59%) Logistics
10 5 (6.33%) CAD
10 5 (6.33%) DevSecOps
10 5 (6.33%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
10 5 (6.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (6.33%) Mathematics
10 5 (6.33%) Migration
10 5 (6.33%) Multithreading
10 5 (6.33%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (6.33%) Physics
10 5 (6.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 74 (93.67%) C#
2 39 (49.37%) SQL
3 26 (32.91%) JavaScript
4 5 (6.33%) Bash
4 5 (6.33%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.33%) T-SQL
4 5 (6.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (1.27%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (11.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (11.39%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (29.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.33%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (2.53%) Facebook
3 2 (2.53%) Google
4 1 (1.27%) YouTube