.NET Core Job Trends in the North of England

.NET Core
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 216 140
Rank change year-on-year +28 -76 -16
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 182 74 212
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.76% 0.79% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.14% 4.78% 7.70%
Number of salaries quoted 156 70 162
10th Percentile £38,750 £39,875 £41,825
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,438 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +2.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £78,000 £83,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

.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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,236 1,548 2,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.36% 16.44% 19.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,788 780 1,726
10th Percentile £42,500 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £69,688
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

.NET Core job vacancy trend in the North of England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in the North of England

.NET Core
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
North East -7 73 £65,000 +30.00% 17
North West +4 72 £52,500 -12.50% 39
Yorkshire -22 37 £47,500 -20.83% 18
.NET Core
England

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (1.65%) IIS
2 2 (1.10%) CMS
3 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.55%) Kentico
3 1 (0.55%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.55%) Magento
2 1 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 144 (79.12%) Azure
2 42 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (18.13%) AWS
4 23 (12.64%) Azure AI
5 22 (12.09%) GitHub
6 15 (8.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 15 (8.24%) GitHub Copilot
7 11 (6.04%) Serverless
8 7 (3.85%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.75%) SaaS
10 5 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.20%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (2.20%) ChatGPT
11 4 (2.20%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.75%) Internet
2 3 (1.65%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.10%) Firewall
4 1 (0.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (45.05%) Azure SQL Database
2 70 (38.46%) MongoDB
3 33 (18.13%) SQL Server
4 16 (8.79%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (4.40%) MySQL
7 7 (3.85%) GIS
7 7 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.85%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.30%) NonStop SQL
9 5 (2.75%) Power BI
10 2 (1.10%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.10%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (8.79%) Git
2 3 (1.65%) GitLab
3 2 (1.10%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.10%) JIRA
4 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.55%) NUnit
General
1 26 (14.29%) Finance
2 12 (6.59%) Games
3 8 (4.40%) Advertising
4 7 (3.85%) Aerospace
4 7 (3.85%) Retail
5 5 (2.75%) Social Skills
6 4 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.20%) Legal
6 4 (2.20%) Local Government
6 4 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.20%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.65%) Banking
8 2 (1.10%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 146 (80.22%) Developer
2 117 (64.29%) .NET Developer
3 29 (15.93%) Software Developer
4 25 (13.74%) C# Developer
4 25 (13.74%) Senior
5 20 (10.99%) Senior Developer
6 19 (10.44%) Software Engineer
7 18 (9.89%) C# .NET Developer
7 18 (9.89%) Lead
8 16 (8.79%) Lead Developer
9 13 (7.14%) .NET Developer - Fintech
9 13 (7.14%) Senior .NET Developer
9 13 (7.14%) Senior C# Developer
10 12 (6.59%) .NET Software Developer
10 12 (6.59%) Lead Software Developer
11 11 (6.04%) C# Software Developer
11 11 (6.04%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (5.49%) .NET Software Engineer
12 10 (5.49%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (4.95%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (100.00%) .NET
2 106 (58.24%) ASP.NET
3 87 (47.80%) ASP.NET Core
4 56 (30.77%) Entity Framework
5 54 (29.67%) Vue
6 53 (29.12%) AngularJS
7 49 (26.92%) RESTful
8 48 (26.37%) CSS
9 44 (24.18%) HTML
9 44 (24.18%) React
10 43 (23.63%) ASP.NET Web API
11 34 (18.68%) LINQ
12 26 (14.29%) Blazor
13 23 (12.64%) ML.NET
14 22 (12.09%) Node.js
15 20 (10.99%) .NET Framework
16 10 (5.49%) REST
17 9 (4.95%) CSS3
17 9 (4.95%) HTML5
18 7 (3.85%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.19%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (6.04%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.95%) Hedge funds
4 7 (3.85%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
5 6 (3.30%) BBC
5 6 (3.30%) Social Media
6 5 (2.75%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.20%) Blog
7 4 (2.20%) iPhone
7 4 (2.20%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.20%) Social Network
8 3 (1.65%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.65%) Culture of Ownership
8 3 (1.65%) NHS
8 3 (1.65%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.10%) Learning Management System
9 2 (1.10%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.10%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.20%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (58.79%) Full-Stack Development
2 87 (47.80%) Agile
3 64 (35.16%) DevOps
4 51 (28.02%) CI/CD
5 45 (24.73%) Multithreading
6 40 (21.98%) Software Engineering
7 29 (15.93%) Microservices
7 29 (15.93%) OO
8 25 (13.74%) AI
9 24 (13.19%) Fintech
10 23 (12.64%) Machine Learning
11 18 (9.89%) TDD
12 17 (9.34%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
13 16 (8.79%) SDLC
14 15 (8.24%) Mentoring
15 13 (7.14%) BDD
16 12 (6.59%) Analytics
16 12 (6.59%) Data Analytics
17 11 (6.04%) API Integration
17 11 (6.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 157 (86.26%) C#
2 97 (53.30%) SQL
3 58 (31.87%) JavaScript
4 46 (25.27%) TypeScript
5 13 (7.14%) Python
6 6 (3.30%) Java
7 4 (2.20%) Ruby
7 4 (2.20%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.10%) C
8 2 (1.10%) Dart
9 1 (0.55%) PHP
9 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (5.49%) Degree
2 4 (2.20%) AWS Certification
2 4 (2.20%) SC Cleared
2 4 (2.20%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.85%) QA
2 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (15.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (12.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 104 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.49%) Google
3 6 (3.30%) Apple
3 6 (3.30%) Facebook
3 6 (3.30%) Sony
3 6 (3.30%) Yahoo!
4 3 (1.65%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.65%) Splunk
5 2 (1.10%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.10%) Sage