.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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 204 110
Rank change year-on-year +19 -94 +21
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 172 107 395
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.83% 1.17% 2.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.98% 6.60% 11.23%
Number of salaries quoted 164 90 368
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,783 £38,084
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -8.00%

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 1,916 1,622 3,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.27% 17.74% 18.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,591 857 2,827
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £90,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

.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 6 July 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 6 July 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 West -3 77 £50,000 -16.67% 25
North East +7 66 £65,000 +33.33% 12
Yorkshire -26 29 £55,000 -10.20% 13
.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 4 (2.33%) IIS
2 1 (0.58%) CMS
2 1 (0.58%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Magento
1 2 (1.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 133 (77.33%) Azure
2 43 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (19.19%) AWS
4 24 (13.95%) Azure AI
5 19 (11.05%) GitHub
6 16 (9.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 15 (8.72%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (4.07%) Serverless
9 6 (3.49%) SaaS
10 5 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.33%) Google Play
11 4 (2.33%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.33%) Twilio
12 3 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.74%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.74%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.91%) Internet
2 3 (1.74%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.16%) Firewall
4 1 (0.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (48.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 69 (40.12%) MongoDB
3 33 (19.19%) SQL Server
4 16 (9.30%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.49%) NonStop SQL
6 5 (2.91%) GIS
6 5 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.91%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.33%) MySQL
7 4 (2.33%) Power BI
8 3 (1.74%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.58%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (8.14%) Git
2 3 (1.74%) GitLab
3 2 (1.16%) JIRA
4 1 (0.58%) Claude Code
General
1 27 (15.70%) Finance
2 16 (9.30%) Games
3 8 (4.65%) Advertising
4 7 (4.07%) Aerospace
4 7 (4.07%) Retail
5 3 (1.74%) Banking
5 3 (1.74%) Social Skills
6 1 (0.58%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 143 (83.14%) Developer
2 112 (65.12%) .NET Developer
3 31 (18.02%) Software Developer
4 24 (13.95%) C# Developer
5 23 (13.37%) Senior
5 23 (13.37%) Software Engineer
6 22 (12.79%) Lead
6 22 (12.79%) Lead Developer
7 18 (10.47%) C# .NET Developer
8 17 (9.88%) Senior Developer
9 14 (8.14%) Lead Software Developer
10 12 (6.98%) C# Software Developer
11 11 (6.40%) .NET Software Engineer
11 11 (6.40%) C# Software Engineer
12 10 (5.81%) .NET Developer - Fintech
12 10 (5.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (5.23%) .NET Software Developer
13 9 (5.23%) Senior C# Developer
14 8 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (4.65%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (100.00%) .NET
2 110 (63.95%) ASP.NET
3 86 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 53 (30.81%) Entity Framework
5 51 (29.65%) Vue
6 48 (27.91%) RESTful
7 47 (27.33%) AngularJS
8 42 (24.42%) ASP.NET Web API
9 40 (23.26%) CSS
9 40 (23.26%) HTML
10 39 (22.67%) React
11 32 (18.60%) LINQ
12 24 (13.95%) ML.NET
13 23 (13.37%) Blazor
13 23 (13.37%) Node.js
14 22 (12.79%) .NET Framework
15 7 (4.07%) REST
15 7 (4.07%) SubSonic
16 6 (3.49%) CSS3
16 6 (3.49%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.95%) Greenfield Project
2 14 (8.14%) Hedge funds
3 10 (5.81%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.49%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.49%) BBC
4 6 (3.49%) Social Media
4 6 (3.49%) Social Network
5 5 (2.91%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (2.33%) iPhone
6 4 (2.33%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.74%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.74%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.16%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.16%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.16%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.58%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.58%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.58%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.58%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.58%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (62.79%) Full-Stack Development
2 84 (48.84%) Agile
3 51 (29.65%) DevOps
4 43 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 43 (25.00%) Multithreading
5 38 (22.09%) Software Engineering
6 27 (15.70%) OO
7 25 (14.53%) AI
7 25 (14.53%) Microservices
8 24 (13.95%) Fintech
8 24 (13.95%) Machine Learning
9 16 (9.30%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
9 16 (9.30%) TDD
10 13 (7.56%) BDD
10 13 (7.56%) SDLC
11 12 (6.98%) Analytics
11 12 (6.98%) Data Analytics
12 10 (5.81%) Mentoring
13 9 (5.23%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (4.65%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 162 (94.19%) C#
2 99 (57.56%) SQL
3 53 (30.81%) JavaScript
4 44 (25.58%) TypeScript
5 9 (5.23%) Python
6 4 (2.33%) Java
7 3 (1.74%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.16%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.58%) C++
9 1 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (4.65%) Degree
2 2 (1.16%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.49%) QA
2 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 30 (17.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (12.79%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 102 (59.30%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.81%) Google
3 6 (3.49%) Apple
3 6 (3.49%) Facebook
3 6 (3.49%) Sony
3 6 (3.49%) Yahoo!
4 3 (1.74%) Splunk
5 1 (0.58%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.58%) WooCommerce