.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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 137 106
Rank change year-on-year -47 -31 -54
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 82 161 199
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.78% 1.63% 2.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.74% 9.52% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 72 120 186
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,938 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £62,500 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%

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 1,060 1,692 1,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.13% 17.14% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 861 1,026 1,419
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,188 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,625 £86,250
England median annual salary £66,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +2.31% -3.70% -

.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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025. 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 -13 46 £55,000 -4.35% 38
Yorkshire -40 25 £40,000 -20.00% 15
North East -8 11 £52,500 +16.67% 9
.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 1 (1.22%) CMS
1 1 (1.22%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 48 (58.54%) Azure
2 29 (35.37%) AWS
3 20 (24.39%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (18.29%) GitHub
4 15 (18.29%) Serverless
5 12 (14.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (14.63%) Amazon S3
5 12 (14.63%) Amazon SQS
5 12 (14.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (14.63%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (13.41%) Amazon EventBridge
6 11 (13.41%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (3.66%) SaaS
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.22%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.22%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.22%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.22%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (53.66%) SQL Server
2 18 (21.95%) NoSQL
3 12 (14.63%) DynamoDB
4 11 (13.41%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (8.54%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.88%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 16 (19.51%) Git
2 1 (1.22%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.22%) NUnit
2 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.54%) Finance
3 3 (3.66%) Games
3 3 (3.66%) Retail
4 2 (2.44%) Back Office
4 2 (2.44%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (78.05%) Developer
2 36 (43.90%) .NET Developer
3 23 (28.05%) Senior
4 18 (21.95%) Senior Developer
5 15 (18.29%) Software Developer
6 14 (17.07%) Software Engineer
7 11 (13.41%) Lead
7 11 (13.41%) Senior .NET Developer
8 10 (12.20%) Lead Developer
9 9 (10.98%) AWS Developer
9 9 (10.98%) Lead Software Developer
10 7 (8.54%) .NET Software Engineer
10 7 (8.54%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (6.10%) C# Developer
11 5 (6.10%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (4.88%) AWS DevOps
12 4 (4.88%) Azure Developer
12 4 (4.88%) Senior C# Developer
12 4 (4.88%) Senior Software Developer
12 4 (4.88%) Serverless Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (100.00%) .NET
2 40 (48.78%) ASP.NET
3 19 (23.17%) RESTful
4 18 (21.95%) React
5 16 (19.51%) Blazor
6 15 (18.29%) .NET Framework
7 14 (17.07%) AngularJS
8 13 (15.85%) ASP.NET Core
9 12 (14.63%) CSS
9 12 (14.63%) HTML
10 11 (13.41%) AWS CDK
11 10 (12.20%) ASP.NET Web API
12 7 (8.54%) Node.js
13 5 (6.10%) Akka
13 5 (6.10%) Akka.NET
13 5 (6.10%) Sass
14 4 (4.88%) ASP.NET Web Forms
14 4 (4.88%) CSS3
14 4 (4.88%) HTML5
15 3 (3.66%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (25.61%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.98%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.88%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.66%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.44%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.44%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (48.78%) Agile
2 35 (42.68%) CI/CD
3 33 (40.24%) Microservices
4 32 (39.02%) DevOps
5 25 (30.49%) Software Engineering
6 24 (29.27%) Containerisation
7 16 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (18.29%) Clean Code
8 15 (18.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (14.63%) Deployment Automation
9 12 (14.63%) Full-Stack Development
10 11 (13.41%) Application Security
10 11 (13.41%) RAD
11 10 (12.20%) Mentoring
11 10 (12.20%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (10.98%) TDD
13 7 (8.54%) Event-Driven
13 7 (8.54%) Performance Optimisation
13 7 (8.54%) Roadmaps
13 7 (8.54%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 64 (78.05%) C#
2 34 (41.46%) SQL
3 18 (21.95%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.66%) Erlang
5 2 (2.44%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (15.85%) Degree
2 10 (12.20%) AWS Certification
2 10 (12.20%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 25 (30.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (21.95%) Terraform
2 7 (8.54%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (13.41%) Microsoft