.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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 224 148
Rank change year-on-year +35 -76 -16
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 172 93 233
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.80% 0.97% 1.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.49% 5.74% 8.65%
Number of salaries quoted 156 82 208
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,087 £38,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,125 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £78,175 £81,125
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -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 2,026 1,620 2,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.38% 16.90% 17.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,677 853 2,072
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -5.92%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £69,850
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

.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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +4 71 £65,000 +33.33% 10
North West -1 67 £50,000 -16.67% 23
Yorkshire -20 34 £52,500 -12.50% 12
.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
2 1 (0.58%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 136 (79.07%) Azure
2 45 (26.16%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (20.93%) AWS
4 24 (13.95%) Azure AI
5 21 (12.21%) GitHub
6 17 (9.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 15 (8.72%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (4.07%) Serverless
9 6 (3.49%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.49%) SaaS
10 5 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.33%) Google Play
11 4 (2.33%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.33%) PowerApps
12 3 (1.74%) Azure Key Vault
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 84 (48.84%) Azure SQL Database
2 71 (41.28%) MongoDB
3 31 (18.02%) SQL Server
4 16 (9.30%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (4.07%) GIS
6 7 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (4.07%) Relational Database
7 6 (3.49%) NonStop SQL
8 5 (2.91%) MySQL
8 5 (2.91%) Power BI
9 3 (1.74%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.58%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (9.88%) Git
2 3 (1.74%) GitLab
3 2 (1.16%) JIRA
4 1 (0.58%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.58%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.58%) NUnit
General
1 25 (14.53%) Finance
2 14 (8.14%) Games
3 8 (4.65%) Advertising
4 7 (4.07%) Aerospace
4 7 (4.07%) Retail
5 4 (2.33%) Social Skills
6 3 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.74%) Banking
7 2 (1.16%) Music Industry
8 1 (0.58%) Legal
8 1 (0.58%) Local Government
8 1 (0.58%) Marketing
8 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 140 (81.40%) Developer
2 108 (62.79%) .NET Developer
3 27 (15.70%) Software Developer
4 22 (12.79%) C# Developer
5 21 (12.21%) Software Engineer
6 19 (11.05%) Lead
6 19 (11.05%) Senior
7 18 (10.47%) Lead Developer
8 15 (8.72%) C# .NET Developer
8 15 (8.72%) Senior Developer
9 13 (7.56%) Lead Software Developer
10 11 (6.40%) .NET Software Engineer
10 11 (6.40%) C# Software Developer
11 10 (5.81%) .NET Developer - Fintech
12 9 (5.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (5.23%) Senior C# Developer
13 8 (4.65%) .NET Software Developer
13 8 (4.65%) C# Software Engineer
13 8 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (4.07%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (100.00%) .NET
2 108 (62.79%) ASP.NET
3 89 (51.74%) ASP.NET Core
4 56 (32.56%) Entity Framework
5 52 (30.23%) RESTful
6 50 (29.07%) Vue
7 48 (27.91%) AngularJS
8 44 (25.58%) ASP.NET Web API
8 44 (25.58%) CSS
9 43 (25.00%) HTML
10 37 (21.51%) React
11 34 (19.77%) LINQ
12 25 (14.53%) Blazor
13 24 (13.95%) ML.NET
14 23 (13.37%) Node.js
15 20 (11.63%) .NET Framework
16 8 (4.65%) CSS3
16 8 (4.65%) HTML5
17 7 (4.07%) REST
17 7 (4.07%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.95%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (6.40%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (6.40%) Hedge funds
3 7 (4.07%) Renewable Energy
4 6 (3.49%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.49%) BBC
4 6 (3.49%) Social Media
5 5 (2.91%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.91%) Social Network
6 4 (2.33%) iPhone
6 4 (2.33%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.74%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.16%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.16%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.16%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.16%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.58%) Blog
9 1 (0.58%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.58%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (63.37%) Full-Stack Development
2 86 (50.00%) Agile
3 59 (34.30%) DevOps
4 48 (27.91%) CI/CD
5 47 (27.33%) Multithreading
6 38 (22.09%) Software Engineering
7 27 (15.70%) Microservices
7 27 (15.70%) OO
8 25 (14.53%) AI
9 24 (13.95%) Machine Learning
10 23 (13.37%) Fintech
11 17 (9.88%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
12 16 (9.30%) TDD
13 15 (8.72%) SDLC
14 13 (7.56%) BDD
15 12 (6.98%) Analytics
15 12 (6.98%) Data Analytics
15 12 (6.98%) Mentoring
16 10 (5.81%) Business Intelligence
16 10 (5.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 154 (89.53%) C#
2 99 (57.56%) SQL
3 54 (31.40%) JavaScript
4 47 (27.33%) TypeScript
5 12 (6.98%) Python
6 5 (2.91%) Java
7 4 (2.33%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.16%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.58%) C
9 1 (0.58%) C++
9 1 (0.58%) Dart
9 1 (0.58%) PHP
9 1 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (6.40%) Degree
2 4 (2.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.58%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.58%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.07%) QA
2 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 30 (17.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (13.95%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 104 (60.47%) 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%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.58%) Sage
5 1 (0.58%) WooCommerce