.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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 203 88
Rank change year-on-year -2 -115 +59
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 134 101 446
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.68% 1.31% 2.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.89% 6.59% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 125 84 428
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +14.04% -12.31%

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 1,699 1,533 3,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.67% 19.91% 19.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,416 791 2,803
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,938 £46,000 £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 £76,063 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,625 £93,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -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 26 May 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 26 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
North West +6 72 £55,000 -8.33% 29
North East -11 41 £65,000 +44.44% 10
Yorkshire -61 21 £52,500 -12.50% 14
.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 (2.99%) IIS
2 1 (0.75%) CMS
2 1 (0.75%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Magento
2 1 (0.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 101 (75.37%) Azure
2 33 (24.63%) AWS
3 30 (22.39%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (11.94%) GitHub
5 14 (10.45%) Serverless
6 11 (8.21%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (5.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (5.97%) Amazon EventBridge
7 8 (5.97%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.97%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (5.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (5.97%) AWS Step Functions
7 8 (5.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (5.22%) Azure AI
9 5 (3.73%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.73%) Power Platform
9 5 (3.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (2.99%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.24%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.49%) Firewall
2 2 (1.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (39.55%) SQL Server
2 27 (20.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 20 (14.93%) MongoDB
4 13 (9.70%) NoSQL
4 13 (9.70%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (5.97%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.73%) GIS
7 4 (2.99%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.24%) MySQL
8 3 (2.24%) Power BI
9 2 (1.49%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (16.42%) Git
2 3 (2.24%) GitLab
3 2 (1.49%) JIRA
General
1 23 (17.16%) Finance
2 9 (6.72%) Games
3 8 (5.97%) Social Skills
4 3 (2.24%) Banking
4 3 (2.24%) Retail
5 2 (1.49%) Advertising
5 2 (1.49%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.49%) Local Government
5 2 (1.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 111 (82.84%) Developer
2 66 (49.25%) .NET Developer
3 46 (34.33%) Software Developer
4 36 (26.87%) Senior
5 28 (20.90%) Senior Developer
6 25 (18.66%) Lead
6 25 (18.66%) Lead Developer
7 21 (15.67%) C# Developer
8 19 (14.18%) Software Engineer
9 18 (13.43%) Lead Software Developer
10 17 (12.69%) Senior Software Developer
11 15 (11.19%) C# .NET Developer
12 14 (10.45%) C# Software Developer
12 14 (10.45%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (8.21%) .NET Software Developer
14 9 (6.72%) Azure Developer
14 9 (6.72%) Senior .NET Developer
15 8 (5.97%) C# Software Engineer
15 8 (5.97%) Senior C# Developer
15 8 (5.97%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (100.00%) .NET
2 79 (58.96%) ASP.NET
3 37 (27.61%) ASP.NET Core
4 30 (22.39%) RESTful
5 26 (19.40%) .NET Framework
5 26 (19.40%) Vue
6 25 (18.66%) CSS
6 25 (18.66%) HTML
6 25 (18.66%) React
7 22 (16.42%) Entity Framework
8 21 (15.67%) AngularJS
9 20 (14.93%) ASP.NET Web API
10 15 (11.19%) Blazor
11 13 (9.70%) LINQ
12 11 (8.21%) Node.js
13 8 (5.97%) AWS CDK
13 8 (5.97%) REST
14 7 (5.22%) ML.NET
15 6 (4.48%) CSS3
15 6 (4.48%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.96%) Hedge funds
2 9 (6.72%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.72%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (4.48%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.73%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.24%) Social Network
7 2 (1.49%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.49%) BBC
7 2 (1.49%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.49%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.49%) Social Media
7 2 (1.49%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.75%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.75%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.75%) IoT
8 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (41.79%) Full-Stack Development
2 52 (38.81%) Agile
3 38 (28.36%) DevOps
4 36 (26.87%) CI/CD
5 29 (21.64%) Software Engineering
6 24 (17.91%) Microservices
7 17 (12.69%) Multithreading
8 16 (11.94%) Fintech
8 16 (11.94%) RAD
9 12 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (8.21%) Containerisation
10 11 (8.21%) Mentoring
11 10 (7.46%) OO
12 9 (6.72%) AI
12 9 (6.72%) Deployment Automation
12 9 (6.72%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (6.72%) Line Management
13 8 (5.97%) API Integration
13 8 (5.97%) Application Security
13 8 (5.97%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 118 (88.06%) C#
2 61 (45.52%) SQL
3 35 (26.12%) JavaScript
4 18 (13.43%) TypeScript
5 8 (5.97%) Python
6 3 (2.24%) Java
6 3 (2.24%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.49%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.75%) C++
8 1 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (5.97%) AWS Certification
1 8 (5.97%) Degree
2 6 (4.48%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.22%) QA
System Software
1 33 (24.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (9.70%) Terraform
2 12 (8.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 54 (40.30%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.24%) Splunk
3 2 (1.49%) Apple
3 2 (1.49%) Facebook
3 2 (1.49%) Foundry
3 2 (1.49%) Google
3 2 (1.49%) Sony
3 2 (1.49%) Yahoo!
4 1 (0.75%) WooCommerce