.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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 140 110
Rank change year-on-year -52 -30 -60
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 73 182 213
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.77% 1.48% 2.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.06% 8.69% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 66 133 194
10th Percentile £36,250 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +4.68%
75th Percentile £62,500 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,125 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -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 1,034 2,095 2,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.94% 17.05% 27.27%
Number of salaries quoted 836 1,257 1,553
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,800 £37,800
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,738 £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 £73,813 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -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 24 November 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 24 November 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 +3 45 £55,000 -4.35% 29
Yorkshire -31 21 £40,000 -20.00% 15
North East 0 7 £60,000 +33.33% 6
.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 (4.11%) IIS
2 2 (2.74%) CMS
2 2 (2.74%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 39 (53.42%) Azure
2 26 (35.62%) AWS
3 13 (17.81%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (16.44%) GitHub
5 10 (13.70%) Serverless
6 7 (9.59%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (8.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (8.22%) Amazon S3
7 6 (8.22%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (8.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (8.22%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (6.85%) Amazon EventBridge
8 5 (6.85%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (5.48%) SaaS
10 3 (4.11%) Azure Functions
10 3 (4.11%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (4.11%) GCP
11 2 (2.74%) Azure AKS
11 2 (2.74%) NuGet
12 1 (1.37%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (49.32%) SQL Server
2 10 (13.70%) NoSQL
3 8 (10.96%) MongoDB
4 6 (8.22%) DynamoDB
4 6 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (6.85%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.74%) Redis
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.37%) Data Hub
7 1 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.37%) MySQL
7 1 (1.37%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 10 (13.70%) Git
2 2 (2.74%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.37%) NUnit
3 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (20.55%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.22%) Finance
3 3 (4.11%) Back Office
3 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.11%) Retail
4 2 (2.74%) Games
4 2 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.37%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (71.23%) Developer
2 26 (35.62%) .NET Developer
3 18 (24.66%) Senior
4 16 (21.92%) Software Engineer
5 13 (17.81%) Senior Developer
6 9 (12.33%) .NET Software Engineer
6 9 (12.33%) Lead
7 8 (10.96%) AWS Developer
7 8 (10.96%) Software Developer
8 7 (9.59%) Lead Developer
8 7 (9.59%) Senior .NET Developer
9 6 (8.22%) C# Developer
9 6 (8.22%) Lead Software Developer
10 5 (6.85%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (6.85%) Senior C# Developer
10 5 (6.85%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (5.48%) Graduate
11 4 (5.48%) Graduate Developer
12 3 (4.11%) C# Software Engineer
12 3 (4.11%) DevOps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (100.00%) .NET
2 27 (36.99%) ASP.NET
3 15 (20.55%) AngularJS
4 14 (19.18%) .NET Framework
4 14 (19.18%) React
4 14 (19.18%) RESTful
5 11 (15.07%) Blazor
6 10 (13.70%) ASP.NET Web API
6 10 (13.70%) CSS
6 10 (13.70%) HTML
7 7 (9.59%) ASP.NET Core
8 6 (8.22%) Node.js
9 5 (6.85%) Akka
9 5 (6.85%) Akka.NET
9 5 (6.85%) AWS CDK
9 5 (6.85%) REST
10 4 (5.48%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 4 (5.48%) CSS3
10 4 (5.48%) HTML5
10 4 (5.48%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.29%) Cloud Native
2 11 (15.07%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (8.22%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.48%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.48%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.11%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.74%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.37%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.74%) Windows
2 1 (1.37%) Linux
2 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (47.95%) Agile
2 34 (46.58%) CI/CD
3 29 (39.73%) DevOps
4 28 (38.36%) Microservices
5 26 (35.62%) Software Engineering
6 19 (26.03%) Containerisation
7 17 (23.29%) Clean Code
8 14 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (15.07%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (15.07%) TDD
10 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (13.70%) SDLC
11 9 (12.33%) Mentoring
12 8 (10.96%) Event-Driven
13 7 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (9.59%) Deployment Automation
13 7 (9.59%) Performance Optimisation
13 7 (9.59%) Unit Testing
14 6 (8.22%) RAD
14 6 (8.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 60 (82.19%) C#
2 28 (38.36%) SQL
3 18 (24.66%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.48%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.11%) Erlang
6 2 (2.74%) Python
7 1 (1.37%) PHP
7 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (16.44%) Degree
2 5 (6.85%) AWS Certification
2 5 (6.85%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.37%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.37%) GDPR
1 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 20 (27.40%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (17.81%) Terraform
2 10 (13.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.37%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.74%) Google
3 1 (1.37%) VMware