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

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 143 108
Rank change year-on-year -94 -35 -60
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 60 190 236
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.65% 1.50% 2.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.04% 8.82% 10.58%
Number of salaries quoted 56 139 206
10th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £63,750 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,875 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -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 1,484 2,155 2,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.17% 17.03% 27.45%
Number of salaries quoted 730 1,289 1,674
10th Percentile £31,245 £35,000 £37,773
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £74,066 £69,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £84,367
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

.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 October 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 October 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 -42 42 £55,000 -4.35% 51
Yorkshire -40 13 £45,000 -10.00% 26
North East 0 5 £51,250 +20.59% 18
.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 6 (10.00%) IIS
2 2 (3.33%) CMS
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.33%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.67%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 28 (46.67%) Azure
2 20 (33.33%) AWS
3 8 (13.33%) GitHub
4 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.33%) SaaS
5 4 (6.67%) Serverless
6 3 (5.00%) Azure Functions
6 3 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (5.00%) GCP
6 3 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.33%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.33%) NuGet
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.67%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.67%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.67%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (51.67%) SQL Server
2 11 (18.33%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.00%) Redis
5 2 (3.33%) Data Hub
5 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.33%) SQL CLR
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (13.33%) Git
2 3 (5.00%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.00%) Back Office
2 6 (10.00%) Finance
3 5 (8.33%) Retail
4 3 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.33%) Marketing
6 1 (1.67%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (68.33%) Developer
2 23 (38.33%) .NET Developer
3 17 (28.33%) Senior
4 14 (23.33%) Software Engineer
5 11 (18.33%) Senior Developer
6 8 (13.33%) Lead
6 8 (13.33%) Senior .NET Developer
7 7 (11.67%) .NET Software Engineer
8 6 (10.00%) Software Developer
9 5 (8.33%) C# Developer
9 5 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (8.33%) Lead Developer
9 5 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (6.67%) C# Software Engineer
10 4 (6.67%) Lead Software Developer
11 3 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
11 3 (5.00%) Senior C# Developer
12 2 (3.33%) Graduate
12 2 (3.33%) Graduate Developer
12 2 (3.33%) Head of Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (100.00%) .NET
2 19 (31.67%) ASP.NET
3 14 (23.33%) ASP.NET Web API
4 12 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 12 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 10 (16.67%) CSS
5 10 (16.67%) HTML
5 10 (16.67%) React
6 9 (15.00%) RESTful
7 6 (10.00%) Blazor
8 5 (8.33%) Akka
8 5 (8.33%) Akka.NET
8 5 (8.33%) Entity Framework
8 5 (8.33%) Node.js
8 5 (8.33%) REST
9 4 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 4 (6.67%) Web Services
10 3 (5.00%) CSS3
10 3 (5.00%) JSON
10 3 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.67%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (5.00%) Mobile App
5 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.33%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.67%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Windows
2 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (46.67%) Agile
2 26 (43.33%) CI/CD
3 23 (38.33%) Microservices
4 22 (36.67%) Software Engineering
5 21 (35.00%) DevOps
6 15 (25.00%) Clean Code
7 14 (23.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
9 9 (15.00%) SDLC
9 9 (15.00%) TDD
10 8 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (13.33%) Unit Testing
11 7 (11.67%) Design Patterns
11 7 (11.67%) Mentoring
11 7 (11.67%) Scrum
11 7 (11.67%) SOLID
12 6 (10.00%) Roadmaps
13 5 (8.33%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 53 (88.33%) C#
2 16 (26.67%) SQL
3 14 (23.33%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.00%) Erlang
5 3 (5.00%) Python
6 1 (1.67%) C
6 1 (1.67%) Go
6 1 (1.67%) PHP
6 1 (1.67%) R
6 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) Degree
2 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.67%) GDPR
1 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 14 (23.33%) Docker
2 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (15.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (15.00%) Terraform
2 1 (1.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.33%) Google
2 2 (3.33%) VMware
3 1 (1.67%) Databricks
3 1 (1.67%) Xamarin