.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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 128 87
Rank change year-on-year -58 -41 +14
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 112 129 425
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.78% 1.91% 2.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.50% 10.34% 14.20%
Number of salaries quoted 100 105 412
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,890 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.08% -3.07% -8.70%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,950 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%

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 1,318 1,247 2,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.16% 18.49% 20.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,090 976 2,531
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -29 65 £55,000 - 26
Yorkshire -57 25 £40,000 -20.00% 15
North East -9 22 £57,500 +27.78% 11
.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 2 (1.79%) CMS
2 1 (0.89%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.89%) IIS
2 1 (0.89%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Magento
1 1 (0.89%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (66.07%) Azure
2 33 (29.46%) AWS
3 25 (22.32%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (15.18%) GitHub
4 17 (15.18%) Serverless
5 14 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (11.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (11.61%) Amazon EventBridge
6 13 (11.61%) Amazon S3
6 13 (11.61%) Amazon SQS
6 13 (11.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (11.61%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (11.61%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (3.57%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.57%) Twilio
8 2 (1.79%) Azure AI
8 2 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 20 (17.86%) NoSQL
3 13 (11.61%) DynamoDB
3 13 (11.61%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (16.96%) Git
2 1 (0.89%) NUnit
General
1 18 (16.07%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.39%) Finance
3 7 (6.25%) Games
4 3 (2.68%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.79%) Local Government
6 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (77.68%) Developer
2 46 (41.07%) .NET Developer
3 33 (29.46%) Senior
3 33 (29.46%) Software Developer
4 26 (23.21%) Senior Developer
5 22 (19.64%) Software Engineer
6 20 (17.86%) Lead
6 20 (17.86%) Lead Developer
7 14 (12.50%) Lead Software Developer
7 14 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
8 13 (11.61%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (10.71%) AWS Developer
9 12 (10.71%) C# Developer
10 10 (8.93%) Senior .NET Developer
11 9 (8.04%) .NET Software Engineer
12 8 (7.14%) Azure Developer
12 8 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
13 7 (6.25%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 7 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
14 6 (5.36%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (100.00%) .NET
2 58 (51.79%) ASP.NET
3 25 (22.32%) React
4 24 (21.43%) RESTful
5 20 (17.86%) .NET Framework
6 18 (16.07%) ASP.NET Core
6 18 (16.07%) Blazor
7 13 (11.61%) AWS CDK
8 12 (10.71%) AngularJS
9 10 (8.93%) CSS
9 10 (8.93%) HTML
10 9 (8.04%) Vue
11 8 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
11 8 (7.14%) Node.js
12 6 (5.36%) Sass
13 5 (4.46%) Akka
13 5 (4.46%) Akka.NET
13 5 (4.46%) REST
14 3 (2.68%) CSS3
14 3 (2.68%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.07%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.25%) Hedge funds
3 6 (5.36%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.79%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.79%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.79%) Social Network
6 1 (0.89%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.89%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.89%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (37.50%) Agile
2 34 (30.36%) CI/CD
3 32 (28.57%) DevOps
3 32 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 31 (27.68%) Microservices
5 24 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 23 (20.54%) Containerisation
7 18 (16.07%) RAD
8 15 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
9 14 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (11.61%) Application Security
11 12 (10.71%) Clean Code
12 11 (9.82%) Root Cause Analysis
13 9 (8.04%) SDLC
14 8 (7.14%) Mentoring
14 8 (7.14%) Scrum
14 8 (7.14%) TDD
15 7 (6.25%) Fintech
15 7 (6.25%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 96 (85.71%) C#
2 46 (41.07%) SQL
3 23 (20.54%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.57%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.68%) Erlang
6 2 (1.79%) Java
6 2 (1.79%) Python
6 2 (1.79%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.89%) C++
7 1 (0.89%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (9.82%) AWS Certification
1 11 (9.82%) AWS Certified Developer
2 9 (8.04%) Degree
3 1 (0.89%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 28 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (16.07%) Terraform
2 5 (4.46%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (23.21%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.79%) Foundry
3 1 (0.89%) WooCommerce