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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 217 147
Rank change year-on-year +32 -70 -11
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 178 91 232
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.80% 0.95% 1.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.74% 5.71% 8.54%
Number of salaries quoted 156 81 204
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,870 £38,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £80,000
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 2,036 1,595 2,716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.20% 16.61% 17.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,665 831 2,027
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 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £75,250 £74,258 £69,800
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £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 11 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 11 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 +3 75 £65,000 +23.81% 9
North West -11 66 £50,000 -16.67% 22
Yorkshire -13 37 £48,750 -18.75% 10
.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 (1.69%) IIS
2 1 (0.56%) CMS
2 1 (0.56%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Magento
1 2 (1.12%) Shopify
2 1 (0.56%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 140 (78.65%) Azure
2 45 (25.28%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (20.79%) AWS
4 24 (13.48%) Azure AI
5 23 (12.92%) GitHub
6 17 (9.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 15 (8.43%) GitHub Copilot
8 9 (5.06%) Serverless
9 8 (4.49%) Power Platform
10 7 (3.93%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (3.37%) SaaS
12 5 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.81%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (2.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.25%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.25%) Power Automate
13 4 (2.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.81%) Internet
2 3 (1.69%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.12%) Firewall
4 1 (0.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (47.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 71 (39.89%) MongoDB
3 32 (17.98%) SQL Server
4 16 (8.99%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (3.93%) GIS
6 7 (3.93%) MySQL
6 7 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.93%) Power BI
6 7 (3.93%) Relational Database
7 6 (3.37%) NonStop SQL
8 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.56%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (8.99%) Git
2 3 (1.69%) GitLab
3 2 (1.12%) JIRA
4 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.56%) NUnit
General
1 27 (15.17%) Finance
2 14 (7.87%) Games
3 8 (4.49%) Advertising
4 7 (3.93%) Aerospace
4 7 (3.93%) Retail
5 4 (2.25%) Social Skills
6 3 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.69%) Banking
6 3 (1.69%) Legal
6 3 (1.69%) Local Government
6 3 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (1.69%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.12%) Music Industry
8 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 141 (79.21%) Developer
2 109 (61.24%) .NET Developer
3 27 (15.17%) Software Developer
4 22 (12.36%) C# Developer
4 22 (12.36%) Software Engineer
5 20 (11.24%) Lead
6 19 (10.67%) Senior
7 18 (10.11%) Lead Developer
8 15 (8.43%) C# .NET Developer
9 14 (7.87%) Senior Developer
10 13 (7.30%) Lead Software Developer
11 11 (6.18%) .NET Software Engineer
11 11 (6.18%) C# Software Developer
12 10 (5.62%) .NET Developer - Fintech
13 9 (5.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (5.06%) Senior C# Developer
14 8 (4.49%) .NET Software Developer
14 8 (4.49%) C# Software Engineer
14 8 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
14 8 (4.49%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (100.00%) .NET
2 108 (60.67%) ASP.NET
3 89 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 57 (32.02%) Entity Framework
5 52 (29.21%) RESTful
6 50 (28.09%) Vue
7 48 (26.97%) AngularJS
8 46 (25.84%) CSS
9 44 (24.72%) ASP.NET Web API
10 43 (24.16%) HTML
11 39 (21.91%) React
12 34 (19.10%) LINQ
13 27 (15.17%) Blazor
14 24 (13.48%) ML.NET
15 23 (12.92%) Node.js
16 21 (11.80%) .NET Framework
17 9 (5.06%) CSS3
17 9 (5.06%) HTML5
17 9 (5.06%) REST
18 7 (3.93%) SubSonic
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.48%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (6.18%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (6.18%) Hedge funds
3 7 (3.93%) Renewable Energy
4 6 (3.37%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.37%) BBC
4 6 (3.37%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.37%) Social Media
5 5 (2.81%) Social Network
6 4 (2.25%) iPhone
6 4 (2.25%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.69%) Blog
7 3 (1.69%) Culture of Ownership
7 3 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.12%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.12%) NHS
8 2 (1.12%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (61.24%) Full-Stack Development
2 89 (50.00%) Agile
3 64 (35.96%) DevOps
4 51 (28.65%) CI/CD
5 47 (26.40%) Multithreading
6 39 (21.91%) Software Engineering
7 29 (16.29%) Microservices
7 29 (16.29%) OO
8 25 (14.04%) AI
9 24 (13.48%) Machine Learning
10 23 (12.92%) Fintech
11 18 (10.11%) TDD
12 17 (9.55%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
13 15 (8.43%) SDLC
14 14 (7.87%) Mentoring
15 13 (7.30%) BDD
16 12 (6.74%) Analytics
16 12 (6.74%) Business Intelligence
16 12 (6.74%) Data Analytics
17 10 (5.62%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 156 (87.64%) C#
2 98 (55.06%) SQL
3 53 (29.78%) JavaScript
4 47 (26.40%) TypeScript
5 14 (7.87%) Python
6 7 (3.93%) Java
7 3 (1.69%) Ruby
7 3 (1.69%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.56%) C
9 1 (0.56%) C++
9 1 (0.56%) Dart
9 1 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (6.18%) Degree
2 4 (2.25%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.69%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.69%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.93%) QA
2 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 30 (16.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (13.48%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 106 (59.55%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.62%) Google
3 6 (3.37%) Apple
3 6 (3.37%) Facebook
3 6 (3.37%) Sony
3 6 (3.37%) Yahoo!
4 3 (1.69%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.69%) Splunk
5 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.56%) Sage
5 1 (0.56%) WooCommerce