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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 130 73
Rank change year-on-year -29 -57 +10
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 103 156 361
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.90% 1.75% 3.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.46% 10.08% 14.80%
Number of salaries quoted 92 112 347
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £62,500 £69,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%

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 1,089 1,548 2,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.51% 17.40% 22.38%
Number of salaries quoted 886 907 2,051
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,800 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,156 £43,750 £42,750
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 £73,886 £72,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

.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 January 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 January 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 +16 66 £55,000 -3.30% 37
Yorkshire -43 23 £40,000 -20.00% 9
North East -9 14 £55,000 +22.22% 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 1 (0.97%) CMS
1 1 (0.97%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 70 (67.96%) Azure
2 31 (30.10%) AWS
3 24 (23.30%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (15.53%) GitHub
4 16 (15.53%) Serverless
5 13 (12.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 13 (12.62%) Amazon EventBridge
5 13 (12.62%) Amazon S3
5 13 (12.62%) Amazon SQS
5 13 (12.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (12.62%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (12.62%) AWS Step Functions
5 13 (12.62%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.94%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.94%) SaaS
7 1 (0.97%) Azure AI
7 1 (0.97%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.97%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.97%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (55.34%) SQL Server
2 19 (18.45%) NoSQL
3 13 (12.62%) DynamoDB
3 13 (12.62%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.80%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.91%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 17 (16.50%) Git
2 1 (0.97%) NUnit
General
1 19 (18.45%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.74%) Finance
3 4 (3.88%) Games
4 3 (2.91%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.94%) Local Government
6 1 (0.97%) Back Office
6 1 (0.97%) Retail
6 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (80.58%) Developer
2 44 (42.72%) .NET Developer
3 33 (32.04%) Senior
4 31 (30.10%) Software Developer
5 25 (24.27%) Senior Developer
6 20 (19.42%) Lead
6 20 (19.42%) Lead Developer
7 17 (16.50%) Software Engineer
8 14 (13.59%) Lead Software Developer
9 12 (11.65%) Senior Software Developer
10 11 (10.68%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (9.71%) AWS Developer
11 10 (9.71%) C# Developer
11 10 (9.71%) Senior .NET Developer
12 8 (7.77%) .NET Software Engineer
12 8 (7.77%) Azure Developer
12 8 (7.77%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (6.80%) C# .NET Developer
14 5 (4.85%) .NET Software Developer
14 5 (4.85%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (100.00%) .NET
2 57 (55.34%) ASP.NET
3 22 (21.36%) React
4 21 (20.39%) .NET Framework
5 19 (18.45%) RESTful
6 18 (17.48%) Blazor
7 16 (15.53%) ASP.NET Core
8 13 (12.62%) AWS CDK
9 12 (11.65%) AngularJS
10 10 (9.71%) CSS
10 10 (9.71%) HTML
11 9 (8.74%) ASP.NET Web API
12 7 (6.80%) Node.js
13 6 (5.83%) REST
13 6 (5.83%) Vue
14 5 (4.85%) Akka
14 5 (4.85%) Akka.NET
14 5 (4.85%) Sass
15 3 (2.91%) CSS3
15 3 (2.91%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.45%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.80%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.85%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.88%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.88%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.94%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.97%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.97%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (42.72%) Agile
2 34 (33.01%) Microservices
3 33 (32.04%) CI/CD
4 30 (29.13%) DevOps
5 26 (25.24%) Software Engineering
6 22 (21.36%) Containerisation
7 19 (18.45%) RAD
8 15 (14.56%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (12.62%) Application Security
9 13 (12.62%) Clean Code
9 13 (12.62%) Deployment Automation
9 13 (12.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (10.68%) Root Cause Analysis
10 11 (10.68%) TDD
11 9 (8.74%) Mentoring
12 8 (7.77%) Unit Testing
13 7 (6.80%) Scrum
14 6 (5.83%) Line Management
14 6 (5.83%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 86 (83.50%) C#
2 43 (41.75%) SQL
3 19 (18.45%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.91%) Erlang
5 1 (0.97%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.97%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (10.68%) AWS Certification
1 11 (10.68%) AWS Certified Developer
2 10 (9.71%) Degree
3 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.97%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.97%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.94%) QA
System Software
1 28 (27.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (19.42%) Terraform
2 4 (3.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (21.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.94%) Foundry