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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 177 87
Rank change year-on-year -28 -90 +52
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 128 115 442
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.68% 1.46% 2.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.94% 6.96% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 119 99 424
10th Percentile £43,500 £41,124 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,625 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.89% -6.74%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 1,613 1,652 3,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.51% 21.04% 19.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,333 917 2,764
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,493 £33,825
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,000 £93,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £66,720 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.70% +10.42% -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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +8 69 £55,000 -8.33% 28
North East -13 39 £65,000 +40.54% 10
Yorkshire -65 20 £55,000 -8.33% 17
.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 (2.34%) IIS
2 1 (0.78%) CMS
2 1 (0.78%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Magento
2 1 (0.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 98 (76.56%) Azure
2 31 (24.22%) AWS
3 29 (22.66%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (12.50%) GitHub
5 13 (10.16%) Serverless
6 11 (8.59%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (7.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (7.03%) Amazon EventBridge
7 9 (7.03%) Amazon S3
7 9 (7.03%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (7.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (7.03%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (7.03%) AWS Step Functions
8 8 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (5.47%) Azure AI
10 5 (3.91%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.13%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (3.13%) Twilio
12 3 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (2.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.56%) HTTPS
1 2 (1.56%) Internet
2 1 (0.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (39.84%) SQL Server
2 27 (21.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 20 (15.63%) MongoDB
4 14 (10.94%) NoSQL
5 12 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (7.03%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.34%) GIS
7 3 (2.34%) Power BI
7 3 (2.34%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.56%) MySQL
8 2 (1.56%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 20 (15.63%) Git
2 2 (1.56%) GitLab
3 1 (0.78%) JIRA
General
1 24 (18.75%) Finance
2 9 (7.03%) Games
3 8 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 2 (1.56%) Advertising
4 2 (1.56%) Aerospace
4 2 (1.56%) Banking
4 2 (1.56%) Local Government
4 2 (1.56%) Public Sector
4 2 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 108 (84.38%) Developer
2 64 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 44 (34.38%) Software Developer
4 35 (27.34%) Senior
5 27 (21.09%) Senior Developer
6 25 (19.53%) Lead
6 25 (19.53%) Lead Developer
7 19 (14.84%) C# Developer
8 18 (14.06%) Lead Software Developer
9 17 (13.28%) Senior Software Developer
10 16 (12.50%) Software Engineer
11 15 (11.72%) C# .NET Developer
12 14 (10.94%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (9.38%) C# Software Developer
14 10 (7.81%) .NET Software Developer
15 9 (7.03%) Senior .NET Developer
16 8 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
17 7 (5.47%) Azure Developer
17 7 (5.47%) Senior C# Developer
18 6 (4.69%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (100.00%) .NET
2 80 (62.50%) ASP.NET
3 37 (28.91%) ASP.NET Core
4 31 (24.22%) RESTful
5 25 (19.53%) React
5 25 (19.53%) Vue
6 24 (18.75%) .NET Framework
7 21 (16.41%) AngularJS
7 21 (16.41%) CSS
7 21 (16.41%) HTML
8 20 (15.63%) Entity Framework
9 17 (13.28%) ASP.NET Web API
10 15 (11.72%) Blazor
11 12 (9.38%) LINQ
12 10 (7.81%) Node.js
13 9 (7.03%) AWS CDK
14 7 (5.47%) ML.NET
14 7 (5.47%) REST
15 4 (3.13%) CSS3
15 4 (3.13%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.59%) Hedge funds
2 10 (7.81%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.81%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.34%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (2.34%) Social Network
5 2 (1.56%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.56%) BBC
5 2 (1.56%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.56%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.56%) Social Media
6 1 (0.78%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.78%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (41.41%) Full-Stack Development
2 52 (40.63%) Agile
3 35 (27.34%) DevOps
4 32 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 27 (21.09%) Software Engineering
6 25 (19.53%) Microservices
7 18 (14.06%) RAD
8 16 (12.50%) Multithreading
9 14 (10.94%) Fintech
10 12 (9.38%) Containerisation
11 10 (7.81%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (7.81%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (7.81%) OO
12 9 (7.03%) AI
12 9 (7.03%) Application Security
12 9 (7.03%) Mentoring
12 9 (7.03%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (6.25%) Line Management
13 8 (6.25%) TDD
14 7 (5.47%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 114 (89.06%) C#
2 60 (46.88%) SQL
3 30 (23.44%) JavaScript
4 17 (13.28%) TypeScript
5 6 (4.69%) Python
6 3 (2.34%) Java
7 2 (1.56%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.78%) C++
8 1 (0.78%) PHP
8 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 8 (6.25%) Degree
2 7 (5.47%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.91%) QA
System Software
1 30 (23.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (10.94%) Terraform
2 10 (7.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 52 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.56%) Apple
2 2 (1.56%) Facebook
2 2 (1.56%) Foundry
2 2 (1.56%) Google
2 2 (1.56%) Sony
2 2 (1.56%) Splunk
2 2 (1.56%) Yahoo!
3 1 (0.78%) WooCommerce