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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 176 91
Rank change year-on-year -16 -85 +50
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 131 114 438
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.71% 1.50% 2.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.26% 7.79% 13.41%
Number of salaries quoted 121 98 422
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,061 £37,501
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,919 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.10% +7.69% -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 1,585 1,463 3,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.60% 19.30% 19.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,305 928 2,749
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,495 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,525 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +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 12 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 12 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 0 70 £55,000 -8.33% 25
North East -12 39 £65,000 +44.44% 10
Yorkshire -65 22 £55,000 -8.33% 13
.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 (2.29%) IIS
2 1 (0.76%) CMS
2 1 (0.76%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Magento
2 1 (0.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 100 (76.34%) Azure
2 32 (24.43%) AWS
3 30 (22.90%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (12.98%) GitHub
5 14 (10.69%) Serverless
6 12 (9.16%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (7.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (7.63%) Amazon EventBridge
7 10 (7.63%) Amazon S3
7 10 (7.63%) Amazon SQS
7 10 (7.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (7.63%) AWS Step Functions
8 8 (6.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (5.34%) Azure AI
10 5 (3.82%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.05%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (3.05%) Twilio
12 3 (2.29%) SaaS
12 3 (2.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) HTTPS
1 2 (1.53%) Internet
2 1 (0.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (39.69%) SQL Server
2 27 (20.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 20 (15.27%) MongoDB
4 16 (12.21%) NoSQL
5 13 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (7.63%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.29%) GIS
7 3 (2.29%) Power BI
7 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.53%) MySQL
8 2 (1.53%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (16.03%) Git
2 2 (1.53%) GitLab
3 1 (0.76%) JIRA
General
1 24 (18.32%) Finance
2 9 (6.87%) Games
2 9 (6.87%) Social Skills
3 2 (1.53%) Advertising
3 2 (1.53%) Aerospace
3 2 (1.53%) Banking
3 2 (1.53%) Local Government
3 2 (1.53%) Public Sector
3 2 (1.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 110 (83.97%) Developer
2 65 (49.62%) .NET Developer
3 44 (33.59%) Software Developer
4 35 (26.72%) Senior
5 27 (20.61%) Senior Developer
6 25 (19.08%) Lead
6 25 (19.08%) Lead Developer
7 19 (14.50%) C# Developer
8 18 (13.74%) Lead Software Developer
9 17 (12.98%) Senior Software Developer
9 17 (12.98%) Software Engineer
10 15 (11.45%) C# .NET Developer
11 14 (10.69%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (9.16%) C# Software Developer
13 10 (7.63%) .NET Software Developer
14 9 (6.87%) Senior .NET Developer
15 8 (6.11%) Senior Software Engineer
16 7 (5.34%) AWS Developer
16 7 (5.34%) Azure Developer
16 7 (5.34%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (100.00%) .NET
2 81 (61.83%) ASP.NET
3 38 (29.01%) ASP.NET Core
4 32 (24.43%) RESTful
5 26 (19.85%) React
6 25 (19.08%) Vue
7 24 (18.32%) .NET Framework
8 22 (16.79%) AngularJS
9 21 (16.03%) CSS
9 21 (16.03%) HTML
10 20 (15.27%) Entity Framework
11 17 (12.98%) ASP.NET Web API
12 16 (12.21%) Blazor
13 12 (9.16%) LINQ
14 10 (7.63%) AWS CDK
14 10 (7.63%) Node.js
15 7 (5.34%) ML.NET
15 7 (5.34%) REST
16 4 (3.05%) CSS3
16 4 (3.05%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.16%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.40%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (8.40%) Hedge funds
3 4 (3.05%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.05%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.29%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (2.29%) Social Network
5 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.53%) BBC
5 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.53%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.53%) Social Media
6 1 (0.76%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.76%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (40.46%) Agile
1 53 (40.46%) Full-Stack Development
2 36 (27.48%) DevOps
3 34 (25.95%) CI/CD
4 28 (21.37%) Software Engineering
5 27 (20.61%) Microservices
6 18 (13.74%) RAD
7 16 (12.21%) Multithreading
8 14 (10.69%) Containerisation
8 14 (10.69%) Fintech
9 11 (8.40%) Deployment Automation
9 11 (8.40%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (7.63%) Application Security
10 10 (7.63%) Mentoring
10 10 (7.63%) OO
10 10 (7.63%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (6.87%) AI
11 9 (6.87%) TDD
12 8 (6.11%) Line Management
12 8 (6.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 116 (88.55%) C#
2 62 (47.33%) SQL
3 31 (23.66%) JavaScript
4 17 (12.98%) TypeScript
5 6 (4.58%) Python
6 3 (2.29%) Java
7 2 (1.53%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.76%) C++
8 1 (0.76%) PHP
8 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (6.87%) AWS Certification
1 9 (6.87%) Degree
2 8 (6.11%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.82%) QA
System Software
1 32 (24.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (11.45%) Terraform
2 11 (8.40%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 52 (39.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.53%) Apple
2 2 (1.53%) Facebook
2 2 (1.53%) Foundry
2 2 (1.53%) Google
2 2 (1.53%) Sony
2 2 (1.53%) Splunk
2 2 (1.53%) Yahoo!
3 1 (0.76%) WooCommerce