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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 198 85
Rank change year-on-year -11 -113 +67
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 131 106 457
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.65% 1.34% 2.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.56% 6.71% 13.17%
Number of salaries quoted 124 88 437
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,375 £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 £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,250
% change year-on-year -4.00% +9.17% -11.92%

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 1,732 1,579 3,469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.61% 19.89% 18.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,446 829 2,870
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £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 £75,188 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £79,640
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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +4 70 £55,000 -8.33% 33
North East -17 40 £65,000 +44.44% 10
Yorkshire -59 21 £55,000 -8.33% 16
.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 4 (3.05%) IIS
2 1 (0.76%) CMS
2 1 (0.76%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Magento
1 2 (1.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 98 (74.81%) Azure
2 32 (24.43%) AWS
3 29 (22.14%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (12.21%) GitHub
5 12 (9.16%) Serverless
6 9 (6.87%) Azure AI
6 9 (6.87%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (6.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.58%) Amazon EventBridge
8 6 (4.58%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.58%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.58%) AWS Step Functions
8 6 (4.58%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (3.82%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.82%) Power Platform
9 5 (3.82%) SaaS
9 5 (3.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.29%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.53%) Firewall
2 2 (1.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (36.64%) SQL Server
2 32 (24.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 25 (19.08%) MongoDB
4 11 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (6.11%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.58%) DynamoDB
7 5 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (3.82%) GIS
8 4 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (3.05%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.29%) MySQL
9 3 (2.29%) Power BI
10 2 (1.53%) NonStop SQL
11 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (13.74%) Git
2 3 (2.29%) GitLab
3 2 (1.53%) JIRA
General
1 21 (16.03%) Finance
2 10 (7.63%) Games
3 6 (4.58%) Social Skills
4 3 (2.29%) Advertising
4 3 (2.29%) Aerospace
4 3 (2.29%) Banking
4 3 (2.29%) Retail
5 2 (1.53%) Local Government
5 2 (1.53%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 107 (81.68%) Developer
2 66 (50.38%) .NET Developer
3 44 (33.59%) Software Developer
4 32 (24.43%) Senior
5 24 (18.32%) Lead
5 24 (18.32%) Lead Developer
5 24 (18.32%) Senior Developer
6 21 (16.03%) C# Developer
7 20 (15.27%) Software Engineer
8 17 (12.98%) Lead Software Developer
9 16 (12.21%) Senior Software Developer
10 15 (11.45%) C# .NET Developer
11 14 (10.69%) C# Software Developer
12 12 (9.16%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (8.40%) .NET Software Developer
14 8 (6.11%) C# Software Engineer
14 8 (6.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (6.11%) Senior C# Developer
14 8 (6.11%) Senior Software Engineer
15 7 (5.34%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (100.00%) .NET
2 76 (58.02%) ASP.NET
3 38 (29.01%) ASP.NET Core
4 27 (20.61%) RESTful
4 27 (20.61%) Vue
5 25 (19.08%) React
6 24 (18.32%) .NET Framework
6 24 (18.32%) CSS
6 24 (18.32%) Entity Framework
6 24 (18.32%) HTML
7 22 (16.79%) AngularJS
8 18 (13.74%) ASP.NET Web API
9 14 (10.69%) Blazor
10 13 (9.92%) LINQ
11 10 (7.63%) Node.js
12 9 (6.87%) ML.NET
13 8 (6.11%) REST
14 6 (4.58%) AWS CDK
14 6 (4.58%) CSS3
14 6 (4.58%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.16%) Hedge funds
2 10 (7.63%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (4.58%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.58%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.82%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.05%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.29%) Social Network
7 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.53%) BBC
7 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.53%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.53%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.53%) Social Media
7 2 (1.53%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.76%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.76%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.76%) IoT
8 1 (0.76%) iPhone
8 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.76%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (44.27%) Full-Stack Development
2 51 (38.93%) Agile
3 35 (26.72%) DevOps
4 34 (25.95%) CI/CD
5 28 (21.37%) Software Engineering
6 20 (15.27%) Microservices
7 18 (13.74%) Multithreading
8 16 (12.21%) Fintech
9 14 (10.69%) RAD
10 11 (8.40%) AI
10 11 (8.40%) OO
11 10 (7.63%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (6.87%) Line Management
12 9 (6.87%) Machine Learning
12 9 (6.87%) Mentoring
13 8 (6.11%) API Integration
13 8 (6.11%) Containerisation
13 8 (6.11%) TDD
14 7 (5.34%) Deployment Automation
14 7 (5.34%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 117 (89.31%) C#
2 61 (46.56%) SQL
3 33 (25.19%) JavaScript
4 19 (14.50%) TypeScript
5 8 (6.11%) Python
6 3 (2.29%) Java
6 3 (2.29%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.53%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.76%) C++
8 1 (0.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (4.58%) AWS Certification
1 6 (4.58%) Degree
2 4 (3.05%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.34%) QA
System Software
1 30 (22.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (9.92%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.40%) Terraform
Vendors
1 57 (43.51%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.29%) Google
2 3 (2.29%) Splunk
3 2 (1.53%) Apple
3 2 (1.53%) Facebook
3 2 (1.53%) Foundry
3 2 (1.53%) Sony
3 2 (1.53%) Yahoo!
4 1 (0.76%) WooCommerce