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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 133 73
Rank change year-on-year -33 -60 +8
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 104 156 363
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.90% 1.77% 3.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.52% 10.04% 14.79%
Number of salaries quoted 93 110 349
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 £76,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -12.00%

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 1,092 1,554 2,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.43% 17.61% 22.36%
Number of salaries quoted 889 911 2,068
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,797 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £42,500
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 £71,250
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 29 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 29 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 +11 65 £55,000 -3.30% 32
Yorkshire -48 23 £40,000 -20.00% 10
North East -9 16 £55,000 +22.22% 4
.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 (0.96%) CMS
1 1 (0.96%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 70 (67.31%) Azure
2 31 (29.81%) AWS
3 24 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (15.38%) GitHub
4 16 (15.38%) Serverless
5 13 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 13 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
5 13 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 13 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
5 13 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
5 13 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.92%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.92%) SaaS
7 1 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.96%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.96%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (54.81%) SQL Server
2 19 (18.27%) NoSQL
3 13 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 13 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.73%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.88%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 17 (16.35%) Git
2 1 (0.96%) NUnit
General
1 19 (18.27%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.62%) Finance
3 5 (4.81%) Games
4 3 (2.88%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.92%) Local Government
6 1 (0.96%) Back Office
6 1 (0.96%) Retail
6 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (80.77%) Developer
2 45 (43.27%) .NET Developer
3 33 (31.73%) Senior
4 31 (29.81%) Software Developer
5 26 (25.00%) Senior Developer
6 20 (19.23%) Lead
6 20 (19.23%) Lead Developer
7 17 (16.35%) Software Engineer
8 14 (13.46%) Lead Software Developer
9 12 (11.54%) Senior Software Developer
10 11 (10.58%) C# Developer
10 11 (10.58%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (10.58%) Senior .NET Developer
11 10 (9.62%) AWS Developer
12 8 (7.69%) .NET Software Engineer
12 8 (7.69%) Azure Developer
12 8 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
13 7 (6.73%) Senior Software Engineer
14 5 (4.81%) C# Software Developer
14 5 (4.81%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (100.00%) .NET
2 57 (54.81%) ASP.NET
3 21 (20.19%) .NET Framework
3 21 (20.19%) React
4 19 (18.27%) RESTful
5 18 (17.31%) Blazor
6 16 (15.38%) ASP.NET Core
7 13 (12.50%) AWS CDK
8 11 (10.58%) AngularJS
9 10 (9.62%) CSS
9 10 (9.62%) HTML
10 9 (8.65%) ASP.NET Web API
11 7 (6.73%) Node.js
12 6 (5.77%) REST
13 5 (4.81%) Akka
13 5 (4.81%) Akka.NET
13 5 (4.81%) Sass
13 5 (4.81%) Vue
14 3 (2.88%) CSS3
14 3 (2.88%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.31%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.73%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.81%) Hedge funds
3 5 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.92%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.96%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (42.31%) Agile
2 33 (31.73%) CI/CD
2 33 (31.73%) Microservices
3 29 (27.88%) DevOps
4 27 (25.96%) Software Engineering
5 22 (21.15%) Containerisation
6 19 (18.27%) RAD
7 16 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (12.50%) Application Security
9 13 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
9 13 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (11.54%) Clean Code
11 11 (10.58%) Root Cause Analysis
11 11 (10.58%) TDD
12 8 (7.69%) Mentoring
12 8 (7.69%) Unit Testing
13 7 (6.73%) Scrum
14 6 (5.77%) API Integration
14 6 (5.77%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 87 (83.65%) C#
2 43 (41.35%) SQL
3 19 (18.27%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.88%) Erlang
5 1 (0.96%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (10.58%) AWS Certification
1 11 (10.58%) AWS Certified Developer
2 10 (9.62%) Degree
3 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.96%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 28 (26.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (18.27%) Terraform
2 4 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.92%) Foundry