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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 236 142
Rank change year-on-year +42 -94 -38
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 183 64 196
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.76% 0.67% 1.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.46% 4.22% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 154 60 142
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,625 £43,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.44% -0.43%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £70,475 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -4.17%

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 2,163 1,517 2,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.97% 15.81% 19.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,727 756 1,503
10th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,114 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £79,418 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,953 £85,625 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.74%

.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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -2 73 £55,000 -8.33% 38
North East -2 72 £65,000 +33.33% 13
Yorkshire -10 38 £47,500 -20.83% 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 4 (2.19%) CMS
2 3 (1.64%) Headless CMS
2 3 (1.64%) IIS
3 1 (0.55%) Kentico
3 1 (0.55%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.55%) Magento
2 1 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 143 (78.14%) Azure
2 41 (22.40%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (18.03%) AWS
4 22 (12.02%) Azure AI
4 22 (12.02%) GitHub
5 15 (8.20%) GitHub Copilot
6 13 (7.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 13 (7.10%) Serverless
7 7 (3.83%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.73%) SaaS
9 5 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.19%) Azure Functions
10 4 (2.19%) Google Play
10 4 (2.19%) PowerApps
10 4 (2.19%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.73%) Internet
2 3 (1.64%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.09%) Firewall
4 1 (0.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (43.72%) Azure SQL Database
2 69 (37.70%) MongoDB
3 30 (16.39%) SQL Server
4 16 (8.74%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (4.37%) MySQL
7 7 (3.83%) GIS
7 7 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.83%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.28%) NonStop SQL
9 5 (2.73%) Power BI
10 2 (1.09%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.09%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (8.74%) Git
2 3 (1.64%) GitLab
3 2 (1.09%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.09%) JIRA
4 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.55%) NUnit
General
1 24 (13.11%) Finance
2 12 (6.56%) Games
3 8 (4.37%) Advertising
4 7 (3.83%) Aerospace
4 7 (3.83%) Retail
5 5 (2.73%) Social Skills
6 4 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.19%) Legal
6 4 (2.19%) Local Government
6 4 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.19%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.64%) Banking
8 2 (1.09%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 145 (79.23%) Developer
2 121 (66.12%) .NET Developer
3 25 (13.66%) C# Developer
3 25 (13.66%) Senior
4 23 (12.57%) Software Developer
5 21 (11.48%) Senior Developer
5 21 (11.48%) Software Engineer
6 19 (10.38%) C# .NET Developer
7 17 (9.29%) Lead
8 16 (8.74%) .NET Developer - Fintech
9 15 (8.20%) Lead Developer
9 15 (8.20%) Senior .NET Developer
10 13 (7.10%) Senior C# Developer
11 11 (6.01%) .NET Software Developer
11 11 (6.01%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (6.01%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (5.46%) .NET Software Engineer
13 9 (4.92%) Senior C# .NET Developer
14 8 (4.37%) Lead C# Developer
14 8 (4.37%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (100.00%) .NET
2 101 (55.19%) ASP.NET
3 85 (46.45%) ASP.NET Core
4 58 (31.69%) Entity Framework
5 54 (29.51%) AngularJS
6 52 (28.42%) Vue
7 48 (26.23%) CSS
8 47 (25.68%) React
8 47 (25.68%) RESTful
9 44 (24.04%) HTML
10 42 (22.95%) ASP.NET Web API
11 34 (18.58%) LINQ
12 25 (13.66%) Blazor
13 24 (13.11%) Node.js
14 22 (12.02%) ML.NET
15 21 (11.48%) .NET Framework
16 13 (7.10%) REST
17 9 (4.92%) CSS3
17 9 (4.92%) HTML5
18 7 (3.83%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.11%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (6.01%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.83%) Hedge funds
3 7 (3.83%) Mobile App
3 7 (3.83%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (2.73%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.73%) BBC
4 5 (2.73%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.73%) Social Media
5 4 (2.19%) Blog
5 4 (2.19%) iPhone
5 4 (2.19%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.19%) Social Network
6 3 (1.64%) Culture of Ownership
6 3 (1.64%) NHS
6 3 (1.64%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.09%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.09%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.09%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.19%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (56.28%) Full-Stack Development
2 83 (45.36%) Agile
3 63 (34.43%) DevOps
4 53 (28.96%) CI/CD
5 45 (24.59%) Software Engineering
6 43 (23.50%) Multithreading
7 28 (15.30%) Microservices
7 28 (15.30%) OO
8 26 (14.21%) Fintech
9 24 (13.11%) AI
10 22 (12.02%) Machine Learning
11 18 (9.84%) SDLC
11 18 (9.84%) TDD
12 17 (9.29%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
13 15 (8.20%) Mentoring
14 13 (7.10%) API Integration
14 13 (7.10%) BDD
14 13 (7.10%) Technical Leadership
15 12 (6.56%) Analytics
15 12 (6.56%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 158 (86.34%) C#
2 93 (50.82%) SQL
3 59 (32.24%) JavaScript
4 47 (25.68%) TypeScript
5 13 (7.10%) Python
6 6 (3.28%) Java
7 4 (2.19%) Ruby
7 4 (2.19%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.09%) C
8 2 (1.09%) Dart
9 1 (0.55%) PHP
9 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (5.46%) Degree
2 4 (2.19%) AWS Certification
2 4 (2.19%) SC Cleared
2 4 (2.19%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.83%) QA
2 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (16.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (12.02%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 105 (57.38%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.92%) Google
3 5 (2.73%) Apple
3 5 (2.73%) Facebook
3 5 (2.73%) Sony
3 5 (2.73%) Yahoo!
4 3 (1.64%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.64%) Splunk
5 2 (1.09%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.09%) Sage