.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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 139 91
Rank change year-on-year -43 -48 -37
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 85 158 236
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.80% 1.66% 3.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.90% 9.79% 12.41%
Number of salaries quoted 74 117 223
10th Percentile £37,875 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £62,500 £69,500 £66,875
90th Percentile £69,250 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%

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 1,076 1,614 1,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.13% 16.96% 25.28%
Number of salaries quoted 876 972 1,519
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,188 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £74,444 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

.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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025. 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 -10 49 £55,000 -4.35% 70
Yorkshire -36 25 £40,000 -20.00% 39
North East +3 11 £52,500 +16.67% 22
.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 (1.18%) CMS
1 1 (1.18%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 56 (65.88%) Azure
2 29 (34.12%) AWS
3 22 (25.88%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (20.00%) GitHub
5 15 (17.65%) Serverless
6 14 (16.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (16.47%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (15.29%) Amazon EventBridge
7 13 (15.29%) Amazon S3
7 13 (15.29%) Amazon SQS
7 13 (15.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (15.29%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (15.29%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.35%) SaaS
9 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.18%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.18%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (56.47%) SQL Server
2 19 (22.35%) NoSQL
3 13 (15.29%) DynamoDB
3 13 (15.29%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (7.06%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (21.18%) Git
2 1 (1.18%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.18%) NUnit
General
1 19 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.06%) Finance
3 3 (3.53%) Games
3 3 (3.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.18%) Back Office
4 1 (1.18%) Local Government
4 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.18%) Retail
4 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (80.00%) Developer
2 38 (44.71%) .NET Developer
3 26 (30.59%) Senior
4 21 (24.71%) Senior Developer
4 21 (24.71%) Software Developer
5 14 (16.47%) Software Engineer
6 13 (15.29%) Lead
7 12 (14.12%) Lead Developer
8 10 (11.76%) Lead Software Developer
8 10 (11.76%) Senior .NET Developer
9 9 (10.59%) AWS Developer
10 8 (9.41%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (9.41%) Senior Software Developer
11 7 (8.24%) .NET Software Engineer
11 7 (8.24%) C# Developer
12 5 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
13 4 (4.71%) Azure Developer
13 4 (4.71%) C# .NET Developer
13 4 (4.71%) Senior C# Developer
13 4 (4.71%) Serverless Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (100.00%) .NET
2 47 (55.29%) ASP.NET
3 20 (23.53%) RESTful
4 19 (22.35%) React
5 18 (21.18%) .NET Framework
6 17 (20.00%) Blazor
7 15 (17.65%) ASP.NET Core
8 13 (15.29%) AWS CDK
9 11 (12.94%) AngularJS
9 11 (12.94%) CSS
9 11 (12.94%) HTML
10 9 (10.59%) ASP.NET Web API
11 7 (8.24%) Node.js
12 5 (5.88%) Akka
12 5 (5.88%) Akka.NET
12 5 (5.88%) Sass
13 4 (4.71%) REST
14 3 (3.53%) CSS3
14 3 (3.53%) HTML5
14 3 (3.53%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.24%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.71%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (4.71%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.35%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.18%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (49.41%) Agile
2 34 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 34 (40.00%) Microservices
3 30 (35.29%) DevOps
4 24 (28.24%) Containerisation
5 23 (27.06%) Software Engineering
6 17 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (18.82%) RAD
8 14 (16.47%) Clean Code
8 14 (16.47%) Deployment Automation
8 14 (16.47%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (15.29%) Application Security
10 12 (14.12%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (12.94%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (10.59%) Mentoring
12 9 (10.59%) TDD
13 7 (8.24%) Scrum
13 7 (8.24%) Unit Testing
14 6 (7.06%) SDLC
14 6 (7.06%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 67 (78.82%) C#
2 39 (45.88%) SQL
3 16 (18.82%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.53%) Erlang
5 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (12.94%) AWS Certification
1 11 (12.94%) AWS Certified Developer
2 10 (11.76%) Degree
3 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.35%) QA
System Software
1 26 (30.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (22.35%) Terraform
2 5 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.18%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.18%) Foundry