.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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 236 147
Rank change year-on-year +45 -89 -34
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 182 70 209
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.76% 0.73% 1.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.19% 4.57% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 156 66 154
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £42,875
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £84,625
England median annual salary £55,000 £63,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.73% +10.87% -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 2,221 1,533 2,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.23% 16.05% 19.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,775 769 1,605
10th Percentile £42,500 £33,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,125 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

.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 27 September 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 27 September 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 +1 74 £52,500 -8.70% 36
North East 0 73 £65,000 +30.00% 13
Yorkshire -15 35 £47,500 -20.83% 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 3 (1.65%) CMS
1 3 (1.65%) IIS
2 2 (1.10%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.55%) Kentico
3 1 (0.55%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.55%) Magento
2 1 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 142 (78.02%) Azure
2 41 (22.53%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (18.13%) AWS
4 22 (12.09%) Azure AI
4 22 (12.09%) GitHub
5 15 (8.24%) GitHub Copilot
6 13 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 12 (6.59%) Serverless
8 7 (3.85%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.75%) SaaS
10 5 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.20%) ChatGPT
11 4 (2.20%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.75%) Internet
2 3 (1.65%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.10%) Firewall
4 1 (0.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (43.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 69 (37.91%) MongoDB
3 33 (18.13%) SQL Server
4 16 (8.79%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (4.40%) MySQL
7 7 (3.85%) GIS
7 7 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.85%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.30%) NonStop SQL
9 5 (2.75%) Power BI
10 2 (1.10%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.10%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (8.79%) Git
2 3 (1.65%) GitLab
3 2 (1.10%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.10%) JIRA
4 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.55%) NUnit
General
1 26 (14.29%) Finance
2 12 (6.59%) Games
3 8 (4.40%) Advertising
4 7 (3.85%) Aerospace
4 7 (3.85%) Retail
5 5 (2.75%) Social Skills
6 4 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.20%) Legal
6 4 (2.20%) Local Government
6 4 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.20%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.65%) Banking
8 2 (1.10%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 145 (79.67%) Developer
2 118 (64.84%) .NET Developer
3 27 (14.84%) C# Developer
3 27 (14.84%) Software Developer
4 24 (13.19%) Senior
5 20 (10.99%) C# .NET Developer
5 20 (10.99%) Software Engineer
6 19 (10.44%) Lead
6 19 (10.44%) Senior Developer
7 17 (9.34%) Lead Developer
8 15 (8.24%) .NET Developer - Fintech
9 13 (7.14%) Senior .NET Developer
9 13 (7.14%) Senior C# Developer
10 12 (6.59%) .NET Software Developer
11 11 (6.04%) C# Software Developer
11 11 (6.04%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (6.04%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (6.04%) Lead Software Developer
12 10 (5.49%) .NET Software Engineer
13 9 (4.95%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (100.00%) .NET
2 104 (57.14%) ASP.NET
3 85 (46.70%) ASP.NET Core
4 55 (30.22%) Entity Framework
5 53 (29.12%) AngularJS
6 52 (28.57%) Vue
7 48 (26.37%) CSS
8 46 (25.27%) RESTful
9 45 (24.73%) React
10 44 (24.18%) HTML
11 42 (23.08%) ASP.NET Web API
12 34 (18.68%) LINQ
13 25 (13.74%) Blazor
14 23 (12.64%) Node.js
15 22 (12.09%) ML.NET
16 20 (10.99%) .NET Framework
17 11 (6.04%) REST
18 9 (4.95%) CSS3
18 9 (4.95%) HTML5
19 7 (3.85%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.19%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (6.04%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.40%) Hedge funds
4 7 (3.85%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (2.75%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.75%) BBC
5 5 (2.75%) Social Media
6 4 (2.20%) Blog
6 4 (2.20%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.20%) iPhone
6 4 (2.20%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.20%) Social Network
7 3 (1.65%) Culture of Ownership
7 3 (1.65%) NHS
7 3 (1.65%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.10%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.10%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.10%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.20%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (57.14%) Full-Stack Development
2 85 (46.70%) Agile
3 63 (34.62%) DevOps
4 52 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 43 (23.63%) Multithreading
5 43 (23.63%) Software Engineering
6 28 (15.38%) Microservices
6 28 (15.38%) OO
7 26 (14.29%) Fintech
8 24 (13.19%) AI
9 22 (12.09%) Machine Learning
10 18 (9.89%) TDD
11 17 (9.34%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
11 17 (9.34%) SDLC
12 15 (8.24%) Mentoring
13 13 (7.14%) BDD
14 12 (6.59%) Analytics
14 12 (6.59%) API Integration
14 12 (6.59%) Data Analytics
14 12 (6.59%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 157 (86.26%) C#
2 95 (52.20%) SQL
3 58 (31.87%) JavaScript
4 46 (25.27%) TypeScript
5 13 (7.14%) Python
6 6 (3.30%) Java
7 4 (2.20%) Ruby
7 4 (2.20%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.10%) C
8 2 (1.10%) Dart
9 1 (0.55%) PHP
9 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (5.49%) Degree
2 4 (2.20%) AWS Certification
2 4 (2.20%) SC Cleared
2 4 (2.20%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.85%) QA
2 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 30 (16.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (12.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 103 (56.59%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.95%) Google
3 5 (2.75%) Apple
3 5 (2.75%) Facebook
3 5 (2.75%) Sony
3 5 (2.75%) Yahoo!
4 3 (1.65%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.65%) Splunk
5 2 (1.10%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.10%) Sage