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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 141 91
Rank change year-on-year -36 -50 -32
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 85 159 232
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.81% 1.68% 3.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.00% 9.93% 12.26%
Number of salaries quoted 74 118 219
10th Percentile £37,875 £42,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £62,500 £69,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £66,375 £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 1,063 1,601 1,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.12% 16.93% 25.31%
Number of salaries quoted 866 962 1,516
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,313 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +3.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £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 1 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 1 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 -4 50 £55,000 -4.35% 48
Yorkshire -36 24 £40,000 -20.00% 14
North East -3 11 £52,500 +16.67% 14
.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 57 (67.06%) Azure
2 29 (34.12%) AWS
3 22 (25.88%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (18.82%) GitHub
5 15 (17.65%) Serverless
6 14 (16.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
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
7 13 (15.29%) GitHub Actions
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 49 (57.65%) 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%) NUnit
General
1 19 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.06%) Finance
3 3 (3.53%) Games
4 2 (2.35%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.18%) Back Office
5 1 (1.18%) Local Government
5 1 (1.18%) Retail
5 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (81.18%) Developer
2 38 (44.71%) .NET Developer
3 27 (31.76%) Senior
4 22 (25.88%) Senior Developer
4 22 (25.88%) Software Developer
5 13 (15.29%) Software Engineer
6 12 (14.12%) Lead
6 12 (14.12%) Lead Developer
7 10 (11.76%) Lead Software Developer
7 10 (11.76%) Senior .NET Developer
8 9 (10.59%) AWS Developer
8 9 (10.59%) Senior Software Developer
9 8 (9.41%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (8.24%) C# Developer
11 6 (7.06%) .NET Software Engineer
12 5 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
13 4 (4.71%) AWS DevOps
13 4 (4.71%) Azure Developer
13 4 (4.71%) C# .NET Developer
13 4 (4.71%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (100.00%) .NET
2 48 (56.47%) ASP.NET
3 19 (22.35%) RESTful
4 18 (21.18%) .NET Framework
4 18 (21.18%) React
5 17 (20.00%) Blazor
6 15 (17.65%) ASP.NET Core
7 13 (15.29%) AWS CDK
8 11 (12.94%) CSS
8 11 (12.94%) HTML
9 10 (11.76%) AngularJS
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 4 (4.71%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.35%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.18%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (49.41%) Agile
2 33 (38.82%) CI/CD
2 33 (38.82%) Microservices
3 30 (35.29%) DevOps
4 23 (27.06%) Containerisation
5 22 (25.88%) Software Engineering
6 17 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (18.82%) RAD
8 14 (16.47%) Clean Code
8 14 (16.47%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (15.29%) Application Security
9 13 (15.29%) Deployment Automation
10 11 (12.94%) Full-Stack Development
10 11 (12.94%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (10.59%) Mentoring
11 9 (10.59%) TDD
12 7 (8.24%) Scrum
12 7 (8.24%) Unit Testing
13 6 (7.06%) SDLC
13 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 25 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (22.35%) Terraform
2 4 (4.71%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.18%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.18%) Foundry