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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 186 104
Rank change year-on-year +4 -82 +44
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 165 108 430
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.81% 1.23% 2.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.79% 6.75% 11.90%
Number of salaries quoted 158 91 403
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,870 £37,614
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,875 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -11.54%

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 1,878 1,600 3,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.24% 18.25% 18.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,569 841 2,906
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,000 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,727 £91,934 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

.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 June 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 28 June 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 +7 76 £52,500 -12.50% 25
North East +3 61 £65,000 +33.33% 13
Yorkshire -38 28 £55,000 -10.20% 12
.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 (2.42%) IIS
2 1 (0.61%) CMS
2 1 (0.61%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Magento
1 2 (1.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 127 (76.97%) Azure
2 40 (24.24%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (19.39%) AWS
4 22 (13.33%) Azure AI
5 17 (10.30%) GitHub
6 15 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 13 (7.88%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (4.24%) Serverless
9 6 (3.64%) SaaS
10 5 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (3.03%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.42%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.42%) Google Play
11 4 (2.42%) Twilio
12 3 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.82%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.82%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.03%) Internet
2 3 (1.82%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.21%) Firewall
4 1 (0.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (45.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 62 (37.58%) MongoDB
3 34 (20.61%) SQL Server
4 13 (7.88%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.03%) GIS
6 5 (3.03%) NonStop SQL
6 5 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.03%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.42%) MySQL
7 4 (2.42%) Power BI
8 3 (1.82%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.61%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (8.48%) Git
2 3 (1.82%) GitLab
3 2 (1.21%) JIRA
4 1 (0.61%) Claude Code
General
1 24 (14.55%) Finance
2 15 (9.09%) Games
3 7 (4.24%) Advertising
4 6 (3.64%) Aerospace
4 6 (3.64%) Retail
5 3 (1.82%) Banking
5 3 (1.82%) Social Skills
6 1 (0.61%) Local Government
6 1 (0.61%) Music Industry
6 1 (0.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 136 (82.42%) Developer
2 102 (61.82%) .NET Developer
3 33 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 24 (14.55%) Senior
5 23 (13.94%) Lead
5 23 (13.94%) Lead Developer
5 23 (13.94%) Software Engineer
6 22 (13.33%) C# Developer
7 17 (10.30%) Senior Developer
8 16 (9.70%) C# .NET Developer
9 14 (8.48%) Lead Software Developer
10 12 (7.27%) C# Software Developer
11 11 (6.67%) .NET Software Engineer
11 11 (6.67%) C# Software Engineer
12 10 (6.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 10 (6.06%) Senior Software Developer
13 9 (5.45%) .NET Software Developer
13 9 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (4.85%) .NET Developer - Fintech
15 7 (4.24%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (100.00%) .NET
2 103 (62.42%) ASP.NET
3 77 (46.67%) ASP.NET Core
4 49 (29.70%) Entity Framework
5 48 (29.09%) Vue
6 45 (27.27%) RESTful
7 43 (26.06%) AngularJS
8 39 (23.64%) ASP.NET Web API
9 37 (22.42%) CSS
9 37 (22.42%) HTML
10 36 (21.82%) React
11 30 (18.18%) LINQ
12 22 (13.33%) ML.NET
13 21 (12.73%) .NET Framework
13 21 (12.73%) Blazor
14 20 (12.12%) Node.js
15 8 (4.85%) REST
16 6 (3.64%) CSS3
16 6 (3.64%) HTML5
16 6 (3.64%) SubSonic
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
2 14 (8.48%) Hedge funds
3 10 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.64%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.64%) BBC
4 6 (3.64%) Social Media
5 5 (3.03%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (3.03%) Social Network
6 4 (2.42%) iPhone
6 4 (2.42%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.42%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.82%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.21%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.21%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.21%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.61%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.61%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.61%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.61%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.42%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (61.21%) Full-Stack Development
2 76 (46.06%) Agile
3 48 (29.09%) DevOps
4 41 (24.85%) CI/CD
4 41 (24.85%) Multithreading
5 36 (21.82%) Software Engineering
6 24 (14.55%) AI
6 24 (14.55%) OO
7 23 (13.94%) Microservices
8 22 (13.33%) Fintech
8 22 (13.33%) Machine Learning
9 15 (9.09%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
9 15 (9.09%) TDD
10 11 (6.67%) Analytics
10 11 (6.67%) BDD
10 11 (6.67%) Data Analytics
11 10 (6.06%) Mentoring
11 10 (6.06%) SDLC
12 8 (4.85%) API Integration
12 8 (4.85%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 155 (93.94%) C#
2 91 (55.15%) SQL
3 50 (30.30%) JavaScript
4 41 (24.85%) TypeScript
5 9 (5.45%) Python
6 4 (2.42%) Java
7 3 (1.82%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.21%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.61%) C++
9 1 (0.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (4.24%) Degree
2 2 (1.21%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.24%) QA
2 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (17.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (12.12%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 94 (56.97%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.06%) Google
3 6 (3.64%) Apple
3 6 (3.64%) Facebook
3 6 (3.64%) Sony
3 6 (3.64%) Yahoo!
4 3 (1.82%) Splunk
5 1 (0.61%) Foundry
5 1 (0.61%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.61%) WooCommerce