Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 11 April 2021

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for .NET Core skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited .NET Core over the 6 months to 11 April 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

.NET Core
England > South East
6 months to
11 Apr 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 30 65 152
Rank change year-on-year +35 +87 +239
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 916 854 554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.36% 4.15% 2.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.19% 10.21% 5.14%
Number of salaries quoted 756 790 515
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £64,063 £63,688 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%

.NET Core is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,330 8,362 10,783
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East 42.81% 40.63% 40.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,471 7,172 9,377
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing .NET Core as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core in the South East

.NET Core
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing .NET Core in the South East.

Salary trend for .NET Core in the South East

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in the South East over the 6 months to 11 April 2021.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in the South East

.NET Core
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 April 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
Thames Valley +62 311 £55,000 +5.77% 64
Hampshire +31 255 £52,500 +10.53% 31
Berkshire +71 241 £57,500 +4.55% 30
West Sussex +18 141 £60,000 +20.00% 13
Surrey +5 134 £55,000 - 29
East Sussex +20 63 £55,000 +15.79% 11
Buckinghamshire +27 39 £48,500 +2.65% 18
Oxfordshire +30 31 £50,000 -4.76% 16
Kent +17 12 £48,750 +14.71% 20
.NET Core
England

For the 6 months to 11 April 2021, IT jobs citing .NET Core also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region with a requirement for .NET Core.

1 916 (100.00%) .NET
2 832 (90.83%) C#
3 590 (64.41%) Azure
4 506 (55.24%) Agile Software Development
5 500 (54.59%) JavaScript
6 440 (48.03%) SQL
7 340 (37.12%) SQL Server
8 290 (31.66%) React
9 283 (30.90%) ASP.NET
10 280 (30.57%) CSS
11 270 (29.48%) AngularJS
12 264 (28.82%) HTML
13 262 (28.60%) MVC
14 243 (26.53%) DevOps
15 242 (26.42%) .NET Framework
16 236 (25.76%) Microservices
17 235 (25.66%) TDD
18 213 (23.25%) Git (software)
19 196 (21.40%) Docker
20 193 (21.07%) Scrum
21 168 (18.34%) Kubernetes
22 156 (17.03%) Vue.js
23 144 (15.72%) Degree
24 143 (15.61%) Microsoft
25 140 (15.28%) Mentoring
26 138 (15.07%) Entity Framework
27 135 (14.74%) SOLID
28 128 (13.97%) Software Engineering
28 128 (13.97%) ASP.NET Web API
29 125 (13.65%) RESTful

.NET Core
Co-occurring IT Skills in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 56 (6.11%) CMS
2 54 (5.90%) NServiceBus
3 48 (5.24%) EPiServer
4 35 (3.82%) IIS
5 12 (1.31%) Umbraco
6 10 (1.09%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.87%) Apache Solr
8 7 (0.76%) Apache
9 5 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.44%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.44%) Kentico
10 4 (0.44%) nginx
10 4 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.11%) Confluence
12 1 (0.11%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 18 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.11%) nopCommerce
Cloud Services
1 590 (64.41%) Azure
2 121 (13.21%) AWS
3 69 (7.53%) SaaS
4 48 (5.24%) PaaS
5 46 (5.02%) IaaS
6 43 (4.69%) Serverless
7 24 (2.62%) Azure Functions
8 12 (1.31%) Azure Active Directory
9 11 (1.20%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 9 (0.98%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (0.98%) GCP
11 7 (0.76%) Power Platform
12 6 (0.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (0.66%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (0.55%) Amazon S3
13 5 (0.55%) Apigee
13 5 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (0.44%) AWS Fargate
14 4 (0.44%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 67 (7.31%) HTTP
2 42 (4.59%) Skype
3 8 (0.87%) Internet
4 4 (0.44%) SMTP
5 3 (0.33%) DNS
5 3 (0.33%) RTP
6 2 (0.22%) Firewall
6 2 (0.22%) VPN
7 1 (0.11%) RFID
7 1 (0.11%) SSL
7 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 340 (37.12%) SQL Server
2 121 (13.21%) NoSQL
3 48 (5.24%) Azure SQL Database
4 32 (3.49%) SQLPlus
5 28 (3.06%) Relational Database
6 23 (2.51%) Cosmos DB
7 19 (2.07%) MongoDB
8 17 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (1.53%) MySQL
9 14 (1.53%) RDBMS
10 12 (1.31%) Amazon DynamoDB
11 11 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (0.98%) MS Access
13 7 (0.76%) Big Data
14 6 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (0.66%) Redis
14 6 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (0.55%) OLTP
15 5 (0.55%) SQL Server 2012
15 5 (0.55%) SQL Server 2014
Development Applications
1 213 (23.25%) Git (software)
2 72 (7.86%) TeamCity
3 71 (7.75%) Octopus Deploy
4 47 (5.13%) Visual Studio
5 46 (5.02%) Selenium
6 39 (4.26%) Team Foundation Server
7 29 (3.17%) Jenkins
8 26 (2.84%) Burp Suite
9 23 (2.51%) Visual Studio Team System
10 21 (2.29%) NUnit
11 18 (1.97%) Charles Proxy
11 18 (1.97%) Fiddler
12 17 (1.86%) Moq
13 12 (1.31%) Cypress.io
14 10 (1.09%) SpecFlow
15 7 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.76%) JIRA
16 5 (0.55%) Grunt
16 5 (0.55%) InstallShield
16 5 (0.55%) WiX
General
1 78 (8.52%) Finance
2 39 (4.26%) Telecoms
3 32 (3.49%) Automotive
4 30 (3.28%) Marketing
5 24 (2.62%) Public Sector
6 18 (1.97%) Manufacturing
7 14 (1.53%) Games
8 11 (1.20%) Electronics
9 10 (1.09%) Advertising
9 10 (1.09%) Law
10 6 (0.66%) Retail
11 4 (0.44%) Banking
12 3 (0.33%) Local Government
13 2 (0.22%) Back Office
13 2 (0.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 776 (84.72%) Developer
2 455 (49.67%) .NET Developer
3 299 (32.64%) Software Developer
4 261 (28.49%) Senior Developer
5 252 (27.51%) C# Developer
6 160 (17.47%) C# .NET Developer
7 145 (15.83%) .NET Software Developer
8 129 (14.08%) C# Software Developer
9 128 (13.97%) Senior Software Developer
10 121 (13.21%) Senior .NET Developer
11 106 (11.57%) Full Stack Developer
12 84 (9.17%) Senior C# Developer
13 49 (5.35%) Senior C# .NET Developer
14 47 (5.13%) Senior C# Software Developer
15 43 (4.69%) Software Engineer
16 41 (4.48%) SQL Developer
17 39 (4.26%) React Developer
17 39 (4.26%) Senior .NET Software Developer
18 37 (4.04%) Azure Developer
19 35 (3.82%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 916 (100.00%) .NET
2 290 (31.66%) React
3 283 (30.90%) ASP.NET
4 280 (30.57%) CSS
5 270 (29.48%) AngularJS
6 264 (28.82%) HTML
7 242 (26.42%) .NET Framework
8 156 (17.03%) Vue.js
9 138 (15.07%) Entity Framework
10 128 (13.97%) ASP.NET Web API
11 125 (13.65%) RESTful
12 109 (11.90%) ASP.NET MVC
13 95 (10.37%) ASP.NET Core
14 94 (10.26%) REST
15 88 (9.61%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 81 (8.84%) jQuery
17 68 (7.42%) HTML5
18 62 (6.77%) KnockoutJS
19 61 (6.66%) Web Services
20 58 (6.33%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 43 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
2 25 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (2.73%) User Experience
3 14 (1.53%) LIMS
4 12 (1.31%) Algorithms
4 12 (1.31%) iPhone
4 12 (1.31%) Renewable Energy
5 10 (1.09%) Data Structures
5 10 (1.09%) Mobile App
6 6 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (0.55%) Client/Server
7 5 (0.55%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.33%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.33%) N-Tier
10 2 (0.22%) Internet of Things
11 1 (0.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.11%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 57 (6.22%) Windows
2 26 (2.84%) Windows Server
3 15 (1.64%) Android
3 15 (1.64%) Linux
4 5 (0.55%) Unix
5 4 (0.44%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.44%) VMS
6 3 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (55.24%) Agile Software Development
2 262 (28.60%) MVC
3 243 (26.53%) DevOps
4 236 (25.76%) Microservices
5 235 (25.66%) TDD
6 193 (21.07%) Scrum
7 140 (15.28%) Mentoring
8 135 (14.74%) SOLID
9 128 (13.97%) Software Engineering
10 120 (13.10%) Unit Testing
11 101 (11.03%) Test Automation
12 98 (10.70%) Continuous Integration
13 97 (10.59%) Computer Science
14 62 (6.77%) Project Management
15 56 (6.11%) BDD
16 53 (5.79%) SDLC
17 52 (5.68%) Mathematics
18 49 (5.35%) OO
19 44 (4.80%) Artificial Intelligence
20 42 (4.59%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 832 (90.83%) C#
2 500 (54.59%) JavaScript
3 440 (48.03%) SQL
4 113 (12.34%) TypeScript
5 72 (7.86%) T-SQL
6 39 (4.26%) PowerShell
7 36 (3.93%) Python
8 34 (3.71%) C++
9 27 (2.95%) VB.NET
10 14 (1.53%) Java
11 12 (1.31%) Bash Shell
11 12 (1.31%) VB
12 9 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.66%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.44%) ES6
15 2 (0.22%) ES8
15 2 (0.22%) VB6
16 1 (0.11%) C
16 1 (0.11%) XAML
Qualifications
1 144 (15.72%) Degree
2 61 (6.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (1.09%) ISEB
4 10 (1.09%) ISTQB
4 10 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (0.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.02%) QA
System Software
1 196 (21.40%) Docker
2 5 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 168 (18.34%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.82%) Terraform
3 10 (1.09%) Puppet
4 5 (0.55%) Ansible
4 5 (0.55%) Grafana
4 5 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.11%) Nmap
Vendors
1 143 (15.61%) Microsoft
2 18 (1.97%) VMware
3 17 (1.86%) Xamarin
4 14 (1.53%) Oracle
5 13 (1.42%) Telerik
6 11 (1.20%) SAP
7 9 (0.98%) Xceptor
8 7 (0.76%) Google
9 5 (0.55%) IBM
9 5 (0.55%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.11%) Okta
10 1 (0.11%) Salesforce.com
10 1 (0.11%) Twitter