.NET Core Job Trends in the South West

.NET Core
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 155 115
Rank change year-on-year +6 -40 -3
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 40 26 165
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.64% 0.81% 2.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.05% 4.01% 9.23%
Number of salaries quoted 37 15 155
10th Percentile - £49,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £60,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +31.82% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £88,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £93,000 £72,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

.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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 567 649 1,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.09% 20.31% 24.82%
Number of salaries quoted 413 421 1,463
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in the South West

.NET Core
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in the South West over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in the South West

.NET Core
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 7 March 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
Devon - 24 £56,250 - 7
Bristol -4 7 £55,000 -35.29% 5
Somerset -18 7 £45,000 - 3
Wiltshire -10 2 £77,500 +21.57% 2
.NET Core
England

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) Azure
2 17 (42.50%) Azure AKS
3 12 (30.00%) SaaS
4 8 (20.00%) AWS
5 4 (10.00%) Azure App Service
5 4 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 4 (10.00%) Serverless
6 3 (7.50%) GitHub
6 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.00%) GCP
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.50%) Selenium
General
1 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (45.00%) Developer
2 13 (32.50%) Senior
2 13 (32.50%) Software Engineer
3 12 (30.00%) Software Developer
4 11 (27.50%) .NET Software Engineer
4 11 (27.50%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
4 11 (27.50%) Senior Software Engineer
5 10 (25.00%) .NET Developer
6 7 (17.50%) Software Manager
7 6 (15.00%) .NET Software Developer
8 4 (10.00%) Engineering Manager
8 4 (10.00%) Lead
8 4 (10.00%) Software Engineering Manager
9 3 (7.50%) Azure Developer
9 3 (7.50%) Development Manager
9 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (7.50%) Software Development Manager
10 2 (5.00%) Blazor Developer
10 2 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
10 2 (5.00%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (100.00%) .NET
2 20 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 14 (35.00%) Entity Framework
4 13 (32.50%) REST
5 11 (27.50%) Dapper ORM
6 10 (25.00%) React
7 7 (17.50%) Blazor
7 7 (17.50%) RESTful
8 6 (15.00%) AngularJS
9 4 (10.00%) HTML
10 3 (7.50%) CSS
11 2 (5.00%) HTML5
11 2 (5.00%) jQuery
11 2 (5.00%) Node.js
11 2 (5.00%) Vue
12 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET Web API
12 1 (2.50%) CSS3
12 1 (2.50%) ML.NET
12 1 (2.50%) Playwright
12 1 (2.50%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) Containerisation
2 24 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 21 (52.50%) Software Engineering
4 14 (35.00%) Agile
5 13 (32.50%) SDLC
6 12 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 10 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (22.50%) DevOps
9 8 (20.00%) AI
10 7 (17.50%) Collaborative Culture
10 7 (17.50%) Release Management
10 7 (17.50%) Software Delivery
11 5 (12.50%) Clean Code
12 4 (10.00%) Application Security
12 4 (10.00%) B2B
12 4 (10.00%) Mentoring
12 4 (10.00%) OWASP
12 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
13 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Development
14 2 (5.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 28 (70.00%) C#
1 28 (70.00%) SQL
2 5 (12.50%) TypeScript
3 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.50%) Python
5 1 (2.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 20 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (70.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft