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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 158 123
Rank change year-on-year +11 -35 -23
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 30 31 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.59% 0.75% 2.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.24% 3.85% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 27 18 97
10th Percentile - - £40,900
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £68,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +30.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £78,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,700 £88,250 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%

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 481 805 1,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.47% 19.41% 25.85%
Number of salaries quoted 361 462 993
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +3.86%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%

.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 14 January 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 14 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
Devon - 13 £47,500 - 8
Bristol +10 8 £62,500 -16.67% 2
Somerset -12 6 £45,000 +28.57% 5
Wiltshire -3 2 £77,500 +34.78% 3
Gloucestershire +19 1 £52,500 -25.00% 3
.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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 21 (70.00%) Azure
2 10 (33.33%) AWS
3 8 (26.67%) Azure AKS
4 6 (20.00%) Serverless
5 5 (16.67%) Azure App Service
5 5 (16.67%) Entra ID
6 3 (10.00%) GCP
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (10.00%) SaaS
7 2 (6.67%) Pulumi
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.33%) Git
3 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) Developer
2 13 (43.33%) Software Developer
3 8 (26.67%) .NET Developer
4 6 (20.00%) Senior
5 5 (16.67%) Software Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) .NET Software Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Software Manager
7 3 (10.00%) .NET Software Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Azure Developer
7 3 (10.00%) Lead
7 3 (10.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Blazor Developer
8 2 (6.67%) C# Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Development Manager
8 2 (6.67%) Engineering Manager
8 2 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Software Development Manager
8 2 (6.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (40.00%) .NET Framework
3 9 (30.00%) Blazor
4 8 (26.67%) React
5 7 (23.33%) Entity Framework
5 7 (23.33%) RESTful
6 5 (16.67%) AngularJS
6 5 (16.67%) REST
7 3 (10.00%) ASP.NET
7 3 (10.00%) Dapper ORM
8 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (6.67%) Avalonia
8 2 (6.67%) CSS
8 2 (6.67%) HTML
8 2 (6.67%) Node.js
8 2 (6.67%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (6.67%) Vue
8 2 (6.67%) WPF
9 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (3.33%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) CI/CD
2 13 (43.33%) Agile
2 13 (43.33%) Containerisation
3 12 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 10 (33.33%) SDLC
5 9 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (30.00%) DevOps
6 8 (26.67%) Clean Code
7 7 (23.33%) OWASP
8 6 (20.00%) B2B
9 5 (16.67%) AI
9 5 (16.67%) Application Security
9 5 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
9 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (13.33%) API Development
10 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
10 4 (13.33%) Release Management
10 4 (13.33%) Software Delivery
11 3 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
11 3 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (70.00%) C#
1 21 (70.00%) SQL
2 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.00%) Python
3 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (6.67%) T-SQL
4 2 (6.67%) XAML
5 1 (3.33%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (56.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft