.NET Core Job Trends in the Thames Valley

.NET Core
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 118 123
Rank change year-on-year -36 +5 +36
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 15 42 122
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.31% 1.54% 1.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.75% 8.52% 10.25%
Number of salaries quoted 15 39 121
10th Percentile £50,000 - £42,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £37,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +86.67% -31.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £51,875 £64,750
90th Percentile £76,500 £60,000 £71,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

.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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 400 493 1,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.28% 18.03% 19.20%
Number of salaries quoted 303 347 957
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £92,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

.NET Core job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

.NET Core
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 March 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in the Thames Valley

.NET Core
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 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
Oxfordshire -26 6 £66,250 +76.67% 5
Berkshire +7 5 £70,000 +27.27% 8
Buckinghamshire -24 4 £65,000 +26.83% 5
.NET Core
South East

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) Azure AI
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Modbus
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Visual Studio
2 3 (20.00%) Git
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
1 3 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (6.67%) Law
2 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (86.67%) Developer
2 8 (53.33%) .NET Developer
3 5 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Blazor Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Senior
4 4 (26.67%) Senior .NET Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Senior Developer
5 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 2 (13.33%) .NET Software Developer
6 2 (13.33%) Architect
6 2 (13.33%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (13.33%) C# Software Developer
6 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (80.00%) ASP.NET
3 8 (53.33%) Blazor
4 7 (46.67%) ASP.NET Core
4 7 (46.67%) Entity Framework
5 3 (20.00%) .NET Framework
5 3 (20.00%) Vue
6 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (6.67%) CSS
7 1 (6.67%) gRPC
7 1 (6.67%) Hibernate
7 1 (6.67%) HTML
7 1 (6.67%) ML.NET
7 1 (6.67%) Node.js
7 1 (6.67%) React
7 1 (6.67%) REST
7 1 (6.67%) RESTful
7 1 (6.67%) Spring
7 1 (6.67%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
1 1 (6.67%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 7 (46.67%) Software Engineering
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (20.00%) Extreme Programming
3 3 (20.00%) MVC
3 3 (20.00%) User Experience
3 3 (20.00%) UX Design
4 2 (13.33%) AI
4 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (13.33%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (13.33%) Microservices
4 2 (13.33%) OO
5 1 (6.67%) Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (6.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (6.67%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Google