.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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 128 104
Rank change year-on-year -58 -24 +132
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 7 70 90
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.18% 1.60% 2.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.98% 8.30% 9.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7 65 85
10th Percentile £39,250 £32,750 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -26.09% -8.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% -1.82% -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 353 843 961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.23% 19.21% 28.05%
Number of salaries quoted 218 501 657
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £42,798
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 2025. 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
Berkshire -13 4 £46,250 -2.63% 21
Oxfordshire +1 3 £60,000 +60.00% 6
.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 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
3 2 (28.57%) C# Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Backend Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Junior
4 1 (14.29%) Junior .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Junior Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Junior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (57.14%) React
3 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
4 2 (28.57%) CSS
4 2 (28.57%) HTML
4 2 (28.57%) Vue
5 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
5 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
5 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (14.29%) CSS3
5 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
5 1 (14.29%) HTML5
5 1 (14.29%) LINQ
5 1 (14.29%) Node.js
5 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Educational Technology
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Software Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) AI
5 1 (14.29%) Budget Management
5 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
5 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
5 1 (14.29%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) MVC
5 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
5 1 (14.29%) Product Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) C#
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
4 1 (14.29%) Python
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) IONA