.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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 198 131
Rank change year-on-year +33 -67 -49
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 40 8 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.54% 0.21% 1.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.42% 1.93% 8.52%
Number of salaries quoted 38 8 73
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +2.63% -20.83%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £66,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -

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 738 414 892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.05% 10.80% 18.27%
Number of salaries quoted 565 249 587
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £79,375
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -13 18 £57,500 +6.98% 5
Berkshire +35 17 £50,000 +8.11% 14
Buckinghamshire - 5 £51,500 - 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:

Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 33 (82.50%) Azure
2 13 (32.50%) AWS
3 12 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (22.50%) Azure AI
4 9 (22.50%) GitHub
4 9 (22.50%) GitHub Copilot
5 8 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (70.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 20 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 12 (30.00%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 10 (25.00%) Finance
2 7 (17.50%) Advertising
3 4 (10.00%) Electronics
3 4 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.50%) Retail
5 2 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (85.00%) Developer
2 32 (80.00%) .NET Developer
3 6 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) C# Software Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Senior
4 4 (10.00%) Senior C# Software Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (5.00%) C# Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (100.00%) .NET
2 30 (75.00%) ASP.NET
3 29 (72.50%) ASP.NET Core
4 16 (40.00%) React
5 14 (35.00%) Blazor
5 14 (35.00%) CSS
5 14 (35.00%) HTML
6 12 (30.00%) Node.js
7 9 (22.50%) ASP.NET Web API
7 9 (22.50%) Entity Framework
7 9 (22.50%) ML.NET
7 9 (22.50%) RESTful
8 8 (20.00%) .NET Framework
9 7 (17.50%) LINQ
10 5 (12.50%) Vue
11 4 (10.00%) AngularJS
11 4 (10.00%) REST
11 4 (10.00%) WPF
12 2 (5.00%) WebSockets
12 2 (5.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (10.00%) Client/Server
2 4 (10.00%) Social Network
3 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (85.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 32 (80.00%) Agile
3 19 (47.50%) DevOps
4 15 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 15 (37.50%) Microservices
5 13 (32.50%) Scrum
6 11 (27.50%) AI
7 10 (25.00%) Multithreading
8 9 (22.50%) Machine Learning
9 8 (20.00%) SDLC
9 8 (20.00%) TDD
10 7 (17.50%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
10 7 (17.50%) OO
10 7 (17.50%) Video Advertising
11 6 (15.00%) Computer Science
11 6 (15.00%) Design Patterns
11 6 (15.00%) Software Engineering
11 6 (15.00%) SOLID
12 4 (10.00%) Data Analysis
12 4 (10.00%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) C#
2 32 (80.00%) SQL
3 12 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (22.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (77.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) Facebook
2 7 (17.50%) YouTube