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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 123 126
Rank change year-on-year -35 +3 +85
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 13 56 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.32% 1.64% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.74% 7.44% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 13 51 66
10th Percentile £44,000 - £36,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £37,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -28.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £56,250 £64,688
90th Percentile £77,000 £60,000 £71,250
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 348 753 851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.68% 22.11% 21.40%
Number of salaries quoted 258 449 642
10th Percentile £35,854 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £81,625 £86,500 £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 12 January 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 12 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
Oxfordshire -3 6 £62,500 +66.67% 6
Buckinghamshire -3 4 £65,000 +23.81% 7
Berkshire -8 3 £50,000 +40.85% 10
.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 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure AI
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Visual Studio
2 3 (23.08%) Git
General
1 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (7.69%) Law
1 1 (7.69%) Legal
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Developer
2 8 (61.54%) .NET Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Blazor Developer
3 4 (30.77%) C# Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Senior
3 4 (30.77%) Senior .NET Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Senior Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Software Developer
5 2 (15.38%) .NET Software Developer
5 2 (15.38%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (15.38%) C# Software Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Junior .NET Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Junior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering Manager
6 1 (7.69%) Software Manager
6 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (69.23%) ASP.NET
3 7 (53.85%) ASP.NET Core
4 5 (38.46%) Blazor
5 4 (30.77%) Entity Framework
6 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (15.38%) React
7 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
7 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
7 1 (7.69%) CSS
7 1 (7.69%) Hibernate
7 1 (7.69%) HTML
7 1 (7.69%) LINQ
7 1 (7.69%) ML.NET
7 1 (7.69%) RESTful
7 1 (7.69%) Spring
7 1 (7.69%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Clustering
1 1 (7.69%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Software Engineering
2 5 (38.46%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) MVC
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) SDLC
4 2 (15.38%) Software Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) SOLID
5 1 (7.69%) AI
5 1 (7.69%) API Design
5 1 (7.69%) API Development
5 1 (7.69%) Architectural Design
5 1 (7.69%) Community of Practice
5 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (7.69%) Front End Development
5 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning
5 1 (7.69%) Microservices
5 1 (7.69%) Multithreading
5 1 (7.69%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) IONA