.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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 121 86
Rank change year-on-year -68 -35 +135
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 8 77 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.21% 1.59% 3.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.06% 8.96% 11.40%
Number of salaries quoted 8 75 114
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £36,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £46,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -20.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £56,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £67,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 389 859 1,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.06% 17.74% 28.35%
Number of salaries quoted 234 572 789
10th Percentile £36,975 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £56,525 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.15% -5.79% +4.35%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing .NET Core as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core 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 17 September 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 17 September 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
Oxfordshire +2 4 £53,750 +26.47% 3
Berkshire -20 4 £46,250 -2.63% 8
.NET Core
South East

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Backend Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Junior
4 1 (12.50%) Junior .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Junior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Junior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Portal Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (62.50%) React
3 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
4 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (25.00%) CSS
4 2 (25.00%) HTML
4 2 (25.00%) Vue
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (12.50%) CSS3
5 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
5 1 (12.50%) HTML5
5 1 (12.50%) JSON
5 1 (12.50%) LINQ
5 1 (12.50%) Node.js
5 1 (12.50%) RESTful
5 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Educational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Software Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) Budget Management
5 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
5 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
5 1 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 1 (12.50%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
5 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) Microservices
5 1 (12.50%) Product Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) SOLID
5 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C#
2 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 4 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
5 1 (12.50%) Python
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) IONA