.NET Core Job Trends in the UK excluding London

.NET Core
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 174 138
Rank change year-on-year -215 -36 -58
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 163 661 757
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 1.38% 2.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.76% 7.63% 9.54%
Number of salaries quoted 152 462 708
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,425
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £65,188 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

.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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,335 8,663 7,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.62% 18.06% 25.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,630 4,958 6,216
10th Percentile £31,180 £35,000 £36,270
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% -3.48% +1.79%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £84,056
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

.NET Core job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

.NET Core
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in the UK excluding London

.NET Core
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
North of England -79 62 £55,000 - 107
North West -39 42 £55,000 -6.38% 63
South East -79 35 £57,500 +5.50% 142
South West +24 26 £50,000 -17.70% 25
Midlands -57 16 £60,000 +32.96% 48
Yorkshire -39 15 £52,500 +5.00% 29
East of England -28 13 £60,000 +20.00% 37
West Midlands +2 11 £60,000 +33.33% 24
Scotland -72 10 £64,500 +61.25% 6
North East -3 5 £51,250 +20.59% 18
East Midlands -43 5 £60,000 +26.32% 23
Wales 0 1 £35,000 -40.43% 8
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (6.75%) IIS
2 6 (3.68%) CMS
3 5 (3.07%) Umbraco
4 4 (2.45%) Confluence
4 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.61%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.61%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (1.84%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.61%) Magento
1 1 (0.61%) SAP Business One
1 1 (0.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 99 (60.74%) Azure
2 52 (31.90%) AWS
3 26 (15.95%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (15.95%) GitHub
4 17 (10.43%) Serverless
5 15 (9.20%) SaaS
6 13 (7.98%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (5.52%) Azure Functions
8 8 (4.91%) Azure AKS
8 8 (4.91%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (4.29%) GCP
10 6 (3.68%) Power Platform
11 5 (3.07%) Azure App Service
11 5 (3.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (3.07%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.45%) Azure AI
12 4 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.45%) ChatGPT
12 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.07%) Internet
2 2 (1.23%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.61%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (44.17%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.59%) MongoDB
3 13 (7.98%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (4.29%) Redis
6 6 (3.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (3.07%) MySQL
7 5 (3.07%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.45%) Data Hub
8 4 (2.45%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.45%) SQL CLR
8 4 (2.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.84%) Power BI
10 2 (1.23%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 29 (17.79%) Git
2 11 (6.75%) JIRA
3 7 (4.29%) Visual Studio
4 5 (3.07%) GitLab
4 5 (3.07%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (2.45%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.45%) NUnit
5 4 (2.45%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.84%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.84%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.84%) MSTest
6 3 (1.84%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.84%) Vite
7 2 (1.23%) Postman
8 1 (0.61%) Moq
8 1 (0.61%) NSubstitute
8 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.61%) Subversion
General
1 26 (15.95%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.98%) Finance
3 11 (6.75%) Back Office
4 10 (6.13%) Retail
5 7 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.68%) Automotive
7 4 (2.45%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.84%) Advertising
8 3 (1.84%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.84%) Marketing
9 2 (1.23%) Legal
10 1 (0.61%) Electronics
10 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.61%) Law
10 1 (0.61%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 120 (73.62%) Developer
2 58 (35.58%) .NET Developer
3 39 (23.93%) Senior
4 31 (19.02%) Software Developer
5 30 (18.40%) Full-Stack Developer
6 29 (17.79%) Software Engineer
7 25 (15.34%) Senior Developer
8 23 (14.11%) C# Developer
9 18 (11.04%) .NET Software Engineer
10 17 (10.43%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 16 (9.82%) Lead
12 14 (8.59%) Senior .NET Developer
13 12 (7.36%) C# Software Engineer
14 10 (6.13%) Senior Software Engineer
15 9 (5.52%) C# .NET Developer
15 9 (5.52%) Lead Software Engineer
16 8 (4.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 8 (4.91%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 7 (4.29%) Backend Developer
17 7 (4.29%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (100.00%) .NET
2 52 (31.90%) ASP.NET
3 51 (31.29%) React
4 48 (29.45%) AngularJS
5 44 (26.99%) .NET Framework
6 41 (25.15%) RESTful
7 36 (22.09%) CSS
8 33 (20.25%) HTML
9 28 (17.18%) Blazor
10 24 (14.72%) Entity Framework
11 22 (13.50%) ASP.NET Web API
12 21 (12.88%) REST
13 17 (10.43%) ASP.NET Core
13 17 (10.43%) Vue
14 14 (8.59%) HTML5
15 12 (7.36%) ASP.NET MVC
16 10 (6.13%) CSS3
16 10 (6.13%) Web Services
17 8 (4.91%) Node.js
18 7 (4.29%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.27%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.98%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.52%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.68%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.07%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.45%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.45%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.23%) IoT
9 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.61%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.61%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.61%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.07%) Windows
2 4 (2.45%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (46.63%) CI/CD
2 66 (40.49%) Agile
3 59 (36.20%) DevOps
4 58 (35.58%) Full-Stack Development
5 50 (30.67%) Software Engineering
6 48 (29.45%) Microservices
7 37 (22.70%) Clean Code
8 33 (20.25%) MVC
9 32 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (19.02%) Containerisation
11 21 (12.88%) SDLC
12 20 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (11.04%) Mentoring
14 17 (10.43%) Design Patterns
14 17 (10.43%) Unit Testing
15 16 (9.82%) Application Security
15 16 (9.82%) TDD
15 16 (9.82%) User Experience
16 14 (8.59%) Front End Development
16 14 (8.59%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 146 (89.57%) C#
2 56 (34.36%) SQL
3 53 (32.52%) JavaScript
4 22 (13.50%) TypeScript
5 8 (4.91%) Python
5 8 (4.91%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.84%) Erlang
7 2 (1.23%) Bicep
7 2 (1.23%) Go
7 2 (1.23%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.23%) XAML
8 1 (0.61%) C
8 1 (0.61%) Dart
8 1 (0.61%) PHP
8 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (13.50%) Degree
2 12 (7.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.91%) QA
2 5 (3.07%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 40 (24.54%) Docker
2 4 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (19.63%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.59%) Terraform
3 1 (0.61%) Grafana
Vendors
1 28 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.45%) VMware
3 2 (1.23%) Google
3 2 (1.23%) Oracle
4 1 (0.61%) Databricks
4 1 (0.61%) IONA
4 1 (0.61%) Okta
4 1 (0.61%) SAP
4 1 (0.61%) Xamarin