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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 382 180
Rank change year-on-year +187 -202 -45
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 714 174 753
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.87% 0.51% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.80% 3.71% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 671 158 598
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,063 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -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 7,289 4,691 10,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.91% 13.70% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 5,720 2,837 6,621
10th Percentile £38,994 £32,950 £35,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £44,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,075 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

.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 8 September 2026.

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 8 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
South East +112 203 £55,000 +4.76% 60
North of England +39 184 £55,000 -8.33% 67
East of England +68 119 £60,000 +20.00% 28
Midlands +44 104 £55,000 -8.33% 37
South West -30 79 £52,500 +5.00% 17
North East +3 78 £65,000 +33.33% 17
North West -1 68 £50,000 -16.67% 36
West Midlands +14 60 £55,000 -8.33% 23
East Midlands +3 44 £51,250 -14.58% 14
Yorkshire -18 38 £47,500 -20.83% 15
Wales -55 15 £50,000 +17.65% 4
Scotland -1 10 £55,000 -14.73% 6
.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 18 (2.52%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.40%) IIS
3 7 (0.98%) Confluence
4 2 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 588 (82.35%) Azure
2 196 (27.45%) Azure DevOps
3 143 (20.03%) Azure AI
4 138 (19.33%) GitHub
5 128 (17.93%) AWS
6 124 (17.37%) GitHub Copilot
7 75 (10.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 31 (4.34%) Power Platform
9 25 (3.50%) Power Automate
9 25 (3.50%) PowerApps
10 21 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
11 20 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (2.66%) SaaS
13 18 (2.52%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 18 (2.52%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (2.52%) OneDrive
14 17 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
14 17 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
14 17 (2.38%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 45 (6.30%) Internet
2 7 (0.98%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.42%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.28%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) HTTP
5 1 (0.14%) Network Security
5 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 444 (62.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 373 (52.24%) MongoDB
3 153 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
4 113 (15.83%) SQL Server
5 24 (3.36%) Power BI
6 21 (2.94%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.38%) MySQL
8 13 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (1.54%) NonStop SQL
10 10 (1.40%) NoSQL
11 8 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (0.98%) GIS
13 3 (0.42%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.42%) ZAP BI
14 2 (0.28%) Redis
14 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 57 (7.98%) Git
2 13 (1.82%) JIRA
3 12 (1.68%) NUnit
4 10 (1.40%) GitLab
5 8 (1.12%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.98%) MSI
7 5 (0.70%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.70%) Postman
8 4 (0.56%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.42%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.42%) JUnit
9 3 (0.42%) Selenium
9 3 (0.42%) Snyk
9 3 (0.42%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.14%) MSTest
10 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 82 (11.48%) Finance
2 70 (9.80%) Social Skills
3 54 (7.56%) Advertising
4 44 (6.16%) Marketing
5 43 (6.02%) Games
6 28 (3.92%) Retail
7 27 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (2.52%) Public Sector
9 14 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (1.68%) Law
11 11 (1.54%) Music Industry
12 7 (0.98%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.98%) Automotive
12 7 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.84%) Legal
14 5 (0.70%) Local Government
15 4 (0.56%) Electronics
15 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 633 (88.66%) Developer
2 517 (72.41%) .NET Developer
3 77 (10.78%) Software Developer
4 72 (10.08%) Senior
5 58 (8.12%) Senior Developer
6 44 (6.16%) Lead
7 43 (6.02%) C# Developer
8 41 (5.74%) Full-Stack Developer
9 34 (4.76%) C# .NET Developer
10 33 (4.62%) Lead Developer
11 31 (4.34%) Software Engineer
12 23 (3.22%) .NET Software Developer
13 21 (2.94%) Senior Software Developer
14 20 (2.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 18 (2.52%) Senior C# Developer
16 17 (2.38%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 17 (2.38%) Lead .NET Developer
17 14 (1.96%) .NET Software Engineer
17 14 (1.96%) C# Software Engineer
17 14 (1.96%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 714 (100.00%) .NET
2 488 (68.35%) ASP.NET
3 446 (62.46%) ASP.NET Core
4 224 (31.37%) CSS
5 222 (31.09%) HTML
6 204 (28.57%) Blazor
7 203 (28.43%) Entity Framework
8 201 (28.15%) React
9 191 (26.75%) RESTful
10 177 (24.79%) AngularJS
11 172 (24.09%) ASP.NET Web API
12 162 (22.69%) Vue
13 152 (21.29%) Node.js
14 143 (20.03%) ML.NET
15 109 (15.27%) LINQ
16 107 (14.99%) .NET Framework
17 37 (5.18%) REST
18 33 (4.62%) WPF
19 25 (3.50%) JSON
20 20 (2.80%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 80 (11.20%) Greenfield Project
2 39 (5.46%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (2.80%) Digital TV
3 20 (2.80%) Mobile App
4 18 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (2.38%) BBC
5 17 (2.38%) iPhone
5 17 (2.38%) Social Media
6 15 (2.10%) Cloud Native
7 12 (1.68%) Social Network
7 12 (1.68%) Sports Betting
8 10 (1.40%) Hedge funds
8 10 (1.40%) Onboarding
9 7 (0.98%) Algorithms
9 7 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (0.84%) Client/Server
10 6 (0.84%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (0.70%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.08%) Windows
2 17 (2.38%) Android
3 3 (0.42%) Linux
3 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (72.41%) Full-Stack Development
2 390 (54.62%) Agile
3 235 (32.91%) DevOps
4 223 (31.23%) CI/CD
5 179 (25.07%) Microservices
6 161 (22.55%) AI
6 161 (22.55%) Machine Learning
7 156 (21.85%) Multithreading
8 95 (13.31%) Scrum
9 88 (12.32%) OO
10 82 (11.48%) TDD
11 69 (9.66%) Software Engineering
12 65 (9.10%) BDD
13 61 (8.54%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
14 60 (8.40%) Kanban
15 42 (5.88%) MVC
15 42 (5.88%) SDLC
16 41 (5.74%) Fintech
17 40 (5.60%) Mentoring
18 39 (5.46%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 672 (94.12%) C#
2 508 (71.15%) SQL
3 261 (36.55%) JavaScript
4 197 (27.59%) TypeScript
5 25 (3.50%) Python
6 23 (3.22%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.82%) Java
7 13 (1.82%) T-SQL
8 7 (0.98%) Bicep
9 4 (0.56%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.56%) Ruby
9 4 (0.56%) VB.NET
10 3 (0.42%) Bash
10 3 (0.42%) Go
11 2 (0.28%) C
11 2 (0.28%) Dart
12 1 (0.14%) C++
12 1 (0.14%) Delphi
12 1 (0.14%) Pascal
12 1 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 46 (6.44%) Degree
2 22 (3.08%) SC Cleared
2 22 (3.08%) Security Cleared
3 18 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.84%) AWS Certification
4 6 (0.84%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.42%) OCP
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (0.28%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.06%) QA
2 7 (0.98%) Accessibility
2 7 (0.98%) NCSC
2 7 (0.98%) WCAG
3 3 (0.42%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.42%) GDPR
3 3 (0.42%) NIST
4 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 174 (24.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 160 (22.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.42%) Grafana
2 3 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 501 (70.17%) Microsoft
2 57 (7.98%) Facebook
3 48 (6.72%) Google
4 21 (2.94%) YouTube
5 18 (2.52%) Adobe
6 17 (2.38%) Apple
6 17 (2.38%) Sony
6 17 (2.38%) Yahoo!
7 6 (0.84%) OpenAI
7 6 (0.84%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.42%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (0.42%) Splunk
9 2 (0.28%) IFS
9 2 (0.28%) Sage
9 2 (0.28%) Veracode
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle