.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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 204 118
Rank change year-on-year -77 -86 +34
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 321 351 1,565
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.55% 1.36% 2.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.78% 7.34% 11.67%
Number of salaries quoted 303 314 1,508
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £69,250 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £79,625 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%

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 4,732 4,781 13,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.11% 18.50% 20.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,644 3,700 10,090
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,209 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -11.11%

.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 5 April 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 5 April 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
North of England -63 116 £55,000 - 48
South East -44 65 £60,000 +14.29% 60
North West -34 63 £55,000 - 26
Midlands -28 61 £65,000 +23.81% 26
East Midlands -14 47 £65,000 +23.81% 15
South West -16 43 £55,000 -24.14% 16
East of England -20 30 £90,000 +80.00% 27
North East -8 28 £65,000 +44.44% 10
Yorkshire -69 25 £42,500 -15.00% 13
West Midlands -36 14 £60,000 +3.00% 11
Scotland -67 5 £55,000 +69.23% 10
Wales -30 1 £50,000 - 5
.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 8 (2.49%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.87%) IIS
3 1 (0.31%) CMS
3 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Magento
1 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 174 (54.21%) Azure
2 65 (20.25%) AWS
3 47 (14.64%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (9.03%) GitHub
5 22 (6.85%) SaaS
6 21 (6.54%) Serverless
7 19 (5.92%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (4.98%) Power Platform
9 15 (4.67%) Azure AKS
10 14 (4.36%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (4.05%) Amazon EventBridge
11 13 (4.05%) Amazon S3
11 13 (4.05%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (4.05%) AWS Step Functions
11 13 (4.05%) Azure AI
12 10 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (2.80%) Power Automate
13 9 (2.80%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.25%) Internet
2 2 (0.62%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.31%) AMQP
3 1 (0.31%) HTTP
3 1 (0.31%) Modbus
3 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (34.58%) SQL Server
2 35 (10.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 30 (9.35%) NoSQL
4 23 (7.17%) MongoDB
5 18 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (4.36%) Power BI
7 13 (4.05%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.56%) Redis
10 4 (1.25%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.31%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 36 (11.21%) Git
2 4 (1.25%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.62%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.62%) NUnit
4 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.31%) MSTest
4 1 (0.31%) Selenium
4 1 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.31%) Vite
General
1 31 (9.66%) Social Skills
2 29 (9.03%) Finance
3 16 (4.98%) Games
4 5 (1.56%) Automotive
4 5 (1.56%) Public Sector
4 5 (1.56%) Retail
5 4 (1.25%) Marketing
6 3 (0.93%) Advertising
7 2 (0.62%) Local Government
8 1 (0.31%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.31%) Law
8 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 250 (77.88%) Developer
2 114 (35.51%) .NET Developer
3 88 (27.41%) Senior
3 88 (27.41%) Software Developer
4 59 (18.38%) Senior Developer
5 57 (17.76%) C# Developer
6 47 (14.64%) Software Engineer
7 45 (14.02%) Full-Stack Developer
8 36 (11.21%) Lead
9 33 (10.28%) C# .NET Developer
10 26 (8.10%) .NET Software Engineer
11 25 (7.79%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 24 (7.48%) Lead Developer
12 24 (7.48%) Senior Software Engineer
13 22 (6.85%) Applications Developer
13 22 (6.85%) Senior Software Developer
14 20 (6.23%) React Developer
15 17 (5.30%) .NET Software Developer
15 17 (5.30%) Azure Developer
15 17 (5.30%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (100.00%) .NET
2 116 (36.14%) ASP.NET
3 73 (22.74%) React
4 67 (20.87%) .NET Framework
5 54 (16.82%) Blazor
6 51 (15.89%) ASP.NET Core
7 50 (15.58%) RESTful
8 42 (13.08%) AngularJS
9 41 (12.77%) CSS
10 40 (12.46%) HTML
11 39 (12.15%) Entity Framework
12 34 (10.59%) Vue
13 23 (7.17%) REST
14 22 (6.85%) Node.js
15 18 (5.61%) ASP.NET MVC
16 14 (4.36%) ML.NET
17 13 (4.05%) AWS CDK
18 11 (3.43%) Dapper ORM
19 10 (3.12%) ASP.NET Web API
20 9 (2.80%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.79%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 14 (4.36%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.12%) Sports Betting
5 9 (2.80%) Hedge funds
6 6 (1.87%) 3D Graphics
7 5 (1.56%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.56%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.25%) Social Network
9 2 (0.62%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.62%) BBC
9 2 (0.62%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.62%) Digital TV
9 2 (0.62%) Social Media
10 1 (0.31%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.31%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.31%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.18%) Windows
2 5 (1.56%) Linux
3 1 (0.31%) Android
3 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (33.96%) Full-Stack Development
2 102 (31.78%) Agile
3 89 (27.73%) CI/CD
4 83 (25.86%) Software Engineering
5 73 (22.74%) DevOps
6 53 (16.51%) Containerisation
7 48 (14.95%) Microservices
8 41 (12.77%) SDLC
9 39 (12.15%) MVC
10 35 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (10.28%) Clean Code
12 32 (9.97%) Collaborative Culture
13 30 (9.35%) OO
14 27 (8.41%) Collaborative Working
15 24 (7.48%) AI
16 23 (7.17%) SOLID
17 22 (6.85%) Machine Learning
18 21 (6.54%) OOP
18 21 (6.54%) Technical Leadership
19 20 (6.23%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 281 (87.54%) C#
2 146 (45.48%) SQL
3 91 (28.35%) JavaScript
4 33 (10.28%) TypeScript
5 13 (4.05%) PowerShell
6 10 (3.12%) T-SQL
7 6 (1.87%) Python
8 5 (1.56%) Bash
9 2 (0.62%) Java
9 2 (0.62%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.31%) C++
10 1 (0.31%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 17 (5.30%) Degree
2 11 (3.43%) AWS Certification
2 11 (3.43%) AWS Certified Developer
3 7 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.62%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.62%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.74%) QA
System Software
1 69 (21.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (16.20%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 93 (28.97%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.49%) Adobe
3 5 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (1.56%) Google
4 4 (1.25%) Facebook
5 2 (0.62%) Apple
5 2 (0.62%) Foundry
5 2 (0.62%) Sony
5 2 (0.62%) Yahoo!
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle
6 1 (0.31%) WooCommerce