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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 243 121
Rank change year-on-year -41 -122 +25
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 337 318 1,588
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 1.14% 2.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.80% 6.85% 11.58%
Number of salaries quoted 322 279 1,525
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,063 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

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 4,954 4,644 13,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.51% 16.68% 20.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,846 3,532 10,270
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,875 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -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 May 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 May 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 -64 111 £55,000 -8.33% 47
Midlands -18 65 £65,000 +23.81% 22
South East -31 65 £60,000 +14.29% 47
North West -22 64 £55,000 -8.33% 25
East Midlands -10 47 £65,000 +23.81% 9
South West -28 46 £55,000 -18.52% 17
East of England +6 43 £90,000 +71.43% 25
North East -19 28 £65,000 +44.44% 9
Yorkshire -77 19 £56,250 -6.25% 13
West Midlands -40 18 £62,500 +5.93% 13
Scotland -47 5 £55,000 +37.50% 8
Wales -31 2 £50,000 - 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 19 (5.64%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.78%) IIS
3 1 (0.30%) CMS
3 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Magento
2 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 191 (56.68%) Azure
2 60 (17.80%) AWS
3 50 (14.84%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (8.61%) GitHub
5 27 (8.01%) SaaS
6 25 (7.42%) Power Platform
7 21 (6.23%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (6.23%) Power Automate
7 21 (6.23%) PowerApps
8 20 (5.93%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (5.93%) Azure Logic Apps
9 19 (5.64%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 19 (5.64%) OneDrive
10 18 (5.34%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (5.34%) Serverless
11 16 (4.75%) Azure AI
12 12 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.56%) Azure AKS
13 11 (3.26%) Amazon EventBridge
13 11 (3.26%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.19%) Internet
2 2 (0.59%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.30%) AMQP
3 1 (0.30%) Firewall
3 1 (0.30%) HTTP
3 1 (0.30%) Modbus
3 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (33.53%) SQL Server
2 54 (16.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 29 (8.61%) MongoDB
4 28 (8.31%) NoSQL
5 23 (6.82%) Power BI
6 17 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (3.26%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.48%) Redis
10 2 (0.59%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.30%) GIS
11 1 (0.30%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 37 (10.98%) Git
2 4 (1.19%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.59%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.59%) NUnit
4 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.30%) JIRA
4 1 (0.30%) MSTest
4 1 (0.30%) Selenium
4 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.30%) Vite
General
1 37 (10.98%) Social Skills
2 33 (9.79%) Finance
3 16 (4.75%) Games
4 9 (2.67%) Automotive
5 7 (2.08%) Retail
6 5 (1.48%) Marketing
6 5 (1.48%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.19%) Advertising
8 2 (0.59%) Local Government
9 1 (0.30%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.30%) Law
9 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.30%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 265 (78.64%) Developer
2 119 (35.31%) .NET Developer
3 97 (28.78%) Senior
3 97 (28.78%) Software Developer
4 66 (19.58%) Senior Developer
5 57 (16.91%) C# Developer
6 44 (13.06%) Full-Stack Developer
7 42 (12.46%) Software Engineer
8 37 (10.98%) C# .NET Developer
8 37 (10.98%) Lead
9 26 (7.72%) Lead Developer
10 24 (7.12%) Senior Software Developer
10 24 (7.12%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (6.53%) .NET Software Developer
11 22 (6.53%) .NET Software Engineer
11 22 (6.53%) Applications Developer
12 20 (5.93%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 19 (5.64%) Lead Software Developer
14 17 (5.04%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
15 16 (4.75%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 337 (100.00%) .NET
2 116 (34.42%) ASP.NET
3 69 (20.47%) React
4 68 (20.18%) .NET Framework
5 52 (15.43%) ASP.NET Core
5 52 (15.43%) HTML
6 51 (15.13%) CSS
6 51 (15.13%) RESTful
7 49 (14.54%) Blazor
8 46 (13.65%) Entity Framework
9 41 (12.17%) AngularJS
10 40 (11.87%) Vue
11 23 (6.82%) Node.js
12 21 (6.23%) Microsoft Graph
12 21 (6.23%) REST
13 20 (5.93%) JSON
14 19 (5.64%) HTML5 Canvas
14 19 (5.64%) SPFx
15 18 (5.34%) ASP.NET MVC
16 16 (4.75%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.53%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.64%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (5.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 12 (3.56%) Sports Betting
5 10 (2.97%) Hedge funds
6 7 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.78%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (1.78%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.19%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.19%) Social Network
10 3 (0.89%) BBC
10 3 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.89%) Social Media
11 2 (0.59%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.59%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.59%) Digital TV
11 2 (0.59%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.30%) IoT
12 1 (0.30%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.08%) Windows
2 5 (1.48%) Linux
3 1 (0.30%) Android
3 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (35.31%) Full-Stack Development
2 102 (30.27%) Agile
3 88 (26.11%) CI/CD
4 81 (24.04%) Software Engineering
5 72 (21.36%) DevOps
6 51 (15.13%) Containerisation
7 44 (13.06%) Microservices
8 36 (10.68%) MVC
8 36 (10.68%) SDLC
9 35 (10.39%) Machine Learning
10 33 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (9.50%) Collaborative Culture
11 32 (9.50%) OO
12 31 (9.20%) Technical Leadership
13 30 (8.90%) AI
14 29 (8.61%) Clean Code
14 29 (8.61%) User Experience
15 27 (8.01%) Collaborative Working
16 26 (7.72%) SOLID
17 24 (7.12%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 299 (88.72%) C#
2 162 (48.07%) SQL
3 102 (30.27%) JavaScript
4 55 (16.32%) TypeScript
5 24 (7.12%) PowerShell
6 12 (3.56%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.08%) Python
8 5 (1.48%) Bash
9 3 (0.89%) Java
10 2 (0.59%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.30%) C++
11 1 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (6.23%) Degree
2 10 (2.97%) AWS Certification
3 9 (2.67%) AWS Certified Developer
3 9 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.59%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.59%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.56%) QA
System Software
1 70 (20.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 56 (16.62%) Kubernetes
2 21 (6.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 112 (33.23%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.64%) Adobe
3 6 (1.78%) Google
4 5 (1.48%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (1.48%) Facebook
5 3 (0.89%) Apple
5 3 (0.89%) Sony
5 3 (0.89%) Yahoo!
6 2 (0.59%) Foundry
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle
7 1 (0.30%) WooCommerce