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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 320 151
Rank change year-on-year +122 -169 -17
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 693 262 1,303
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.97% 0.78% 1.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.35% 5.09% 9.72%
Number of salaries quoted 678 224 1,200
10th Percentile £42,125 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
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 6,104 5,147 13,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.55% 15.23% 18.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,926 3,265 9,851
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £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 £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.17%

.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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +104 194 £55,000 +10.00% 48
North of England +31 165 £55,000 -8.33% 42
East of England +68 114 £62,500 +16.28% 20
Midlands +38 108 £55,000 -8.33% 23
South West -3 86 £52,500 - 10
North East +1 67 £65,000 +33.33% 11
North West -14 67 £50,000 -16.67% 23
West Midlands +14 61 £55,000 -8.33% 12
East Midlands +5 47 £55,000 +4.76% 11
Yorkshire -29 31 £55,000 -8.33% 9
Wales -35 15 £50,000 - 5
Scotland -9 11 £55,000 -14.73% 2
.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 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.44%) IIS
3 5 (0.72%) Confluence
4 2 (0.29%) CMS
5 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Magento
1 2 (0.29%) Shopify
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 553 (79.80%) Azure
2 182 (26.26%) Azure DevOps
3 142 (20.49%) Azure AI
4 130 (18.76%) GitHub
5 121 (17.46%) GitHub Copilot
6 119 (17.17%) AWS
7 63 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 28 (4.04%) SaaS
9 25 (3.61%) Power Platform
10 24 (3.46%) Power Automate
10 24 (3.46%) PowerApps
11 22 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
12 20 (2.89%) Azure Data Factory
13 19 (2.74%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 19 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (2.74%) OneDrive
14 17 (2.45%) Google Play
15 14 (2.02%) Serverless
16 10 (1.44%) Azure AKS
16 10 (1.44%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 45 (6.49%) Internet
2 7 (1.01%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.43%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.29%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) AMQP
5 1 (0.14%) HTTP
5 1 (0.14%) Modbus
5 1 (0.14%) Network Security
5 1 (0.14%) SSL
5 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 445 (64.21%) Azure SQL Database
2 372 (53.68%) MongoDB
3 145 (20.92%) Elasticsearch
4 101 (14.57%) SQL Server
5 23 (3.32%) Power BI
6 12 (1.73%) NoSQL
7 11 (1.59%) NonStop SQL
8 6 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.72%) Geospatial Data
9 5 (0.72%) GIS
9 5 (0.72%) MySQL
9 5 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.72%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.29%) Redis
10 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.14%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 34 (4.91%) Git
2 11 (1.59%) JIRA
3 7 (1.01%) GitLab
4 5 (0.72%) MSI
5 3 (0.43%) NUnit
6 2 (0.29%) Postman
6 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.14%) MSTest
7 1 (0.14%) Selenium
7 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 84 (12.12%) Finance
2 54 (7.79%) Advertising
3 47 (6.78%) Games
4 44 (6.35%) Marketing
5 41 (5.92%) Social Skills
6 30 (4.33%) Retail
7 11 (1.59%) Music Industry
8 9 (1.30%) Automotive
8 9 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.01%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.72%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.72%) Public Sector
11 4 (0.58%) Electronics
12 3 (0.43%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (0.43%) Banking
13 2 (0.29%) Law
13 2 (0.29%) Legal
14 1 (0.14%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.14%) Local Government
14 1 (0.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 617 (89.03%) Developer
2 502 (72.44%) .NET Developer
3 77 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 76 (10.97%) Senior
5 52 (7.50%) Senior Developer
6 44 (6.35%) Software Engineer
7 42 (6.06%) C# Developer
8 35 (5.05%) C# .NET Developer
9 33 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
10 29 (4.18%) Lead
11 25 (3.61%) .NET Software Engineer
12 24 (3.46%) Lead Developer
13 21 (3.03%) Senior Software Developer
14 19 (2.74%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 19 (2.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 17 (2.45%) C# Software Engineer
15 17 (2.45%) Senior Software Engineer
16 16 (2.31%) .NET Software Developer
17 13 (1.88%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
17 13 (1.88%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 693 (100.00%) .NET
2 473 (68.25%) ASP.NET
3 437 (63.06%) ASP.NET Core
4 205 (29.58%) HTML
5 202 (29.15%) CSS
6 197 (28.43%) Entity Framework
7 195 (28.14%) Blazor
8 191 (27.56%) React
9 178 (25.69%) RESTful
10 172 (24.82%) ASP.NET Web API
11 163 (23.52%) Vue
12 162 (23.38%) AngularJS
13 152 (21.93%) Node.js
14 142 (20.49%) ML.NET
15 109 (15.73%) LINQ
16 106 (15.30%) .NET Framework
17 37 (5.34%) REST
18 28 (4.04%) WPF
19 24 (3.46%) JSON
20 21 (3.03%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 79 (11.40%) Greenfield Project
2 39 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (2.89%) Digital TV
4 17 (2.45%) BBC
4 17 (2.45%) iPhone
4 17 (2.45%) Mobile App
4 17 (2.45%) Social Media
5 14 (2.02%) Hedge funds
6 13 (1.88%) Sports Betting
7 12 (1.73%) Social Network
8 11 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.44%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 7 (1.01%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (0.87%) Client/Server
12 6 (0.87%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.72%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
14 4 (0.58%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.45%) Android
2 15 (2.16%) Windows
3 3 (0.43%) Linux
4 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (72.58%) Full-Stack Development
2 376 (54.26%) Agile
3 210 (30.30%) CI/CD
4 206 (29.73%) DevOps
5 166 (23.95%) Microservices
6 161 (23.23%) AI
6 161 (23.23%) Machine Learning
7 153 (22.08%) Multithreading
8 83 (11.98%) OO
9 81 (11.69%) Scrum
10 78 (11.26%) TDD
11 72 (10.39%) Software Engineering
12 65 (9.38%) BDD
13 61 (8.80%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
14 54 (7.79%) Kanban
15 43 (6.20%) SDLC
16 41 (5.92%) Fintech
17 37 (5.34%) Containerisation
18 35 (5.05%) Business Intelligence
19 33 (4.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 667 (96.25%) C#
2 515 (74.31%) SQL
3 240 (34.63%) JavaScript
4 195 (28.14%) TypeScript
5 24 (3.46%) PowerShell
6 15 (2.16%) Python
7 12 (1.73%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.72%) Bicep
9 4 (0.58%) Java
9 4 (0.58%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.43%) Bash
10 3 (0.43%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.14%) C++
11 1 (0.14%) Delphi
11 1 (0.14%) Pascal
11 1 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (4.62%) Degree
2 16 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (0.72%) SC Cleared
3 5 (0.72%) Security Cleared
4 4 (0.58%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.03%) QA
2 5 (0.72%) Accessibility
2 5 (0.72%) NCSC
2 5 (0.72%) WCAG
3 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 174 (25.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 165 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 491 (70.85%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.23%) Facebook
3 46 (6.64%) Google
4 21 (3.03%) YouTube
5 19 (2.74%) Adobe
6 17 (2.45%) Apple
6 17 (2.45%) Sony
6 17 (2.45%) Yahoo!
7 6 (0.87%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (0.43%) Splunk
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle
9 1 (0.14%) WooCommerce