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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 191 101
Rank change year-on-year -100 -90 +31
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 261 476 1,418
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 1.48% 2.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.15% 7.38% 12.79%
Number of salaries quoted 246 333 1,370
10th Percentile £43,750 £35,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,813 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,938 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 4,241 6,452 11,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.68% 20.12% 22.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,245 3,759 8,811
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,750
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 £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,206 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +7.65% -8.89%

.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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -43 107 £55,000 - 58
North West -17 66 £55,000 - 41
South East -58 50 £60,000 +11.11% 64
Midlands -23 47 £65,000 +23.81% 23
East Midlands -5 37 £65,000 +23.81% 13
South West -10 35 £55,000 -24.14% 23
Yorkshire -54 23 £40,000 -20.00% 12
North East -14 18 £55,000 +22.22% 6
East of England -10 16 £73,750 +47.50% 23
West Midlands -19 10 £45,000 -14.29% 10
Scotland -77 6 £55,000 +69.23% 10
.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 4 (1.53%) IIS
2 2 (0.77%) CMS
3 1 (0.38%) Kentico
3 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 140 (53.64%) Azure
2 60 (22.99%) AWS
3 41 (15.71%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (8.43%) GitHub
4 22 (8.43%) Serverless
5 21 (8.05%) SaaS
6 17 (6.51%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (5.75%) Azure AKS
8 14 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (4.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (4.98%) Amazon EventBridge
9 13 (4.98%) Amazon S3
9 13 (4.98%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (4.98%) AWS Step Functions
10 6 (2.30%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.30%) GCP
10 6 (2.30%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.92%) Azure AI
12 4 (1.53%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.92%) Internet
2 1 (0.38%) AMQP
2 1 (0.38%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (39.08%) SQL Server
2 26 (9.96%) NoSQL
3 18 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (4.98%) DynamoDB
4 13 (4.98%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.07%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.53%) Power BI
6 4 (1.53%) Redis
6 4 (1.53%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (12.64%) Git
2 4 (1.53%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.38%) GitLab
4 1 (0.38%) NUnit
4 1 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 25 (9.58%) Social Skills
2 15 (5.75%) Finance
3 13 (4.98%) Games
4 4 (1.53%) Public Sector
5 2 (0.77%) Local Government
5 2 (0.77%) Marketing
6 1 (0.38%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.38%) Automotive
6 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.38%) Law
6 1 (0.38%) Legal
6 1 (0.38%) Retail
6 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 198 (75.86%) Developer
2 94 (36.02%) .NET Developer
3 71 (27.20%) Senior
4 65 (24.90%) Software Developer
5 48 (18.39%) C# Developer
6 47 (18.01%) Senior Developer
7 44 (16.86%) Software Engineer
8 40 (15.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 33 (12.64%) Lead
10 26 (9.96%) C# .NET Developer
11 24 (9.20%) .NET Software Engineer
12 23 (8.81%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 21 (8.05%) Senior Software Engineer
14 20 (7.66%) Lead Developer
14 20 (7.66%) React Developer
15 18 (6.90%) Senior .NET Developer
16 17 (6.51%) Applications Developer
16 17 (6.51%) Azure Developer
16 17 (6.51%) Senior Software Developer
17 15 (5.75%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (100.00%) .NET
2 95 (36.40%) ASP.NET
3 68 (26.05%) React
4 54 (20.69%) .NET Framework
5 41 (15.71%) Blazor
6 38 (14.56%) AngularJS
6 38 (14.56%) RESTful
7 35 (13.41%) ASP.NET Core
8 28 (10.73%) CSS
9 24 (9.20%) HTML
10 22 (8.43%) Entity Framework
11 20 (7.66%) REST
12 17 (6.51%) ASP.NET MVC
12 17 (6.51%) Vue
13 15 (5.75%) Node.js
14 13 (4.98%) AWS CDK
15 11 (4.21%) ASP.NET Web API
16 9 (3.45%) Dapper ORM
17 6 (2.30%) OpenGL
17 6 (2.30%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.81%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.36%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (4.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 9 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.68%) Sports Betting
6 6 (2.30%) 3D Graphics
7 5 (1.92%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.92%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.53%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.77%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.77%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.77%) Social Network
10 1 (0.38%) BBC
10 1 (0.38%) Digital TV
10 1 (0.38%) IoT
10 1 (0.38%) iPhone
10 1 (0.38%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.15%) Linux
1 3 (1.15%) Windows
2 1 (0.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (32.57%) Agile
2 84 (32.18%) CI/CD
3 80 (30.65%) Full-Stack Development
4 76 (29.12%) Software Engineering
5 62 (23.75%) DevOps
6 51 (19.54%) Containerisation
7 43 (16.48%) Microservices
8 36 (13.79%) SDLC
9 35 (13.41%) MVC
10 34 (13.03%) Clean Code
11 29 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (9.96%) Collaborative Culture
13 19 (7.28%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (7.28%) RAD
14 18 (6.90%) Mentoring
14 18 (6.90%) OO
15 17 (6.51%) Application Security
15 17 (6.51%) Collaborative Working
15 17 (6.51%) SOLID
16 16 (6.13%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 217 (83.14%) C#
2 112 (42.91%) SQL
3 75 (28.74%) JavaScript
4 12 (4.60%) TypeScript
5 8 (3.07%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.53%) Python
7 3 (1.15%) Bash
7 3 (1.15%) Erlang
7 3 (1.15%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.77%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (6.51%) Degree
2 11 (4.21%) AWS Certification
2 11 (4.21%) AWS Certified Developer
3 6 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.77%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.60%) QA
System Software
1 57 (21.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (15.33%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 58 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (1.15%) Google
3 2 (0.77%) Foundry
4 1 (0.38%) Apple
4 1 (0.38%) Facebook
4 1 (0.38%) Okta
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle
4 1 (0.38%) Sony
4 1 (0.38%) Yahoo!