.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 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 183 141
Rank change year-on-year -165 -42 -56
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 176 642 717
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 1.35% 2.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.39% 7.56% 9.29%
Number of salaries quoted 162 442 667
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -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 4,013 8,494 7,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.10% 17.92% 25.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,754 4,795 6,070
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,020 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -0.87% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £84,056
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%

.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 11 November 2025.

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 11 November 2025. 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 -56 69 £55,000 - 109
North West -23 42 £55,000 -4.35% 64
South East -78 40 £55,000 - 87
South West +12 27 £50,000 -20.00% 20
Yorkshire -41 21 £40,000 -20.00% 30
Midlands -38 16 £60,000 +32.96% 46
East of England -17 13 £60,000 +20.00% 32
West Midlands +5 11 £60,000 +33.33% 22
Scotland -65 10 £64,500 +72.00% 7
North East -4 6 £70,000 - 16
East Midlands -29 5 £60,000 +26.32% 24
Wales 0 1 £35,000 -40.43% 8
.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 9 (5.11%) IIS
2 6 (3.41%) CMS
3 5 (2.84%) Umbraco
4 4 (2.27%) Confluence
4 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.57%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (1.70%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.57%) Magento
1 1 (0.57%) SAP Business One
1 1 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 106 (60.23%) Azure
2 57 (32.39%) AWS
3 29 (16.48%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (15.91%) GitHub
5 19 (10.80%) Serverless
6 15 (8.52%) SaaS
7 14 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (5.11%) Azure Functions
9 8 (4.55%) Azure AKS
9 8 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (4.55%) Power Platform
10 7 (3.98%) GCP
11 5 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.84%) Azure App Service
11 5 (2.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (2.84%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.27%) Azure AI
12 4 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.27%) ChatGPT
12 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.84%) Internet
2 2 (1.14%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.57%) HTTP
3 1 (0.57%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (42.61%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.52%) NoSQL
3 13 (7.39%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.98%) Redis
6 6 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.41%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.84%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.84%) MySQL
7 5 (2.84%) Power BI
8 4 (2.27%) Data Hub
8 4 (2.27%) SQL CLR
8 4 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.14%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 30 (17.05%) Git
2 11 (6.25%) JIRA
3 8 (4.55%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.84%) GitLab
4 5 (2.84%) NUnit
4 5 (2.84%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (2.27%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.27%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.70%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.70%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.70%) MSTest
6 3 (1.70%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.70%) Vite
7 2 (1.14%) Postman
8 1 (0.57%) Moq
8 1 (0.57%) NSubstitute
8 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.57%) Subversion
General
1 28 (15.91%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.39%) Finance
3 10 (5.68%) Back Office
4 9 (5.11%) Retail
5 7 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.84%) Automotive
6 5 (2.84%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.70%) Advertising
7 3 (1.70%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.14%) Games
8 2 (1.14%) Legal
9 1 (0.57%) Electronics
9 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.57%) Law
9 1 (0.57%) Marketing
9 1 (0.57%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 128 (72.73%) Developer
2 61 (34.66%) .NET Developer
3 40 (22.73%) Senior
4 33 (18.75%) Software Developer
5 32 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
5 32 (18.18%) Software Engineer
6 26 (14.77%) C# Developer
6 26 (14.77%) Senior Developer
7 21 (11.93%) .NET Software Engineer
8 19 (10.80%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 17 (9.66%) Lead
10 14 (7.95%) Senior .NET Developer
11 12 (6.82%) C# Software Engineer
12 10 (5.68%) Senior Software Engineer
13 9 (5.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (5.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 9 (5.11%) Lead Software Engineer
13 9 (5.11%) Senior C# Developer
14 8 (4.55%) C# .NET Developer
14 8 (4.55%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (100.00%) .NET
2 56 (31.82%) ASP.NET
2 56 (31.82%) React
3 54 (30.68%) AngularJS
4 45 (25.57%) .NET Framework
4 45 (25.57%) RESTful
5 38 (21.59%) CSS
6 35 (19.89%) HTML
7 33 (18.75%) Blazor
8 24 (13.64%) Entity Framework
9 21 (11.93%) ASP.NET Core
9 21 (11.93%) REST
10 20 (11.36%) ASP.NET Web API
11 19 (10.80%) Vue
12 16 (9.09%) HTML5
13 12 (6.82%) ASP.NET MVC
13 12 (6.82%) CSS3
14 9 (5.11%) Node.js
15 8 (4.55%) Sass
15 8 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.68%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.41%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.41%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.27%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.27%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.14%) IoT
8 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.57%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.57%) Clustering
8 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.57%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.57%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.57%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.84%) Windows
2 4 (2.27%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (46.59%) CI/CD
2 71 (40.34%) Agile
3 63 (35.80%) DevOps
4 59 (33.52%) Full-Stack Development
5 57 (32.39%) Software Engineering
6 49 (27.84%) Microservices
7 40 (22.73%) Clean Code
8 33 (18.75%) Containerisation
8 33 (18.75%) MVC
9 32 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (13.07%) SDLC
11 21 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (10.80%) Mentoring
12 19 (10.80%) Unit Testing
13 17 (9.66%) Application Security
13 17 (9.66%) TDD
14 16 (9.09%) Design Patterns
14 16 (9.09%) Scrum
14 16 (9.09%) User Experience
15 14 (7.95%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 157 (89.20%) C#
2 62 (35.23%) SQL
3 58 (32.95%) JavaScript
4 21 (11.93%) TypeScript
5 9 (5.11%) Python
6 8 (4.55%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.70%) Erlang
8 2 (1.14%) Bicep
8 2 (1.14%) Go
8 2 (1.14%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.14%) XAML
9 1 (0.57%) C
9 1 (0.57%) Dart
9 1 (0.57%) PHP
9 1 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (13.07%) Degree
2 12 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.70%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (1.14%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.11%) QA
2 5 (2.84%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 42 (23.86%) Docker
2 4 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.52%) Terraform
3 1 (0.57%) Grafana
Vendors
1 29 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.27%) VMware
3 2 (1.14%) Google
3 2 (1.14%) Oracle
4 1 (0.57%) Databricks
4 1 (0.57%) IONA
4 1 (0.57%) Okta
4 1 (0.57%) SAP
4 1 (0.57%) Xamarin