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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 196 105
Rank change year-on-year -93 -91 +23
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 270 442 1,434
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.54% 1.43% 2.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.33% 7.16% 12.75%
Number of salaries quoted 254 323 1,387
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,250 £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 £65,938 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,100 £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 4,265 6,172 11,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.58% 20.03% 22.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,260 3,710 8,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,225 £60,675
% change year-on-year -1.85% +9.15% -10.11%

.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 27 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 27 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 -42 107 £55,000 +8.08% 49
North West -17 66 £55,000 - 30
South East -40 54 £60,000 +14.29% 53
Midlands -17 49 £65,000 +23.81% 21
East Midlands -10 39 £65,000 +23.81% 12
South West +6 38 £55,000 -24.14% 22
Yorkshire -54 23 £40,000 -20.00% 15
North East -5 18 £55,000 +22.22% 6
East of England -13 16 £73,750 +47.50% 23
West Midlands -17 10 £45,000 -14.29% 9
Scotland -79 6 £55,000 +69.23% 7
.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 (1.48%) IIS
2 2 (0.74%) CMS
3 1 (0.37%) Kentico
3 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 142 (52.59%) Azure
2 60 (22.22%) AWS
3 41 (15.19%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (8.15%) GitHub
4 22 (8.15%) SaaS
4 22 (8.15%) Serverless
5 17 (6.30%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (5.93%) Azure AKS
7 14 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (4.81%) Amazon EventBridge
8 13 (4.81%) Amazon S3
8 13 (4.81%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (4.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (4.81%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (2.22%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.22%) GCP
9 6 (2.22%) Power Platform
10 5 (1.85%) Azure AI
11 4 (1.48%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.85%) Internet
2 1 (0.37%) AMQP
2 1 (0.37%) HTTP
2 1 (0.37%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (39.63%) SQL Server
2 26 (9.63%) NoSQL
3 18 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (4.81%) DynamoDB
4 13 (4.81%) MongoDB
5 8 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.48%) Power BI
6 4 (1.48%) Redis
6 4 (1.48%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (12.22%) Git
2 4 (1.48%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.37%) GitLab
4 1 (0.37%) NUnit
4 1 (0.37%) Selenium
4 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (9.26%) Social Skills
2 18 (6.67%) Finance
3 13 (4.81%) Games
4 5 (1.85%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.11%) Retail
6 2 (0.74%) Local Government
6 2 (0.74%) Marketing
7 1 (0.37%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.37%) Automotive
7 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.37%) Law
7 1 (0.37%) Legal
7 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 206 (76.30%) Developer
2 96 (35.56%) .NET Developer
3 73 (27.04%) Senior
4 70 (25.93%) Software Developer
5 49 (18.15%) C# Developer
6 48 (17.78%) Senior Developer
7 45 (16.67%) Software Engineer
8 42 (15.56%) Full-Stack Developer
9 33 (12.22%) Lead
10 26 (9.63%) C# .NET Developer
11 25 (9.26%) .NET Software Engineer
12 24 (8.89%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 22 (8.15%) Senior Software Engineer
14 20 (7.41%) Lead Developer
14 20 (7.41%) React Developer
15 18 (6.67%) Applications Developer
15 18 (6.67%) Azure Developer
15 18 (6.67%) Senior .NET Developer
15 18 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
16 15 (5.56%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 270 (100.00%) .NET
2 97 (35.93%) ASP.NET
3 68 (25.19%) React
4 60 (22.22%) .NET Framework
5 44 (16.30%) Blazor
6 39 (14.44%) RESTful
7 38 (14.07%) AngularJS
8 35 (12.96%) ASP.NET Core
9 30 (11.11%) CSS
10 27 (10.00%) Entity Framework
10 27 (10.00%) HTML
11 22 (8.15%) REST
12 19 (7.04%) Vue
13 17 (6.30%) ASP.NET MVC
14 15 (5.56%) Node.js
15 13 (4.81%) AWS CDK
16 11 (4.07%) ASP.NET Web API
17 10 (3.70%) Dapper ORM
18 6 (2.22%) OpenGL
18 6 (2.22%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.52%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.19%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (4.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 9 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.59%) Sports Betting
6 6 (2.22%) 3D Graphics
7 5 (1.85%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.85%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.48%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.74%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.74%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.74%) Social Network
10 1 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.37%) BBC
10 1 (0.37%) Digital TV
10 1 (0.37%) IoT
10 1 (0.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.11%) Linux
1 3 (1.11%) Windows
2 1 (0.37%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (32.96%) Agile
2 85 (31.48%) CI/CD
3 82 (30.37%) Full-Stack Development
4 77 (28.52%) Software Engineering
5 65 (24.07%) DevOps
6 52 (19.26%) Containerisation
7 44 (16.30%) Microservices
8 38 (14.07%) MVC
9 37 (13.70%) SDLC
10 35 (12.96%) Clean Code
11 30 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
13 20 (7.41%) Collaborative Working
13 20 (7.41%) OO
13 20 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (7.04%) Mentoring
14 19 (7.04%) RAD
15 18 (6.67%) SOLID
16 17 (6.30%) Application Security
17 16 (5.93%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 226 (83.70%) C#
2 115 (42.59%) SQL
3 77 (28.52%) JavaScript
4 15 (5.56%) TypeScript
5 8 (2.96%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.48%) Python
7 3 (1.11%) Bash
7 3 (1.11%) Erlang
7 3 (1.11%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.74%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (6.67%) Degree
2 11 (4.07%) AWS Certification
2 11 (4.07%) AWS Certified Developer
3 6 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.74%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.74%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.81%) QA
System Software
1 58 (21.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (15.19%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 61 (22.59%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (1.11%) Google
3 2 (0.74%) Foundry
4 1 (0.37%) Apple
4 1 (0.37%) Facebook
4 1 (0.37%) Okta
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle
4 1 (0.37%) Sony
4 1 (0.37%) Yahoo!