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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 379 183
Rank change year-on-year +164 -196 -51
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 678 166 711
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.78% 0.48% 1.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.37% 3.60% 7.20%
Number of salaries quoted 633 152 504
10th Percentile £40,250 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,750 £82,500 £74,625
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.73% +12.17% -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 7,234 4,610 9,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.37% 13.27% 19.07%
Number of salaries quoted 5,544 2,774 5,762
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +4.35% -3.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%

.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 7 October 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 7 October 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 +98 193 £56,250 -2.17% 74
North of England +47 182 £55,000 -4.35% 68
East of England +55 107 £60,000 +14.29% 30
Midlands +44 100 £55,000 -8.33% 28
South West -29 74 £52,500 - 15
North East -5 72 £65,000 +33.33% 15
North West +3 71 £55,000 -8.33% 37
West Midlands +1 59 £55,000 -8.33% 18
East Midlands +6 41 £50,000 -16.67% 10
Yorkshire -8 39 £47,500 -20.83% 17
Wales -53 14 £50,000 +42.86% 9
Scotland +6 11 £55,000 -14.73% 11
.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 11 (1.62%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.47%) IIS
3 7 (1.03%) CMS
3 7 (1.03%) Confluence
4 4 (0.59%) Headless CMS
4 4 (0.59%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.15%) Kentico
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 556 (82.01%) Azure
2 189 (27.88%) Azure DevOps
3 135 (19.91%) Azure AI
4 132 (19.47%) GitHub
5 129 (19.03%) AWS
6 119 (17.55%) GitHub Copilot
7 69 (10.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 23 (3.39%) Power Platform
9 20 (2.95%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (2.80%) SaaS
10 19 (2.80%) Serverless
11 17 (2.51%) Google Play
11 17 (2.51%) Power Automate
11 17 (2.51%) PowerApps
12 15 (2.21%) Azure Key Vault
12 15 (2.21%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (1.62%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 11 (1.62%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 44 (6.49%) Internet
2 6 (0.88%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.44%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.29%) Firewall
5 1 (0.15%) HTTP
5 1 (0.15%) Network Security
5 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 418 (61.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 358 (52.80%) MongoDB
3 148 (21.83%) Elasticsearch
4 108 (15.93%) SQL Server
5 22 (3.24%) Relational Database
6 17 (2.51%) MySQL
7 16 (2.36%) Power BI
8 13 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (1.62%) NonStop SQL
10 9 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.18%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.03%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (1.03%) GIS
13 3 (0.44%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.44%) ZAP BI
14 2 (0.29%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 1 (0.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 58 (8.55%) Git
2 14 (2.06%) NUnit
3 13 (1.92%) JIRA
4 12 (1.77%) Visual Studio
5 10 (1.47%) GitLab
6 7 (1.03%) MSI
6 7 (1.03%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.74%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.74%) Postman
8 3 (0.44%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.44%) JUnit
8 3 (0.44%) Selenium
8 3 (0.44%) Snyk
8 3 (0.44%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.29%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 71 (10.47%) Finance
2 64 (9.44%) Social Skills
3 51 (7.52%) Advertising
4 41 (6.05%) Marketing
5 40 (5.90%) Games
6 27 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (3.69%) Retail
8 18 (2.65%) Public Sector
9 17 (2.51%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (1.77%) Law
11 11 (1.62%) Music Industry
12 7 (1.03%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.88%) Legal
14 5 (0.74%) Local Government
15 4 (0.59%) Automotive
15 4 (0.59%) Electronics
15 4 (0.59%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 597 (88.05%) Developer
2 505 (74.48%) .NET Developer
3 68 (10.03%) Senior
4 59 (8.70%) Software Developer
5 56 (8.26%) Senior Developer
6 43 (6.34%) C# Developer
7 40 (5.90%) Lead
8 38 (5.60%) Full-Stack Developer
9 35 (5.16%) Software Engineer
10 33 (4.87%) C# .NET Developer
11 29 (4.28%) Lead Developer
12 21 (3.10%) Senior C# Developer
12 21 (3.10%) Senior Software Developer
13 20 (2.95%) .NET Software Developer
13 20 (2.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 20 (2.95%) Lead .NET Developer
13 20 (2.95%) Senior .NET Developer
14 16 (2.36%) .NET Developer - Fintech
14 16 (2.36%) .NET Software Engineer
15 15 (2.21%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 678 (100.00%) .NET
2 463 (68.29%) ASP.NET
3 430 (63.42%) ASP.NET Core
4 214 (31.56%) CSS
5 212 (31.27%) HTML
6 202 (29.79%) Entity Framework
7 201 (29.65%) React
8 195 (28.76%) Blazor
9 183 (26.99%) RESTful
10 178 (26.25%) AngularJS
11 167 (24.63%) ASP.NET Web API
12 153 (22.57%) Vue
13 147 (21.68%) Node.js
14 135 (19.91%) ML.NET
15 108 (15.93%) .NET Framework
16 107 (15.78%) LINQ
17 44 (6.49%) REST
18 32 (4.72%) WPF
19 20 (2.95%) HTML5
19 20 (2.95%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 78 (11.50%) Greenfield Project
2 40 (5.90%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (2.95%) Mobile App
4 19 (2.80%) Digital TV
5 17 (2.51%) Cloud Native
5 17 (2.51%) iPhone
5 17 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.36%) BBC
6 16 (2.36%) Social Media
7 11 (1.62%) Sports Betting
8 10 (1.47%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.47%) Social Network
9 8 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.03%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.03%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (0.88%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.74%) Client/Server
13 4 (0.59%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.95%) Windows
2 17 (2.51%) Android
3 4 (0.59%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (72.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 371 (54.72%) Agile
3 224 (33.04%) DevOps
4 222 (32.74%) CI/CD
5 177 (26.11%) Microservices
6 155 (22.86%) AI
7 148 (21.83%) Multithreading
8 146 (21.53%) Machine Learning
9 94 (13.86%) Scrum
10 80 (11.80%) OO
11 78 (11.50%) TDD
12 75 (11.06%) Software Engineering
13 63 (9.29%) BDD
14 60 (8.85%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
15 59 (8.70%) Kanban
16 44 (6.49%) Mentoring
17 43 (6.34%) SDLC
18 42 (6.19%) Fintech
19 40 (5.90%) Problem-Solving
20 39 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 636 (93.81%) C#
2 477 (70.35%) SQL
3 256 (37.76%) JavaScript
4 187 (27.58%) TypeScript
5 23 (3.39%) Python
6 15 (2.21%) PowerShell
7 12 (1.77%) T-SQL
8 11 (1.62%) Java
9 7 (1.03%) Bicep
10 4 (0.59%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.59%) Ruby
10 4 (0.59%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.44%) Go
12 2 (0.29%) Bash
12 2 (0.29%) C
12 2 (0.29%) Dart
13 1 (0.15%) Delphi
13 1 (0.15%) Pascal
13 1 (0.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 45 (6.64%) Degree
2 22 (3.24%) SC Cleared
2 22 (3.24%) Security Cleared
3 17 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.88%) AWS Certification
4 6 (0.88%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.44%) OCP
5 3 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.42%) QA
2 7 (1.03%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.03%) NCSC
2 7 (1.03%) WCAG
3 4 (0.59%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.44%) GDPR
4 3 (0.44%) NIST
5 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 167 (24.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 147 (21.68%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.44%) Grafana
2 3 (0.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 476 (70.21%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.96%) Facebook
3 46 (6.78%) Google
4 21 (3.10%) YouTube
5 16 (2.36%) Apple
5 16 (2.36%) Sony
5 16 (2.36%) Yahoo!
6 11 (1.62%) Adobe
7 7 (1.03%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.88%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.44%) Splunk
10 2 (0.29%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.29%) IFS
10 2 (0.29%) Sage
10 2 (0.29%) Veracode
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle