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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 185 152
Rank change year-on-year -149 -33 -66
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 194 637 677
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 1.34% 2.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.95% 7.42% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 179 439 632
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,875 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,900 £75,500 £73,750
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 3,917 8,586 7,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.60% 18.09% 24.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,905 4,860 5,872
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £37,252
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,281 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

.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 21 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 21 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 -50 73 £55,000 - 94
North West -1 46 £55,000 -4.35% 57
South East -56 44 £57,500 +4.55% 84
Midlands -21 28 £65,500 +44.75% 34
South West +15 25 £47,500 -24.00% 23
Yorkshire -32 20 £40,000 -20.00% 26
East Midlands -14 17 £70,000 +47.37% 14
East of England -10 14 £60,000 +20.00% 30
West Midlands +7 11 £60,000 +33.33% 18
Scotland -60 9 £64,500 +72.00% 5
North East -6 7 £60,000 +33.33% 11
Wales +6 1 £35,000 -40.43% 6
.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 8 (4.12%) IIS
2 5 (2.58%) CMS
3 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.06%) Umbraco
4 3 (1.55%) Confluence
5 1 (0.52%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (1.55%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Magento
1 1 (0.52%) SAP Business One
1 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 116 (59.79%) Azure
2 61 (31.44%) AWS
3 30 (15.46%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (13.40%) GitHub
5 20 (10.31%) Serverless
6 14 (7.22%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (7.22%) SaaS
7 9 (4.64%) Azure Functions
8 8 (4.12%) Azure AKS
8 8 (4.12%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (3.61%) GCP
9 7 (3.61%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.09%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (2.58%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.58%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.58%) Azure App Service
11 5 (2.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.06%) Internet
2 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (42.27%) SQL Server
2 19 (9.79%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.67%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.12%) Redis
5 6 (3.09%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.58%) MySQL
6 5 (2.58%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.06%) Data Hub
7 4 (2.06%) Power BI
7 4 (2.06%) SQL CLR
8 3 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.03%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 30 (15.46%) Git
2 9 (4.64%) JIRA
3 8 (4.12%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.58%) GitLab
4 5 (2.58%) NUnit
5 4 (2.06%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (2.06%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.55%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.55%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.55%) MSTest
7 2 (1.03%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.03%) Vite
8 1 (0.52%) Moq
8 1 (0.52%) NSubstitute
8 1 (0.52%) Postman
8 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 27 (13.92%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.22%) Finance
3 8 (4.12%) Back Office
3 8 (4.12%) Retail
4 6 (3.09%) Games
4 6 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (2.58%) Automotive
6 4 (2.06%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.03%) Advertising
9 1 (0.52%) Electronics
9 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.52%) Legal
9 1 (0.52%) Marketing
9 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 145 (74.74%) Developer
2 64 (32.99%) .NET Developer
3 51 (26.29%) Senior
4 37 (19.07%) Senior Developer
5 35 (18.04%) C# Developer
5 35 (18.04%) Software Developer
6 32 (16.49%) Full-Stack Developer
6 32 (16.49%) Software Engineer
7 20 (10.31%) .NET Software Engineer
7 20 (10.31%) Lead
8 18 (9.28%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 17 (8.76%) Senior C# Developer
10 16 (8.25%) Senior .NET Developer
11 12 (6.19%) React Developer
12 11 (5.67%) C# Software Engineer
12 11 (5.67%) Senior Software Engineer
13 10 (5.15%) Lead Software Engineer
14 9 (4.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (4.64%) Lead Developer
15 8 (4.12%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (100.00%) .NET
2 68 (35.05%) ASP.NET
3 57 (29.38%) React
4 56 (28.87%) AngularJS
5 49 (25.26%) .NET Framework
6 46 (23.71%) RESTful
7 38 (19.59%) CSS
8 35 (18.04%) HTML
9 34 (17.53%) Blazor
10 26 (13.40%) Entity Framework
11 22 (11.34%) ASP.NET Core
12 21 (10.82%) REST
13 19 (9.79%) ASP.NET MVC
14 18 (9.28%) ASP.NET Web API
14 18 (9.28%) Vue
15 15 (7.73%) HTML5
16 12 (6.19%) CSS3
17 9 (4.64%) Node.js
18 7 (3.61%) Sass
18 7 (3.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.43%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.73%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.22%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.09%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.58%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (2.06%) 3D Graphics
7 4 (2.06%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.55%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.55%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.03%) IoT
10 1 (0.52%) Clustering
10 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.52%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.52%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.52%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.58%) Windows
2 4 (2.06%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (46.39%) CI/CD
2 72 (37.11%) Agile
3 67 (34.54%) DevOps
4 63 (32.47%) Full-Stack Development
4 63 (32.47%) Software Engineering
5 48 (24.74%) Microservices
6 42 (21.65%) Clean Code
7 38 (19.59%) MVC
8 35 (18.04%) Containerisation
9 32 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (12.37%) SDLC
11 23 (11.86%) Mentoring
12 22 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (9.28%) TDD
14 17 (8.76%) Application Security
14 17 (8.76%) Unit Testing
15 16 (8.25%) User Experience
16 15 (7.73%) Design Patterns
16 15 (7.73%) Scrum
17 14 (7.22%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 173 (89.18%) C#
2 74 (38.14%) SQL
3 64 (32.99%) JavaScript
4 20 (10.31%) TypeScript
5 11 (5.67%) T-SQL
6 7 (3.61%) Python
7 3 (1.55%) Erlang
8 2 (1.03%) Bicep
8 2 (1.03%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.03%) XAML
9 1 (0.52%) Dart
9 1 (0.52%) Go
9 1 (0.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (12.89%) Degree
2 10 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.06%) AWS Certification
3 4 (2.06%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (1.03%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.64%) QA
2 4 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 43 (22.16%) Docker
2 4 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (17.01%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.73%) Terraform
3 1 (0.52%) Grafana
Vendors
1 35 (18.04%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.06%) VMware
3 2 (1.03%) Google
3 2 (1.03%) Oracle
4 1 (0.52%) IONA
4 1 (0.52%) Okta
4 1 (0.52%) SAP