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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 347 182
Rank change year-on-year +149 -165 -58
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 722 226 836
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.94% 0.65% 1.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.06% 4.67% 7.96%
Number of salaries quoted 682 199 734
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £36,075
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,125
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 6,530 4,837 10,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.47% 13.99% 17.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,162 2,991 7,230
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,985 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.87% -8.15%

.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 August 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 11 August 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 +103 207 £55,000 +7.32% 56
North of England +32 178 £55,000 -8.33% 40
East of England +67 118 £60,000 +14.29% 23
Midlands +20 110 £55,000 -8.33% 22
South West -11 83 £52,500 +5.00% 12
North East +3 75 £65,000 +23.81% 9
North West -11 66 £50,000 -16.67% 22
West Midlands +1 64 £55,000 -8.33% 12
East Midlands +10 46 £55,000 +4.76% 10
Yorkshire -13 37 £48,750 -18.75% 10
Wales -46 15 £50,000 - 6
Scotland +4 11 £55,000 -15.06% 3
.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 19 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.11%) IIS
3 7 (0.97%) Confluence
4 2 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Magento
1 2 (0.28%) Shopify
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 587 (81.30%) Azure
2 197 (27.29%) Azure DevOps
3 143 (19.81%) Azure AI
4 140 (19.39%) GitHub
5 132 (18.28%) AWS
6 124 (17.17%) GitHub Copilot
7 72 (9.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 32 (4.43%) Power Platform
9 25 (3.46%) Power Automate
9 25 (3.46%) PowerApps
10 24 (3.32%) SaaS
11 21 (2.91%) Azure Logic Apps
12 20 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (2.63%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 19 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
13 19 (2.63%) OneDrive
14 18 (2.49%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (2.35%) Google Play
16 15 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
16 15 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 45 (6.23%) Internet
2 7 (0.97%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.42%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.28%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) HTTP
5 1 (0.14%) Modbus
5 1 (0.14%) Network Security
5 1 (0.14%) SSL
5 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 445 (61.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 373 (51.66%) MongoDB
3 150 (20.78%) Elasticsearch
4 116 (16.07%) SQL Server
5 26 (3.60%) Power BI
6 16 (2.22%) MySQL
6 16 (2.22%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.66%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (1.52%) NonStop SQL
9 8 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.97%) Geospatial Data
10 7 (0.97%) GIS
11 3 (0.42%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.42%) ZAP BI
12 2 (0.28%) Redis
12 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.14%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 54 (7.48%) Git
2 13 (1.80%) JIRA
3 10 (1.39%) GitLab
4 8 (1.11%) NUnit
5 7 (0.97%) MSI
6 6 (0.83%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.69%) Postman
8 4 (0.55%) Selenium
8 4 (0.55%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.42%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.42%) JUnit
9 3 (0.42%) Snyk
9 3 (0.42%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.14%) MSTest
10 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 83 (11.50%) Finance
2 65 (9.00%) Social Skills
3 54 (7.48%) Advertising
4 45 (6.23%) Games
5 44 (6.09%) Marketing
6 30 (4.16%) Retail
7 24 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.35%) Public Sector
9 13 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (1.52%) Law
10 11 (1.52%) Music Industry
11 9 (1.25%) Automotive
12 7 (0.97%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.69%) Legal
13 5 (0.69%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.55%) Electronics
14 4 (0.55%) Local Government
15 3 (0.42%) Banking
15 3 (0.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 635 (87.95%) Developer
2 510 (70.64%) .NET Developer
3 88 (12.19%) Software Developer
4 75 (10.39%) Senior
5 57 (7.89%) Senior Developer
6 42 (5.82%) C# Developer
6 42 (5.82%) Lead
7 37 (5.12%) Full-Stack Developer
7 37 (5.12%) Software Engineer
8 32 (4.43%) C# .NET Developer
9 30 (4.16%) Lead Developer
10 24 (3.32%) Senior Software Developer
11 23 (3.19%) .NET Software Developer
12 20 (2.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 19 (2.63%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 18 (2.49%) .NET Software Engineer
15 15 (2.08%) C# Software Engineer
16 14 (1.94%) C# Software Developer
16 14 (1.94%) Lead .NET Developer
16 14 (1.94%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 722 (100.00%) .NET
2 487 (67.45%) ASP.NET
3 446 (61.77%) ASP.NET Core
4 217 (30.06%) CSS
4 217 (30.06%) HTML
5 204 (28.25%) Blazor
5 204 (28.25%) Entity Framework
6 200 (27.70%) React
7 189 (26.18%) RESTful
8 172 (23.82%) ASP.NET Web API
9 171 (23.68%) AngularJS
10 163 (22.58%) Vue
11 153 (21.19%) Node.js
12 143 (19.81%) ML.NET
13 113 (15.65%) .NET Framework
14 109 (15.10%) LINQ
15 41 (5.68%) REST
16 33 (4.57%) WPF
17 23 (3.19%) JSON
18 21 (2.91%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 80 (11.08%) Greenfield Project
2 39 (5.40%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (2.77%) Digital TV
4 19 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (2.63%) Mobile App
5 17 (2.35%) BBC
5 17 (2.35%) iPhone
5 17 (2.35%) Social Media
6 16 (2.22%) Cloud Native
7 13 (1.80%) Sports Betting
8 12 (1.66%) Social Network
9 11 (1.52%) Hedge funds
10 10 (1.39%) Onboarding
11 7 (0.97%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
12 6 (0.83%) Client/Server
12 6 (0.83%) Product Ownership
12 6 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 5 (0.69%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.77%) Windows
2 17 (2.35%) Android
3 4 (0.55%) Linux
4 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 514 (71.19%) Full-Stack Development
2 397 (54.99%) Agile
3 235 (32.55%) DevOps
4 225 (31.16%) CI/CD
5 180 (24.93%) Microservices
6 162 (22.44%) AI
6 162 (22.44%) Machine Learning
7 156 (21.61%) Multithreading
8 93 (12.88%) Scrum
9 88 (12.19%) OO
10 82 (11.36%) TDD
11 71 (9.83%) Software Engineering
12 65 (9.00%) BDD
13 61 (8.45%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
14 59 (8.17%) Kanban
15 46 (6.37%) SDLC
16 42 (5.82%) Continuous Improvement
17 40 (5.54%) MVC
18 39 (5.40%) Containerisation
18 39 (5.40%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 685 (94.88%) C#
2 514 (71.19%) SQL
3 257 (35.60%) JavaScript
4 199 (27.56%) TypeScript
5 25 (3.46%) PowerShell
6 24 (3.32%) Python
7 14 (1.94%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.66%) Java
9 7 (0.97%) Bicep
10 4 (0.55%) Bash
10 4 (0.55%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.42%) Go
11 3 (0.42%) Ruby
11 3 (0.42%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.14%) C
12 1 (0.14%) C++
12 1 (0.14%) Dart
12 1 (0.14%) Delphi
12 1 (0.14%) Pascal
12 1 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (6.51%) Degree
2 20 (2.77%) SC Cleared
2 20 (2.77%) Security Cleared
3 19 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.83%) AWS Certification
5 5 (0.69%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.42%) OCP
6 3 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.28%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.88%) QA
2 7 (0.97%) Accessibility
2 7 (0.97%) NCSC
2 7 (0.97%) WCAG
3 3 (0.42%) GDPR
3 3 (0.42%) NIST
4 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 180 (24.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 165 (22.85%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.63%) Terraform
3 3 (0.42%) Grafana
3 3 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 503 (69.67%) Microsoft
2 57 (7.89%) Facebook
3 48 (6.65%) Google
4 21 (2.91%) YouTube
5 19 (2.63%) Adobe
6 17 (2.35%) Apple
6 17 (2.35%) Sony
6 17 (2.35%) Yahoo!
7 6 (0.83%) OpenAI
7 6 (0.83%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.55%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.42%) Splunk
10 2 (0.28%) IFS
10 2 (0.28%) Veracode
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle
11 1 (0.14%) Sage
11 1 (0.14%) WooCommerce