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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 197 134
Rank change year-on-year -113 -63 -40
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 220 538 726
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.52% 1.43% 2.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.68% 7.40% 9.78%
Number of salaries quoted 205 379 689
10th Percentile £42,500 £32,750 £39,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,050 £77,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £59,250
% change year-on-year +4.35% -2.95% -4.05%

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 3,870 7,269 7,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.07% 19.30% 23.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,972 4,123 5,766
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,310
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.09%

.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 December 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 27 December 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 -49 85 £55,000 - 100
South East -42 51 £57,500 +7.98% 109
North West -12 49 £55,000 -4.35% 55
Midlands -9 39 £65,000 +23.81% 70
East Midlands -12 27 £67,500 +28.57% 37
Yorkshire -30 25 £40,000 -20.00% 25
South West -6 24 £52,500 -23.64% 38
West Midlands -2 12 £57,500 +9.52% 31
East of England -13 12 £60,000 +20.00% 41
North East +2 11 £52,500 +16.67% 20
Scotland -64 8 £72,250 +112.50% 18
Wales -6 1 £35,000 -34.88% 10
.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 2 (0.91%) CMS
1 2 (0.91%) Confluence
1 2 (0.91%) IIS
2 1 (0.45%) Kentico
2 1 (0.45%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 132 (60.00%) Azure
2 60 (27.27%) AWS
3 40 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (11.36%) GitHub
4 25 (11.36%) Serverless
5 20 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (6.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (5.91%) Amazon EventBridge
7 13 (5.91%) Amazon S3
7 13 (5.91%) Amazon SQS
7 13 (5.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (5.91%) AWS Step Functions
8 11 (5.00%) SaaS
9 8 (3.64%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.73%) Azure AKS
10 6 (2.73%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.27%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.27%) GCP
12 4 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.36%) Internet
2 1 (0.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (43.18%) SQL Server
2 25 (11.36%) NoSQL
3 20 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (6.36%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.18%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.27%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.82%) Power BI
7 4 (1.82%) Redis
8 3 (1.36%) MySQL
8 3 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.91%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 35 (15.91%) Git
2 7 (3.18%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.27%) GitLab
3 5 (2.27%) JIRA
3 5 (2.27%) NUnit
4 4 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.82%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.36%) MSTest
6 2 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.45%) Moq
7 1 (0.45%) NSubstitute
7 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 27 (12.27%) Social Skills
2 11 (5.00%) Finance
3 9 (4.09%) Games
4 5 (2.27%) Public Sector
4 5 (2.27%) Retail
5 3 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (0.91%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.45%) Automotive
7 1 (0.45%) Back Office
7 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.45%) Law
7 1 (0.45%) Legal
7 1 (0.45%) Local Government
7 1 (0.45%) Marketing
7 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 171 (77.73%) Developer
2 78 (35.45%) .NET Developer
3 62 (28.18%) Senior
4 56 (25.45%) Software Developer
5 45 (20.45%) C# Developer
6 43 (19.55%) Senior Developer
7 34 (15.45%) Full-Stack Developer
8 33 (15.00%) Software Engineer
9 26 (11.82%) Lead
10 19 (8.64%) .NET Software Engineer
10 19 (8.64%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 19 (8.64%) Senior .NET Developer
11 16 (7.27%) Senior C# Developer
12 15 (6.82%) C# .NET Developer
13 14 (6.36%) C# Software Developer
13 14 (6.36%) React Developer
13 14 (6.36%) Senior Software Engineer
14 13 (5.91%) Lead Developer
15 12 (5.45%) Lead Software Engineer
16 11 (5.00%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (100.00%) .NET
2 87 (39.55%) ASP.NET
3 60 (27.27%) React
4 49 (22.27%) .NET Framework
5 48 (21.82%) AngularJS
6 42 (19.09%) Blazor
6 42 (19.09%) RESTful
7 31 (14.09%) CSS
8 30 (13.64%) ASP.NET Core
9 27 (12.27%) HTML
10 20 (9.09%) Entity Framework
11 19 (8.64%) ASP.NET MVC
12 17 (7.73%) ASP.NET Web API
12 17 (7.73%) REST
13 15 (6.82%) Vue
14 13 (5.91%) AWS CDK
15 12 (5.45%) Node.js
16 8 (3.64%) HTML5
17 7 (3.18%) CSS3
18 6 (2.73%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.18%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.36%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.73%) 3D Graphics
5 6 (2.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (1.82%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.82%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.36%) Sports Betting
8 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.91%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.91%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.45%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.45%) Clustering
9 1 (0.45%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.45%) IoT
9 1 (0.45%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.91%) Linux
1 2 (0.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (39.55%) CI/CD
2 78 (35.45%) Agile
3 65 (29.55%) DevOps
4 64 (29.09%) Full-Stack Development
4 64 (29.09%) Software Engineering
5 49 (22.27%) Microservices
6 43 (19.55%) Containerisation
7 38 (17.27%) MVC
8 37 (16.82%) Clean Code
9 26 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (10.91%) SDLC
11 22 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (9.55%) Application Security
12 21 (9.55%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (8.64%) Deployment Automation
14 18 (8.18%) Mentoring
15 16 (7.27%) RAD
15 16 (7.27%) Scrum
15 16 (7.27%) SOLID
15 16 (7.27%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 187 (85.00%) C#
2 90 (40.91%) SQL
3 65 (29.55%) JavaScript
4 15 (6.82%) TypeScript
5 10 (4.55%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.36%) Erlang
6 3 (1.36%) Python
7 2 (0.91%) Bash
7 2 (0.91%) Bicep
7 2 (0.91%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.91%) XAML
8 1 (0.45%) Dart
8 1 (0.45%) Go
8 1 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (9.09%) Degree
2 11 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 11 (5.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 7 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.91%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.91%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.09%) QA
2 2 (0.91%) Accessibility
System Software
1 47 (21.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (12.27%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.91%) Terraform
3 1 (0.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 44 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (0.91%) Oracle
3 1 (0.45%) Foundry
3 1 (0.45%) Google
3 1 (0.45%) IONA
3 1 (0.45%) Okta