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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 191 110
Rank change year-on-year -96 -81 -3
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 249 517 1,008
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.58% 1.45% 2.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.35% 7.41% 11.92%
Number of salaries quoted 234 355 969
10th Percentile £42,500 £33,750 £37,501
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%

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 3,921 6,978 8,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.10% 19.51% 22.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,996 3,875 6,663
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,687 £45,317 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -31 101 £55,000 - 52
North West +5 65 £55,000 -3.30% 35
South East -27 51 £60,000 +11.11% 71
Midlands -12 48 £65,000 +23.81% 28
East Midlands -7 37 £65,000 +26.83% 18
South West +6 30 £52,500 -23.64% 18
Yorkshire -47 23 £40,000 -20.00% 10
North East -5 13 £62,500 +38.89% 7
East of England -13 13 £60,000 +20.00% 18
West Midlands -1 11 £45,000 -14.29% 10
Scotland -67 5 £55,000 +69.23% 8
Wales -1 1 £35,000 -30.00% 5
.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 (0.80%) CMS
1 2 (0.80%) Confluence
1 2 (0.80%) IIS
2 1 (0.40%) Kentico
2 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 146 (58.63%) Azure
2 63 (25.30%) AWS
3 40 (16.06%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (10.04%) Serverless
5 23 (9.24%) GitHub
6 17 (6.83%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (5.62%) SaaS
8 13 (5.22%) Amazon EventBridge
8 13 (5.22%) Amazon S3
8 13 (5.22%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (5.22%) AWS Step Functions
9 9 (3.61%) Power Platform
10 8 (3.21%) Azure AKS
11 7 (2.81%) Entra ID
11 7 (2.81%) GCP
12 5 (2.01%) Azure AI
12 5 (2.01%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.01%) Internet
2 1 (0.40%) HTTP
2 1 (0.40%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (40.56%) SQL Server
2 26 (10.44%) NoSQL
3 18 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.62%) MongoDB
5 13 (5.22%) DynamoDB
6 7 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.01%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.61%) Power BI
8 4 (1.61%) Redis
9 3 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.20%) MySQL
9 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.80%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (13.25%) Git
2 7 (2.81%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.61%) JIRA
4 4 (1.61%) NUnit
5 3 (1.20%) GitLab
5 3 (1.20%) MSTest
6 2 (0.80%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.40%) Moq
7 1 (0.40%) NSubstitute
7 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 28 (11.24%) Social Skills
2 11 (4.42%) Finance
3 9 (3.61%) Games
4 4 (1.61%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.20%) Retail
6 2 (0.80%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (0.80%) Local Government
7 1 (0.40%) Automotive
7 1 (0.40%) Back Office
7 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.40%) Law
7 1 (0.40%) Legal
7 1 (0.40%) Marketing
7 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 196 (78.71%) Developer
2 92 (36.95%) .NET Developer
3 68 (27.31%) Senior
3 68 (27.31%) Software Developer
4 50 (20.08%) C# Developer
5 45 (18.07%) Senior Developer
6 38 (15.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 35 (14.06%) Software Engineer
8 31 (12.45%) Lead
9 24 (9.64%) C# .NET Developer
10 20 (8.03%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 19 (7.63%) Lead Developer
11 19 (7.63%) Senior .NET Developer
12 18 (7.23%) .NET Software Engineer
12 18 (7.23%) Senior Software Engineer
13 17 (6.83%) React Developer
14 16 (6.43%) Azure Developer
14 16 (6.43%) Senior C# Developer
15 15 (6.02%) Senior Software Developer
16 14 (5.62%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (100.00%) .NET
2 102 (40.96%) ASP.NET
3 64 (25.70%) React
4 53 (21.29%) .NET Framework
5 45 (18.07%) AngularJS
6 44 (17.67%) Blazor
7 40 (16.06%) RESTful
8 36 (14.46%) ASP.NET Core
9 31 (12.45%) CSS
10 27 (10.84%) HTML
11 21 (8.43%) ASP.NET MVC
11 21 (8.43%) Entity Framework
12 20 (8.03%) REST
13 18 (7.23%) Vue
14 16 (6.43%) ASP.NET Web API
15 13 (5.22%) AWS CDK
15 13 (5.22%) Node.js
16 7 (2.81%) CSS3
16 7 (2.81%) HTML5
17 6 (2.41%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.24%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.62%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (3.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 8 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.41%) 3D Graphics
6 5 (2.01%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.01%) Sports Betting
7 4 (1.61%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.61%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.20%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.80%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.80%) Social Network
10 1 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.40%) BBC
10 1 (0.40%) Digital TV
10 1 (0.40%) IoT
10 1 (0.40%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.80%) Linux
1 2 (0.80%) Windows
2 1 (0.40%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (34.94%) Agile
1 87 (34.94%) CI/CD
2 76 (30.52%) Full-Stack Development
3 67 (26.91%) Software Engineering
4 65 (26.10%) DevOps
5 46 (18.47%) Microservices
6 42 (16.87%) Containerisation
7 38 (15.26%) Clean Code
7 38 (15.26%) MVC
8 32 (12.85%) SDLC
9 25 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (8.43%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (8.03%) Collaborative Culture
12 20 (8.03%) Mentoring
13 19 (7.63%) RAD
14 18 (7.23%) Application Security
15 17 (6.83%) SOLID
15 17 (6.83%) Unit Testing
16 16 (6.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 211 (84.74%) C#
2 108 (43.37%) SQL
3 78 (31.33%) JavaScript
4 15 (6.02%) TypeScript
5 11 (4.42%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.20%) Erlang
6 3 (1.20%) Python
7 2 (0.80%) Bash
7 2 (0.80%) Bicep
7 2 (0.80%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.80%) XAML
8 1 (0.40%) Dart
8 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (8.03%) Degree
2 11 (4.42%) AWS Certification
2 11 (4.42%) AWS Certified Developer
3 7 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.80%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.80%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.42%) QA
2 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
System Software
1 47 (18.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (12.05%) Kubernetes
2 25 (10.04%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) Grafana
Vendors
1 54 (21.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.20%) Google
3 2 (0.80%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (0.80%) Foundry
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle
4 1 (0.40%) Apple
4 1 (0.40%) Facebook
4 1 (0.40%) IONA
4 1 (0.40%) Okta
4 1 (0.40%) Sony
4 1 (0.40%) Yahoo!