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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 307 125
Rank change year-on-year +117 -182 +16
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 672 261 1,584
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.97% 0.83% 2.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.50% 5.18% 11.15%
Number of salaries quoted 658 221 1,479
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -0.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -12.00%

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 5,841 5,039 14,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.41% 16.01% 18.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,729 3,174 10,570
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.26% +10.83% -10.45%

.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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +91 182 £55,000 +10.00% 42
North of England +2 165 £55,000 -8.33% 46
East of England +68 109 £62,500 +13.64% 20
Midlands +33 107 £55,000 -8.33% 24
South West -3 85 £52,500 - 10
North West +7 76 £52,500 -12.50% 22
North East 0 61 £65,000 +33.33% 12
West Midlands +9 57 £55,000 -8.33% 14
East Midlands +12 50 £55,000 +4.76% 10
Yorkshire -33 28 £55,000 -10.20% 14
Wales -38 13 £50,000 - 3
Scotland -1 11 £55,000 -12.00% 2
.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 (2.83%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.49%) IIS
3 3 (0.45%) Confluence
4 2 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Magento
1 2 (0.30%) Shopify
2 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 526 (78.27%) Azure
2 170 (25.30%) Azure DevOps
3 131 (19.49%) Azure AI
4 118 (17.56%) GitHub
5 111 (16.52%) AWS
6 107 (15.92%) GitHub Copilot
7 58 (8.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 30 (4.46%) SaaS
9 26 (3.87%) Power Platform
10 24 (3.57%) Power Automate
10 24 (3.57%) PowerApps
11 22 (3.27%) Azure Logic Apps
12 20 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
12 20 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (2.83%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 19 (2.83%) OneDrive
14 17 (2.53%) Google Play
15 16 (2.38%) Serverless
16 12 (1.79%) Azure AKS
17 9 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 43 (6.40%) Internet
2 8 (1.19%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.45%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.30%) Firewall
5 1 (0.15%) AMQP
5 1 (0.15%) HTTP
5 1 (0.15%) Modbus
5 1 (0.15%) Network Security
5 1 (0.15%) SSL
5 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 403 (59.97%) Azure SQL Database
2 334 (49.70%) MongoDB
3 129 (19.20%) Elasticsearch
4 108 (16.07%) SQL Server
5 23 (3.42%) Power BI
6 13 (1.93%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.34%) NonStop SQL
8 6 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.74%) GIS
9 5 (0.74%) MySQL
9 5 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.74%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.30%) Redis
11 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.15%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.15%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 31 (4.61%) Git
2 9 (1.34%) JIRA
3 7 (1.04%) GitLab
4 3 (0.45%) MSI
4 3 (0.45%) NUnit
5 2 (0.30%) Postman
5 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.15%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.15%) MSTest
6 1 (0.15%) Selenium
6 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.15%) Vite
General
1 72 (10.71%) Finance
2 47 (6.99%) Advertising
3 43 (6.40%) Games
4 41 (6.10%) Social Skills
5 37 (5.51%) Marketing
6 27 (4.02%) Retail
7 9 (1.34%) Automotive
7 9 (1.34%) Music Industry
8 6 (0.89%) Aerospace
8 6 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (0.74%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.60%) Electronics
10 4 (0.60%) Public Sector
11 3 (0.45%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (0.45%) Banking
12 2 (0.30%) Law
12 2 (0.30%) Legal
12 2 (0.30%) Local Government
13 1 (0.15%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 590 (87.80%) Developer
2 466 (69.35%) .NET Developer
3 86 (12.80%) Software Developer
4 77 (11.46%) Senior
5 49 (7.29%) Senior Developer
6 47 (6.99%) C# Developer
6 47 (6.99%) Software Engineer
7 39 (5.80%) C# .NET Developer
8 37 (5.51%) Full-Stack Developer
9 35 (5.21%) Lead
10 29 (4.32%) Lead Developer
11 26 (3.87%) .NET Software Engineer
12 23 (3.42%) Senior Software Developer
13 21 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
14 20 (2.98%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 19 (2.83%) .NET Software Developer
15 19 (2.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 17 (2.53%) C# Software Engineer
17 15 (2.23%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
18 14 (2.08%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 672 (100.00%) .NET
2 438 (65.18%) ASP.NET
3 394 (58.63%) ASP.NET Core
4 189 (28.13%) React
5 188 (27.98%) HTML
6 185 (27.53%) CSS
7 183 (27.23%) Entity Framework
8 180 (26.79%) Blazor
9 166 (24.70%) RESTful
10 154 (22.92%) ASP.NET Web API
11 151 (22.47%) Vue
12 150 (22.32%) AngularJS
13 138 (20.54%) Node.js
14 131 (19.49%) ML.NET
15 101 (15.03%) .NET Framework
16 97 (14.43%) LINQ
17 38 (5.65%) REST
18 24 (3.57%) JSON
19 23 (3.42%) WPF
20 21 (3.13%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 72 (10.71%) Greenfield Project
2 35 (5.21%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (2.98%) Digital TV
4 17 (2.53%) iPhone
4 17 (2.53%) Mobile App
5 16 (2.38%) BBC
5 16 (2.38%) Social Media
6 14 (2.08%) Hedge funds
6 14 (2.08%) Social Network
7 13 (1.93%) Sports Betting
8 11 (1.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 10 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.34%) Cloud Native
11 7 (1.04%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.04%) Product Ownership
12 6 (0.89%) Client/Server
13 5 (0.74%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
14 4 (0.60%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.53%) Android
2 13 (1.93%) Windows
3 3 (0.45%) Linux
4 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (69.79%) Full-Stack Development
2 351 (52.23%) Agile
3 201 (29.91%) CI/CD
4 196 (29.17%) DevOps
5 154 (22.92%) AI
6 150 (22.32%) Machine Learning
7 149 (22.17%) Microservices
8 143 (21.28%) Multithreading
9 83 (12.35%) OO
10 75 (11.16%) Software Engineering
11 71 (10.57%) TDD
12 70 (10.42%) Scrum
13 56 (8.33%) BDD
14 53 (7.89%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
15 49 (7.29%) SDLC
16 47 (6.99%) Kanban
17 41 (6.10%) Containerisation
18 35 (5.21%) Continuous Improvement
18 35 (5.21%) Fintech
19 34 (5.06%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 641 (95.39%) C#
2 485 (72.17%) SQL
3 229 (34.08%) JavaScript
4 180 (26.79%) TypeScript
5 24 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 14 (2.08%) Python
7 13 (1.93%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.60%) Java
8 4 (0.60%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.45%) Bash
9 3 (0.45%) Bicep
9 3 (0.45%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.15%) C++
10 1 (0.15%) Delphi
10 1 (0.15%) Pascal
10 1 (0.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (4.61%) Degree
2 15 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (0.60%) AWS Certification
4 3 (0.45%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.45%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.30%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.57%) QA
2 3 (0.45%) Accessibility
2 3 (0.45%) NCSC
2 3 (0.45%) WCAG
3 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 163 (24.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 155 (23.07%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 452 (67.26%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.59%) Facebook
3 44 (6.55%) Google
4 19 (2.83%) Adobe
4 19 (2.83%) YouTube
5 16 (2.38%) Apple
5 16 (2.38%) Sony
5 16 (2.38%) Yahoo!
6 6 (0.89%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.45%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (0.45%) Splunk
8 1 (0.15%) Foundry
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle
8 1 (0.15%) WooCommerce