.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 citing .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 4 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	219	360	176
Rank change year-on-year	+141	-184	-37
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core	733	171	659
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London	0.81%	0.49%	1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category	9.78%	3.71%	7.17%
Number of salaries quoted	616	158	459
10^th Percentile	£40,000	£37,500	£32,750
25^th Percentile	£45,000	£45,000	£42,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£55,750	£52,500
Median % change year-on-year	-1.35%	+6.19%	-4.55%
75^th Percentile	£67,500	£65,000	£65,000
90^th Percentile	£77,500	£82,500	£75,000
UK median annual salary	£55,000	£62,500	£57,500
% change year-on-year	-12.00%	+8.70%	-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 citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

	6 months to 4 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills	7,498	4,613	9,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London	8.28%	13.20%	19.23%
Number of salaries quoted	5,559	2,912	5,252
10^th Percentile	£40,000	£31,250	£36,250
25^th Percentile	£47,500	£42,500	£45,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£57,500	£57,500
Median % change year-on-year	+4.35%	-	-4.17%
75^th Percentile	£76,250	£73,750	£71,250
90^th Percentile	£95,000	£84,988	£82,500
UK median annual salary	£67,500	£68,000	£65,000
% change year-on-year	-0.74%	+4.62%	-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 Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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 4 November 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 4 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
South East	+75	215	£57,500	+2.22%	51
North of England	+37	195	£55,000	-	29
East of England	+19	110	£60,000	-	28
Midlands	+19	106	£55,000	-8.33%	15
North East	+4	81	£67,500	-3.57%	9
South West	-18	81	£52,500	+5.00%	13
North West	-13	72	£55,000	-4.35%	14
West Midlands	-9	61	£55,000	-8.33%	8
East Midlands	-13	45	£50,000	-16.67%	7
Yorkshire	-15	42	£48,750	+21.88%	6
Wales	-58	16	£50,000	+42.86%	5
Scotland	0	12	£55,000	-14.73%	2
Northern Ireland	-	1	-	-
.NET Core UK

.NET Core Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 November 2026, job vacancies citing .NET Core also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region citing .NET Core.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	.NET	100.0%	733
2	C#	94.1%	690
3	Azure	83.4%	611
4	Full-Stack Development	76.5%	561
5	SQL	72.9%	534
6	Microsoft	72.7%	533
7	ASP.NET	72.4%	531
8	ASP.NET Core	68.3%	501
9	Azure SQL Database	65.2%	478
10	MongoDB	57.7%	423
11	Agile	57.3%	420
12	JavaScript	37.0%	271
13	DevOps	33.7%	247
14	CI/CD	32.6%	239
15	React	31.5%	231
16	Blazor	30.8%	226
17	CSS	30.4%	223
17	Entity Framework	30.4%	223
19	HTML	30.2%	221
20	Azure DevOps	28.9%	212
21	Microservices	28.1%	206
22	RESTful	27.7%	203
23	AngularJS	26.9%	197
24	ASP.NET Web API	26.6%	195
25	TypeScript	26.2%	192
26	Docker	24.7%	181
27	AI	24.3%	178
28	Elasticsearch	23.7%	174
29	Node.js	23.5%	172
30	Multithreading	23.3%	171

.NET Core Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	.NET	100.0%	733
2	ASP.NET	72.4%	531
3	ASP.NET Core	68.3%	501
4	React	31.5%	231
5	Blazor	30.8%	226
6	CSS	30.4%	223
6	Entity Framework	30.4%	223
8	HTML	30.2%	221
9	RESTful	27.7%	203
10	AngularJS	26.9%	197
11	ASP.NET Web API	26.6%	195
12	Node.js	23.5%	172
13	Vue	23.1%	169
14	ML.NET	21.8%	160
15	LINQ	16.6%	122
16	.NET Framework	16.0%	117
17	REST	6.1%	45
18	WPF	5.0%	37
19	HTML5	2.7%	20
19	jQuery	2.7%	20