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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 282 113
Rank change year-on-year +36 -169 +30
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 465 280 1,654
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.69% 0.96% 2.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.74% 5.63% 11.71%
Number of salaries quoted 451 240 1,578
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.64% +10.91% -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 5,320 4,974 14,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.88% 17.03% 19.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4,239 3,197 10,560
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,500 £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 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,200 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%

.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 2 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 2 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
North of England -10 134 £55,000 -8.33% 59
South East +31 104 £57,500 +15.00% 48
Midlands +12 79 £55,000 -4.35% 27
North West +1 72 £55,000 -8.33% 34
East of England +47 71 £67,500 +22.73% 21
South West -22 64 £50,000 -18.37% 17
East Midlands -1 42 £55,000 +4.76% 13
North East -10 41 £65,000 +44.44% 10
West Midlands -18 37 £55,000 -8.33% 14
Yorkshire -54 21 £55,000 -8.33% 16
Scotland -14 8 £55,000 +6.80% 6
Wales -35 5 £50,000 - 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 19 (4.09%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.94%) IIS
3 2 (0.43%) CMS
4 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Magento
1 2 (0.43%) Shopify
2 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 319 (68.60%) Azure
2 97 (20.86%) Azure DevOps
3 78 (16.77%) AWS
4 59 (12.69%) GitHub
5 57 (12.26%) Azure AI
6 43 (9.25%) GitHub Copilot
7 31 (6.67%) SaaS
8 28 (6.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 25 (5.38%) Power Platform
10 22 (4.73%) Power Automate
10 22 (4.73%) PowerApps
11 21 (4.52%) Azure Logic Apps
11 21 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (4.30%) Azure Data Factory
12 20 (4.30%) Serverless
13 19 (4.09%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 19 (4.09%) OneDrive
14 14 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (2.80%) Azure AKS
16 8 (1.72%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.87%) Internet
2 3 (0.65%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.65%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.43%) Firewall
4 1 (0.22%) AMQP
4 1 (0.22%) Modbus
4 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 140 (30.11%) MongoDB
3 114 (24.52%) SQL Server
4 52 (11.18%) Elasticsearch
5 22 (4.73%) Power BI
6 21 (4.52%) NoSQL
7 12 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.29%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.08%) GIS
10 4 (0.86%) MySQL
10 4 (0.86%) NonStop SQL
10 4 (0.86%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.65%) Redis
12 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 32 (6.88%) Git
2 7 (1.51%) GitLab
3 4 (0.86%) JIRA
4 2 (0.43%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.22%) MSTest
5 1 (0.22%) NUnit
5 1 (0.22%) Selenium
5 1 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.22%) Vite
General
1 48 (10.32%) Finance
2 41 (8.82%) Social Skills
3 23 (4.95%) Games
4 19 (4.09%) Advertising
5 14 (3.01%) Marketing
5 14 (3.01%) Retail
6 9 (1.94%) Automotive
7 5 (1.08%) Manufacturing
8 4 (0.86%) Electronics
8 4 (0.86%) Music Industry
8 4 (0.86%) Public Sector
9 3 (0.65%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.65%) Banking
10 2 (0.43%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.43%) Local Government
11 1 (0.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.22%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.22%) Law
Job Titles
1 384 (82.58%) Developer
2 249 (53.55%) .NET Developer
3 98 (21.08%) Software Developer
4 87 (18.71%) Senior
5 55 (11.83%) Senior Developer
6 49 (10.54%) C# Developer
6 49 (10.54%) Software Engineer
7 41 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 39 (8.39%) C# .NET Developer
9 32 (6.88%) Lead
10 28 (6.02%) Senior Software Developer
11 25 (5.38%) .NET Software Engineer
11 25 (5.38%) Senior Software Engineer
12 24 (5.16%) Lead Developer
13 22 (4.73%) .NET Software Developer
14 20 (4.30%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 17 (3.66%) Applications Developer
15 17 (3.66%) Lead Software Developer
15 17 (3.66%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
16 16 (3.44%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 465 (100.00%) .NET
2 233 (50.11%) ASP.NET
3 180 (38.71%) ASP.NET Core
4 116 (24.95%) React
5 108 (23.23%) HTML
6 107 (23.01%) CSS
7 104 (22.37%) Entity Framework
8 96 (20.65%) RESTful
9 94 (20.22%) Blazor
10 82 (17.63%) Vue
11 80 (17.20%) AngularJS
12 79 (16.99%) .NET Framework
13 71 (15.27%) ASP.NET Web API
14 67 (14.41%) Node.js
15 57 (12.26%) ML.NET
16 45 (9.68%) LINQ
17 29 (6.24%) REST
18 24 (5.16%) JSON
19 21 (4.52%) Microsoft Graph
20 19 (4.09%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.96%) Greenfield Project
2 15 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 14 (3.01%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.58%) Hedge funds
5 11 (2.37%) Sports Betting
6 9 (1.94%) Digital TV
6 9 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.72%) iPhone
7 8 (1.72%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.72%) Social Network
8 7 (1.51%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.51%) BBC
8 7 (1.51%) Social Media
9 6 (1.29%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.29%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (0.86%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.65%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.72%) Android
1 8 (1.72%) Windows
2 5 (1.08%) Linux
3 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (54.41%) Full-Stack Development
2 203 (43.66%) Agile
3 133 (28.60%) CI/CD
4 123 (26.45%) DevOps
5 80 (17.20%) Microservices
6 76 (16.34%) Machine Learning
7 74 (15.91%) AI
7 74 (15.91%) Software Engineering
8 69 (14.84%) Multithreading
9 54 (11.61%) OO
10 47 (10.11%) Containerisation
11 44 (9.46%) SDLC
12 37 (7.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (7.53%) TDD
14 30 (6.45%) Scrum
15 29 (6.24%) MVC
15 29 (6.24%) SOLID
15 29 (6.24%) Technical Leadership
16 28 (6.02%) Collaborative Culture
16 28 (6.02%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 427 (91.83%) C#
2 281 (60.43%) SQL
3 145 (31.18%) JavaScript
4 101 (21.72%) TypeScript
5 24 (5.16%) PowerShell
6 11 (2.37%) Python
7 9 (1.94%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.08%) Bash
9 3 (0.65%) Java
9 3 (0.65%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.43%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.22%) C++
11 1 (0.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (6.67%) Degree
2 15 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.72%) AWS Certification
4 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (0.43%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.22%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.87%) QA
System Software
1 109 (23.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 96 (20.65%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 239 (51.40%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.52%) Google
3 20 (4.30%) Facebook
4 19 (4.09%) Adobe
5 8 (1.72%) YouTube
6 7 (1.51%) Apple
6 7 (1.51%) Sony
6 7 (1.51%) Yahoo!
7 5 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (0.65%) Splunk
9 2 (0.43%) Foundry
10 1 (0.22%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle
10 1 (0.22%) WooCommerce