.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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 184 138
Rank change year-on-year -187 -46 -56
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 173 767 831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 1.38% 2.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.95% 7.79% 9.71%
Number of salaries quoted 159 581 764
10th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -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 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 4,378 9,842 8,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.73% 17.74% 24.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,635 5,957 6,766
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,153
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.74% +1.77%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing .NET Core as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -76 74 £60,000 +2.13% 56
North West -29 50 £60,000 - 31
South West +27 29 £52,500 -9.48% 19
South East -103 29 £57,500 +4.55% 79
Midlands -68 17 £60,000 +23.71% 34
Yorkshire -63 16 £60,000 +9.09% 16
West Midlands -10 12 £60,000 +31.15% 18
Scotland -12 12 £64,500 +29.00% 6
East of England -54 10 £50,000 - 31
North East +8 8 £50,000 +2.56% 9
East Midlands -39 5 £60,000 +20.00% 15
Wales +7 2 £42,500 -15.00% 7
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (9.25%) IIS
2 6 (3.47%) Confluence
2 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.89%) CMS
3 5 (2.89%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.73%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) Magento
2 1 (0.58%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 96 (55.49%) Azure
2 61 (35.26%) AWS
3 25 (14.45%) GitHub
4 24 (13.87%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (11.56%) SaaS
6 18 (10.40%) Serverless
7 12 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (6.36%) Azure Functions
9 10 (5.78%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (4.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (4.05%) GCP
12 5 (2.89%) Azure AKS
12 5 (2.89%) Power Platform
13 4 (2.31%) Azure AI
13 4 (2.31%) Azure App Service
13 4 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (2.31%) ChatGPT
13 4 (2.31%) Entra ID
13 4 (2.31%) Firebase
13 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.47%) Internet
2 2 (1.16%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.58%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (46.24%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.09%) NoSQL
3 11 (6.36%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (4.05%) Redis
5 7 (4.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (3.47%) Data Hub
6 6 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.47%) SQL CLR
6 6 (3.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (2.89%) MySQL
8 3 (1.73%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.16%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.16%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.16%) Power BI
10 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.58%) Event Store
10 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 30 (17.34%) Git
2 13 (7.51%) JIRA
3 10 (5.78%) Visual Studio
4 9 (5.20%) GitLab
5 6 (3.47%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (2.89%) Jenkins
7 4 (2.31%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.31%) NUnit
7 4 (2.31%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.73%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.73%) JMeter
8 3 (1.73%) MSTest
8 3 (1.73%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (1.73%) Vite
9 2 (1.16%) Postman
10 1 (0.58%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.58%) Moq
10 1 (0.58%) NSubstitute
10 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 27 (15.61%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.40%) Finance
3 15 (8.67%) Back Office
4 14 (8.09%) Retail
5 7 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.47%) Automotive
7 4 (2.31%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.73%) Advertising
8 3 (1.73%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Legal
9 2 (1.16%) Marketing
10 1 (0.58%) Electronics
10 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.58%) Law
10 1 (0.58%) Publishing
10 1 (0.58%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 123 (71.10%) Developer
2 65 (37.57%) .NET Developer
3 49 (28.32%) Senior
4 33 (19.08%) Software Engineer
5 32 (18.50%) C# Developer
5 32 (18.50%) Senior Developer
5 32 (18.50%) Software Developer
6 28 (16.18%) Full-Stack Developer
7 26 (15.03%) Lead
8 20 (11.56%) Senior .NET Developer
9 19 (10.98%) C# .NET Developer
10 17 (9.83%) .NET Software Engineer
11 15 (8.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 15 (8.67%) Lead Developer
12 12 (6.94%) Senior C# Developer
12 12 (6.94%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (6.36%) C# Software Engineer
14 10 (5.78%) C# Software Developer
14 10 (5.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 10 (5.78%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (100.00%) .NET
2 53 (30.64%) .NET Framework
2 53 (30.64%) ASP.NET
2 53 (30.64%) React
3 46 (26.59%) AngularJS
4 38 (21.97%) HTML
5 36 (20.81%) CSS
6 33 (19.08%) RESTful
7 27 (15.61%) Entity Framework
8 26 (15.03%) Blazor
9 25 (14.45%) ASP.NET Web API
10 23 (13.29%) REST
11 18 (10.40%) HTML5
12 16 (9.25%) ASP.NET MVC
12 16 (9.25%) Vue
13 14 (8.09%) Web Services
14 13 (7.51%) CSS3
15 11 (6.36%) ASP.NET Core
16 9 (5.20%) JSON
16 9 (5.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.87%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.83%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.94%) Mobile App
4 10 (5.78%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (4.62%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.47%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (2.31%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.31%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.31%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.31%) IoT
7 4 (2.31%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.73%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.16%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.58%) Clustering
10 1 (0.58%) NHS
10 1 (0.58%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.05%) Windows
2 6 (3.47%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (44.51%) Agile
2 73 (42.20%) CI/CD
3 69 (39.88%) DevOps
4 64 (36.99%) Full-Stack Development
4 64 (36.99%) Software Engineering
5 56 (32.37%) Microservices
6 36 (20.81%) MVC
7 35 (20.23%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (19.08%) Clean Code
9 26 (15.03%) TDD
10 24 (13.87%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (13.29%) Containerisation
12 22 (12.72%) SDLC
13 21 (12.14%) Design Patterns
13 21 (12.14%) Mentoring
14 19 (10.98%) SOLID
15 16 (9.25%) Event-Driven
16 15 (8.67%) Front End Development
16 15 (8.67%) User Experience
17 14 (8.09%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 151 (87.28%) C#
2 64 (36.99%) SQL
3 55 (31.79%) JavaScript
4 22 (12.72%) TypeScript
5 11 (6.36%) Python
6 8 (4.62%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.73%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.16%) Bicep
8 2 (1.16%) C
8 2 (1.16%) Go
8 2 (1.16%) XAML
9 1 (0.58%) Dart
9 1 (0.58%) Java
9 1 (0.58%) PHP
9 1 (0.58%) R
9 1 (0.58%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (12.72%) Degree
2 9 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.58%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.62%) QA
2 6 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 44 (25.43%) Docker
2 6 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (19.08%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.98%) Terraform
3 2 (1.16%) Ansible
4 1 (0.58%) Grafana
Vendors
1 36 (20.81%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.47%) VMware
3 2 (1.16%) Google
3 2 (1.16%) Oracle
3 2 (1.16%) Telerik
3 2 (1.16%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.58%) Databricks
4 1 (0.58%) IONA
4 1 (0.58%) New Relic
4 1 (0.58%) Okta
4 1 (0.58%) SAP