.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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 188 147
Rank change year-on-year -148 -41 -60
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 186 637 682
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 1.35% 2.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.78% 7.48% 9.10%
Number of salaries quoted 171 439 637
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £65,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,750 £75,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -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 3,895 8,517 7,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.63% 18.03% 24.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,878 4,802 5,881
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

.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 19 November 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 November 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 -38 71 £55,000 - 102
North West -15 44 £55,000 -4.35% 64
South East -78 42 £55,000 - 87
South West +19 27 £50,000 -20.00% 26
Midlands -32 23 £65,000 +43.65% 49
Yorkshire -35 20 £40,000 -20.00% 30
East of England -15 13 £60,000 +20.00% 29
East Midlands -24 12 £67,500 +42.11% 25
West Midlands +3 11 £60,000 +33.33% 23
Scotland -70 9 £64,500 +72.00% 4
North East -10 7 £60,000 +37.14% 8
Wales +1 1 £35,000 -40.43% 9
.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 9 (4.84%) IIS
2 6 (3.23%) CMS
3 5 (2.69%) Umbraco
4 4 (2.15%) Confluence
4 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.54%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (1.61%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.54%) Magento
1 1 (0.54%) SAP Business One
1 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 113 (60.75%) Azure
2 59 (31.72%) AWS
3 31 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (15.05%) GitHub
5 20 (10.75%) Serverless
6 14 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (7.53%) SaaS
7 9 (4.84%) Azure Functions
8 8 (4.30%) Azure AKS
8 8 (4.30%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (4.30%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.23%) GCP
10 5 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.69%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.69%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.69%) Azure App Service
10 5 (2.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (2.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.69%) Internet
2 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (41.94%) SQL Server
2 18 (9.68%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.91%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.76%) Redis
6 6 (3.23%) DynamoDB
6 6 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.69%) MySQL
7 5 (2.69%) Power BI
8 4 (2.15%) Data Hub
8 4 (2.15%) SQL CLR
8 4 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.08%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 31 (16.67%) Git
2 11 (5.91%) JIRA
3 8 (4.30%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.69%) GitLab
4 5 (2.69%) NUnit
4 5 (2.69%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (2.15%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.15%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.61%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.61%) MSTest
6 3 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.61%) Vite
7 2 (1.08%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.08%) Postman
8 1 (0.54%) Moq
8 1 (0.54%) NSubstitute
8 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 28 (15.05%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.53%) Finance
3 9 (4.84%) Back Office
4 8 (4.30%) Retail
5 6 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.69%) Automotive
7 4 (2.15%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.61%) Advertising
8 3 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.61%) Games
9 2 (1.08%) Legal
10 1 (0.54%) Electronics
10 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.54%) Law
10 1 (0.54%) Marketing
10 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 139 (74.73%) Developer
2 63 (33.87%) .NET Developer
3 44 (23.66%) Senior
4 34 (18.28%) Software Developer
5 32 (17.20%) C# Developer
5 32 (17.20%) Full-Stack Developer
6 31 (16.67%) Senior Developer
6 31 (16.67%) Software Engineer
7 20 (10.75%) .NET Software Engineer
8 19 (10.22%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 18 (9.68%) Lead
10 14 (7.53%) Senior .NET Developer
10 14 (7.53%) Senior C# Developer
11 12 (6.45%) React Developer
12 11 (5.91%) C# Software Engineer
13 10 (5.38%) Senior Software Engineer
14 9 (4.84%) C# .NET Developer
14 9 (4.84%) Lead Software Engineer
15 8 (4.30%) Backend Developer
15 8 (4.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (100.00%) .NET
2 64 (34.41%) ASP.NET
3 58 (31.18%) React
4 57 (30.65%) AngularJS
5 47 (25.27%) .NET Framework
6 45 (24.19%) RESTful
7 40 (21.51%) CSS
8 37 (19.89%) HTML
9 33 (17.74%) Blazor
10 25 (13.44%) Entity Framework
11 22 (11.83%) ASP.NET Core
12 21 (11.29%) REST
13 19 (10.22%) Vue
14 18 (9.68%) ASP.NET Web API
15 17 (9.14%) ASP.NET MVC
16 16 (8.60%) HTML5
17 12 (6.45%) CSS3
18 9 (4.84%) Node.js
19 8 (4.30%) Sass
19 8 (4.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.52%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.69%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (2.15%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.61%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.08%) IoT
10 1 (0.54%) 3D Graphics
10 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.54%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.54%) Clustering
10 1 (0.54%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.54%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.54%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.69%) Windows
2 4 (2.15%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (47.85%) CI/CD
2 72 (38.71%) Agile
3 66 (35.48%) DevOps
4 62 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 57 (30.65%) Software Engineering
6 49 (26.34%) Microservices
7 42 (22.58%) Clean Code
8 37 (19.89%) MVC
9 35 (18.82%) Containerisation
10 32 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (12.90%) SDLC
12 22 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (11.83%) Mentoring
13 18 (9.68%) Application Security
13 18 (9.68%) TDD
13 18 (9.68%) Unit Testing
14 17 (9.14%) User Experience
15 16 (8.60%) Scrum
16 15 (8.06%) Design Patterns
17 14 (7.53%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 166 (89.25%) C#
2 68 (36.56%) SQL
3 64 (34.41%) JavaScript
4 20 (10.75%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.84%) T-SQL
6 8 (4.30%) Python
7 3 (1.61%) Erlang
8 2 (1.08%) Bicep
8 2 (1.08%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.08%) XAML
9 1 (0.54%) Dart
9 1 (0.54%) Go
9 1 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (13.44%) Degree
2 12 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.15%) AWS Certification
3 4 (2.15%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (1.08%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.54%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.84%) QA
2 5 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 43 (23.12%) Docker
2 4 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (17.74%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.06%) Terraform
3 1 (0.54%) Grafana
Vendors
1 33 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.15%) VMware
3 2 (1.08%) Google
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle
4 1 (0.54%) IONA
4 1 (0.54%) Okta
4 1 (0.54%) SAP