.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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 193 146
Rank change year-on-year -129 -47 -51
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 193 608 658
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 1.35% 2.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.16% 7.21% 9.13%
Number of salaries quoted 179 419 618
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,750 £39,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +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 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 3,741 8,428 7,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.92% 18.66% 24.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,818 4,822 5,718
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,956 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

.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 1 December 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 1 December 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 -57 73 £55,000 - 47
South East -46 46 £57,500 +9.52% 73
North West -2 42 £55,000 -4.35% 28
Midlands -17 29 £65,500 +37.89% 24
South West +11 25 £52,500 -16.00% 15
Yorkshire -32 23 £40,000 -20.00% 12
East Midlands -6 19 £75,000 +57.89% 14
East of England -16 12 £60,000 +20.00% 23
West Midlands +14 10 £60,000 +31.15% 10
North East -2 8 £50,000 +11.11% 7
Scotland -63 7 £64,500 +72.00% 7
Wales +6 1 £35,000 -40.43% 3
.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 3 (1.55%) Confluence
2 2 (1.04%) CMS
2 2 (1.04%) IIS
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.52%) Kentico
3 1 (0.52%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.55%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 110 (56.99%) Azure
2 55 (28.50%) AWS
3 32 (16.58%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (11.92%) GitHub
5 21 (10.88%) Serverless
6 15 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (6.22%) SaaS
8 9 (4.66%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (4.15%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.15%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (4.15%) Azure AKS
10 7 (3.63%) Amazon EventBridge
10 7 (3.63%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (3.63%) Azure Functions
10 7 (3.63%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (3.63%) Power Platform
11 6 (3.11%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.07%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.07%) Internet
2 1 (0.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (43.52%) SQL Server
2 18 (9.33%) NoSQL
3 13 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.66%) DynamoDB
5 8 (4.15%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.11%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.07%) Power BI
8 4 (2.07%) Redis
9 3 (1.55%) MySQL
9 3 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.04%) Data Hub
10 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.04%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.04%) SQL CLR
11 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 28 (14.51%) Git
2 8 (4.15%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.63%) JIRA
4 5 (2.59%) GitLab
4 5 (2.59%) NUnit
5 4 (2.07%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.55%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.55%) MSTest
7 2 (1.04%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.52%) Moq
8 1 (0.52%) NSubstitute
8 1 (0.52%) Postman
8 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 25 (12.95%) Social Skills
2 12 (6.22%) Finance
3 8 (4.15%) Games
4 7 (3.63%) Retail
5 5 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.07%) Back Office
6 4 (2.07%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.04%) Automotive
9 1 (0.52%) Electronics
9 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.52%) Legal
9 1 (0.52%) Marketing
9 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 146 (75.65%) Developer
2 68 (35.23%) .NET Developer
3 53 (27.46%) Senior
4 41 (21.24%) Software Developer
5 39 (20.21%) Senior Developer
6 35 (18.13%) C# Developer
7 32 (16.58%) Software Engineer
8 29 (15.03%) Full-Stack Developer
9 21 (10.88%) Lead
10 19 (9.84%) .NET Software Engineer
10 19 (9.84%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 18 (9.33%) Senior .NET Developer
12 15 (7.77%) Senior C# Developer
13 12 (6.22%) React Developer
14 11 (5.70%) Lead Software Engineer
14 11 (5.70%) Senior Software Engineer
15 10 (5.18%) Blazor Developer
16 9 (4.66%) C# Software Developer
16 9 (4.66%) C# Software Engineer
16 9 (4.66%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (100.00%) .NET
2 70 (36.27%) ASP.NET
3 55 (28.50%) React
4 51 (26.42%) AngularJS
5 43 (22.28%) .NET Framework
6 40 (20.73%) RESTful
7 39 (20.21%) Blazor
8 31 (16.06%) CSS
9 28 (14.51%) HTML
10 24 (12.44%) ASP.NET Core
11 19 (9.84%) Entity Framework
12 18 (9.33%) ASP.NET MVC
13 17 (8.81%) ASP.NET Web API
13 17 (8.81%) REST
14 15 (7.77%) Vue
15 11 (5.70%) HTML5
16 9 (4.66%) CSS3
16 9 (4.66%) Node.js
17 7 (3.63%) AWS CDK
18 6 (3.11%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.99%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.25%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.11%) 3D Graphics
4 6 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.59%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.59%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.07%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.55%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.04%) IoT
8 2 (1.04%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.04%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.52%) Clustering
9 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.52%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.52%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.04%) Windows
1 2 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (43.52%) CI/CD
2 68 (35.23%) Agile
3 67 (34.72%) Software Engineering
4 64 (33.16%) DevOps
5 57 (29.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 42 (21.76%) Microservices
7 37 (19.17%) Clean Code
8 36 (18.65%) Containerisation
9 35 (18.13%) MVC
10 27 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (11.40%) SDLC
12 20 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (10.36%) Mentoring
13 17 (8.81%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (8.29%) Application Security
14 16 (8.29%) Unit Testing
15 15 (7.77%) Deployment Automation
15 15 (7.77%) Scrum
16 14 (7.25%) Design Patterns
16 14 (7.25%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 169 (87.56%) C#
2 72 (37.31%) SQL
3 60 (31.09%) JavaScript
4 18 (9.33%) TypeScript
5 11 (5.70%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.55%) Erlang
7 2 (1.04%) Bicep
7 2 (1.04%) Python
7 2 (1.04%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.04%) XAML
8 1 (0.52%) Dart
8 1 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (12.44%) Degree
2 7 (3.63%) AWS Certification
2 7 (3.63%) AWS Certified Developer
2 7 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.15%) QA
2 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 38 (19.69%) Docker
2 2 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (13.47%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.33%) Terraform
3 1 (0.52%) Grafana
Vendors
1 33 (17.10%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle
2 2 (1.04%) VMware
3 1 (0.52%) IONA
3 1 (0.52%) Okta