.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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 326 160
Rank change year-on-year +128 -166 -27
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 701 251 1,014
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.95% 0.74% 1.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.07% 5.03% 9.05%
Number of salaries quoted 676 218 922
10th Percentile £41,875 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £43,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +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 6,331 4,995 11,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.60% 14.64% 17.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,064 3,131 8,077
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £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 £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 28 July 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 28 July 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
South East +121 200 £55,000 +4.76% 58
North of England +32 169 £55,000 -8.33% 44
East of England +75 118 £61,250 +11.36% 24
Midlands +30 107 £55,000 -8.33% 24
South West -2 82 £52,500 - 11
North East +9 70 £65,000 +33.33% 13
North West +5 66 £50,000 -16.67% 22
West Midlands +21 64 £55,000 -8.33% 14
East Midlands +8 43 £55,000 +4.76% 10
Yorkshire -27 33 £55,000 -8.33% 11
Wales -48 15 £50,000 - 7
Scotland +2 10 £55,000 -14.73% 2
.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 (2.71%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.28%) IIS
3 6 (0.86%) Confluence
4 2 (0.29%) CMS
5 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Magento
1 2 (0.29%) Shopify
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 567 (80.88%) Azure
2 187 (26.68%) Azure DevOps
3 142 (20.26%) Azure AI
4 134 (19.12%) GitHub
5 123 (17.55%) GitHub Copilot
6 122 (17.40%) AWS
7 66 (9.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 28 (3.99%) Power Platform
9 24 (3.42%) Power Automate
9 24 (3.42%) PowerApps
9 24 (3.42%) SaaS
10 21 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (2.71%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (2.71%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (2.71%) OneDrive
12 17 (2.43%) Google Play
13 14 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (2.00%) Serverless
14 13 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 45 (6.42%) Internet
2 7 (1.00%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.43%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.29%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) AMQP
5 1 (0.14%) HTTP
5 1 (0.14%) Modbus
5 1 (0.14%) Network Security
5 1 (0.14%) SSL
5 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 444 (63.34%) Azure SQL Database
2 372 (53.07%) MongoDB
3 148 (21.11%) Elasticsearch
4 107 (15.26%) SQL Server
5 24 (3.42%) Power BI
6 11 (1.57%) NonStop SQL
6 11 (1.57%) NoSQL
7 10 (1.43%) MySQL
8 9 (1.28%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.86%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (0.86%) GIS
12 2 (0.29%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.29%) Redis
12 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.14%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.14%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 42 (5.99%) Git
2 12 (1.71%) JIRA
3 8 (1.14%) GitLab
4 6 (0.86%) MSI
5 4 (0.57%) NUnit
5 4 (0.57%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.43%) Postman
7 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.29%) Selenium
8 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.14%) JUnit
8 1 (0.14%) MSTest
8 1 (0.14%) Snyk
8 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 82 (11.70%) Finance
2 54 (7.70%) Advertising
2 54 (7.70%) Social Skills
3 45 (6.42%) Games
4 44 (6.28%) Marketing
5 30 (4.28%) Retail
6 14 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (1.57%) Music Industry
8 9 (1.28%) Automotive
8 9 (1.28%) Public Sector
9 7 (1.00%) Aerospace
10 6 (0.86%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.71%) Law
11 5 (0.71%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.57%) Electronics
13 3 (0.43%) Banking
13 3 (0.43%) Legal
14 2 (0.29%) Local Government
15 1 (0.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 626 (89.30%) Developer
2 505 (72.04%) .NET Developer
3 82 (11.70%) Software Developer
4 75 (10.70%) Senior
5 56 (7.99%) Senior Developer
6 41 (5.85%) C# Developer
7 39 (5.56%) Software Engineer
8 36 (5.14%) Full-Stack Developer
9 35 (4.99%) Lead
10 33 (4.71%) C# .NET Developer
11 27 (3.85%) Lead Developer
12 23 (3.28%) Senior Software Developer
13 21 (3.00%) .NET Software Engineer
14 20 (2.85%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 19 (2.71%) .NET Software Developer
16 18 (2.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 15 (2.14%) C# Software Engineer
18 13 (1.85%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
18 13 (1.85%) Senior Software Engineer
19 12 (1.71%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 701 (100.00%) .NET
2 477 (68.05%) ASP.NET
3 440 (62.77%) ASP.NET Core
4 210 (29.96%) HTML
5 208 (29.67%) CSS
6 200 (28.53%) Blazor
7 196 (27.96%) Entity Framework
8 189 (26.96%) React
9 183 (26.11%) RESTful
10 172 (24.54%) ASP.NET Web API
11 164 (23.40%) AngularJS
12 162 (23.11%) Vue
13 152 (21.68%) Node.js
14 142 (20.26%) ML.NET
15 109 (15.55%) LINQ
16 105 (14.98%) .NET Framework
17 38 (5.42%) REST
18 32 (4.56%) WPF
19 24 (3.42%) JSON
20 21 (3.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 80 (11.41%) Greenfield Project
2 39 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (2.85%) Digital TV
4 17 (2.43%) BBC
4 17 (2.43%) iPhone
4 17 (2.43%) Mobile App
4 17 (2.43%) Social Media
5 14 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (1.85%) Cloud Native
6 13 (1.85%) Sports Betting
7 12 (1.71%) Hedge funds
7 12 (1.71%) Social Network
8 7 (1.00%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.00%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 6 (0.86%) Client/Server
9 6 (0.86%) Product Ownership
9 6 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (0.71%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.43%) Android
1 17 (2.43%) Windows
2 2 (0.29%) Linux
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (72.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 382 (54.49%) Agile
3 219 (31.24%) DevOps
4 214 (30.53%) CI/CD
5 170 (24.25%) Microservices
6 161 (22.97%) Machine Learning
7 160 (22.82%) AI
8 154 (21.97%) Multithreading
9 88 (12.55%) Scrum
10 84 (11.98%) OO
11 79 (11.27%) TDD
12 67 (9.56%) Software Engineering
13 65 (9.27%) BDD
14 61 (8.70%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
15 57 (8.13%) Kanban
16 44 (6.28%) SDLC
17 39 (5.56%) Fintech
18 36 (5.14%) Business Intelligence
19 35 (4.99%) Continuous Improvement
19 35 (4.99%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 671 (95.72%) C#
2 513 (73.18%) SQL
3 246 (35.09%) JavaScript
4 196 (27.96%) TypeScript
5 23 (3.28%) PowerShell
6 19 (2.71%) Python
7 14 (2.00%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.86%) Bicep
8 6 (0.86%) Java
9 4 (0.57%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.43%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.29%) Bash
12 1 (0.14%) C++
12 1 (0.14%) Delphi
12 1 (0.14%) Go
12 1 (0.14%) Pascal
12 1 (0.14%) PHP
12 1 (0.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (5.56%) Degree
2 19 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (1.43%) SC Cleared
3 10 (1.43%) Security Cleared
4 5 (0.71%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.29%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.14%) OCP
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.14%) QA
2 6 (0.86%) Accessibility
2 6 (0.86%) NCSC
2 6 (0.86%) WCAG
3 2 (0.29%) GDPR
4 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 174 (24.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 160 (22.82%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.71%) Terraform
3 1 (0.14%) Grafana
3 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 495 (70.61%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.13%) Facebook
3 46 (6.56%) Google
4 21 (3.00%) YouTube
5 19 (2.71%) Adobe
6 17 (2.43%) Apple
6 17 (2.43%) Sony
6 17 (2.43%) Yahoo!
7 6 (0.86%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.43%) Splunk
9 2 (0.29%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.29%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle
10 1 (0.14%) WooCommerce