.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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 365 183
Rank change year-on-year +148 -182 -50
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 693 170 729
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.81% 0.50% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.44% 3.63% 7.20%
Number of salaries quoted 651 156 541
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.73% +12.17% -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 7,343 4,681 10,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.59% 13.73% 18.93%
Number of salaries quoted 5,656 2,824 6,081
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,700 £82,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%

.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 23 September 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 23 September 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 +104 194 £56,250 -2.17% 65
North of England +41 184 £55,000 -8.33% 58
East of England +62 114 £60,000 +20.00% 30
Midlands +26 100 £55,000 -8.33% 37
South West -30 76 £52,500 - 19
North East -2 75 £65,000 +30.00% 11
North West -7 73 £55,000 -8.33% 34
West Midlands +7 59 £55,000 -8.33% 22
East Midlands +3 41 £50,000 -16.67% 15
Yorkshire -20 36 £47,500 -20.83% 14
Wales -65 14 £50,000 +17.65% 9
Scotland +10 11 £55,000 -14.73% 8
.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 14 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.44%) IIS
3 7 (1.01%) Confluence
4 4 (0.58%) CMS
5 3 (0.43%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Kentico
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 565 (81.53%) Azure
2 189 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 135 (19.48%) Azure AI
4 133 (19.19%) GitHub
5 129 (18.61%) AWS
6 119 (17.17%) GitHub Copilot
7 72 (10.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 26 (3.75%) Power Platform
9 21 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
9 21 (3.03%) SaaS
10 20 (2.89%) Power Automate
10 20 (2.89%) PowerApps
11 17 (2.45%) Google Play
11 17 (2.45%) Serverless
12 16 (2.31%) Azure Key Vault
12 16 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
12 16 (2.31%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (2.02%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 14 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 44 (6.35%) Internet
2 6 (0.87%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.43%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.29%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) HTTP
5 1 (0.14%) Network Security
5 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 423 (61.04%) Azure SQL Database
2 358 (51.66%) MongoDB
3 148 (21.36%) Elasticsearch
4 114 (16.45%) SQL Server
5 22 (3.17%) Relational Database
6 19 (2.74%) Power BI
7 17 (2.45%) MySQL
8 13 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (1.59%) NonStop SQL
10 9 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.15%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (1.01%) GIS
13 3 (0.43%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.43%) ZAP BI
14 2 (0.29%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.29%) Redis
14 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 57 (8.23%) Git
2 13 (1.88%) JIRA
2 13 (1.88%) NUnit
3 11 (1.59%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.44%) GitLab
5 7 (1.01%) MSI
6 6 (0.87%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.72%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.72%) Postman
8 3 (0.43%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.43%) JUnit
8 3 (0.43%) Selenium
8 3 (0.43%) Snyk
8 3 (0.43%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.29%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 76 (10.97%) Finance
2 66 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 51 (7.36%) Advertising
4 41 (5.92%) Marketing
5 40 (5.77%) Games
6 27 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (3.75%) Retail
8 18 (2.60%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (1.73%) Law
11 11 (1.59%) Music Industry
12 7 (1.01%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.87%) Automotive
13 6 (0.87%) Legal
14 5 (0.72%) Local Government
15 4 (0.58%) Electronics
15 4 (0.58%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 613 (88.46%) Developer
2 506 (73.02%) .NET Developer
3 73 (10.53%) Software Developer
4 70 (10.10%) Senior
5 57 (8.23%) Senior Developer
6 46 (6.64%) C# Developer
7 44 (6.35%) Lead
8 41 (5.92%) Full-Stack Developer
9 35 (5.05%) C# .NET Developer
10 33 (4.76%) Lead Developer
10 33 (4.76%) Software Engineer
11 24 (3.46%) .NET Software Developer
12 21 (3.03%) Senior C# Developer
12 21 (3.03%) Senior Software Developer
13 20 (2.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 19 (2.74%) Lead .NET Developer
15 17 (2.45%) Senior .NET Developer
16 16 (2.31%) .NET Software Engineer
16 16 (2.31%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 15 (2.16%) .NET Developer - Fintech
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 693 (100.00%) .NET
2 471 (67.97%) ASP.NET
3 430 (62.05%) ASP.NET Core
4 216 (31.17%) CSS
5 214 (30.88%) HTML
6 201 (29.00%) Entity Framework
7 199 (28.72%) React
8 196 (28.28%) Blazor
9 184 (26.55%) RESTful
10 177 (25.54%) AngularJS
11 168 (24.24%) ASP.NET Web API
12 159 (22.94%) Vue
13 145 (20.92%) Node.js
14 135 (19.48%) ML.NET
15 108 (15.58%) .NET Framework
16 107 (15.44%) LINQ
17 41 (5.92%) REST
18 33 (4.76%) WPF
19 22 (3.17%) JSON
20 20 (2.89%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 78 (11.26%) Greenfield Project
2 39 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (2.89%) Mobile App
4 19 (2.74%) Digital TV
5 17 (2.45%) iPhone
5 17 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.31%) BBC
6 16 (2.31%) Cloud Native
6 16 (2.31%) Social Media
7 13 (1.88%) Sports Betting
8 10 (1.44%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.44%) Social Network
9 9 (1.30%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.01%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
12 6 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (0.87%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.72%) Client/Server
13 5 (0.72%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.17%) Windows
2 17 (2.45%) Android
3 4 (0.58%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.29%) Linux
5 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (72.29%) Full-Stack Development
2 376 (54.26%) Agile
3 225 (32.47%) DevOps
4 219 (31.60%) CI/CD
5 178 (25.69%) Microservices
6 155 (22.37%) AI
7 149 (21.50%) Machine Learning
7 149 (21.50%) Multithreading
8 94 (13.56%) Scrum
9 81 (11.69%) OO
10 79 (11.40%) TDD
11 72 (10.39%) Software Engineering
12 63 (9.09%) BDD
13 60 (8.66%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
14 59 (8.51%) Kanban
15 43 (6.20%) Mentoring
16 42 (6.06%) Fintech
17 41 (5.92%) MVC
18 40 (5.77%) SDLC
19 37 (5.34%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 650 (93.80%) C#
2 487 (70.27%) SQL
3 259 (37.37%) JavaScript
4 191 (27.56%) TypeScript
5 23 (3.32%) Python
6 18 (2.60%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.02%) T-SQL
8 11 (1.59%) Java
9 7 (1.01%) Bicep
10 4 (0.58%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.58%) Ruby
10 4 (0.58%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.43%) Go
12 2 (0.29%) Bash
12 2 (0.29%) C
12 2 (0.29%) Dart
13 1 (0.14%) Delphi
13 1 (0.14%) Pascal
13 1 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 45 (6.49%) Degree
2 22 (3.17%) SC Cleared
2 22 (3.17%) Security Cleared
3 17 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.87%) AWS Certification
4 6 (0.87%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.43%) OCP
5 3 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.33%) QA
2 7 (1.01%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.01%) NCSC
2 7 (1.01%) WCAG
3 4 (0.58%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.43%) GDPR
4 3 (0.43%) NIST
5 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 168 (24.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 150 (21.65%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.43%) Grafana
2 3 (0.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 479 (69.12%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.79%) Facebook
3 46 (6.64%) Google
4 21 (3.03%) YouTube
5 16 (2.31%) Apple
5 16 (2.31%) Sony
5 16 (2.31%) Yahoo!
6 14 (2.02%) Adobe
7 7 (1.01%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.87%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.43%) Splunk
10 2 (0.29%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.29%) IFS
10 2 (0.29%) Sage
10 2 (0.29%) Veracode
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle