.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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 182 97
Rank change year-on-year -104 -85 +34
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 261 492 1,415
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.56% 1.49% 2.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.37% 7.37% 12.92%
Number of salaries quoted 246 332 1,364
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,875 £77,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

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 4,098 6,676 10,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.78% 20.22% 22.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,124 3,744 8,796
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £61,551
% change year-on-year -1.52% +7.23% -8.81%

.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 10 February 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 10 February 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
North of England -42 104 £55,000 - 54
North West +7 65 £55,000 -4.35% 34
South East -34 52 £60,000 +11.11% 54
Midlands -17 47 £65,000 +23.81% 27
East Midlands -7 37 £65,000 +26.83% 16
South West -8 37 £55,000 -24.14% 15
Yorkshire -60 23 £40,000 -20.00% 13
East of England -6 16 £73,750 +47.50% 21
North East -8 16 £55,000 +22.22% 8
West Midlands -16 10 £45,000 -14.29% 11
Scotland -85 5 £55,000 +54.93% 6
.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 (1.15%) IIS
2 2 (0.77%) CMS
2 2 (0.77%) Confluence
3 1 (0.38%) Kentico
3 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 144 (55.17%) Azure
2 60 (22.99%) AWS
3 41 (15.71%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (9.20%) Serverless
5 23 (8.81%) GitHub
6 19 (7.28%) SaaS
7 17 (6.51%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (4.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (4.98%) Amazon EventBridge
9 13 (4.98%) Amazon S3
9 13 (4.98%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (4.98%) AWS Step Functions
9 13 (4.98%) Azure AKS
10 7 (2.68%) GCP
10 7 (2.68%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.30%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.92%) Azure AI
13 4 (1.53%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.92%) Internet
2 1 (0.38%) AMQP
2 1 (0.38%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (39.46%) SQL Server
2 28 (10.73%) NoSQL
3 18 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (4.98%) DynamoDB
4 13 (4.98%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.07%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.53%) Power BI
6 4 (1.53%) Redis
6 4 (1.53%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.77%) MySQL
8 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (12.64%) Git
2 6 (2.30%) Visual Studio
3 5 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.15%) JIRA
5 2 (0.77%) GitLab
5 2 (0.77%) NUnit
5 2 (0.77%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.38%) MSTest
General
1 27 (10.34%) Social Skills
2 15 (5.75%) Finance
3 11 (4.21%) Games
4 4 (1.53%) Public Sector
5 2 (0.77%) Local Government
5 2 (0.77%) Marketing
6 1 (0.38%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.38%) Automotive
6 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.38%) Law
6 1 (0.38%) Legal
6 1 (0.38%) Retail
6 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 199 (76.25%) Developer
2 93 (35.63%) .NET Developer
3 70 (26.82%) Senior
4 66 (25.29%) Software Developer
5 51 (19.54%) C# Developer
6 45 (17.24%) Senior Developer
7 41 (15.71%) Software Engineer
8 40 (15.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 32 (12.26%) Lead
10 26 (9.96%) C# .NET Developer
11 23 (8.81%) .NET Software Engineer
12 22 (8.43%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 20 (7.66%) Lead Developer
13 20 (7.66%) Senior Software Engineer
14 18 (6.90%) React Developer
15 17 (6.51%) Azure Developer
15 17 (6.51%) Senior .NET Developer
16 16 (6.13%) Applications Developer
17 15 (5.75%) Senior C# Developer
17 15 (5.75%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (100.00%) .NET
2 98 (37.55%) ASP.NET
3 67 (25.67%) React
4 56 (21.46%) .NET Framework
5 42 (16.09%) Blazor
6 41 (15.71%) AngularJS
7 39 (14.94%) RESTful
8 36 (13.79%) ASP.NET Core
9 28 (10.73%) CSS
10 24 (9.20%) Entity Framework
10 24 (9.20%) HTML
11 22 (8.43%) REST
12 19 (7.28%) ASP.NET MVC
13 17 (6.51%) Vue
14 15 (5.75%) Node.js
15 13 (4.98%) AWS CDK
16 12 (4.60%) ASP.NET Web API
17 8 (3.07%) Dapper ORM
18 6 (2.30%) DirectX
18 6 (2.30%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.58%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.36%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 9 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.68%) Sports Betting
6 6 (2.30%) 3D Graphics
7 5 (1.92%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.92%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.53%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.77%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.77%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.77%) Social Network
10 1 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.38%) BBC
10 1 (0.38%) Digital TV
10 1 (0.38%) IoT
10 1 (0.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.15%) Linux
1 3 (1.15%) Windows
2 1 (0.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (33.33%) Agile
2 85 (32.57%) CI/CD
3 80 (30.65%) Full-Stack Development
4 77 (29.50%) Software Engineering
5 62 (23.75%) DevOps
6 50 (19.16%) Containerisation
7 44 (16.86%) Microservices
8 36 (13.79%) Clean Code
8 36 (13.79%) MVC
9 34 (13.03%) SDLC
10 29 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (9.58%) Collaborative Culture
12 21 (8.05%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (7.28%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (7.28%) RAD
14 17 (6.51%) AI
14 17 (6.51%) Application Security
14 17 (6.51%) Mentoring
14 17 (6.51%) SOLID
15 16 (6.13%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 219 (83.91%) C#
2 115 (44.06%) SQL
3 78 (29.89%) JavaScript
4 13 (4.98%) TypeScript
5 10 (3.83%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.53%) Python
7 3 (1.15%) Bash
7 3 (1.15%) Erlang
7 3 (1.15%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.77%) XAML
9 1 (0.38%) Bicep
9 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (7.28%) Degree
2 11 (4.21%) AWS Certification
2 11 (4.21%) AWS Certified Developer
3 7 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.77%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.60%) QA
2 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
System Software
1 55 (21.07%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (15.33%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 55 (21.07%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (1.15%) Google
3 2 (0.77%) Foundry
3 2 (0.77%) Oracle
4 1 (0.38%) Apple
4 1 (0.38%) Facebook
4 1 (0.38%) IONA
4 1 (0.38%) Okta
4 1 (0.38%) Sony
4 1 (0.38%) Yahoo!