.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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 351 181
Rank change year-on-year +150 -170 -53
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 716 209 836
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.90% 0.60% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.84% 4.18% 7.49%
Number of salaries quoted 671 184 704
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
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 £66,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,275 £74,625
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 7,274 4,998 11,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.16% 14.38% 18.61%
Number of salaries quoted 5,738 3,104 7,506
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,725 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

.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 25 August 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 25 August 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 +107 206 £55,000 +10.00% 32
North of England +40 179 £55,000 -8.33% 34
East of England +72 118 £60,000 +20.00% 16
Midlands +42 108 £55,000 -8.33% 17
South West -15 80 £52,500 - 6
North East +9 76 £65,000 +33.33% 12
North West -5 64 £50,000 -16.67% 15
West Midlands +3 62 £55,000 -8.33% 9
East Midlands +11 46 £52,500 -6.67% 8
Yorkshire -22 39 £47,500 -20.83% 8
Wales -54 15 £50,000 - 2
Scotland -1 10 £55,000 -24.14% 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 19 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.12%) IIS
3 7 (0.98%) Confluence
4 2 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Magento
1 2 (0.28%) Sage 200
1 2 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 588 (82.12%) Azure
2 198 (27.65%) Azure DevOps
3 143 (19.97%) Azure AI
4 139 (19.41%) GitHub
5 131 (18.30%) AWS
6 124 (17.32%) GitHub Copilot
7 75 (10.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 33 (4.61%) Power Platform
9 26 (3.63%) Power Automate
9 26 (3.63%) PowerApps
10 21 (2.93%) Azure Logic Apps
10 21 (2.93%) Azure Monitor
10 21 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (2.79%) SaaS
12 19 (2.65%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
12 19 (2.65%) OneDrive
13 18 (2.51%) Azure Service Bus
14 17 (2.37%) Azure Key Vault
14 17 (2.37%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 45 (6.28%) Internet
2 7 (0.98%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.42%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.28%) Firewall
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
1 445 (62.15%) Azure SQL Database
2 373 (52.09%) MongoDB
3 153 (21.37%) Elasticsearch
4 115 (16.06%) SQL Server
5 26 (3.63%) Power BI
6 18 (2.51%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.37%) MySQL
8 13 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.68%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.54%) NonStop SQL
11 8 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (0.98%) GIS
13 3 (0.42%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.42%) ZAP BI
14 2 (0.28%) Redis
14 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 1 (0.14%) Data Lake
15 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 59 (8.24%) Git
2 13 (1.82%) JIRA
3 11 (1.54%) NUnit
4 10 (1.40%) GitLab
5 7 (0.98%) MSI
5 7 (0.98%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.70%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.70%) Postman
7 3 (0.42%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.42%) JUnit
7 3 (0.42%) Selenium
7 3 (0.42%) Snyk
7 3 (0.42%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.42%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.14%) MSTest
8 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 80 (11.17%) Finance
2 68 (9.50%) Social Skills
3 54 (7.54%) Advertising
4 44 (6.15%) Marketing
5 43 (6.01%) Games
6 28 (3.91%) Retail
7 27 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (2.51%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.09%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (1.68%) Law
11 11 (1.54%) Music Industry
12 8 (1.12%) Automotive
13 7 (0.98%) Aerospace
13 7 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.84%) Legal
15 5 (0.70%) Local Government
15 5 (0.70%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.56%) Electronics
16 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 631 (88.13%) Developer
2 509 (71.09%) .NET Developer
3 83 (11.59%) Software Developer
4 74 (10.34%) Senior
5 57 (7.96%) Senior Developer
6 44 (6.15%) Lead
7 42 (5.87%) C# Developer
8 37 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 33 (4.61%) Lead Developer
9 33 (4.61%) Software Engineer
10 32 (4.47%) C# .NET Developer
11 23 (3.21%) .NET Software Developer
12 22 (3.07%) Senior Software Developer
13 20 (2.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 17 (2.37%) Lead .NET Developer
15 16 (2.23%) .NET Software Engineer
15 16 (2.23%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 15 (2.09%) C# Software Engineer
16 15 (2.09%) DevOps Engineer
16 15 (2.09%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 716 (100.00%) .NET
2 488 (68.16%) ASP.NET
3 446 (62.29%) ASP.NET Core
4 221 (30.87%) CSS
5 219 (30.59%) HTML
6 203 (28.35%) Blazor
7 201 (28.07%) Entity Framework
8 198 (27.65%) React
9 188 (26.26%) RESTful
10 173 (24.16%) AngularJS
11 172 (24.02%) ASP.NET Web API
12 159 (22.21%) Vue
13 153 (21.37%) Node.js
14 143 (19.97%) ML.NET
15 109 (15.22%) .NET Framework
15 109 (15.22%) LINQ
16 40 (5.59%) REST
17 33 (4.61%) WPF
18 23 (3.21%) JSON
19 21 (2.93%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 80 (11.17%) Greenfield Project
2 39 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (2.79%) Digital TV
3 20 (2.79%) Mobile App
4 19 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (2.37%) BBC
5 17 (2.37%) iPhone
5 17 (2.37%) Social Media
6 16 (2.23%) Cloud Native
7 13 (1.82%) Sports Betting
8 12 (1.68%) Social Network
9 11 (1.54%) Hedge funds
10 10 (1.40%) Onboarding
11 7 (0.98%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
12 6 (0.84%) Client/Server
12 6 (0.84%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.70%) Legacy Code
13 5 (0.70%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.79%) Windows
2 17 (2.37%) Android
3 4 (0.56%) Linux
4 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 513 (71.65%) Full-Stack Development
2 392 (54.75%) Agile
3 238 (33.24%) DevOps
4 227 (31.70%) CI/CD
5 181 (25.28%) Microservices
6 162 (22.63%) AI
6 162 (22.63%) Machine Learning
7 156 (21.79%) Multithreading
8 95 (13.27%) Scrum
9 87 (12.15%) OO
10 82 (11.45%) TDD
11 69 (9.64%) Software Engineering
12 65 (9.08%) BDD
13 61 (8.52%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
14 60 (8.38%) Kanban
15 43 (6.01%) SDLC
16 42 (5.87%) MVC
17 41 (5.73%) Continuous Improvement
18 40 (5.59%) Mentoring
19 39 (5.45%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 676 (94.41%) C#
2 508 (70.95%) SQL
3 256 (35.75%) JavaScript
4 199 (27.79%) TypeScript
5 25 (3.49%) PowerShell
5 25 (3.49%) Python
6 14 (1.96%) T-SQL
7 13 (1.82%) Java
8 7 (0.98%) Bicep
9 4 (0.56%) Bash
9 4 (0.56%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.56%) Ruby
9 4 (0.56%) VB.NET
10 3 (0.42%) Go
11 2 (0.28%) C
11 2 (0.28%) Dart
12 1 (0.14%) C++
12 1 (0.14%) Delphi
12 1 (0.14%) Pascal
12 1 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (6.56%) Degree
2 22 (3.07%) SC Cleared
2 22 (3.07%) Security Cleared
3 19 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.84%) AWS Certification
4 6 (0.84%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.42%) OCP
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (0.28%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.05%) QA
2 7 (0.98%) Accessibility
2 7 (0.98%) NCSC
2 7 (0.98%) WCAG
3 3 (0.42%) GDPR
3 3 (0.42%) NIST
4 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 177 (24.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 163 (22.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.42%) Grafana
2 3 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 499 (69.69%) Microsoft
2 57 (7.96%) Facebook
3 48 (6.70%) Google
4 21 (2.93%) YouTube
5 19 (2.65%) Adobe
6 17 (2.37%) Apple
6 17 (2.37%) Sony
6 17 (2.37%) Yahoo!
7 6 (0.84%) OpenAI
7 6 (0.84%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.42%) Splunk
10 2 (0.28%) IFS
10 2 (0.28%) Sage
10 2 (0.28%) Veracode
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle
11 1 (0.14%) WooCommerce