.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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 271 118
Rank change year-on-year +23 -153 +25
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 444 299 1,605
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.67% 1.02% 2.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.57% 5.88% 11.68%
Number of salaries quoted 430 260 1,541
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 5,180 5,084 13,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.78% 17.36% 19.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,073 3,402 10,309
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £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 £88,630 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -12 129 £55,000 -8.33% 55
South East +25 101 £57,500 +15.00% 55
Midlands +3 78 £60,000 +14.29% 23
North West +12 70 £55,000 -8.33% 30
East of England +27 66 £87,500 +59.09% 23
South West -23 58 £52,500 -22.22% 15
East Midlands +8 48 £60,000 +14.29% 9
North East -13 39 £65,000 +40.54% 10
West Midlands -20 30 £60,000 +0.84% 14
Yorkshire -65 20 £55,000 -8.33% 16
Scotland -28 7 £55,000 +29.41% 7
Wales -32 5 £50,000 - 5
.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 (4.28%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.03%) IIS
3 1 (0.23%) CMS
3 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Magento
2 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 292 (65.77%) Azure
2 85 (19.14%) Azure DevOps
3 79 (17.79%) AWS
4 55 (12.39%) GitHub
5 47 (10.59%) Azure AI
6 37 (8.33%) GitHub Copilot
7 31 (6.98%) SaaS
8 24 (5.41%) Power Platform
9 23 (5.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 21 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (4.73%) Power Automate
10 21 (4.73%) PowerApps
11 20 (4.50%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (4.50%) Azure Logic Apps
12 19 (4.28%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (4.28%) OneDrive
12 19 (4.28%) Serverless
13 16 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (2.70%) Azure AKS
15 10 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.60%) Internet
2 3 (0.68%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.68%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.23%) AMQP
3 1 (0.23%) Firewall
3 1 (0.23%) Modbus
3 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (35.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 117 (26.35%) MongoDB
3 115 (25.90%) SQL Server
4 42 (9.46%) Elasticsearch
5 25 (5.63%) NoSQL
6 22 (4.95%) Power BI
7 17 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (2.03%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.13%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.90%) GIS
10 4 (0.90%) MySQL
10 4 (0.90%) NonStop SQL
10 4 (0.90%) Redis
11 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 38 (8.56%) Git
2 6 (1.35%) GitLab
3 3 (0.68%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.23%) JIRA
5 1 (0.23%) MSTest
5 1 (0.23%) NUnit
5 1 (0.23%) Selenium
5 1 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.23%) Vite
General
1 46 (10.36%) Finance
2 38 (8.56%) Social Skills
3 26 (5.86%) Games
4 14 (3.15%) Advertising
5 12 (2.70%) Retail
6 10 (2.25%) Marketing
7 9 (2.03%) Automotive
8 4 (0.90%) Manufacturing
8 4 (0.90%) Public Sector
9 3 (0.68%) Banking
9 3 (0.68%) Electronics
9 3 (0.68%) Music Industry
10 2 (0.45%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.45%) Local Government
11 1 (0.23%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 366 (82.43%) Developer
2 220 (49.55%) .NET Developer
3 101 (22.75%) Software Developer
4 98 (22.07%) Senior
5 65 (14.64%) Senior Developer
6 56 (12.61%) C# Developer
7 45 (10.14%) Software Engineer
8 43 (9.68%) Full-Stack Developer
9 39 (8.78%) C# .NET Developer
10 36 (8.11%) Lead
11 29 (6.53%) Senior Software Developer
12 26 (5.86%) Senior Software Engineer
13 25 (5.63%) Lead Developer
14 23 (5.18%) .NET Software Engineer
15 22 (4.95%) .NET Software Developer
16 20 (4.50%) Applications Developer
17 19 (4.28%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 18 (4.05%) Lead Software Developer
19 17 (3.83%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
20 16 (3.60%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 444 (100.00%) .NET
2 215 (48.42%) ASP.NET
3 155 (34.91%) ASP.NET Core
4 100 (22.52%) React
5 93 (20.95%) HTML
6 92 (20.72%) CSS
6 92 (20.72%) Entity Framework
7 89 (20.05%) RESTful
8 84 (18.92%) Blazor
9 78 (17.57%) .NET Framework
10 74 (16.67%) Vue
11 70 (15.77%) AngularJS
12 59 (13.29%) ASP.NET Web API
13 56 (12.61%) Node.js
14 47 (10.59%) ML.NET
15 40 (9.01%) LINQ
16 26 (5.86%) REST
17 24 (5.41%) JSON
18 21 (4.73%) Microsoft Graph
19 19 (4.28%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.66%) Greenfield Project
2 18 (4.05%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 13 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (2.93%) Sports Betting
5 11 (2.48%) Hedge funds
6 10 (2.25%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.03%) Digital TV
8 7 (1.58%) iPhone
8 7 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.58%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.58%) Social Network
9 6 (1.35%) BBC
9 6 (1.35%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.35%) Social Media
10 5 (1.13%) 3D Graphics
10 5 (1.13%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.68%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.58%) Android
1 7 (1.58%) Windows
2 5 (1.13%) Linux
3 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (50.23%) Full-Stack Development
2 176 (39.64%) Agile
3 121 (27.25%) CI/CD
4 110 (24.77%) DevOps
5 81 (18.24%) Software Engineering
6 73 (16.44%) Microservices
7 66 (14.86%) Machine Learning
8 61 (13.74%) AI
9 57 (12.84%) Multithreading
10 49 (11.04%) Containerisation
11 48 (10.81%) OO
12 41 (9.23%) SDLC
13 36 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (7.43%) MVC
15 31 (6.98%) Collaborative Culture
16 29 (6.53%) SOLID
16 29 (6.53%) Technical Leadership
17 28 (6.31%) TDD
17 28 (6.31%) User Experience
18 27 (6.08%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 405 (91.22%) C#
2 261 (58.78%) SQL
3 133 (29.95%) JavaScript
4 92 (20.72%) TypeScript
5 24 (5.41%) PowerShell
6 11 (2.48%) T-SQL
7 10 (2.25%) Python
8 5 (1.13%) Bash
9 3 (0.68%) Java
10 2 (0.45%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.23%) C++
11 1 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (6.31%) Degree
2 12 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (2.03%) AWS Certification
4 7 (1.58%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.23%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.60%) QA
System Software
1 103 (23.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 88 (19.82%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 211 (47.52%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.28%) Adobe
3 18 (4.05%) Google
4 16 (3.60%) Facebook
5 6 (1.35%) Apple
5 6 (1.35%) Sony
5 6 (1.35%) Yahoo!
5 6 (1.35%) YouTube
6 5 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (0.68%) Splunk
8 2 (0.45%) Foundry
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle
9 1 (0.23%) WooCommerce