.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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 193 150
Rank change year-on-year -115 -43 -52
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 202 592 645
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 1.38% 2.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.39% 7.22% 9.00%
Number of salaries quoted 187 417 606
10th Percentile £39,500 £32,750 £39,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £69,125 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -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 3,750 8,199 7,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.44% 19.16% 24.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,857 4,728 5,657
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,905 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%

.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 12 December 2025.

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 12 December 2025. 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 -44 75 £52,500 -4.55% 72
South East -45 50 £57,500 +9.52% 80
North West +2 43 £55,000 -4.35% 40
Midlands -33 32 £65,000 +30.00% 23
South West +22 25 £52,500 -20.75% 17
Yorkshire -43 23 £40,000 -20.00% 19
East Midlands -11 22 £70,000 +40.00% 14
East of England -20 12 £60,000 +20.00% 22
West Midlands -8 10 £60,000 +20.00% 9
North East -5 9 £50,000 +11.11% 13
Scotland -70 7 £64,500 +76.71% 11
Wales 0 1 £35,000 -40.43% 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 3 (1.49%) Confluence
1 3 (1.49%) IIS
2 2 (0.99%) CMS
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.50%) Kentico
3 1 (0.50%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.49%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 117 (57.92%) Azure
2 56 (27.72%) AWS
3 36 (17.82%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (11.39%) GitHub
5 22 (10.89%) Serverless
6 15 (7.43%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (6.44%) SaaS
8 10 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (4.46%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.46%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.96%) Amazon EventBridge
10 8 (3.96%) AWS Step Functions
10 8 (3.96%) Azure AKS
11 7 (3.47%) Azure Functions
11 7 (3.47%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (3.47%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.97%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.98%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.98%) Internet
2 1 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (44.06%) SQL Server
2 21 (10.40%) NoSQL
3 15 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.95%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.96%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.97%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.98%) Power BI
8 4 (1.98%) Redis
9 3 (1.49%) MySQL
9 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.99%) Data Hub
10 2 (0.99%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.99%) SQL CLR
11 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 31 (15.35%) Git
2 8 (3.96%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.47%) JIRA
4 5 (2.48%) GitLab
4 5 (2.48%) NUnit
5 4 (1.98%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.49%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.49%) MSTest
7 2 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.50%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.50%) Moq
8 1 (0.50%) NSubstitute
8 1 (0.50%) Postman
8 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 26 (12.87%) Social Skills
2 13 (6.44%) Finance
3 8 (3.96%) Games
4 7 (3.47%) Retail
5 4 (1.98%) Back Office
5 4 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.49%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.50%) Automotive
7 1 (0.50%) Electronics
7 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.50%) Legal
7 1 (0.50%) Marketing
7 1 (0.50%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 152 (75.25%) Developer
2 72 (35.64%) .NET Developer
3 58 (28.71%) Senior
4 43 (21.29%) Software Developer
5 41 (20.30%) Senior Developer
6 38 (18.81%) C# Developer
7 34 (16.83%) Software Engineer
8 30 (14.85%) Full-Stack Developer
9 21 (10.40%) Lead
10 20 (9.90%) .NET Software Engineer
10 20 (9.90%) Senior .NET Developer
11 19 (9.41%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 15 (7.43%) Senior C# Developer
13 13 (6.44%) Senior Software Engineer
14 12 (5.94%) Lead Software Engineer
14 12 (5.94%) React Developer
15 11 (5.45%) C# Software Developer
16 10 (4.95%) Blazor Developer
16 10 (4.95%) C# .NET Developer
17 8 (3.96%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (100.00%) .NET
2 73 (36.14%) ASP.NET
3 55 (27.23%) React
4 51 (25.25%) AngularJS
5 44 (21.78%) .NET Framework
6 40 (19.80%) Blazor
6 40 (19.80%) RESTful
7 33 (16.34%) CSS
8 30 (14.85%) HTML
9 25 (12.38%) ASP.NET Core
10 19 (9.41%) ASP.NET MVC
10 19 (9.41%) Entity Framework
11 18 (8.91%) ASP.NET Web API
12 17 (8.42%) REST
13 15 (7.43%) Vue
14 10 (4.95%) HTML5
14 10 (4.95%) Node.js
15 8 (3.96%) AWS CDK
15 8 (3.96%) CSS3
16 6 (2.97%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.86%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.93%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.44%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.97%) 3D Graphics
6 5 (2.48%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.48%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (1.98%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.49%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.49%) Sports Betting
9 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.99%) IoT
9 2 (0.99%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.99%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.50%) Clustering
10 1 (0.50%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.50%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.50%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.49%) Windows
2 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (43.56%) CI/CD
2 72 (35.64%) Agile
3 69 (34.16%) DevOps
3 69 (34.16%) Software Engineering
4 58 (28.71%) Full-Stack Development
5 44 (21.78%) Microservices
6 39 (19.31%) Clean Code
7 38 (18.81%) Containerisation
8 36 (17.82%) MVC
9 27 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (11.39%) SDLC
11 22 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (10.89%) Mentoring
12 19 (9.41%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (8.42%) Application Security
14 16 (7.92%) SOLID
14 16 (7.92%) Unit Testing
15 15 (7.43%) Deployment Automation
15 15 (7.43%) Design Patterns
15 15 (7.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 176 (87.13%) C#
2 77 (38.12%) SQL
3 63 (31.19%) JavaScript
4 17 (8.42%) TypeScript
5 10 (4.95%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.49%) Erlang
7 2 (0.99%) Bicep
7 2 (0.99%) Python
7 2 (0.99%) VB.NET
7 2 (0.99%) XAML
8 1 (0.50%) Bash
8 1 (0.50%) Dart
8 1 (0.50%) Go
8 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (11.88%) Degree
2 8 (3.96%) AWS Certification
2 8 (3.96%) AWS Certified Developer
3 7 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.96%) QA
2 2 (0.99%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (19.80%) Docker
2 2 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (13.37%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.41%) Terraform
3 1 (0.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 36 (17.82%) Microsoft
2 2 (0.99%) Oracle
2 2 (0.99%) VMware
3 1 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (0.50%) IONA
3 1 (0.50%) Okta