.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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 190 120
Rank change year-on-year -117 -70 -14
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 224 528 818
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 1.45% 2.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.82% 7.45% 10.82%
Number of salaries quoted 210 369 784
10th Percentile £42,500 £32,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,563 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%

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 3,847 7,083 7,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.14% 19.39% 23.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,944 3,962 5,892
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,132 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 6 January 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 6 January 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 -39 88 £55,000 - 61
North West -1 54 £55,000 -4.35% 36
South East -41 48 £57,500 +7.98% 90
Midlands -16 43 £65,000 +23.81% 44
East Midlands -4 31 £65,000 +26.83% 26
South West +4 27 £52,500 -23.64% 26
Yorkshire -43 23 £40,000 -20.00% 15
West Midlands -7 12 £51,250 -2.38% 18
North East -7 11 £52,500 +16.67% 10
East of England -9 11 £60,000 +20.00% 33
Scotland -72 6 £72,250 +112.50% 6
Wales -1 1 £35,000 -30.00% 10
.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 2 (0.89%) CMS
1 2 (0.89%) Confluence
1 2 (0.89%) IIS
2 1 (0.45%) Kentico
2 1 (0.45%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.89%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 133 (59.38%) Azure
2 57 (25.45%) AWS
3 37 (16.52%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (10.71%) Serverless
5 22 (9.82%) GitHub
6 17 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (5.80%) Amazon EventBridge
8 13 (5.80%) Amazon S3
8 13 (5.80%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (5.80%) AWS Step Functions
9 12 (5.36%) SaaS
10 9 (4.02%) Power Platform
11 7 (3.13%) Azure AKS
12 6 (2.68%) Entra ID
13 5 (2.23%) Azure Functions
13 5 (2.23%) GCP
14 4 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.34%) Internet
2 1 (0.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 25 (11.16%) NoSQL
3 20 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (5.80%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.13%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.23%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.79%) Power BI
7 4 (1.79%) Redis
8 3 (1.34%) MySQL
8 3 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.89%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 35 (15.63%) Git
2 7 (3.13%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.23%) JIRA
3 5 (2.23%) NUnit
4 4 (1.79%) GitLab
4 4 (1.79%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.34%) MSTest
5 3 (1.34%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.45%) Moq
6 1 (0.45%) NSubstitute
6 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 27 (12.05%) Social Skills
2 10 (4.46%) Finance
3 9 (4.02%) Games
4 5 (2.23%) Public Sector
5 4 (1.79%) Retail
6 2 (0.89%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (0.89%) Local Government
7 1 (0.45%) Automotive
7 1 (0.45%) Back Office
7 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.45%) Law
7 1 (0.45%) Legal
7 1 (0.45%) Marketing
7 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 176 (78.57%) Developer
2 80 (35.71%) .NET Developer
3 64 (28.57%) Senior
4 59 (26.34%) Software Developer
5 47 (20.98%) C# Developer
6 44 (19.64%) Senior Developer
7 35 (15.63%) Full-Stack Developer
8 31 (13.84%) Software Engineer
9 25 (11.16%) Lead
10 19 (8.48%) C# .NET Developer
10 19 (8.48%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 19 (8.48%) Senior .NET Developer
11 17 (7.59%) React Developer
12 16 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
12 16 (7.14%) Senior C# Developer
13 15 (6.70%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (6.25%) C# Software Developer
14 14 (6.25%) Lead Developer
15 13 (5.80%) Azure Developer
15 13 (5.80%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (100.00%) .NET
2 87 (38.84%) ASP.NET
3 60 (26.79%) React
4 50 (22.32%) .NET Framework
5 45 (20.09%) AngularJS
6 39 (17.41%) RESTful
7 38 (16.96%) Blazor
8 31 (13.84%) CSS
9 29 (12.95%) ASP.NET Core
10 27 (12.05%) HTML
11 21 (9.38%) Entity Framework
12 19 (8.48%) REST
13 18 (8.04%) ASP.NET MVC
14 17 (7.59%) ASP.NET Web API
15 15 (6.70%) Vue
16 13 (5.80%) AWS CDK
17 12 (5.36%) Node.js
18 8 (3.57%) HTML5
19 7 (3.13%) CSS3
20 6 (2.68%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 6 (2.68%) 3D Graphics
5 5 (2.23%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.79%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.34%) Sports Betting
8 2 (0.89%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.89%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.89%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.45%) Clustering
9 1 (0.45%) IoT
9 1 (0.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.89%) Linux
1 2 (0.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (37.95%) CI/CD
2 78 (34.82%) Agile
3 66 (29.46%) Full-Stack Development
4 64 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 62 (27.68%) DevOps
6 47 (20.98%) Microservices
7 42 (18.75%) Containerisation
8 37 (16.52%) Clean Code
8 37 (16.52%) MVC
9 27 (12.05%) SDLC
10 24 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (8.48%) Application Security
12 19 (8.48%) Mentoring
13 18 (8.04%) Collaborative Culture
14 17 (7.59%) Scrum
14 17 (7.59%) SOLID
14 17 (7.59%) Unit Testing
15 16 (7.14%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 189 (84.38%) C#
2 91 (40.63%) SQL
3 67 (29.91%) JavaScript
4 14 (6.25%) TypeScript
5 10 (4.46%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.34%) Erlang
7 2 (0.89%) Bash
7 2 (0.89%) Bicep
7 2 (0.89%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.89%) Python
7 2 (0.89%) XAML
8 1 (0.45%) Dart
8 1 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (8.93%) Degree
2 11 (4.91%) AWS Certification
2 11 (4.91%) AWS Certified Developer
3 7 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.89%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.89%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.36%) QA
2 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 44 (19.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (12.05%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.71%) Terraform
3 1 (0.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 45 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (0.89%) Foundry
2 2 (0.89%) Oracle
3 1 (0.45%) Google
3 1 (0.45%) IONA
3 1 (0.45%) Okta