.NET Core Job Trends

.NET Core
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 239 125
Rank change year-on-year -95 -114 +13
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 413 562 2,010
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.31% 2.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.11% 5.95% 10.61%
Number of salaries quoted 372 457 1,926
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

.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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,086 9,446 18,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.81% 21.97% 22.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,917 6,672 15,139
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,050 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% +10.08% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in the UK

.NET Core
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in the UK

.NET Core
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 17 March 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
England -58 393 £60,000 - 229
UK excluding London -72 300 £57,500 +9.52% 193
Work from Home -46 179 £60,000 - 198
North of England -49 112 £55,000 +8.08% 46
London -34 91 £80,000 - 60
North West -25 66 £55,000 - 24
South East -40 63 £60,000 +14.29% 62
Midlands -21 58 £65,000 +23.81% 27
East Midlands -9 44 £65,000 +23.81% 14
South West -9 38 £55,000 -24.14% 23
Yorkshire -53 25 £40,000 -20.00% 14
East of England -23 23 £82,500 +65.00% 26
North East -15 21 £55,000 +22.22% 10
West Midlands -17 14 £60,000 +6.67% 13
Scotland -70 5 £55,000 +69.23% 9
Wales -17 1 £50,000 - 5

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (1.69%) IIS
2 5 (1.21%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.97%) CMS
4 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.24%) Kentico
4 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.24%) Magento
1 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 243 (58.84%) Azure
2 96 (23.24%) AWS
3 67 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
4 54 (13.08%) Serverless
5 44 (10.65%) SaaS
6 38 (9.20%) GitHub
7 26 (6.30%) Power Platform
8 25 (6.05%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (5.57%) Azure Functions
10 21 (5.08%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (4.60%) Azure AKS
12 18 (4.36%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (4.12%) Amazon S3
13 17 (4.12%) AWS Step Functions
14 16 (3.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (3.87%) Amazon SQS
15 15 (3.63%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (3.39%) Azure Service Bus
16 14 (3.39%) GCP
17 13 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.21%) Internet
2 3 (0.73%) Modbus
2 3 (0.73%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.48%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.24%) AMQP
4 1 (0.24%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (38.50%) SQL Server
2 49 (11.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 38 (9.20%) MongoDB
4 33 (7.99%) NoSQL
5 24 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (5.33%) Power BI
7 19 (4.60%) MySQL
7 19 (4.60%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.15%) DynamoDB
9 12 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.45%) Redis
11 3 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.73%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.48%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.48%) NonStop SQL
13 1 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 51 (12.35%) Git
2 9 (2.18%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.45%) NUnit
3 6 (1.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.97%) JIRA
5 3 (0.73%) Vite
5 3 (0.73%) webpack
6 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.48%) MSTest
7 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.24%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.24%) Selenium
7 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 51 (12.35%) Finance
2 41 (9.93%) Social Skills
3 17 (4.12%) Law
4 16 (3.87%) Games
5 13 (3.15%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.42%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.69%) Banking
7 7 (1.69%) Front Office
8 6 (1.45%) Marketing
9 5 (1.21%) Advertising
9 5 (1.21%) Retail
10 3 (0.73%) Legal
10 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.73%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.48%) Automotive
11 2 (0.48%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.48%) Local Government
11 2 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 284 (68.77%) Developer
2 142 (34.38%) .NET Developer
3 113 (27.36%) Senior
4 86 (20.82%) Software Developer
5 72 (17.43%) C# Developer
6 67 (16.22%) Senior Developer
7 55 (13.32%) Full-Stack Developer
8 53 (12.83%) Software Engineer
9 49 (11.86%) Lead
10 40 (9.69%) C# .NET Developer
11 29 (7.02%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 28 (6.78%) .NET Software Engineer
13 26 (6.30%) Lead Developer
13 26 (6.30%) Senior Software Engineer
14 24 (5.81%) Senior Software Developer
15 23 (5.57%) React Developer
16 22 (5.33%) Senior .NET Developer
17 21 (5.08%) Applications Developer
17 21 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
18 18 (4.36%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 413 (100.00%) .NET
2 137 (33.17%) ASP.NET
3 106 (25.67%) React
4 91 (22.03%) .NET Framework
5 64 (15.50%) AngularJS
6 62 (15.01%) RESTful
7 59 (14.29%) Entity Framework
8 57 (13.80%) HTML
9 56 (13.56%) CSS
10 55 (13.32%) ASP.NET Core
10 55 (13.32%) Blazor
11 38 (9.20%) REST
12 37 (8.96%) Vue
13 32 (7.75%) ASP.NET MVC
14 31 (7.51%) ASP.NET Web API
15 30 (7.26%) Node.js
16 16 (3.87%) AWS CDK
17 15 (3.63%) HTML5
18 14 (3.39%) Dapper ORM
19 13 (3.15%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.69%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
2 16 (3.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 12 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.42%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.18%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.94%) Hedge funds
6 8 (1.94%) Sports Betting
7 6 (1.45%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (1.45%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.97%) Digital TV
9 4 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.97%) Social Network
9 4 (0.97%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.73%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.66%) VMS
2 5 (1.21%) Windows
3 4 (0.97%) Linux
4 1 (0.24%) Android
4 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (36.32%) Full-Stack Development
2 146 (35.35%) Agile
3 127 (30.75%) CI/CD
4 115 (27.85%) Software Engineering
5 107 (25.91%) DevOps
6 100 (24.21%) Microservices
7 70 (16.95%) Containerisation
7 70 (16.95%) MVC
8 62 (15.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 49 (11.86%) SDLC
10 46 (11.14%) Clean Code
11 43 (10.41%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (10.17%) OO
13 37 (8.96%) AI
14 36 (8.72%) Collaborative Culture
15 35 (8.47%) Analytics
16 34 (8.23%) Infrastructure as Code
17 32 (7.75%) Mentoring
18 30 (7.26%) Scrum
19 28 (6.78%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 356 (86.20%) C#
2 172 (41.65%) SQL
3 119 (28.81%) JavaScript
4 59 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 26 (6.30%) Python
6 22 (5.33%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.66%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (2.18%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.94%) Rust
10 5 (1.21%) Bash
10 5 (1.21%) Java
11 4 (0.97%) Bicep
12 3 (0.73%) Erlang
12 3 (0.73%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.48%) C++
13 2 (0.48%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (7.75%) Degree
2 16 (3.87%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.66%) AWS Certification
3 11 (2.66%) AWS Certified Developer
3 11 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (2.18%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.45%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.21%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.60%) QA
2 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.48%) GDPR
2 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.48%) SLA
2 2 (0.48%) WCAG
3 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.24%) ITGC
System Software
1 96 (23.24%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 67 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 34 (8.23%) Terraform
3 3 (0.73%) Grafana
4 2 (0.48%) Ansible
Vendors
1 127 (30.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (1.69%) Google
3 5 (1.21%) Facebook
4 4 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (0.73%) Adobe
6 2 (0.48%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (0.48%) Databricks
6 2 (0.48%) Foundry
6 2 (0.48%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.48%) YouTube
7 1 (0.24%) Apple
7 1 (0.24%) IBM
7 1 (0.24%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.24%) Okta
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle
7 1 (0.24%) Sony
7 1 (0.24%) WooCommerce
7 1 (0.24%) Yahoo!