.NET Core Jobs

.NET Core
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring .NET Core skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited .NET Core over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 114 155
Rank change year-on-year -185 +41 -55
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 492 2,335 2,448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 2.37% 2.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.79% 11.09% 7.78%
Number of salaries quoted 420 1,952 2,034
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.70% +5.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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 8,493 21,046 31,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.28% 21.40% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,474 15,738 19,371
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £50,509 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £79,900 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing .NET Core as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core in the UK

.NET Core
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing .NET Core.

Salary trend for .NET Core in the UK

.NET Core
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
England -173 436 £60,000 +4.35% 331
UK excluding London -170 339 £52,500 -4.55% 247
Work from Home -115 271 £60,000 +9.09% 250
London -87 134 £80,000 -5.88% 96
North of England -121 118 £55,000 +4.76% 88
South East -105 81 £52,500 -4.55% 50
North West -103 67 £60,000 +14.29% 54
Midlands -105 49 £52,500 +5.00% 49
Scotland +62 38 £35,000 -36.36% 11
Yorkshire -45 36 £60,000 +9.09% 20
West Midlands -49 34 £59,000 +15.12% 26
South West -25 26 £67,500 +20.00% 20
East of England -51 23 £52,500 -4.55% 27
North East +11 15 £45,000 -18.00% 14
East Midlands -59 15 £52,500 +5.00% 23
Wales -21 4 £50,000 - 6

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (3.86%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.64%) IIS
3 5 (1.02%) CMS
4 4 (0.81%) Confluence
4 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.81%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.41%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.20%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.20%) Jetty
6 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 18 (3.66%) Sage 200
1 18 (3.66%) Sage 50
2 8 (1.63%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.41%) Eikon
3 2 (0.41%) RMDS
4 1 (0.20%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.20%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 272 (55.28%) Azure
2 106 (21.54%) AWS
3 63 (12.80%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (11.59%) GitHub
5 40 (8.13%) SaaS
6 24 (4.88%) Serverless
7 20 (4.07%) GCP
8 15 (3.05%) Power Platform
9 12 (2.44%) Azure Functions
9 12 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
9 12 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
10 11 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (2.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (1.63%) Firebase
12 8 (1.63%) Power Automate
13 6 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.22%) PowerApps
14 5 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
15 4 (0.81%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.63%) HTTP
2 6 (1.22%) Internet
2 6 (1.22%) Network Security
3 3 (0.61%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.20%) AMQP
5 1 (0.20%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (41.26%) SQL Server
2 49 (9.96%) MongoDB
3 41 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 32 (6.50%) NoSQL
5 30 (6.10%) Relational Database
6 29 (5.89%) Elasticsearch
7 27 (5.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 25 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (3.46%) MySQL
10 13 (2.64%) Power BI
11 8 (1.63%) Redis
11 8 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (1.02%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.02%) NonStop SQL
13 4 (0.81%) Data Hub
13 4 (0.81%) SQL CLR
14 3 (0.61%) Event Store
14 3 (0.61%) SQLite
15 1 (0.20%) Big Data
15 1 (0.20%) GIS
Development Applications
1 75 (15.24%) Git
2 69 (14.02%) Visual Studio
3 30 (6.10%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.28%) TeamCity
5 18 (3.66%) NUnit
6 17 (3.46%) Octopus Deploy
7 15 (3.05%) GitLab
8 14 (2.85%) JIRA
8 14 (2.85%) MagicDraw
9 11 (2.24%) Moq
10 10 (2.03%) SpecFlow
11 9 (1.83%) JUnit
11 9 (1.83%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (1.22%) Postman
13 5 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
14 4 (0.81%) Fiddler
15 3 (0.61%) CircleCI
15 3 (0.61%) JMeter
15 3 (0.61%) Subversion
16 2 (0.41%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 91 (18.50%) Social Skills
2 65 (13.21%) Finance
3 34 (6.91%) Manufacturing
4 28 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (5.69%) Retail
5 21 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.05%) Automotive
6 15 (3.05%) Public Sector
7 14 (2.85%) Tech for Good
8 11 (2.24%) Back Office
8 11 (2.24%) Banking
9 10 (2.03%) Front Office
10 8 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.22%) Advertising
12 5 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.81%) Electronics
13 4 (0.81%) Games
13 4 (0.81%) Law
14 3 (0.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 346 (70.33%) Developer
2 165 (33.54%) .NET Developer
3 146 (29.67%) Senior
4 107 (21.75%) Senior Developer
5 90 (18.29%) C# Developer
6 81 (16.46%) Software Engineer
7 56 (11.38%) C# .NET Developer
8 55 (11.18%) Software Developer
9 54 (10.98%) Full-Stack Developer
10 53 (10.77%) Lead
11 39 (7.93%) Senior .NET Developer
12 35 (7.11%) Senior C# Developer
13 30 (6.10%) .NET Software Developer
14 28 (5.69%) Lead Developer
15 25 (5.08%) .NET Software Engineer
16 24 (4.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 23 (4.67%) Senior Software Engineer
18 22 (4.47%) Portal Developer
19 21 (4.27%) Senior Software Developer
20 20 (4.07%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 491 (99.80%) .NET
2 192 (39.02%) .NET Framework
3 190 (38.62%) React
4 158 (32.11%) ASP.NET
5 148 (30.08%) AngularJS
6 123 (25.00%) HTML
7 115 (23.37%) CSS
8 105 (21.34%) Entity Framework
9 77 (15.65%) RESTful
10 72 (14.63%) ASP.NET Web API
10 72 (14.63%) HTML5
11 68 (13.82%) ASP.NET MVC
12 57 (11.59%) XML
13 56 (11.38%) REST
14 45 (9.15%) JSON
15 42 (8.54%) Vue
16 39 (7.93%) Blazor
17 33 (6.71%) jQuery
17 33 (6.71%) Node.js
18 29 (5.89%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 47 (9.55%) Mobile App
2 33 (6.71%) Greenfield Project
3 27 (5.49%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.24%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.83%) Algorithms
7 9 (1.83%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.42%) Educational Technology
8 7 (1.42%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.02%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (0.81%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.81%) Digital TV
10 4 (0.81%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.81%) IoT
11 3 (0.61%) EPoS
11 3 (0.61%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.86%) Windows
2 16 (3.25%) Apple iOS
3 12 (2.44%) Android
4 8 (1.63%) Linux
5 5 (1.02%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (50.81%) Agile
2 167 (33.94%) DevOps
3 153 (31.10%) Microservices
4 152 (30.89%) Software Engineering
5 137 (27.85%) Full-Stack Development
6 116 (23.58%) CI/CD
6 116 (23.58%) MVC
7 95 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
8 73 (14.84%) TDD
9 60 (12.20%) Mentoring
10 53 (10.77%) Scrum
11 48 (9.76%) Design Patterns
12 47 (9.55%) OO
13 46 (9.35%) Containerisation
13 46 (9.35%) Test Automation
14 45 (9.15%) Clean Code
14 45 (9.15%) OOP
15 44 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
16 43 (8.74%) Continuous Integration
17 42 (8.54%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 416 (84.55%) C#
2 217 (44.11%) SQL
3 204 (41.46%) JavaScript
4 91 (18.50%) TypeScript
5 28 (5.69%) Python
6 17 (3.46%) Java
6 17 (3.46%) T-SQL
7 12 (2.44%) C++
8 9 (1.83%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.22%) C
9 6 (1.22%) VB.NET
10 5 (1.02%) Delphi
11 4 (0.81%) Bicep
11 4 (0.81%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.61%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.61%) XAML
13 2 (0.41%) PHP
14 1 (0.20%) Bash
14 1 (0.20%) Go
14 1 (0.20%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 53 (10.77%) Degree
2 25 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
3 15 (3.05%) Security Cleared
4 13 (2.64%) Master's Degree
5 8 (1.63%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.20%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.20%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.32%) QA
2 6 (1.22%) CDISC
3 2 (0.41%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.41%) MiFID
4 1 (0.20%) GDPR
4 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 84 (17.07%) Docker
2 5 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.61%) LXC
Systems Management
1 70 (14.23%) Kubernetes
2 22 (4.47%) Terraform
3 4 (0.81%) Grafana
4 3 (0.61%) Ansible
4 3 (0.61%) Kibana
5 2 (0.41%) MIIS
5 2 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 140 (28.46%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.66%) Oracle
2 18 (3.66%) Sage
3 14 (2.85%) Google
4 9 (1.83%) Telerik
5 8 (1.63%) Okta
6 6 (1.22%) Xamarin
7 5 (1.02%) Facebook
7 5 (1.02%) VMware
8 4 (0.81%) IBM
8 4 (0.81%) YouTube
9 3 (0.61%) Borland
9 3 (0.61%) New Relic
10 2 (0.41%) Apple
10 2 (0.41%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.41%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.41%) Reuters
10 2 (0.41%) Sun
11 1 (0.20%) Murex
11 1 (0.20%) TIBCO