.NET Core
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for .NET Core skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited .NET Core over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 189 115 90
Rank change year-on-year -74 -25 -37
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 978 3,726 4,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.87% 3.05% 3.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.12% 9.41% 9.45%
Number of salaries quoted 911 2,619 3,719
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £36,650
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

.NET Core is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 13,739 39,611 48,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.28% 32.41% 38.30%
Number of salaries quoted 10,720 24,123 32,015
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,351 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,289 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%

.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 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in the UK

.NET Core
Top 17 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 10 December 2023. 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 -57 900 £60,000 -4.00% 551
UK excluding London -76 627 £55,000 -4.35% 430
Work from Home -51 587 £58,250 -2.92% 435
London -47 310 £80,000 +6.67% 170
North of England -55 205 £55,000 - 127
South East +7 182 £55,000 -8.33% 122
Yorkshire -2 100 £55,000 - 36
North West -69 95 £57,500 +4.55% 72
South West -49 89 £54,000 -1.82% 33
Midlands -53 86 £55,000 - 78
West Midlands -21 48 £50,000 -13.04% 45
East Midlands -21 38 £65,000 +23.81% 32
Scotland -74 28 £55,000 - 20
Wales 0 18 £52,500 +16.67% 18
East of England +84 13 £57,500 - 35
North East +35 10 £43,750 -8.85% 22
Northern Ireland -11 10 £55,000 +4.76% 8

.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 46 (4.70%) Umbraco
2 45 (4.60%) CMS
3 23 (2.35%) IIS
4 16 (1.64%) SharePoint
5 15 (1.53%) Confluence
6 10 (1.02%) Kentico
7 7 (0.72%) nginx
8 6 (0.61%) SharePoint 2010
8 6 (0.61%) SharePoint 2013
9 5 (0.51%) Apache
9 5 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.41%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.31%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.10%) EPiServer
Applications
1 10 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.61%) Maximo
2 6 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.31%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.10%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 579 (59.20%) Azure
2 196 (20.04%) AWS
3 190 (19.43%) Azure DevOps
4 65 (6.65%) GCP
4 65 (6.65%) SaaS
5 57 (5.83%) Azure Service Bus
6 45 (4.60%) Serverless
7 23 (2.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 22 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
9 21 (2.15%) Azure Functions
9 21 (2.15%) GitHub
10 19 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
11 16 (1.64%) PaaS
12 14 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (1.33%) Power Platform
14 12 (1.23%) Azure Pipelines
14 12 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (0.92%) Azure API Management
16 8 (0.82%) Azure AKS
16 8 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.82%) DNS
1 8 (0.82%) HTTP
2 7 (0.72%) Internet
3 4 (0.41%) Network Security
3 4 (0.41%) SSL
4 3 (0.31%) RTP
5 1 (0.10%) Firewall
5 1 (0.10%) Multicast
5 1 (0.10%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.10%) Unicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (38.85%) SQL Server
2 47 (4.81%) Relational Database
3 43 (4.40%) NoSQL
4 33 (3.37%) MongoDB
5 32 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
6 31 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (2.66%) Redis
8 21 (2.15%) MySQL
9 19 (1.94%) RDBMS
10 18 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 14 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.12%) Power BI
13 11 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.31%) Big Data
14 3 (0.31%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.31%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.31%) GIS
15 2 (0.20%) Event Store
Development Applications
1 135 (13.80%) Git
2 39 (3.99%) Team Foundation Server
3 38 (3.89%) Visual Studio
4 32 (3.27%) NUnit
5 23 (2.35%) JIRA
6 22 (2.25%) Postman
7 15 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
8 14 (1.43%) Jenkins
8 14 (1.43%) Moq
9 13 (1.33%) SonarQube
10 12 (1.23%) Selenium
10 12 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 12 (1.23%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.82%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.82%) GitLab
11 8 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (0.72%) MSTest
13 6 (0.61%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.51%) Serilog
15 4 (0.41%) git-flow
General
1 160 (16.36%) Finance
2 126 (12.88%) Social Skills
3 39 (3.99%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (3.78%) Marketing
5 28 (2.86%) Retail
6 26 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (2.35%) Automotive
8 21 (2.15%) Public Sector
9 20 (2.04%) Front Office
10 18 (1.84%) Tech for Good
11 16 (1.64%) Health Technology
12 14 (1.43%) Banking
12 14 (1.43%) Electronics
12 14 (1.43%) Law
12 14 (1.43%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.12%) Games
13 11 (1.12%) Legal
14 10 (1.02%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.02%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 705 (72.09%) Developer
2 357 (36.50%) .NET Developer
3 274 (28.02%) Senior
4 215 (21.98%) C# Developer
5 191 (19.53%) Senior Developer
6 162 (16.56%) Software Developer
7 134 (13.70%) Full Stack Developer
8 120 (12.27%) Software Engineer
9 98 (10.02%) C# .NET Developer
10 93 (9.51%) Lead
11 84 (8.59%) Senior .NET Developer
12 62 (6.34%) C# Software Developer
13 54 (5.52%) Senior C# Developer
13 54 (5.52%) Senior Software Engineer
14 51 (5.21%) Senior Software Developer
15 50 (5.11%) Lead Developer
16 49 (5.01%) Full Stack .NET Developer
17 44 (4.50%) .NET Software Developer
18 35 (3.58%) .NET Software Engineer
19 34 (3.48%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 970 (99.18%) .NET
2 330 (33.74%) ASP.NET
3 307 (31.39%) .NET Framework
4 290 (29.65%) HTML
5 279 (28.53%) CSS
6 265 (27.10%) AngularJS
7 257 (26.28%) React
8 178 (18.20%) ASP.NET Web API
9 138 (14.11%) Entity Framework
10 125 (12.78%) ASP.NET MVC
11 101 (10.33%) REST
12 96 (9.82%) jQuery
13 86 (8.79%) RESTful
14 73 (7.46%) HTML5
15 64 (6.54%) Vue
16 62 (6.34%) Web Services
17 52 (5.32%) Blazor
18 44 (4.50%) ASP.NET Core
19 39 (3.99%) JSON
19 39 (3.99%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 74 (7.57%) Greenfield Project
2 57 (5.83%) Product Ownership
3 54 (5.52%) Cloud Native
4 29 (2.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 24 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (2.35%) Mobile App
7 19 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.23%) Contactless
10 12 (1.23%) Derivative
10 12 (1.23%) Smartcard
11 10 (1.02%) Fixed Income
12 9 (0.92%) Equities
13 7 (0.72%) Reinsurance
14 6 (0.61%) Hedge funds
14 6 (0.61%) Management Information System
15 5 (0.51%) Algorithms
15 5 (0.51%) Client/Server
15 5 (0.51%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 39 (3.99%) Windows
2 29 (2.97%) Linux
3 12 (1.23%) Android
4 10 (1.02%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.72%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (47.34%) Agile
2 326 (33.33%) DevOps
3 285 (29.14%) MVC
4 274 (28.02%) CI/CD
5 252 (25.77%) Full Stack Development
6 226 (23.11%) Software Engineering
7 194 (19.84%) Microservices
8 177 (18.10%) TDD
9 154 (15.75%) SOLID
10 150 (15.34%) Scrum
11 129 (13.19%) Unit Testing
12 122 (12.47%) Design Patterns
13 99 (10.12%) Web Development
14 95 (9.71%) Problem-Solving
15 92 (9.41%) Test Automation
16 88 (9.00%) Mentoring
17 71 (7.26%) Front End Development
18 60 (6.13%) OOP
18 60 (6.13%) User Experience
19 57 (5.83%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 859 (87.83%) C#
2 476 (48.67%) JavaScript
3 413 (42.23%) SQL
4 122 (12.47%) TypeScript
5 101 (10.33%) T-SQL
6 59 (6.03%) Python
7 34 (3.48%) Java
8 26 (2.66%) VB.NET
9 24 (2.45%) PHP
10 19 (1.94%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.64%) C++
12 11 (1.12%) Bash
13 10 (1.02%) Ruby
14 8 (0.82%) Go
15 7 (0.72%) Rust
15 7 (0.72%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.61%) C
17 4 (0.41%) VB
18 3 (0.31%) MATLAB
19 2 (0.20%) F#
Qualifications
1 73 (7.46%) Degree
2 45 (4.60%) Security Cleared
3 34 (3.48%) SC Cleared
4 21 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (1.43%) DV Cleared
6 7 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (0.72%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.61%) MCPD
8 5 (0.51%) PhD
9 3 (0.31%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.31%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.20%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.10%) HNC
11 1 (0.10%) HND
11 1 (0.10%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (6.13%) QA
2 11 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (1.12%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.10%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 146 (14.93%) Docker
2 3 (0.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 142 (14.52%) Kubernetes
2 50 (5.11%) Terraform
3 9 (0.92%) Ansible
4 8 (0.82%) Progress Chef
5 4 (0.41%) Istio
5 4 (0.41%) MIIS
6 1 (0.10%) Grafana
6 1 (0.10%) Kibana
6 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 236 (24.13%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.66%) Xamarin
3 16 (1.64%) Oracle
3 16 (1.64%) Salesforce
4 15 (1.53%) Google
5 13 (1.33%) Zoho
6 8 (0.82%) SAP
7 6 (0.61%) Sparx
8 5 (0.51%) Sitecore
9 4 (0.41%) RedGate
10 3 (0.31%) New Relic
10 3 (0.31%) Samsung
10 3 (0.31%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.20%) Databricks
11 2 (0.20%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.10%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.10%) DevExpress
12 1 (0.10%) Rollbar
12 1 (0.10%) Spotify