.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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 118 155
Rank change year-on-year -231 +37 -43
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 428 2,365 2,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.78% 2.32% 2.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.65% 11.13% 7.74%
Number of salaries quoted 358 1,967 1,880
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,359 £43,750 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £87,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%

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 9,208 21,249 29,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.84% 20.80% 30.01%
Number of salaries quoted 5,664 15,856 18,240
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,254 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,350 £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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -232 380 £62,500 +9.17% 1,199
UK excluding London -217 280 £52,500 -4.55% 1,169
Work from Home -197 238 £62,500 +13.64% 863
London -75 132 £80,000 -5.88% 167
North of England -169 100 £60,000 +11.89% 325
South East -144 66 £50,000 -9.09% 298
North West -141 57 £60,000 +14.29% 181
Midlands -126 42 £52,500 +5.00% 210
Yorkshire -64 32 £60,000 +9.09% 99
Scotland +47 31 £37,500 -31.82% 57
West Midlands -41 30 £59,500 +13.33% 112
South West -28 26 £62,500 +8.70% 135
East Midlands -77 12 £52,500 +5.00% 85
North East +2 11 £45,000 -17.81% 46
East of England -82 11 £55,000 - 142
Wales -18 4 £50,000 - 29

.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 20 (4.67%) IIS
2 15 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.34%) CMS
4 9 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.40%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.70%) Confluence
7 1 (0.23%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.23%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 14 (3.27%) Sage 200
1 14 (3.27%) Sage 50
2 8 (1.87%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.47%) Carpe Diem
3 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.47%) Eikon
3 2 (0.47%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.47%) RMDS
4 1 (0.23%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 241 (56.31%) Azure
2 98 (22.90%) AWS
3 60 (14.02%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (12.15%) GitHub
5 35 (8.18%) SaaS
6 23 (5.37%) GCP
7 22 (5.14%) Serverless
8 20 (4.67%) Power Platform
9 16 (3.74%) Azure Logic Apps
10 14 (3.27%) Azure Service Bus
11 12 (2.80%) Power Automate
12 11 (2.57%) Azure Functions
13 10 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (2.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 7 (1.64%) PowerApps
16 5 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
16 5 (1.17%) Firebase
17 4 (0.93%) Azure Pipelines
17 4 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
18 3 (0.70%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.87%) HTTP
2 7 (1.64%) Internet
3 3 (0.70%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.23%) AMQP
5 1 (0.23%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.23%) MQTT
5 1 (0.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (40.89%) SQL Server
2 58 (13.55%) MongoDB
3 42 (9.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 27 (6.31%) Relational Database
5 25 (5.84%) Elasticsearch
6 24 (5.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 23 (5.37%) NoSQL
8 22 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (4.21%) Power BI
10 12 (2.80%) MySQL
11 9 (2.10%) Data Hub
11 9 (2.10%) SQL CLR
11 9 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.40%) NonStop SQL
13 3 (0.70%) Event Store
14 2 (0.47%) Redis
15 1 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
15 1 (0.23%) Big Data
15 1 (0.23%) Couchbase
15 1 (0.23%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 62 (14.49%) Git
2 58 (13.55%) Visual Studio
3 28 (6.54%) TeamCity
4 24 (5.61%) Jenkins
5 22 (5.14%) Octopus Deploy
6 18 (4.21%) GitLab
7 17 (3.97%) NUnit
8 14 (3.27%) MagicDraw
9 11 (2.57%) Moq
10 10 (2.34%) SpecFlow
11 9 (2.10%) JIRA
11 9 (2.10%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (1.87%) JUnit
13 7 (1.64%) Postman
14 4 (0.93%) Fiddler
15 3 (0.70%) CircleCI
15 3 (0.70%) JMeter
15 3 (0.70%) Subversion
16 2 (0.47%) MSTest
16 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 79 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 62 (14.49%) Finance
3 31 (7.24%) Retail
4 27 (6.31%) Manufacturing
5 25 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (4.44%) Back Office
7 17 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (3.27%) Tech for Good
9 11 (2.57%) Banking
9 11 (2.57%) Public Sector
10 10 (2.34%) Front Office
11 9 (2.10%) Automotive
12 8 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.64%) Advertising
14 5 (1.17%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.17%) Law
14 5 (1.17%) Legal
15 4 (0.93%) Electronics
15 4 (0.93%) Marketing
15 4 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 306 (71.50%) Developer
2 158 (36.92%) .NET Developer
3 123 (28.74%) Senior
4 94 (21.96%) Senior Developer
5 80 (18.69%) C# Developer
6 65 (15.19%) Software Engineer
7 52 (12.15%) C# .NET Developer
8 50 (11.68%) Software Developer
9 46 (10.75%) Full-Stack Developer
10 43 (10.05%) Lead
11 39 (9.11%) Senior .NET Developer
12 30 (7.01%) Senior C# Developer
13 24 (5.61%) .NET Software Developer
14 23 (5.37%) Lead Developer
15 22 (5.14%) .NET Software Engineer
16 21 (4.91%) Senior Software Developer
17 19 (4.44%) React Developer
17 19 (4.44%) Senior C# .NET Developer
17 19 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
18 18 (4.21%) Portal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 427 (99.77%) .NET
2 167 (39.02%) React
3 160 (37.38%) .NET Framework
4 133 (31.07%) ASP.NET
5 122 (28.50%) AngularJS
6 95 (22.20%) Entity Framework
7 93 (21.73%) HTML
8 83 (19.39%) CSS
9 69 (16.12%) ASP.NET Web API
10 66 (15.42%) ASP.NET MVC
11 59 (13.79%) RESTful
12 55 (12.85%) HTML5
13 52 (12.15%) XML
14 49 (11.45%) REST
15 43 (10.05%) Vue
16 39 (9.11%) JSON
17 36 (8.41%) Node.js
18 35 (8.18%) Blazor
19 27 (6.31%) jQuery
20 23 (5.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.58%) Mobile App
2 28 (6.54%) Cloud Native
3 23 (5.37%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.34%) Private Cloud
5 10 (2.34%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 8 (1.87%) Algorithms
7 8 (1.87%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.64%) Educational Technology
9 6 (1.40%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.17%) Digital TV
10 5 (1.17%) IoT
10 5 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.93%) Client/Server
12 3 (0.70%) EPoS
12 3 (0.70%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.70%) Legacy Code
12 3 (0.70%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.44%) Windows
2 13 (3.04%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.34%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.10%) Android
5 7 (1.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (54.67%) Agile
2 152 (35.51%) DevOps
3 132 (30.84%) Software Engineering
4 130 (30.37%) Full-Stack Development
5 129 (30.14%) Microservices
6 114 (26.64%) CI/CD
7 96 (22.43%) MVC
8 73 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
9 67 (15.65%) TDD
10 56 (13.08%) Scrum
11 55 (12.85%) Mentoring
12 50 (11.68%) Clean Code
13 45 (10.51%) Test Automation
14 44 (10.28%) Containerisation
15 43 (10.05%) OO
16 42 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 42 (9.81%) Design Patterns
17 41 (9.58%) Continuous Integration
18 39 (9.11%) OOP
19 38 (8.88%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 362 (84.58%) C#
2 194 (45.33%) SQL
3 171 (39.95%) JavaScript
4 82 (19.16%) TypeScript
5 25 (5.84%) Python
6 12 (2.80%) C++
7 10 (2.34%) Java
8 9 (2.10%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.87%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.40%) VB.NET
11 4 (0.93%) Bicep
11 4 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.70%) C
12 3 (0.70%) Delphi
13 2 (0.47%) Go
13 2 (0.47%) PHP
14 1 (0.23%) Bash
14 1 (0.23%) R
14 1 (0.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (9.81%) Degree
2 24 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (2.34%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.64%) Security Cleared
6 4 (0.93%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.23%) MCSD
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.24%) QA
2 6 (1.40%) CDISC
3 4 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.23%) GDPR
4 1 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 76 (17.76%) Docker
2 9 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.70%) LXC
Systems Management
1 56 (13.08%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.21%) Terraform
3 5 (1.17%) Grafana
4 3 (0.70%) Kibana
5 2 (0.47%) Ansible
6 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 139 (32.48%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.21%) Oracle
3 14 (3.27%) Sage
4 9 (2.10%) VMware
5 8 (1.87%) Okta
5 8 (1.87%) Telerik
6 6 (1.40%) Facebook
7 5 (1.17%) YouTube
8 4 (0.93%) IBM
8 4 (0.93%) New Relic
9 3 (0.70%) Borland
9 3 (0.70%) Google
9 3 (0.70%) Xamarin
10 2 (0.47%) Apple
10 2 (0.47%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.47%) Databricks
10 2 (0.47%) Intapp
10 2 (0.47%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.47%) Reuters
10 2 (0.47%) Sun