The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT jobs advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C# over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Aberdeen region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 6 6 5
Rank change year-on-year
0 -1
Permanent jobs citing C# 62 64 50
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 17.97% 15.02% 19.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.00% 55.65% 64.94%
Number of salaries quoted 45 55 34
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,200 £30,600 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £52,500 £43,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Programming Languages
Aberdeen
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
155 115 77
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 44.93% 27.00% 29.50%
Number of salaries quoted 116 98 49
Average salary £38,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.75% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
C#
Scotland

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing C# across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Aberdeen C# Jobs Demand Trend

C#
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing C# across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen C# Salary Trend

C#
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C# across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Aberdeen C# Salary Histogram

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region citing C# also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited C#.

1 83 (90.22%) .NET
2 50 (54.35%) SQL Server
3 41 (44.57%) ASP.NET
4 31 (33.70%) WPF
5 30 (32.61%) JavaScript
6 28 (30.43%) SQL
6 28 (30.43%) Microsoft
7 26 (28.26%) MVC
8 23 (25.00%) WinForms
8 23 (25.00%) SharePoint
8 23 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
9 22 (23.91%) Degree
10 20 (21.74%) WCF
11 19 (20.65%) .NET Framework
11 19 (20.65%) Windows
12 17 (18.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (17.39%) Java
14 15 (16.30%) HTML
14 15 (16.30%) Visual Studio
15 14 (15.22%) CSS
15 14 (15.22%) Oracle
15 14 (15.22%) C++
16 12 (13.04%) Computer Science
17 11 (11.96%) Enterprise Software
17 11 (11.96%) ITIL
18 10 (10.87%) OO
18 10 (10.87%) PL/SQL
18 10 (10.87%) VB.NET
18 10 (10.87%) SharePoint 2010
18 10 (10.87%) LINQ

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region citing C# also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited C#. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 83 (90.22%) .NET
2 41 (44.57%) ASP.NET
3 31 (33.70%) WPF
4 23 (25.00%) WinForms
4 23 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 20 (21.74%) WCF
6 19 (20.65%) .NET Framework
7 15 (16.30%) HTML
8 14 (15.22%) CSS
9 10 (10.87%) LINQ
10 8 (8.696%) jQuery
11 7 (7.609%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 6 (6.522%) XML
12 6 (6.522%) Ninject
12 6 (6.522%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 5 (5.435%) LINQ to SQL
13 5 (5.435%) Node.js
13 5 (5.435%) KnockoutJS
14 4 (4.348%) CGI
15 3 (3.261%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 23 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 10 (10.87%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (3.261%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (2.174%) IIS
5 1 (1.087%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.087%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (1.087%) MS Exchange
5 1 (1.087%) ColdFusion
5 1 (1.087%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (9.783%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.174%) InfoPath
3 1 (1.087%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.087%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.087%) Maximo
1 1 (1.087%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.435%) Internet
2 1 (1.087%) Firewall
2 1 (1.087%) IP Telephony
2 1 (1.087%) SAN
2 1 (1.087%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (54.35%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.609%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 7 (7.609%) MS Access
3 6 (6.522%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (4.348%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (1.087%) GIS
5 1 (1.087%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (1.087%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.087%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (16.30%) Visual Studio
2 3 (3.261%) Subversion
3 2 (2.174%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (2.174%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.087%) MSTest
4 1 (1.087%) Rhino Mocks
4 1 (1.087%) Moq
4 1 (1.087%) NUnit
General
1 5 (5.435%) Advertising
1 5 (5.435%) Music
2 2 (2.174%) Retail
3 1 (1.087%) Aerospace
3 1 (1.087%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.087%) Back Office
3 1 (1.087%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (64.13%) Developer
2 25 (27.17%) .NET Developer
3 18 (19.57%) Software Developer
4 13 (14.13%) Software Engineer
5 12 (13.04%) Analyst
6 10 (10.87%) C# Developer
7 8 (8.696%) Senior Developer
7 8 (8.696%) SharePoint Developer
7 8 (8.696%) Support Analyst
8 6 (6.522%) Consultant
8 6 (6.522%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (4.348%) Software Consultant
9 4 (4.348%) Senior Software Developer
9 4 (4.348%) Systems Developer
10 3 (3.261%) Analyst Developer
10 3 (3.261%) .NET Software Engineer
11 2 (2.174%) Systems Analyst
11 2 (2.174%) Web Developer
11 2 (2.174%) Junior
11 2 (2.174%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.04%) Computer Science
2 11 (11.96%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.435%) Streaming Music
4 3 (3.261%) RIA
5 2 (2.174%) E-Learning
5 2 (2.174%) SCADA
6 1 (1.087%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.087%) Inversion of Control
6 1 (1.087%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.65%) Windows
2 1 (1.087%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (1.087%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (1.087%) UNIX
2 1 (1.087%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (28.26%) MVC
2 11 (11.96%) ITIL
3 10 (10.87%) OO
4 9 (9.783%) Web Development
5 8 (8.696%) TDD
5 8 (8.696%) Workflow
6 7 (7.609%) Dependency Injection
7 6 (6.522%) Project Management
7 6 (6.522%) Scrum
7 6 (6.522%) Service Management
7 6 (6.522%) Web Application Development
8 5 (5.435%) Domain-Driven Design
8 5 (5.435%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (4.348%) Agile Software Development
10 2 (2.174%) B2B
10 2 (2.174%) Business Analysis
10 2 (2.174%) Software Engineering
10 2 (2.174%) Web Design
10 2 (2.174%) Migration
10 2 (2.174%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (32.61%) JavaScript
2 28 (30.43%) SQL
3 16 (17.39%) Java
4 14 (15.22%) C++
5 10 (10.87%) PL/SQL
5 10 (10.87%) VB.NET
6 5 (5.435%) VB
7 4 (4.348%) Python
7 4 (4.348%) C
8 2 (2.174%) Delphi
8 2 (2.174%) PHP
8 2 (2.174%) ActionScript
8 2 (2.174%) F#
9 1 (1.087%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (23.91%) Degree
2 17 (18.48%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (9.783%) MCP
4 7 (7.609%) MCTS
5 6 (6.522%) MCAD
5 6 (6.522%) MCSD
6 2 (2.174%) HND
System Software
1 2 (2.174%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.087%) vSphere
2 1 (1.087%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 28 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.22%) Oracle
3 1 (1.087%) DevExpress
3 1 (1.087%) VMware
3 1 (1.087%) Infragistics
3 1 (1.087%) Business Objects
3 1 (1.087%) SAP
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