The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET Framework over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Application Development category for the Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 21 27 31
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +4
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 30 13 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 12.05% 6.842% 5.096%
As % of the Application Development category 27.52% 15.12% 8.602%
Number of salaries quoted 30 11 7
Average salary £42,500 £50,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.00% +33.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £41,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £48,100
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Application Development
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
109 86 93
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 43.78% 45.26% 59.24%
Number of salaries quoted 106 80 89
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,650 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £43,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
.NET Framework
Bedfordshire

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing .NET Framework across the Bedford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Bedford .NET Framework Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Framework
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing .NET Framework across the Bedford region.

Bedford .NET Framework Salary Trend

.NET Framework
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing .NET Framework across the Bedford region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Bedford .NET Framework Salary Histogram

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford region citing .NET Framework 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 .NET Framework.

1 58 (100.00%) C#
1 58 (100.00%) .NET
2 57 (98.28%) SQL Server
3 54 (93.10%) ASP.NET
4 50 (86.21%) WCF
5 41 (70.69%) Microsoft
6 38 (65.52%) SQL
7 35 (60.34%) MVC
8 30 (51.72%) WPF
9 29 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 29 (50.00%) Windows
10 28 (48.28%) LINQ
11 25 (43.10%) TDD
11 25 (43.10%) Team Foundation Server
11 25 (43.10%) ASP.NET MVC
12 23 (39.66%) Silverlight
12 23 (39.66%) Scrum
13 22 (37.93%) WinForms
13 22 (37.93%) JavaScript
14 20 (34.48%) MS Excel
14 20 (34.48%) T-SQL
15 19 (32.76%) HTML
15 19 (32.76%) Oracle
16 17 (29.31%) CSS
17 16 (27.59%) Subversion
17 16 (27.59%) SQL Server 2008
18 15 (25.86%) WF
19 13 (22.41%) Visual Studio
20 11 (18.97%) Multithreading
20 11 (18.97%) Windows Azure

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford region citing .NET Framework 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 .NET Framework. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 58 (100.00%) .NET
2 54 (93.10%) ASP.NET
3 50 (86.21%) WCF
4 30 (51.72%) WPF
5 29 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 28 (48.28%) LINQ
7 25 (43.10%) ASP.NET MVC
8 23 (39.66%) Silverlight
9 22 (37.93%) WinForms
10 19 (32.76%) HTML
11 17 (29.31%) CSS
12 15 (25.86%) WF
13 11 (18.97%) Web Services
14 8 (13.79%) XML
15 7 (12.07%) Ajax
16 6 (10.34%) jQuery
17 5 (8.621%) ADO.NET
17 5 (8.621%) ASP.NET MVC 4
17 5 (8.621%) LINQ to SQL
17 5 (8.621%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 11 (18.97%) Windows Azure
1 11 (18.97%) SharePoint
2 9 (15.52%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (8.621%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (1.724%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 20 (34.48%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.448%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (98.28%) SQL Server
2 16 (27.59%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (15.52%) SQL Server 2012
4 5 (8.621%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (8.621%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (6.897%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (5.172%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 25 (43.10%) Team Foundation Server
2 16 (27.59%) Subversion
3 13 (22.41%) Visual Studio
4 11 (18.97%) Moq
5 10 (17.24%) PowerBuilder
6 3 (5.172%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 2 (3.448%) Retail
2 1 (1.724%) Marketing
2 1 (1.724%) Billing
Job Titles
1 45 (77.59%) Developer
2 20 (34.48%) C# Developer
3 12 (20.69%) C# .NET Developer
4 11 (18.97%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 8 (13.79%) Agile C# Developer
6 7 (12.07%) .NET Developer
7 6 (10.34%) Team Leader
7 6 (10.34%) Development Team Leader
7 6 (10.34%) Lead Developer
7 6 (10.34%) Web Developer
8 5 (8.621%) Consultant
8 5 (8.621%) Senior Developer
9 4 (6.897%) Development Consultant
10 3 (5.172%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (5.172%) Analyst
10 3 (5.172%) Architect
10 3 (5.172%) ASP.NET Developer
10 3 (5.172%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 3 (5.172%) Lead Architect
10 3 (5.172%) .NET Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) N-Tier
2 7 (12.07%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.724%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.724%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 29 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (60.34%) MVC
2 25 (43.10%) TDD
3 23 (39.66%) Scrum
4 11 (18.97%) Multithreading
4 11 (18.97%) OO
5 8 (13.79%) OOD
6 7 (12.07%) Technical Architecture
7 6 (10.34%) Knowledge Management
7 6 (10.34%) Kanban
7 6 (10.34%) CRM
8 5 (8.621%) Unit Testing
8 5 (8.621%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (5.172%) ETL
9 3 (5.172%) Domain-Driven Design
9 3 (5.172%) Software Engineering
10 2 (3.448%) Web Development
10 2 (3.448%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (3.448%) Problem Management
10 2 (3.448%) Waterfall
10 2 (3.448%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 58 (100.00%) C#
2 38 (65.52%) SQL
3 22 (37.93%) JavaScript
4 20 (34.48%) T-SQL
5 4 (6.897%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (3.448%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (3.448%) MCP
1 2 (3.448%) MCAD
1 2 (3.448%) MCSD
Vendors
1 41 (70.69%) Microsoft
2 19 (32.76%) Oracle
3 3 (5.172%) Typemock
3 3 (5.172%) Capita
Bedford, Bedfordshire
This will suit a rare type of Analyst who can demonstrate expert-level proficiency in Microsoft's .NET Framework, Visual Studio (C#) and SQL Server and have excellent...
Interact Consulting
Salary: 35-45k
Posted: 14 June 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
C# Support Developer x 2 - £30K-£45K - Bedfordshire - C#, Silverlight, PowerBuilder... This involves working on many modules of my client's global software written on the .NET platform...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Healthcare
Posted: 15 June 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
ASP.Net) applications using a 4 tier architecture... C#.Net 3.5. Entity Framework. AJAX. Javascript/Jquery. MVC or MVVM would be advantageous. WCF. SQL Server 2000, 2005,...
Trent Pearce
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
A FTSE100 software house are seeking a Dynamics CRM Developer with a deep knowledge of C# and the .NET Framework to work on a major project to develop,...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £32000 - £38000 per annum + Pension, Healthcare, Bonus
Posted: 17 June 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
A FTSE100 software house are hiring a strong Development Team Leader to manage a team of skilled C# Software Developers working on NEW enterprise development of Web and...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Bupa, 25 days
Posted: 15 June 2013
Bedford, South East
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £30000.00 - £35000.00 per annum
Posted: 5 June 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013