The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT jobs advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 24 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 Application Development category for the Belfast region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 11 13 15
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 35 28 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 14.40% 14.36% 12.17%
As % of the Application Development category 33.98% 32.18% 33.82%
Number of salaries quoted 29 16 19
Average salary £35,000 £26,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+32.07% -33.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £22,000 £27,300
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £44,250 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% +4.28%
All Application Development
Belfast
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
103 87 68
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 42.39% 44.62% 35.98%
Number of salaries quoted 75 40 47
Average salary £35,000 £36,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,400 £28,750
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
.NET
County Antrim

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast .NET Jobs Demand Trend

.NET
Salary Trend

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

Belfast .NET Salary Trend

.NET
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing .NET across the Belfast region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Belfast .NET Salary Histogram

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast region citing .NET 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.

1 46 (73.02%) C#
2 39 (61.90%) SQL
2 39 (61.90%) ASP.NET
3 34 (53.97%) SQL Server
4 25 (39.68%) Microsoft
5 19 (30.16%) .NET Framework
6 16 (25.40%) Finance
6 16 (25.40%) HTML
7 15 (23.81%) Windows
8 13 (20.63%) CSS
8 13 (20.63%) XML
8 13 (20.63%) WCF
8 13 (20.63%) SQL Server 2008
9 12 (19.05%) WPF
9 12 (19.05%) SharePoint
9 12 (19.05%) JavaScript
9 12 (19.05%) VB.NET
10 11 (17.46%) Visual Studio
10 11 (17.46%) MS Excel
10 11 (17.46%) SQL Server 2005
10 11 (17.46%) MVC
10 11 (17.46%) Security Cleared
11 9 (14.29%) Oracle
12 8 (12.70%) OO
12 8 (12.70%) Unit Testing
13 7 (11.11%) iPad
13 7 (11.11%) Multithreading
13 7 (11.11%) iPhone
13 7 (11.11%) BizTalk Server
14 6 (9.524%) Java

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast region citing .NET 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 39 (61.90%) ASP.NET
2 19 (30.16%) .NET Framework
3 16 (25.40%) HTML
4 13 (20.63%) CSS
4 13 (20.63%) XML
4 13 (20.63%) WCF
5 12 (19.05%) WPF
6 6 (9.524%) WinForms
7 5 (7.937%) WF
7 5 (7.937%) Web Services
8 4 (6.349%) Silverlight
8 4 (6.349%) jQuery
8 4 (6.349%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (3.175%) J2EE
9 2 (3.175%) CSS3
9 2 (3.175%) HTML5
10 1 (1.587%) Ajax
10 1 (1.587%) Spring
10 1 (1.587%) ADO.NET
10 1 (1.587%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 12 (19.05%) SharePoint
2 7 (11.11%) BizTalk Server
3 4 (6.349%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (3.175%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (3.175%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (1.587%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (17.46%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.587%) Fireworks
2 1 (1.587%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.587%) Intranet
1 1 (1.587%) HTTP
1 1 (1.587%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (53.97%) SQL Server
2 13 (20.63%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (17.46%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (9.524%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (6.349%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.175%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.175%) DB2
6 2 (3.175%) GIS
6 2 (3.175%) SQL Server 2012
6 2 (3.175%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.587%) OLTP
7 1 (1.587%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.587%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 11 (17.46%) Visual Studio
2 4 (6.349%) Subversion
2 4 (6.349%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (3.175%) CruiseControl
3 2 (3.175%) JIRA
3 2 (3.175%) Hudson
3 2 (3.175%) MSBuild
General
1 16 (25.40%) Finance
2 6 (9.524%) Banking
3 2 (3.175%) Front Office
3 2 (3.175%) Games
3 2 (3.175%) Retail
4 1 (1.587%) Marketing
4 1 (1.587%) Multimedia
4 1 (1.587%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (61.90%) Developer
2 18 (28.57%) C# Developer
3 14 (22.22%) .NET Developer
4 9 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 8 (12.70%) Support Engineer
5 8 (12.70%) C# .NET Developer
6 6 (9.524%) Software Engineer
7 5 (7.937%) Microsoft Developer
7 5 (7.937%) VB.NET Developer
7 5 (7.937%) Software Developer
8 4 (6.349%) Analyst
8 4 (6.349%) Senior C# Developer
8 4 (6.349%) Applications Specialist
9 3 (4.762%) Senior Microsoft Developer
9 3 (4.762%) ASP.NET Developer
9 3 (4.762%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (4.762%) Applications Support
10 2 (3.175%) Lead Developer
10 2 (3.175%) Consultant
10 2 (3.175%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.11%) iPad
1 7 (11.11%) iPhone
2 4 (6.349%) Derivative
3 3 (4.762%) Open Source
4 2 (3.175%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.175%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.587%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.587%) Blog
5 1 (1.587%) PDA
5 1 (1.587%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.587%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.81%) Windows
2 3 (4.762%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (17.46%) MVC
2 8 (12.70%) OO
2 8 (12.70%) Unit Testing
3 7 (11.11%) Multithreading
4 5 (7.937%) Technical Architecture
4 5 (7.937%) Scrum
4 5 (7.937%) Workflow
5 4 (6.349%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (6.349%) Web Development
5 4 (6.349%) Strategic Planning
6 3 (4.762%) Computer Architecture
6 3 (4.762%) Time Management
7 2 (3.175%) E-Commerce
7 2 (3.175%) SOA
7 2 (3.175%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (1.587%) MVVM
8 1 (1.587%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (1.587%) Web Application Development
8 1 (1.587%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (1.587%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 46 (73.02%) C#
2 39 (61.90%) SQL
3 12 (19.05%) JavaScript
3 12 (19.05%) VB.NET
4 6 (9.524%) Java
4 6 (9.524%) C++
5 4 (6.349%) Python
6 2 (3.175%) COBOL
6 2 (3.175%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.175%) JCL
7 1 (1.587%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.587%) Bash shell
7 1 (1.587%) XAML
7 1 (1.587%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (17.46%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.524%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.175%) Degree
3 2 (3.175%) BC Cleared
3 2 (3.175%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.587%) ISEB
4 1 (1.587%) CISSP
4 1 (1.587%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.587%) CISA
4 1 (1.587%) CISM
4 1 (1.587%) MCSE
4 1 (1.587%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.349%) QA
2 1 (1.587%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (1.587%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.587%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (39.68%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.29%) Oracle
3 5 (7.937%) Sybase
4 4 (6.349%) Progress
4 4 (6.349%) DataSynapse
5 2 (3.175%) ESRI
5 2 (3.175%) Infragistics
5 2 (3.175%) DevExpress
6 1 (1.587%) Syncfusion
6 1 (1.587%) Remedy
6 1 (1.587%) Websense
6 1 (1.587%) Avaya
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