The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chelmsford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 17 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 Chelmsford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 2 5 2
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 22 43 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chelmsford 36.67% 26.71% 34.81%
As % of the Application Development category 88.00% 49.43% 68.12%
Number of salaries quoted 22 43 47
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +28.57%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
All Application Development
Chelmsford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
25 87 69
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chelmsford 41.67% 54.04% 51.11%
Number of salaries quoted 25 87 68
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +13.33%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
.NET
Essex

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chelmsford .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 Chelmsford region.

Chelmsford .NET Salary Trend

.NET
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing .NET across the Chelmsford region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Chelmsford .NET Salary Histogram

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chelmsford 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 33 (91.67%) C#
2 31 (86.11%) SQL Server
3 21 (58.33%) SQL
4 14 (38.89%) Windows
5 13 (36.11%) Scrum
6 12 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 12 (33.33%) ASP.NET
7 11 (30.56%) C++
7 11 (30.56%) MCP
7 11 (30.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (30.56%) Manufacturing
8 9 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (25.00%) Kanban
8 9 (25.00%) Spring.NET
8 9 (25.00%) WPF
8 9 (25.00%) Silverlight
8 9 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
8 9 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
8 9 (25.00%) MSTest
8 9 (25.00%) MVVM
8 9 (25.00%) Rhino Mocks
8 9 (25.00%) Moq
8 9 (25.00%) Castle Windsor
8 9 (25.00%) Ninject
8 9 (25.00%) Unity DI Container
8 9 (25.00%) Embedded C
8 9 (25.00%) Embedded C++
8 9 (25.00%) MCTS
8 9 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
8 9 (25.00%) TDD

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chelmsford 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 12 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 9 (25.00%) HTML
2 9 (25.00%) WPF
2 9 (25.00%) Silverlight
2 9 (25.00%) Spring.NET
2 9 (25.00%) Castle Windsor
2 9 (25.00%) Ninject
2 9 (25.00%) Unity DI Container
3 8 (22.22%) .NET Framework
4 7 (19.44%) ASP
4 7 (19.44%) XML
5 6 (16.67%) ADO.NET
5 6 (16.67%) CSS
6 5 (13.89%) Web Services
7 2 (5.556%) WebSphere
7 2 (5.556%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 1 (2.778%) Razor View Engine
8 1 (2.778%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (2.778%) WCF
8 1 (2.778%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.556%) Liferay
2 1 (2.778%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (2.778%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.778%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 8 (22.22%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.778%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (2.778%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (86.11%) SQL Server
2 9 (25.00%) MySQL
3 5 (13.89%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (2.778%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (2.778%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 9 (25.00%) NUnit
1 9 (25.00%) MSTest
1 9 (25.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 9 (25.00%) Moq
2 3 (8.333%) Visual Studio
3 2 (5.556%) PROIV
4 1 (2.778%) CruiseControl
4 1 (2.778%) Subversion
General
1 11 (30.56%) Manufacturing
2 8 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (5.556%) Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (88.89%) Developer
2 16 (44.44%) Software Developer
3 14 (38.89%) .NET Developer
4 8 (22.22%) C# Developer
5 4 (11.11%) ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (11.11%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (5.556%) Programmer
6 2 (5.556%) C# Software Developer
6 2 (5.556%) Graduate Programmer
6 2 (5.556%) Graduate
6 2 (5.556%) Development Manager
7 1 (2.778%) Senior Manager
7 1 (2.778%) Systems Development Manager
7 1 (2.778%) Systems Manager
7 1 (2.778%) Senior Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
2 2 (5.556%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.778%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (38.89%) Windows
2 5 (13.89%) Windows CE
2 5 (13.89%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) Scrum
2 9 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (25.00%) TDD
2 9 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (25.00%) Kanban
2 9 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
2 9 (25.00%) MVVM
3 6 (16.67%) OO
4 5 (13.89%) PRINCE2
4 5 (13.89%) OOP
5 4 (11.11%) PRINCE
6 2 (5.556%) MVC
6 2 (5.556%) CRM
7 1 (2.778%) Fund Management
7 1 (2.778%) Waterfall
7 1 (2.778%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 33 (91.67%) C#
2 21 (58.33%) SQL
3 11 (30.56%) C++
4 9 (25.00%) Embedded C
4 9 (25.00%) Embedded C++
4 9 (25.00%) C
5 5 (13.89%) Delphi
5 5 (13.89%) Java
6 2 (5.556%) PHP
6 2 (5.556%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.778%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.778%) VB.NET
7 1 (2.778%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) MCP
1 11 (30.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (25.00%) MCTS
2 9 (25.00%) MCAD
2 9 (25.00%) MCSD
3 3 (8.333%) Degree
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.333%) Oracle
3 2 (5.556%) IBM
4 1 (2.778%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.778%) Northgate