Cheshire .NET Programmer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the .NET Programmer role in IT jobs within the Cheshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

.NET Programmer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Cirencester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Doncaster East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnham Felixstowe Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Hove Immingham Ipswich Jersey Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oakham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Reading Redhill Romford Rotherham Rutland Scotland Seaford Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Taunton Torquay Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	138	92
Rank change on same period last year	-46
Matching permanent IT job ads	16	45
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	0.507 %	1.536 %
Salaries quoted	12	44
Average minimum salary	£27,917	£24,578
Average salary	£31,250	£27,944
% change on same period last year	+11.82 %
Average maximum salary	£34,583	£31,311
UK excluding London average salary	£34,238	£31,628
% change on same period last year	+8.25 %
Job Titles Cheshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	3157	2929
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.663 %	1.201 %
Salaries quoted	2850	2585
Average minimum salary	£32,515	£31,743
Average salary	£35,739	£34,357
% change on same period last year	+4.02 %
Average maximum salary	£38,964	£36,970
UK excluding London average salary	£38,194	£39,492
% change on same period last year	-3.28 %
.NET Programmer North West

.NET Programmer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing .NET Programmer across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

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

.NET Programmer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing .NET Programmer across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Programmer within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Chester	-8	9	£33,444	+16.28 %
Warrington	-19	4	-	-
Nantwich	-	2	£24,000	-

.NET Programmer North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire region that cited .NET Programmer in their job title 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 with .NET Programmer in their job title.

1 54 (100.00 %) .NET 2 50 (92.59 %) ASP.NET 3 46 (85.19 %) SQL Server 3 46 (85.19 %) C# 4 44 (81.48 %) SQL 5 35 (64.81 %) WebServices 6 32 (59.26 %) AJAX 7 25 (46.30 %) OOP 8 24 (44.44 %) SQL Server 2005 9 21 (38.89 %) SQL Server 2000 10 20 (37.04 %) Transact-SQL 10 20 (37.04 %) DHTML 10 20 (37.04 %) Retail 10 20 (37.04 %) Education 11 17 (31.48 %) XML

11 17 (31.48 %) OOD 12 14 (25.93 %) VB 13 12 (22.22 %) ASP 14 10 (18.52 %) Degree 15 9 (16.67 %) VB.NET 15 9 (16.67 %) OO 15 9 (16.67 %) SOAP 16 8 (14.81 %) Visual Studio 16 8 (14.81 %) Pensions 16 8 (14.81 %) Web Development 17 7 (12.96 %) Microsoft 17 7 (12.96 %) E-Commerce 18 6 (11.11 %) UML 19 5 (9.259 %) C++ 19 5 (9.259 %) SQL Server Reporting Services

.NET Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire region that cited .NET Programmer in their job title 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 with .NET Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 54 (100.00 %) .NET 2 50 (92.59 %) ASP.NET 3 35 (64.81 %) WebServices 4 32 (59.26 %) AJAX 5 17 (31.48 %) XML 6 12 (22.22 %) ASP 7 9 (16.67 %) SOAP 8 3 (5.556 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 2 (3.704 %) .NET Framework 9 2 (3.704 %) WinForms 10 1 (1.852 %) HTML 10 1 (1.852 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 3 (5.556 %) SharePoint 2 2 (3.704 %) IIS 3 1 (1.852 %) BizTalk Server
Business Applications 1 1 (1.852 %) Line 500	Database & Business Intelligence 1 46 (85.19 %) SQL Server 2 24 (44.44 %) SQL Server 2005 3 21 (38.89 %) SQL Server 2000 4 5 (9.259 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 4 (7.407 %) SQL Server 7 6 3 (5.556 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 3 (5.556 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 8 (14.81 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (5.556 %) NUnit	General 1 20 (37.04 %) Education 1 20 (37.04 %) Retail 2 8 (14.81 %) Pensions 3 4 (7.407 %) Finance 4 2 (3.704 %) Health
Miscellaneous 1 4 (7.407 %) Management Information System 1 4 (7.407 %) Computer Science	Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (46.30 %) OOP 2 17 (31.48 %) OOD 3 9 (16.67 %) OO 4 8 (14.81 %) Web Development 5 7 (12.96 %) E-Commerce 6 6 (11.11 %) UML 7 3 (5.556 %) Unit Testing 7 3 (5.556 %) Business Intelligence 7 3 (5.556 %) Agile Software Development 8 1 (1.852 %) Software Engineering
Programming Languages 1 46 (85.19 %) C# 2 44 (81.48 %) SQL 3 20 (37.04 %) Transact-SQL 3 20 (37.04 %) DHTML 4 14 (25.93 %) VB 5 9 (16.67 %) VB.NET 6 5 (9.259 %) C++ 7 1 (1.852 %) JavaScript 7 1 (1.852 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 10 (18.52 %) Degree
Vendors 1 7 (12.96 %) Microsoft 2 1 (1.852 %) Sage