Cumbria .NET Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET (dotNet) skills within the Cumbria region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Aylesbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bishops Castle Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Daventry Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nelson Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oakham Oldham Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Royston Rugby Runcorn Rutland Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadley Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torquay Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	11
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching permanent IT job ads	20	13
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	76.92 %	44.83 %
Salaries quoted	15	6
Average minimum salary	£23,400	£20,667
Average salary	£27,117	£24,250
% change on same period last year	+11.82 %
Average maximum salary	£30,833	£27,833
UK excluding London average salary	£35,293	£35,972
% change on same period last year	-1.88 %
Application Development Cumbria
Matching permanent IT job ads	26	29
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.012 %
Salaries quoted	18	22
Average minimum salary	£21,746	£22,939
Average salary	£25,390	£27,167
% change on same period last year	-6.54 %
Average maximum salary	£29,034	£31,394
UK excluding London average salary	£35,939	£36,846
% change on same period last year	-2.45 %
.NET North West

.NET
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing .NET across the Cumbria region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

.NET
Salary Trend

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

.NET
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing .NET across the Cumbria region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

.NET
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Cumbria region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Kendal	-1	6	£25,833	+5.44 %
Carlisle	-	4	£25,000	-
Penrith	-	3	£24,250	-
Whitehaven	-	1	£34,000	-

.NET North West

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Cumbria 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 20 (62.50 %) ASP.NET 2 18 (56.25 %) C# 3 13 (40.63 %) VB.NET 3 13 (40.63 %) CSS 4 12 (37.50 %) SQL Server 5 10 (31.25 %) SQL 6 9 (28.13 %) JavaScript 7 7 (21.88 %) VB 8 6 (18.75 %) HTML 8 6 (18.75 %) Visual Studio 8 6 (18.75 %) ASP 8 6 (18.75 %) Windows 8 6 (18.75 %) ISEB 8 6 (18.75 %) AJAX 9 5 (15.63 %) Web Development

9 5 (15.63 %) XHTML 10 4 (12.50 %) Linux 10 4 (12.50 %) Java 10 4 (12.50 %) PHP 10 4 (12.50 %) MySQL 10 4 (12.50 %) Windows Vista 10 4 (12.50 %) PHP5 10 4 (12.50 %) Microsoft 10 4 (12.50 %) QA 10 4 (12.50 %) Test Scripting 11 3 (9.375 %) Manual Testing 11 3 (9.375 %) SQL Server 2005 11 3 (9.375 %) PHP4 11 3 (9.375 %) E-Commerce 11 3 (9.375 %) SQL Server 2000

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Cumbria 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 20 (62.50 %) ASP.NET 2 13 (40.63 %) CSS 3 6 (18.75 %) HTML 3 6 (18.75 %) ASP 3 6 (18.75 %) AJAX 4 5 (15.63 %) XHTML 5 3 (9.375 %) JSP 6 2 (6.250 %) Struts 6 2 (6.250 %) XML 6 2 (6.250 %) JDBC 7 1 (3.125 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 3 (9.375 %) IIS 2 2 (6.250 %) JBoss 2 2 (6.250 %) SharePoint 3 1 (3.125 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 3 (9.375 %) MS Excel 2 1 (3.125 %) MS Project 2 1 (3.125 %) MS Office	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2 4 (12.50 %) MySQL 3 3 (9.375 %) SQL Server 2000 3 3 (9.375 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 6 (18.75 %) Visual Studio	General 1 2 (6.250 %) Government 2 1 (3.125 %) Publishing 2 1 (3.125 %) Finance 2 1 (3.125 %) Education
Job Titles 1 24 (75.00 %) Developer 2 13 (40.63 %) .NET Developer 3 12 (37.50 %) Web Developer 4 8 (25.00 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 7 (21.88 %) VB.NET Developer 6 6 (18.75 %) .NET Web Developer 7 5 (15.63 %) C# Web Developer 7 5 (15.63 %) C# Developer 8 4 (12.50 %) Analyst 8 4 (12.50 %) Test Analyst 8 4 (12.50 %) Web Analyst 8 4 (12.50 %) Web Test Analyst 9 3 (9.375 %) C# Application Developer 9 3 (9.375 %) .NET Applications Developer 9 3 (9.375 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 9 3 (9.375 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 3 (9.375 %) PHP Developer 9 3 (9.375 %) Web Applications Developer 9 3 (9.375 %) Applications Developer 9 3 (9.375 %) Software Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.250 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 6 (18.75 %) Windows 2 4 (12.50 %) Linux 2 4 (12.50 %) Windows Vista 3 1 (3.125 %) UNIX 3 1 (3.125 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (15.63 %) Web Development 2 4 (12.50 %) Test Scripting 3 3 (9.375 %) Manual Testing 3 3 (9.375 %) E-Commerce 4 2 (6.250 %) OOP 4 2 (6.250 %) OO 4 2 (6.250 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 2 (6.250 %) Performance Testing 5 1 (3.125 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (3.125 %) UML 5 1 (3.125 %) Workflow 5 1 (3.125 %) Migration 5 1 (3.125 %) Web Design
Programming Languages 1 18 (56.25 %) C# 2 13 (40.63 %) VB.NET 3 10 (31.25 %) SQL 4 9 (28.13 %) JavaScript 5 7 (21.88 %) VB 6 4 (12.50 %) PHP5 6 4 (12.50 %) Java 6 4 (12.50 %) PHP 7 3 (9.375 %) Transact-SQL 7 3 (9.375 %) PHP4 7 3 (9.375 %) C 8 2 (6.250 %) VB6 8 2 (6.250 %) PL/SQL 8 2 (6.250 %) Perl 9 1 (3.125 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 6 (18.75 %) ISEB 2 1 (3.125 %) PMP 2 1 (3.125 %) PMI Certification 2 1 (3.125 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (12.50 %) QA	Vendors 1 4 (12.50 %) Microsoft 2 1 (3.125 %) Oracle