The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT jobs advertised for the Darlington region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 21 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 Darlington region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 2 3 1
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 10 11 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Darlington 47.62% 24.44% 55.56%
As % of the Application Development category 90.91% 73.33% 93.75%
Number of salaries quoted 10 9 9
Average salary £37,500 £31,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+19.04% -
90% offered a salary of more than £36,050 £20,000 £28,300
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £38,100 £99,999
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
All Application Development
Darlington
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
11 15 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Darlington 52.38% 33.33% 59.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11 13 10
Average salary £39,500 £35,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.85% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,150 £20,000 £27,700
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £86,999 £39,600
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
.NET
Durham

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Darlington .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 Darlington region.

Darlington .NET Salary Trend

.NET
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing .NET across the Darlington region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Darlington .NET Salary Histogram

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Darlington 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 19 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 18 (94.74%) C#
3 14 (73.68%) SQL
4 8 (42.11%) SharePoint
5 7 (36.84%) MS Excel
5 7 (36.84%) Dynamics AX
5 7 (36.84%) SharePoint 2010
6 6 (31.58%) PHPUnit
6 6 (31.58%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (31.58%) Linux
6 6 (31.58%) Apache
6 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
6 6 (31.58%) Citrix
6 6 (31.58%) VB.NET
6 6 (31.58%) J2EE
6 6 (31.58%) MySQL
6 6 (31.58%) Oracle
6 6 (31.58%) Java
6 6 (31.58%) PHP
6 6 (31.58%) ASP
6 6 (31.58%) ASP.NET
6 6 (31.58%) JSP
7 5 (26.32%) UNIX
7 5 (26.32%) Telecoms
8 4 (21.05%) XML
9 3 (15.79%) Web Services
9 3 (15.79%) Visual Studio
9 3 (15.79%) W3C
9 3 (15.79%) Internet
9 3 (15.79%) OO

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Darlington 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 6 (31.58%) J2EE
1 6 (31.58%) ASP
1 6 (31.58%) ASP.NET
1 6 (31.58%) JSP
2 4 (21.05%) XML
3 3 (15.79%) Web Services
4 2 (10.53%) Middleware
5 1 (5.263%) XSLT
5 1 (5.263%) CSS
5 1 (5.263%) XHTML
5 1 (5.263%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 8 (42.11%) SharePoint
2 7 (36.84%) SharePoint 2010
3 6 (31.58%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (36.84%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (31.58%) MySQL
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) PHPUnit
2 3 (15.79%) Visual Studio
3 1 (5.263%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (26.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Software Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) SharePoint Developer
3 3 (15.79%) .NET Developer
3 3 (15.79%) C# Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Head of Development
4 2 (10.53%) Java Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Applications Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.263%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (5.263%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (5.263%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) W3C
2 1 (5.263%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 5 (26.32%) UNIX
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Mobile
3 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (15.79%) OO
2 3 (15.79%) Integration Testing
3 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
3 2 (10.53%) ERP
3 2 (10.53%) SOA
4 1 (5.263%) MVC
4 1 (5.263%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (94.74%) C#
2 14 (73.68%) SQL
3 6 (31.58%) VB.NET
3 6 (31.58%) Java
3 6 (31.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
1 6 (31.58%) Citrix
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle