The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT jobs advertised for the Dorset region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 23 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 Dorset region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 118 121 116
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorset 19.03% 24.40% 19.21%
As % of the Application Development category 41.55% 53.30% 45.31%
Number of salaries quoted 111 104 106
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £24,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,000 £42,500 £38,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
All Application Development
Dorset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
284 227 256
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorset 45.81% 45.77% 42.38%
Number of salaries quoted 256 201 205
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -4.41%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £23,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £40,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
.NET
South West

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset .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 Dorset region.

Dorset .NET Salary Trend

.NET
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing .NET across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Dorset .NET Salary Histogram

.NET
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bournemouth +1 73 £37,500 +7.14%
Poole -1 15 £33,250 +16.66%
Dorchester - 5 £21,500 -
.NET
South West

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dorset 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.

1 181 (81.53%) C#
2 146 (65.77%) ASP.NET
3 127 (57.21%) SQL Server
4 96 (43.24%) JavaScript
5 94 (42.34%) HTML
6 85 (38.29%) SQL
7 81 (36.49%) CSS
8 67 (30.18%) Microsoft
9 60 (27.03%) Visual Studio
10 54 (24.32%) VB.NET
10 54 (24.32%) Degree
11 41 (18.47%) T-SQL
12 40 (18.02%) MVC
13 34 (15.32%) XML
14 33 (14.86%) SharePoint
15 31 (13.96%) PHP
15 31 (13.96%) jQuery
16 30 (13.51%) SQL Server 2008
16 30 (13.51%) Web Services
16 30 (13.51%) Windows
17 25 (11.26%) MS Excel
18 24 (10.81%) OO
18 24 (10.81%) Web Development
18 24 (10.81%) Software Engineering
19 23 (10.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 23 (10.36%) SQL Server 2005
19 23 (10.36%) Microsoft Certification
20 22 (9.910%) SQL Server Integration Services
21 21 (9.459%) WCF
22 20 (9.009%) SQL Server Analysis Services

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dorset 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
1 146 (65.77%) ASP.NET
2 94 (42.34%) HTML
3 81 (36.49%) CSS
4 34 (15.32%) XML
5 31 (13.96%) jQuery
6 30 (13.51%) Web Services
7 21 (9.459%) WCF
8 17 (7.658%) XSLT
8 17 (7.658%) ASP.NET MVC
9 16 (7.207%) ASP
9 16 (7.207%) SOAP
10 15 (6.757%) .NET Framework
11 12 (5.405%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 11 (4.955%) NHibernate
13 10 (4.505%) Razor View Engine
14 8 (3.604%) Flash
14 8 (3.604%) WSDL
14 8 (3.604%) REST
15 7 (3.153%) Ajax
16 6 (2.703%) WAMP
Application Platforms
1 33 (14.86%) SharePoint
2 15 (6.757%) IIS
3 10 (4.505%) CMS
3 10 (4.505%) Sitefinity
4 6 (2.703%) Apache
4 6 (2.703%) Magento
5 5 (2.252%) Umbraco
6 4 (1.802%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (1.351%) Windows Azure
8 2 (0.901%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.901%) DotNetNuke
8 2 (0.901%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.450%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.450%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 25 (11.26%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.901%) Fireworks
2 2 (0.901%) MS Office
3 1 (0.450%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.450%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.450%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 4 (1.802%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.351%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.351%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.901%) LabWindows
4 1 (0.450%) Tridion
4 1 (0.450%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.351%) Intranet
1 3 (1.351%) SSL
2 2 (0.901%) Firewall
2 2 (0.901%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.901%) LAN
2 2 (0.901%) VoIP
2 2 (0.901%) WAN
3 1 (0.450%) Internet
3 1 (0.450%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (57.21%) SQL Server
2 30 (13.51%) SQL Server 2008
3 23 (10.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 23 (10.36%) SQL Server 2005
4 22 (9.910%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (9.009%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 14 (6.306%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 13 (5.856%) OLAP
8 12 (5.405%) MySQL
9 11 (4.955%) Oracle 10g
9 11 (4.955%) Oracle 11g
10 10 (4.505%) SQL Server 2012
11 9 (4.054%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.802%) SQL Server 2000
13 3 (1.351%) NoSQL
13 3 (1.351%) DTS
14 1 (0.450%) PerformancePoint
14 1 (0.450%) Crystal Reports
14 1 (0.450%) DB2
Development Applications
1 60 (27.03%) Visual Studio
2 11 (4.955%) NUnit
3 10 (4.505%) Rhino Mocks
4 9 (4.054%) Moq
4 9 (4.054%) Subversion
5 8 (3.604%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 8 (3.604%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (3.153%) Eclipse
7 6 (2.703%) NetBeans
8 4 (1.802%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (1.351%) QuickTest Pro
9 3 (1.351%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.901%) Dreamweaver
10 2 (0.901%) Appcelerator Titanium
11 1 (0.450%) Git (software)
11 1 (0.450%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.450%) Selenium
General
1 17 (7.658%) Finance
2 12 (5.405%) Marketing
3 9 (4.054%) Music
3 9 (4.054%) Music Industry
4 5 (2.252%) Back Office
4 5 (2.252%) Banking
5 4 (1.802%) Advertising
6 3 (1.351%) Retail
7 2 (0.901%) Spanish Language
7 2 (0.901%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.901%) Electronics
8 1 (0.450%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.450%) Legal
8 1 (0.450%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 175 (78.83%) Developer
2 88 (39.64%) .NET Developer
3 72 (32.43%) C# Developer
4 56 (25.23%) C# .NET Developer
5 44 (19.82%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 43 (19.37%) ASP.NET Developer
7 42 (18.92%) Web Developer
8 38 (17.12%) Software Developer
9 23 (10.36%) C# Web Developer
10 19 (8.559%) Architect
11 18 (8.108%) Junior
12 17 (7.658%) Junior Developer
12 17 (7.658%) .NET Web Developer
13 16 (7.207%) Software Engineer
14 14 (6.306%) Lead Developer
15 13 (5.856%) VB.NET Developer
16 12 (5.405%) Junior .NET Developer
16 12 (5.405%) Lead Architect
17 11 (4.955%) Junior ASP.NET Developer
18 10 (4.505%) .NET Architect
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.306%) Mathematics
2 4 (1.802%) Data Integration
2 4 (1.802%) Mobile App
3 3 (1.351%) Computer Science
4 2 (0.901%) PMI
4 2 (0.901%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (0.901%) SWIFT
4 2 (0.901%) Open Source
5 1 (0.450%) Social Media
5 1 (0.450%) SaaS
5 1 (0.450%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.450%) W3C
5 1 (0.450%) Physics
5 1 (0.450%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 30 (13.51%) Windows
2 18 (8.108%) Linux
3 13 (5.856%) Windows XP
4 11 (4.955%) Windows Vista
5 5 (2.252%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.252%) Android
6 2 (0.901%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (0.450%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (18.02%) MVC
2 24 (10.81%) OO
2 24 (10.81%) Web Development
2 24 (10.81%) Software Engineering
3 17 (7.658%) OOD
3 17 (7.658%) Scrum
4 16 (7.207%) TDD
4 16 (7.207%) Migration
4 16 (7.207%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (7.207%) UML
5 15 (6.757%) E-Commerce
6 13 (5.856%) ETL
7 12 (5.405%) Content Management
7 12 (5.405%) BDD
8 11 (4.955%) Web Application Development
8 11 (4.955%) Data Migration
9 10 (4.505%) Kanban
10 7 (3.153%) MVVM
10 7 (3.153%) Service Delivery
11 6 (2.703%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 181 (81.53%) C#
2 96 (43.24%) JavaScript
3 85 (38.29%) SQL
4 54 (24.32%) VB.NET
5 41 (18.47%) T-SQL
6 31 (13.96%) PHP
7 17 (7.658%) Java
8 15 (6.757%) C++
8 15 (6.757%) VB
9 9 (4.054%) VC++
10 7 (3.153%) VB6
11 5 (2.252%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.802%) C
13 3 (1.351%) VBA
14 2 (0.901%) XPath
15 1 (0.450%) Delphi
15 1 (0.450%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.450%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.450%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 54 (24.32%) Degree
2 23 (10.36%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (4.955%) MCP
3 11 (4.955%) MCAD
3 11 (4.955%) MCSD
3 11 (4.955%) MCTS
4 6 (2.703%) HND
5 3 (1.351%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.351%) CSQA
6 2 (0.901%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.901%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.703%) QA
2 1 (0.450%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 3 (1.351%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 67 (30.18%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.009%) Oracle
3 11 (4.955%) Citrix
4 8 (3.604%) Ektron
5 4 (1.802%) Facebook
6 3 (1.351%) Business Objects
6 3 (1.351%) Adobe
7 2 (0.901%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.901%) Zend
7 2 (0.901%) IBM
7 2 (0.901%) JD Edwards
7 2 (0.901%) SAP
7 2 (0.901%) Appcelerator
8 1 (0.450%) Twitter
8 1 (0.450%) Sybase
8 1 (0.450%) Sun
8 1 (0.450%) Open Text
8 1 (0.450%) Google
Bournemouth, South West
Computer Futures are urgently seeking a C# Software Developer to work for a well established company based in Bournemouth... Reporting into the Lead Developer the successful candidate will...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Pension, Childcare
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bournemouth, South West
Working for a small agile company, with a can do attitude that also has the support and resources of a larger group... All applications handled with care and...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + flexible working, 22 days hol
Posted: 17 May 2013
Bournemouth, South West
Working for a small agile company, with a can do attitude that also has the support and resources of a larger group... All applications handled with care and...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + flexible working, 22 days hol
Posted: 22 May 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
ASP.net * C# * SQL, ideally 2008 * Stored Procedures * TSQL * LINQ * JQuery * AJAX * Java Script This is a great opportunity for someone to be part of a young, progressively...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + flexible working, 22 days hol
Posted: 21 May 2013
Poole, Dorset
KEY EXPERIENCE REQUIRED 12 month’s web development. 12 months in any language php, java, .net with experience of building web sites as a software engineer... commercial web...
IT City Solutions
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Dorset, South West
Working in an established team, you will be fully engaged and involved in the full project life cycle of bespoke software solutions from design, development, testing, maintenance and...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £22000.00 - £30000.00 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bournemouth, South West
Core skill set: -.Net 2.0 - 4.0 using either VB.NET or C#- ASP.Net- ADO.Net- HTML, CSS, JavaScript- XML- RDMS platforms including MS SQL Server,...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Holidays
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
The successful candidate will ideally have had experience in, but will not be limited to; *Delivering medium-large scale data analysis applications *Delivering web based multi-user applications *...
Polar Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £52000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Dorset, South West
Working in an established team, you will be fully engaged and involved in the full project life cycle of bespoke software solutions from design, development, testing, maintenance and...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £30000.00 - £40000.00 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
Experience of MVC and Entity Framework is preferred... Net, C# and SQL; requirements analysis and specification; planning and performing Unit testing & System testing; problem solving (on 2nd and...
The Richmond Group
Salary: From £40,000 to £47,500 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bournemouth, South West
Graduate - C# ASP.Net - 25K - BournemouthAward winning financial services Company in Bournemouth is looking to recruit a GraduateWorking for a small agile company, with a can do attitude...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
Overview of the environment: * ASP.net * C# * SQL, ideally 2008 * Stored Procedures * TSQL * LINQ * JQuery * AJAX * Java Script This is a great opportunity for someone to be part...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bournemouth
If you have Java Swing, J2EE, JSP, Oracle, PL/SQL, C# or Microsoft SQL Server skills this would be an advantage.What we'll need from youYou should...
Ageas 50
Salary: Up to £30,000 plus relocation assistance & benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
You should have experience of using .NET, and the ability to apply your development knowledge and skills to new technologies and techniques.If you have Java Swing, J2EE,...
Ageas 50
Salary: Up to £30,000 per annum plus benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Bournemouth, South West
The first 4-6 weeks of this role will be spent in Spain, to learn the support and development tasks undertaken and to move all of the applications...
Fulcrum Telecom
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Poole, Dorset
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Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + health + pension
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bournemouth, South West
Our client will provide you with training into: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq), BDD...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
Our client will provide you with training into: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq), BDD...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
parties - for insurance applications using Java Swing, JSP, Servlets, Web Services, Spring framework... You’ll be someone who learns quickly in order to be able to pick up...
Ageas 50
Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum plus benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Bournemouth
You'll be developing applications and interfaces - both internal and 3rd parties - for insurance applications using Java Swing, JSP, Servlets, Web Services, Spring framework. You'll be joining...
Ageas 50
Salary: Up to £50,000 plus benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Bournemouth, South West
My clients products are based on the Microsoft tools including SQL Server, C#, .NET, ASP.NET and Windows... C#.Net / ASP.NET development MS SQL Server Analysis Services...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £40000.00 - £52000.00 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Bournemouth, South West
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, RESTful, Web API, SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, RESTful, Web API, SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Dorchester, Weymouth, Poole, Bournemouth, Dorset,...
Software Engineer / Programmer / Developer, C#, .NET, C++, UML, Dorchester, Dorset, £30-35,000 (negotiable dependant on experience) + flexible working conditions and an open and relaxed working environment.Key...
XIST4 Recruitment
Salary: £30-35,000 + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Bournemouth, South West
Reporting to the Business Analyst you will be responsible for the following: Provide support for bespoke business applications developed in Visual Basic/Studio, .NET, MS Access, MS Excel...
Computer Futures
Salary: £30000 - £36000 per annum + Pension
Posted: 15 May 2013