The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT jobs advertised for the Durham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 24 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 Durham region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 1 6 2
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 29 22 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Durham 37.66% 15.49% 25.24%
As % of the Application Development category 69.05% 64.71% 72.22%
Number of salaries quoted 28 19 15
Average salary £32,750 £30,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.16% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,850 £20,000 £27,900
10% offered a salary of more than £39,650 £38,100 £99,999
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% +4.28%
All Application Development
Durham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
42 34 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Durham 54.55% 23.94% 34.95%
Number of salaries quoted 40 31 25
Average salary £30,000 £30,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,550 £21,000 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £60,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
.NET
North East

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Durham .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 Durham region.

Durham .NET Salary Trend

.NET
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing .NET across the Durham region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Durham .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 Durham region over the 3 months to 24 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
Darlington +4 10 £37,500 +19.04%
Stockton-on-Tees +5 8 £25,000 -23.07%
.NET
North East

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Durham 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 41 (89.13%) C#
2 27 (58.70%) SQL Server
3 26 (56.52%) SQL
4 20 (43.48%) ASP.NET
4 20 (43.48%) CSS
5 15 (32.61%) HTML
6 13 (28.26%) Linux
6 13 (28.26%) Agile Software Development
7 11 (23.91%) PHP
7 11 (23.91%) MVC
8 10 (21.74%) Internet
9 9 (19.57%) SharePoint
9 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
9 9 (19.57%) OOP
9 9 (19.57%) C++
9 9 (19.57%) C
9 9 (19.57%) Visual Studio
9 9 (19.57%) Scrum
9 9 (19.57%) Multithreading
9 9 (19.57%) Qt
10 8 (17.39%) jQuery
10 8 (17.39%) ASP.NET MVC
10 8 (17.39%) Dynamics AX
10 8 (17.39%) Marketing
11 7 (15.22%) Degree
11 7 (15.22%) Subversion
11 7 (15.22%) SharePoint 2010
11 7 (15.22%) Refactoring
11 7 (15.22%) VSS/SourceSafe
11 7 (15.22%) MFC

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Durham 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 (43.48%) ASP.NET
1 20 (43.48%) CSS
2 15 (32.61%) HTML
3 9 (19.57%) Qt
4 8 (17.39%) jQuery
4 8 (17.39%) ASP.NET MVC
5 7 (15.22%) MFC
5 7 (15.22%) SOAP
6 6 (13.04%) WCF
6 6 (13.04%) HTML5
6 6 (13.04%) .NET Framework
7 4 (8.696%) JSP
7 4 (8.696%) Web Services
7 4 (8.696%) XML
7 4 (8.696%) ASP
7 4 (8.696%) J2EE
8 3 (6.522%) NHibernate
8 3 (6.522%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 3 (6.522%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 2 (4.348%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 9 (19.57%) SharePoint
2 7 (15.22%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (8.696%) Apache
4 2 (4.348%) Windows Azure
5 1 (2.174%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (10.87%) MS Excel
2 2 (4.348%) MS Project
2 2 (4.348%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (17.39%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 10 (21.74%) Internet
2 7 (15.22%) Ethernet
3 2 (4.348%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.348%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (58.70%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.87%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (8.696%) MySQL
3 4 (8.696%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (4.348%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.348%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 9 (19.57%) Visual Studio
2 7 (15.22%) Subversion
2 7 (15.22%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 4 (8.696%) PHPUnit
4 1 (2.174%) NUnit
4 1 (2.174%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.174%) InstallShield
General
1 8 (17.39%) Marketing
2 4 (8.696%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.174%) Retail
3 1 (2.174%) Finance
3 1 (2.174%) Legal
Job Titles
1 29 (63.04%) Developer
2 14 (30.43%) Software Engineer
3 11 (23.91%) .NET Developer
4 9 (19.57%) C# Developer
5 8 (17.39%) C# .NET Developer
6 6 (13.04%) Web Developer
6 6 (13.04%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 6 (13.04%) ASP.NET Developer
7 5 (10.87%) SharePoint Developer
8 4 (8.696%) Software Developer
9 3 (6.522%) Junior ASP.NET Developer
9 3 (6.522%) Junior Developer
9 3 (6.522%) Junior C# Developer
9 3 (6.522%) Junior .NET Developer
9 3 (6.522%) Junior C# .NET Developer
9 3 (6.522%) Junior
9 3 (6.522%) Applications Developer
10 2 (4.348%) Head of Development
10 2 (4.348%) Development Engineer
10 2 (4.348%) Java Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.522%) Embedded Systems
1 3 (6.522%) W3C
2 2 (4.348%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.174%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.26%) Linux
2 5 (10.87%) UNIX
2 5 (10.87%) Windows
3 2 (4.348%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.26%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (23.91%) MVC
3 9 (19.57%) OOP
3 9 (19.57%) Scrum
3 9 (19.57%) Multithreading
4 7 (15.22%) Refactoring
4 7 (15.22%) Configuration Management
5 6 (13.04%) OO
6 4 (8.696%) Unit Testing
7 3 (6.522%) Integration Testing
8 2 (4.348%) E-Commerce
8 2 (4.348%) ERP
8 2 (4.348%) SOA
8 2 (4.348%) Web Application Development
8 2 (4.348%) Requirements Analysis
8 2 (4.348%) Software Engineering
9 1 (2.174%) Pay per click
9 1 (2.174%) Web Development
9 1 (2.174%) Content Management
9 1 (2.174%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 41 (89.13%) C#
2 26 (56.52%) SQL
3 11 (23.91%) PHP
4 9 (19.57%) C++
4 9 (19.57%) C
5 7 (15.22%) Perl
5 7 (15.22%) ECMAScript
5 7 (15.22%) VC++
5 7 (15.22%) Python
6 6 (13.04%) Java
6 6 (13.04%) JavaScript
7 5 (10.87%) VB.NET
8 2 (4.348%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.174%) VB6
9 1 (2.174%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Degree
2 1 (2.174%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.348%) ISO 9000
1 2 (4.348%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.696%) Citrix
2 4 (8.696%) Oracle
3 1 (2.174%) Omniture
3 1 (2.174%) Google
Darlington, County Durham
Key Skills and Background. - Experienced Applications developer, with the full development lifecycle. - Strong background in SharePoint, .Net, SQL Server, C# & MVC framework. - Strong communication skills, with the ability...
Hotfoot Resourcing.
Salary: From £37,000 to £42,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Darlington, County Durham
Design and Development of solutions based on a SharePoint 2010 platform. Management / Administration / Improvement of existing SharePoint provision... Strong SharePoint, .Net and SQL Server experience... Experience of MS...
Catalyst
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Stockton-on-Tees, North East
Software Engineer (VB6, ADO, SQL Server), Stockton-On-TeesI have fantastic opportunity for an experienced and skilled Developer (VB6, ADO, SQL Server) to provide software development for a...
Mint
Salary: £1 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Durham, County Durham
If you specialise in any of the following, and have a passion for continuous learning, then we’d love to hear from you: ASP.NET. JQuery. Ajax. C#...
Waterstons
Salary: From £25,000 to £50,000 per annum + Family private healthcare, pension
Posted: 3 May 2013
County Durham
Beneficial skills and experience: - Commercial experience with WCF, ASP.NET Web Forms, MS SQL Server Reporting Services, HTML5, CSS3, TFS, and Jira... - Industry recognised qualifications, such as Microsoft...
Catalyst
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum Salary flexible depending upon exper
Posted: 21 May 2013
County Durham
Requirements analysis... Required skills and experience: - A degree in a relevant discipline - At least 3 years commercial development experience (at least 1-2 years specifically in .NET web...
Catalyst
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum Salary flexible depending upon exper
Posted: 21 May 2013
Billingham, Cleveland
To design, develop, test and support software using the latest Microsoft .NET technology (C#, WPF)... Degree or equivalent in Software Engineering or Computer Science. Demonstrable experience in C#...
Catalyst
Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Durham, County Durham
Software Engineer, Software Developer, Embedded Software, C/C++, VC++, MFC, GUI, Qt, ARM9, .NET, OOP, SQL, Python, Perl, Ethernet, USB, Linux, HTML, PHP, CSS, SOAP, Agile, SCRUM... Qt, ...
Saxon Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £28000 - £38000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013