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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 55 83 54
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -29
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 29 25 52
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 2.929% 1.816% 4.066%
As % of the Application Development category 8.455% 3.592% 8.710%
Number of salaries quoted 28 21 49
Average salary £43,500 £34,000 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.94% -10.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £24,000 £21,300
10% offered a salary of more than £48,000 £42,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.28%
All Application Development
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
343 696 597
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 34.65% 50.54% 46.68%
Number of salaries quoted 307 565 519
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
.NET Framework
East of England

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex .NET Framework Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Framework
Salary Trend

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

Essex .NET Framework Salary Trend

.NET Framework
Salary Histogram

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

Essex .NET Framework Salary Histogram

.NET Framework
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the Essex 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
Chelmsford +23 7 £40,000 -11.11%
Basildon - 5 £46,250 -
Brentwood - 3 £43,500 -
Colchester +2 1 £42,500 +8.97%
Witham - 1 £40,000 -
.NET Framework
East of England

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region citing .NET Framework 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 Framework.

1 59 (100.00%) .NET
2 49 (83.05%) C#
3 40 (67.80%) SQL
4 39 (66.10%) WCF
5 36 (61.02%) ASP.NET
6 33 (55.93%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 29 (49.15%) SQL Server
7 29 (49.15%) MVC
8 24 (40.68%) Microsoft
9 23 (38.98%) T-SQL
9 23 (38.98%) OO
10 21 (35.59%) MS Excel
10 21 (35.59%) HTML
10 21 (35.59%) WPF
10 21 (35.59%) TDD
11 20 (33.90%) Silverlight
11 20 (33.90%) jQuery
12 19 (32.20%) JavaScript
12 19 (32.20%) OOP
12 19 (32.20%) Web Services
13 18 (30.51%) Finance
14 17 (28.81%) CSS
15 15 (25.42%) Windows
16 14 (23.73%) XML
16 14 (23.73%) VB.NET
16 14 (23.73%) Dependency Injection
17 13 (22.03%) Ajax
17 13 (22.03%) ASP.NET MVC
18 11 (18.64%) Enterprise Software
18 11 (18.64%) Unit Testing

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region citing .NET Framework 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 Framework. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 59 (100.00%) .NET
2 39 (66.10%) WCF
3 36 (61.02%) ASP.NET
4 33 (55.93%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 21 (35.59%) HTML
5 21 (35.59%) WPF
6 20 (33.90%) Silverlight
6 20 (33.90%) jQuery
7 19 (32.20%) Web Services
8 17 (28.81%) CSS
9 14 (23.73%) XML
10 13 (22.03%) Ajax
10 13 (22.03%) ASP.NET MVC
11 10 (16.95%) Unity DI Container
12 9 (15.25%) LINQ
13 7 (11.86%) ADO.NET
13 7 (11.86%) J2ME
13 7 (11.86%) ASP.NET MVC 2
14 4 (6.780%) HTML5
15 3 (5.085%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 11 (18.64%) IIS
2 1 (1.695%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (1.695%) Magento
2 1 (1.695%) Documentum
2 1 (1.695%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.695%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 21 (35.59%) MS Excel
2 3 (5.085%) MS Office
3 1 (1.695%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (1.695%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.085%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (49.15%) SQL Server
2 10 (16.95%) SQL Server 2005
3 7 (11.86%) MySQL
4 2 (3.390%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (3.390%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.695%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 10 (16.95%) Visual Studio
1 10 (16.95%) MSTest
1 10 (16.95%) Rhino Mocks
2 4 (6.780%) NUnit
2 4 (6.780%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.695%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.695%) QUnit
3 1 (1.695%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.695%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.695%) Mercurial
3 1 (1.695%) Subversion
3 1 (1.695%) JIRA
General
1 18 (30.51%) Finance
2 1 (1.695%) Retail
2 1 (1.695%) Law
2 1 (1.695%) Telecoms
2 1 (1.695%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 56 (94.92%) Developer
2 23 (38.98%) .NET Developer
3 19 (32.20%) Software Developer
4 14 (23.73%) C# Developer
5 10 (16.95%) Senior Developer
5 10 (16.95%) C# .NET Developer
6 9 (15.25%) Analyst
7 7 (11.86%) Senior .NET Developer
7 7 (11.86%) Systems Developer
8 5 (8.475%) Technical Analyst
9 4 (6.780%) Developer Analyst
10 3 (5.085%) Senior Software Developer
11 2 (3.390%) Graduate
11 2 (3.390%) Senior Analyst
11 2 (3.390%) Graduate Developer
11 2 (3.390%) Senior Analyst Developer
11 2 (3.390%) Senior C# Developer
11 2 (3.390%) ASP.NET Developer
11 2 (3.390%) Analyst Developer
11 2 (3.390%) Graduate Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.64%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (11.86%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.390%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (3.390%) Machine Learning
4 1 (1.695%) Social Media
4 1 (1.695%) Tandem
4 1 (1.695%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.695%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.695%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.42%) Windows
2 7 (11.86%) Android
3 6 (10.17%) Windows Mobile
3 6 (10.17%) Windows CE
4 1 (1.695%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (49.15%) MVC
2 23 (38.98%) OO
3 21 (35.59%) TDD
4 19 (32.20%) OOP
5 14 (23.73%) Dependency Injection
6 11 (18.64%) Unit Testing
7 7 (11.86%) Mobile Application Development
8 6 (10.17%) System Testing
9 5 (8.475%) SOA
9 5 (8.475%) Scrum
9 5 (8.475%) Web Development
10 4 (6.780%) Agile Software Development
11 3 (5.085%) User Acceptance Testing
11 3 (5.085%) Software Engineering
11 3 (5.085%) E-Commerce
12 2 (3.390%) Workflow
13 1 (1.695%) Continuous Integration
13 1 (1.695%) Analytics
13 1 (1.695%) Software Architecture
13 1 (1.695%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 49 (83.05%) C#
2 40 (67.80%) SQL
3 23 (38.98%) T-SQL
4 19 (32.20%) JavaScript
5 14 (23.73%) VB.NET
6 11 (18.64%) XAML
7 10 (16.95%) PHP
8 8 (13.56%) Delphi
9 7 (11.86%) Objective-C
10 2 (3.390%) VBA
10 2 (3.390%) VB
10 2 (3.390%) C
10 2 (3.390%) C++
10 2 (3.390%) Java
10 2 (3.390%) Python
10 2 (3.390%) Fortran
10 2 (3.390%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (1.695%) MCTS
1 1 (1.695%) MCITP
1 1 (1.695%) Degree
1 1 (1.695%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (1.695%) Nagios
Vendors
1 24 (40.68%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.695%) DevExpress
2 1 (1.695%) Open Text
2 1 (1.695%) Google
2 1 (1.695%) Interwoven
2 1 (1.695%) Oracle
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