The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT jobs advertised for the Ipswich 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 Ipswich region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 3 2 1
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 96 82 142
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 29.36% 31.06% 48.63%
As % of the Application Development category 48.24% 75.93% 78.45%
Number of salaries quoted 94 77 133
Average salary £38,750 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.12% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% +4.28%
All Application Development
Ipswich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
199 108 181
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 60.86% 40.91% 61.99%
Number of salaries quoted 190 103 172
Average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £52,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
.NET
Suffolk

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich .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 Ipswich region.

Ipswich .NET Salary Trend

.NET
Salary Histogram

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

Ipswich .NET Salary Histogram

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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.

1 155 (80.73%) C#
2 99 (51.56%) SQL Server
3 90 (46.88%) ASP.NET
4 76 (39.58%) Microsoft
5 73 (38.02%) WCF
6 63 (32.81%) SQL
7 59 (30.73%) HTML
8 57 (29.69%) JavaScript
9 52 (27.08%) CSS
10 48 (25.00%) Ajax
11 45 (23.44%) Web Services
12 44 (22.92%) OO
13 38 (19.79%) Visual Studio
13 38 (19.79%) jQuery
14 34 (17.71%) SQL Server 2008
14 34 (17.71%) VB.NET
15 33 (17.19%) .NET Framework
16 31 (16.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 31 (16.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 30 (15.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 28 (14.58%) Windows
18 28 (14.58%) SOA
19 26 (13.54%) XML
20 25 (13.02%) MVC
20 25 (13.02%) MS Excel
20 25 (13.02%) Team Foundation Server
21 23 (11.98%) TDD
22 21 (10.94%) N-Tier
22 21 (10.94%) XSLT
23 20 (10.42%) SOAP

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 90 (46.88%) ASP.NET
2 73 (38.02%) WCF
3 59 (30.73%) HTML
4 52 (27.08%) CSS
5 48 (25.00%) Ajax
6 45 (23.44%) Web Services
7 38 (19.79%) jQuery
8 33 (17.19%) .NET Framework
9 26 (13.54%) XML
10 21 (10.94%) XSLT
11 20 (10.42%) SOAP
12 15 (7.813%) WF
13 14 (7.292%) XHTML
14 11 (5.729%) ASP.NET MVC
15 8 (4.167%) Silverlight
15 8 (4.167%) LINQ
16 6 (3.125%) XSD
17 4 (2.083%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
17 4 (2.083%) WSH
18 3 (1.563%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 17 (8.854%) SharePoint
2 11 (5.729%) BizTalk Server
2 11 (5.729%) Windows Azure
3 6 (3.125%) Apache
4 2 (1.042%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (1.042%) Site Server
5 1 (0.521%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 25 (13.02%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.521%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.521%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.042%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.563%) Internet
2 2 (1.042%) RIP
3 1 (0.521%) Firewall
3 1 (0.521%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (51.56%) SQL Server
2 34 (17.71%) SQL Server 2008
3 31 (16.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 31 (16.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 30 (15.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 10 (5.208%) SQL Server 2005
6 7 (3.646%) OLAP
7 6 (3.125%) Oracle 10g
7 6 (3.125%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.125%) Oracle 8/8i
8 3 (1.563%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 38 (19.79%) Visual Studio
2 25 (13.02%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (2.083%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 2 (1.042%) Selenium
4 2 (1.042%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.521%) NUnit
General
1 17 (8.854%) Finance
2 8 (4.167%) Retail
3 7 (3.646%) Games
4 1 (0.521%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 145 (75.52%) Developer
2 98 (51.04%) .NET Developer
3 66 (34.38%) C# Developer
4 49 (25.52%) C# .NET Developer
5 26 (13.54%) Team Leader
5 26 (13.54%) Development Team Leader
6 24 (12.50%) Software Team Leader
6 24 (12.50%) Software Development Team Leader
6 24 (12.50%) Senior Developer
7 23 (11.98%) Software Developer
7 23 (11.98%) .NET Team Leader
8 20 (10.42%) Senior .NET Developer
9 16 (8.333%) Web Developer
10 15 (7.813%) Lead Developer
11 12 (6.250%) Agile C# Developer
11 12 (6.250%) Lead .NET Developer
11 12 (6.250%) VB.NET Developer
12 11 (5.729%) SQL Developer
12 11 (5.729%) Senior C# Developer
12 11 (5.729%) Agile .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.94%) N-Tier
2 11 (5.729%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (5.729%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (4.167%) SaaS
4 4 (2.083%) Computer Science
5 3 (1.563%) Mathematics
6 2 (1.042%) RIA
7 1 (0.521%) Firmware
7 1 (0.521%) Online Games
7 1 (0.521%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.58%) Windows
2 13 (6.771%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (5.208%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (3.646%) Linux
5 6 (3.125%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.042%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.042%) Windows Phone
7 1 (0.521%) Windows XP
7 1 (0.521%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (22.92%) OO
2 28 (14.58%) SOA
3 25 (13.02%) MVC
4 23 (11.98%) TDD
5 19 (9.896%) Agile Software Development
6 18 (9.375%) Web Development
7 16 (8.333%) UML
8 15 (7.813%) OOD
8 15 (7.813%) Automated Testing
9 11 (5.729%) Pair Programming
9 11 (5.729%) BDD
9 11 (5.729%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (5.729%) Data Protection
10 10 (5.208%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (5.208%) Risk Management
11 9 (4.688%) Scrum
12 7 (3.646%) ITIL
13 6 (3.125%) Data Analysis
13 6 (3.125%) Analytics
13 6 (3.125%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 155 (80.73%) C#
2 63 (32.81%) SQL
3 57 (29.69%) JavaScript
4 34 (17.71%) VB.NET
5 20 (10.42%) Java
6 16 (8.333%) T-SQL
7 6 (3.125%) VB
7 6 (3.125%) C++
8 3 (1.563%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.042%) XAML
10 1 (0.521%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.521%) Delphi
10 1 (0.521%) VBScript
10 1 (0.521%) Perl
10 1 (0.521%) PHP
10 1 (0.521%) C
10 1 (0.521%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.521%) Python
10 1 (0.521%) Bash shell
10 1 (0.521%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 8 (4.167%) Degree
2 4 (2.083%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (1.042%) ISTQB
3 2 (1.042%) ISEB
3 2 (1.042%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.521%) CCSA
4 1 (0.521%) MCP
4 1 (0.521%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.521%) CCNP
4 1 (0.521%) CCNA
4 1 (0.521%) RHCE
4 1 (0.521%) PMP
4 1 (0.521%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (0.521%) MCTS
4 1 (0.521%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.208%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.042%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.521%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.521%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (0.521%) Puppet
Vendors
1 76 (39.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.125%) Oracle
3 2 (1.042%) VMware
4 1 (0.521%) Citrix
4 1 (0.521%) Cisco
4 1 (0.521%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (0.521%) CheckPoint
4 1 (0.521%) Red Hat
Ipswich, East Anglia
The large scale n-tier applications will be maintained on a SQL Server 2008 database... The successful Senior .NET Software Developer will have experience developing in a commercial...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30000.00 - £40000.00 per annum
Posted: 11 May 2013
Ipswich, East Anglia
The large scale n-tier applications will be maintained on a SQL Server 2008 database... The successful Senior .NET Software Developer will have experience developing in a commercial...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30000.00 - £40000.00 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Ipswich, East Anglia
Using Microsoft technologies such as VB.NET, Visual Studio and SQL Server along with HTML, CSS and JavaScript you will be involved in all aspects of the software...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30000.00 - £40000.00 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013
Ipswich, East Anglia
The role will be a hands on technical position that will involve the development of bespoke software systems using C#, ASP.NET, WCF and SQL Server... The ideal...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum
Posted: 10 May 2013
Ipswich, Suffolk
The technology is focused on the latest .NET stack including MVC 4, WCF, ORMs such as nHibernate and Entity Framework, unit testing and TFS... Experience Sought: * C#, ASP...
TRG
Salary: £45000 Per Annum Plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Ipswich, East Anglia
My client is currently looking for a passionate Junior C++ Developer for a well-established and innovative company based in the centre of Ipswich... The work environment is...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £18000.00 - £25000.00 per annum
Posted: 4 May 2013
Ipswich, East Anglia
You will be required to use SQL in a .NET (VB.NET/ C#) environment and be able to deal with different test phases such as UAT, functional and...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £18000.00 - £22000.00 per annum
Posted: 10 May 2013
Ipswich, East Anglia
You will have at least an appreciation of the ITIL framework. Technical skills will include; Windows Server 2003/2008, Linux (RHEL 5) / Apache, Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2008,...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £25000.00 - £35000.00 per annum + benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Ipswich, East Anglia
A pioneering Ipswich based business is currently seeking a Software Development Manager to manage a talented Microsoft .NET Software Team. You will be required to use your experience...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000.00 - £50000.00 per annum
Posted: 3 May 2013
Ipswich, Suffolk
A leading retail organisation (end client, no travel & internal) in Ipswich with globally renowned clients, is currently looking for an experienced .NET Team Lead/Development Manager/Project Manager...
TRG
Salary: £55000 Per Annum Plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013