The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Leicester region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year
+1 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 164 192 100
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 44.32% 47.52% 34.84%
As % of the Application Development category 81.19% 81.36% 61.73%
Number of salaries quoted 139 169 88
Average salary £40,000 £32,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.07% -5.79%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £59,000 £40,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.35% +5.71%
All Application Development
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
202 236 162
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 54.59% 58.42% 56.45%
Number of salaries quoted 176 212 146
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
.NET
Leicestershire

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester .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 Leicester region.

Leicester .NET Salary Trend

.NET
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing .NET across the Leicester region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Leicester .NET Salary Histogram

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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.

1 300 (90.91%) C#
2 210 (63.64%) SQL Server
3 208 (63.03%) ASP.NET
4 164 (49.70%) SQL
5 153 (46.36%) Microsoft
6 124 (37.58%) Visual Studio
7 118 (35.76%) Ajax
8 117 (35.45%) jQuery
9 105 (31.82%) XML
10 101 (30.61%) MVC
11 100 (30.30%) CSS
12 85 (25.76%) UML
13 83 (25.15%) HTML5
14 79 (23.94%) MS Excel
15 78 (23.64%) Scrum
16 75 (22.73%) XHTML
16 75 (22.73%) E-Commerce
17 74 (22.42%) JavaScript
18 73 (22.12%) Retail
19 68 (20.61%) XSLT
20 66 (20.00%) NUnit
21 63 (19.09%) Continuous Improvement
22 62 (18.79%) ASP.NET MVC
23 60 (18.18%) .NET Framework
24 57 (17.27%) Web Services
25 56 (16.97%) OWASP
26 54 (16.36%) Web Accessibility
27 53 (16.06%) CSS3
28 51 (15.45%) Java
28 51 (15.45%) VB

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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
1 208 (63.03%) ASP.NET
2 118 (35.76%) Ajax
3 117 (35.45%) jQuery
4 105 (31.82%) XML
5 100 (30.30%) CSS
6 83 (25.15%) HTML5
7 75 (22.73%) XHTML
8 68 (20.61%) XSLT
9 62 (18.79%) ASP.NET MVC
10 60 (18.18%) .NET Framework
11 57 (17.27%) Web Services
12 53 (16.06%) CSS3
13 50 (15.15%) HTML
13 50 (15.15%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 49 (14.85%) WCF
15 41 (12.42%) WPF
16 35 (10.61%) ASP
17 29 (8.788%) Silverlight
18 27 (8.182%) RESTful
19 22 (6.667%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 23 (6.970%) IIS
2 12 (3.636%) Windows Azure
3 8 (2.424%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.909%) CMS
5 1 (0.303%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.303%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.303%) Umbraco
Applications
1 79 (23.94%) MS Excel
2 24 (7.273%) MS Office
3 15 (4.545%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (0.606%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.424%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 46 (13.94%) Internet
2 13 (3.939%) Broadband
3 11 (3.333%) LDAP
4 4 (1.212%) NFC
4 4 (1.212%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.212%) VPN
5 3 (0.909%) Wireless
6 1 (0.303%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (63.64%) SQL Server
2 35 (10.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 34 (10.30%) SQL Server 2008
4 33 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 18 (5.455%) DTS
6 9 (2.727%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.818%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (1.818%) Informix
8 5 (1.515%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.909%) SQL Server 2000
10 2 (0.606%) Oracle 8/8i
10 2 (0.606%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.303%) SQL Server 2012
11 1 (0.303%) MySQL
11 1 (0.303%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.303%) Oracle 11g
11 1 (0.303%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 124 (37.58%) Visual Studio
2 66 (20.00%) NUnit
3 18 (5.455%) MSTest
4 14 (4.242%) Rhino Mocks
4 14 (4.242%) Moq
5 12 (3.636%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.606%) NCover
6 2 (0.606%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.303%) GitHub
7 1 (0.303%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.303%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.303%) ReSharper
General
1 73 (22.12%) Retail
2 44 (13.33%) Marketing
3 31 (9.394%) Finance
4 24 (7.273%) Back Office
5 13 (3.939%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.212%) Advertising
6 4 (1.212%) Publishing
7 1 (0.303%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 203 (61.52%) Developer
2 111 (33.64%) .NET Developer
3 67 (20.30%) C# Developer
4 63 (19.09%) C# .NET Developer
5 46 (13.94%) ASP.NET Developer
6 44 (13.33%) Senior Developer
7 42 (12.73%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 40 (12.12%) Project Manager
9 29 (8.788%) Development Manager
10 24 (7.273%) Team Leader
11 23 (6.970%) Web Developer
11 23 (6.970%) .NET Team Leader
12 22 (6.667%) Software Developer
13 20 (6.061%) Software Development Manager
13 20 (6.061%) Software Manager
14 19 (5.758%) Technical Manager
14 19 (5.758%) Software Engineer
14 19 (5.758%) Technical Project Manager
15 14 (4.242%) .NET Web Developer
15 14 (4.242%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.82%) Computer Science
2 38 (11.52%) N-Tier
3 15 (4.545%) Management Information System
3 15 (4.545%) Smartcard
3 15 (4.545%) Mathematics
4 13 (3.939%) EPoS
4 13 (3.939%) Inversion of Control
5 11 (3.333%) Blackberry
5 11 (3.333%) PKI
6 4 (1.212%) Cryptography
6 4 (1.212%) Biometrics
6 4 (1.212%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (0.303%) W3C
7 1 (0.303%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 47 (14.24%) Windows
2 11 (3.333%) Android
2 11 (3.333%) Apple iOS
2 11 (3.333%) BlackBerry OS
3 5 (1.515%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (1.515%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.303%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (30.61%) MVC
2 85 (25.76%) UML
3 78 (23.64%) Scrum
4 75 (22.73%) E-Commerce
5 63 (19.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 56 (16.97%) OWASP
7 54 (16.36%) Web Accessibility
8 50 (15.15%) Project Management
9 48 (14.55%) Extreme Programming
10 40 (12.12%) Web Development
11 30 (9.091%) OO
12 29 (8.788%) TDD
13 24 (7.273%) Logistics
14 18 (5.455%) ITIL
14 18 (5.455%) MVVM
15 16 (4.848%) CRM
16 15 (4.545%) Agile Software Development
16 15 (4.545%) Cyber Security
17 14 (4.242%) Test Scripting
18 13 (3.939%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 300 (90.91%) C#
2 164 (49.70%) SQL
3 74 (22.42%) JavaScript
4 51 (15.45%) Java
4 51 (15.45%) VB
5 44 (13.33%) C++
6 41 (12.42%) VB.NET
7 22 (6.667%) T-SQL
8 18 (5.455%) VB6
9 14 (4.242%) VBScript
10 4 (1.212%) Python
10 4 (1.212%) Objective-C
10 4 (1.212%) XAML
11 3 (0.909%) PHP
11 3 (0.909%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.606%) C
13 1 (0.303%) VC++
13 1 (0.303%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 44 (13.33%) Degree
2 14 (4.242%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (4.242%) MCSD
3 13 (3.939%) MCP
3 13 (3.939%) MCAD
3 13 (3.939%) MCTS
4 10 (3.030%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.212%) PhD
6 1 (0.303%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.455%) TickIT
1 18 (5.455%) ISO 9001
2 6 (1.818%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.909%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.303%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 153 (46.36%) Microsoft
2 38 (11.52%) Oracle
3 20 (6.061%) Telerik
3 20 (6.061%) DevExpress
4 2 (0.606%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.303%) VMware
5 1 (0.303%) Sage
5 1 (0.303%) Citrix
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Salary: £38000 - £55000 per annum + share scheme, bonus, pension
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Salary: Unspecified
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