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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 2 2 7
Rank change year-on-year
0 +5
Permanent jobs citing C# 165 145 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 41.77% 39.62% 17.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 63.71% 60.67% 31.21%
Number of salaries quoted 147 142 48
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% +27.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £28,275 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £56,000 £45,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Programming Languages
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
259 239 157
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 65.57% 65.30% 55.48%
Number of salaries quoted 235 227 133
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +12.90%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
C#
Leicestershire

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing C# across the Leicester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Leicester C# Jobs Demand Trend

C#
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing C# across the Leicester region.

Leicester C# Salary Trend

C#
Salary Histogram

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

Leicester C# Salary Histogram

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester region citing C# 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 C#.

1 324 (98.78%) .NET
2 217 (66.16%) SQL Server
3 202 (61.59%) ASP.NET
4 163 (49.70%) SQL
5 134 (40.85%) Microsoft
6 124 (37.80%) jQuery
7 120 (36.59%) Ajax
8 115 (35.06%) MVC
9 113 (34.45%) Visual Studio
10 105 (32.01%) XML
11 92 (28.05%) CSS
11 92 (28.05%) HTML5
12 77 (23.48%) MS Excel
13 75 (22.87%) Scrum
13 75 (22.87%) Retail
13 75 (22.87%) ASP.NET MVC
14 73 (22.26%) JavaScript
15 72 (21.95%) E-Commerce
16 71 (21.65%) NUnit
17 68 (20.73%) XHTML
18 61 (18.60%) XSLT
19 60 (18.29%) UML
20 58 (17.68%) VB
20 58 (17.68%) WCF
20 58 (17.68%) CSS3
20 58 (17.68%) Continuous Improvement
21 57 (17.38%) ASP.NET MVC 3
21 57 (17.38%) Web Services
21 57 (17.38%) Project Management
22 56 (17.07%) Windows

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester region citing C# 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 C#. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 324 (98.78%) .NET
2 202 (61.59%) ASP.NET
3 124 (37.80%) jQuery
4 120 (36.59%) Ajax
5 105 (32.01%) XML
6 92 (28.05%) CSS
6 92 (28.05%) HTML5
7 75 (22.87%) ASP.NET MVC
8 68 (20.73%) XHTML
9 61 (18.60%) XSLT
10 58 (17.68%) CSS3
10 58 (17.68%) WCF
11 57 (17.38%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 57 (17.38%) Web Services
12 51 (15.55%) HTML
12 51 (15.55%) .NET Framework
13 43 (13.11%) ASP
14 37 (11.28%) WPF
15 35 (10.67%) RESTful
16 22 (6.707%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 30 (9.146%) IIS
2 14 (4.268%) Windows Azure
3 7 (2.134%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.829%) CMS
5 3 (0.915%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.915%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.610%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 77 (23.48%) MS Excel
2 20 (6.098%) MS Office
3 11 (3.354%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (0.610%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.829%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.305%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 42 (12.80%) Internet
2 13 (3.963%) Broadband
3 11 (3.354%) LDAP
4 4 (1.220%) NFC
4 4 (1.220%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.220%) VPN
5 3 (0.915%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (66.16%) SQL Server
2 39 (11.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 26 (7.927%) SQL Server 2008
4 21 (6.402%) SQL Server 2005
5 20 (6.098%) DTS
6 9 (2.744%) Informix
7 8 (2.439%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (2.439%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.524%) MySQL
8 5 (1.524%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.915%) Oracle 8/8i
10 2 (0.610%) Oracle 11g
11 1 (0.305%) QlikView
11 1 (0.305%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 113 (34.45%) Visual Studio
2 71 (21.65%) NUnit
3 21 (6.402%) MSTest
3 21 (6.402%) Moq
4 18 (5.488%) Rhino Mocks
5 9 (2.744%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.915%) Subversion
6 3 (0.915%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.610%) NCover
7 2 (0.610%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 1 (0.305%) MorphX
8 1 (0.305%) JIRA
8 1 (0.305%) ReSharper
8 1 (0.305%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.305%) Git (software)
8 1 (0.305%) GitHub
General
1 75 (22.87%) Retail
2 42 (12.80%) Marketing
3 36 (10.98%) Finance
4 24 (7.317%) Back Office
5 13 (3.963%) Music
5 13 (3.963%) Telecoms
6 3 (0.915%) Advertising
7 2 (0.610%) Publishing
8 1 (0.305%) Electronics
8 1 (0.305%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 212 (64.63%) Developer
2 126 (38.41%) .NET Developer
3 80 (24.39%) C# Developer
4 72 (21.95%) C# .NET Developer
5 53 (16.16%) Senior Developer
6 48 (14.63%) ASP.NET Developer
7 43 (13.11%) Project Manager
7 43 (13.11%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 28 (8.537%) Team Leader
9 27 (8.232%) .NET Team Leader
10 25 (7.622%) Development Manager
10 25 (7.622%) Software Developer
11 22 (6.707%) Web Developer
11 22 (6.707%) Senior .NET Developer
12 21 (6.402%) Senior C# Developer
13 19 (5.793%) Technical Manager
13 19 (5.793%) Technical Project Manager
14 17 (5.183%) Software Engineer
15 16 (4.878%) Software Development Manager
15 16 (4.878%) Software Manager
Miscellaneous
1 41 (12.50%) N-Tier
2 35 (10.67%) Computer Science
3 20 (6.098%) Management Information System
4 15 (4.573%) Smartcard
4 15 (4.573%) Mathematics
5 14 (4.268%) Inversion of Control
6 13 (3.963%) EPoS
7 11 (3.354%) Blackberry
7 11 (3.354%) PKI
8 4 (1.220%) Biometrics
8 4 (1.220%) Tandem
8 4 (1.220%) Cryptography
8 4 (1.220%) Mobile Payment
9 1 (0.305%) SaaS
9 1 (0.305%) iPad
9 1 (0.305%) Blog
9 1 (0.305%) Device Driver
9 1 (0.305%) W3C
9 1 (0.305%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 56 (17.07%) Windows
2 17 (5.183%) Android
3 13 (3.963%) Apple iOS
4 11 (3.354%) BlackBerry OS
5 3 (0.915%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (0.915%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.305%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (35.06%) MVC
2 75 (22.87%) Scrum
3 72 (21.95%) E-Commerce
4 60 (18.29%) UML
5 58 (17.68%) Continuous Improvement
6 57 (17.38%) Project Management
7 55 (16.77%) OWASP
8 53 (16.16%) Web Accessibility
9 44 (13.41%) Web Development
9 44 (13.41%) OO
10 38 (11.59%) Extreme Programming
11 37 (11.28%) TDD
12 19 (5.793%) Agile Software Development
13 18 (5.488%) MVVM
14 17 (5.183%) Kanban
15 16 (4.878%) Test Scripting
16 15 (4.573%) Cyber Security
17 14 (4.268%) Continuous Integration
17 14 (4.268%) Dependency Injection
17 14 (4.268%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 163 (49.70%) SQL
2 73 (22.26%) JavaScript
3 58 (17.68%) VB
4 54 (16.46%) Java
5 49 (14.94%) C++
6 38 (11.59%) VB.NET
7 20 (6.098%) VB6
7 20 (6.098%) VBScript
8 19 (5.793%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.439%) C
10 5 (1.524%) PHP
10 5 (1.524%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.220%) Python
11 4 (1.220%) XAML
11 4 (1.220%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.610%) VC++
13 1 (0.305%) X++
Qualifications
1 37 (11.28%) Degree
2 17 (5.183%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (5.183%) MCSD
3 16 (4.878%) MCP
3 16 (4.878%) MCAD
3 16 (4.878%) MCTS
4 10 (3.049%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.220%) PhD
6 1 (0.305%) ISEB
6 1 (0.305%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.268%) ISO 9001
1 14 (4.268%) TickIT
2 3 (0.915%) QA
3 1 (0.305%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (0.610%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 134 (40.85%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.622%) Oracle
3 21 (6.402%) Telerik
3 21 (6.402%) DevExpress
4 3 (0.915%) Sitecore
5 2 (0.610%) VMware
5 2 (0.610%) Citrix
6 1 (0.305%) Apple
6 1 (0.305%) Sage
6 1 (0.305%) Perforce
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