The first table below looks at the demand for NCover skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NCover over the 3 months to 22 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 Development Applications category for the London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
NCover
Rank 582 630 602
Rank change year-on-year
+48 -28
Permanent jobs citing NCover 19 19 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.043% 0.035% 0.049%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.281% 0.258% 0.409%
Number of salaries quoted 18 18 25
Average salary £68,750 £50,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+37.50% -9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £38,000 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -9.18%
All Development Applications
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
6764 7367 6851
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 15.37% 13.53% 12.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5802 6501 5961
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £66,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
NCover
England

NCover
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London NCover Jobs Demand Trend

NCover
Salary Trend

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

London NCover Salary Trend

NCover
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing NCover across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London NCover Salary Histogram

NCover
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing NCover 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 NCover.

1 29 (100.00%) NUnit
2 28 (96.55%) C#
3 24 (82.76%) .NET
4 20 (68.97%) JavaScript
4 20 (68.97%) ASP.NET
4 20 (68.97%) CSS
5 18 (62.07%) OO
5 18 (62.07%) Microsoft
5 18 (62.07%) TDD
5 18 (62.07%) MVC
6 16 (55.17%) Visual Studio
6 16 (55.17%) SQL
7 15 (51.72%) Web Services
7 15 (51.72%) TeamCity
8 14 (48.28%) NHibernate
8 14 (48.28%) W3C
9 13 (44.83%) ReSharper
9 13 (44.83%) jQuery
10 11 (37.93%) Team Foundation Server
10 11 (37.93%) .NET Framework
10 11 (37.93%) Scrum
10 11 (37.93%) Subversion
10 11 (37.93%) HTML
11 10 (34.48%) C++
11 10 (34.48%) Finance
12 9 (31.03%) CMS
12 9 (31.03%) XSLT
12 9 (31.03%) XHTML
12 9 (31.03%) SharePoint
12 9 (31.03%) Load Balancing

NCover
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing NCover 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 NCover. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (82.76%) .NET
2 20 (68.97%) ASP.NET
2 20 (68.97%) CSS
3 15 (51.72%) Web Services
4 14 (48.28%) NHibernate
5 13 (44.83%) jQuery
6 11 (37.93%) .NET Framework
6 11 (37.93%) HTML
7 9 (31.03%) XSLT
7 9 (31.03%) XHTML
7 9 (31.03%) LINQ
7 9 (31.03%) LINQ to SQL
7 9 (31.03%) CSS3
7 9 (31.03%) ASP.NET MVC
7 9 (31.03%) HTML5
8 5 (17.24%) Flash
8 5 (17.24%) ASP
8 5 (17.24%) DHTML
8 5 (17.24%) Adobe AIR
8 5 (17.24%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 9 (31.03%) CMS
1 9 (31.03%) SharePoint
1 9 (31.03%) Sitecore CMS
1 9 (31.03%) Umbraco
2 4 (13.79%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.448%) IIS
3 1 (3.448%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) SSL
2 2 (6.897%) BGP
2 2 (6.897%) LAN
2 2 (6.897%) WAN
2 2 (6.897%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) SQL Server 2000
1 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
1 5 (17.24%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (3.448%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 29 (100.00%) NUnit
2 16 (55.17%) Visual Studio
3 15 (51.72%) TeamCity
4 13 (44.83%) ReSharper
5 11 (37.93%) Team Foundation Server
5 11 (37.93%) Subversion
6 9 (31.03%) Rhino Mocks
6 9 (31.03%) GitHub
7 7 (24.14%) CruiseControl
8 5 (17.24%) MSBuild
9 4 (13.79%) FitNesse
9 4 (13.79%) WatiN
9 4 (13.79%) Cucumber
9 4 (13.79%) FxCop
9 4 (13.79%) NDepend
10 2 (6.897%) Git (software)
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (100.00%) Developer
2 21 (72.41%) C# Developer
3 12 (41.38%) C# .NET Developer
4 11 (37.93%) Senior Developer
5 10 (34.48%) Senior C# Developer
6 9 (31.03%) .NET Developer
6 9 (31.03%) Umbraco Developer
7 6 (20.69%) Lead Developer
8 5 (17.24%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 5 (17.24%) Agile C# Developer
9 4 (13.79%) C++/C# Developer
9 4 (13.79%) UI Developer
9 4 (13.79%) WPF Developer
9 4 (13.79%) C++ Developer
9 4 (13.79%) Senior C++ Developer
10 2 (6.897%) .NET Web Developer
10 2 (6.897%) Web Developer
11 1 (3.448%) Senior .NET Web Developer
11 1 (3.448%) Senior Web Developer
11 1 (3.448%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (48.28%) W3C
2 5 (17.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (17.24%) N-Tier
2 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
3 4 (13.79%) Derivative
4 2 (6.897%) Fixed Income
4 2 (6.897%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.448%) Ubuntu
1 1 (3.448%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (3.448%) CentOS
1 1 (3.448%) Windows
1 1 (3.448%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) OO
1 18 (62.07%) TDD
1 18 (62.07%) MVC
2 11 (37.93%) Scrum
3 9 (31.03%) Load Balancing
3 9 (31.03%) BDD
4 5 (17.24%) UML
4 5 (17.24%) Multithreading
4 5 (17.24%) Unit Testing
4 5 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (13.79%) Refactoring
5 4 (13.79%) Kanban
5 4 (13.79%) Dependency Injection
5 4 (13.79%) Static Code Analysis
5 4 (13.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (13.79%) SOA
5 4 (13.79%) E-Commerce
5 4 (13.79%) Pair Programming
6 2 (6.897%) Risk Management
7 1 (3.448%) Code Coverage
Programming Languages
1 28 (96.55%) C#
2 20 (68.97%) JavaScript
3 16 (55.17%) SQL
4 10 (34.48%) C++
5 4 (13.79%) Python
5 4 (13.79%) XAML
5 4 (13.79%) Ruby
6 2 (6.897%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
Vendors
1 18 (62.07%) Microsoft
2 9 (31.03%) Sitecore
3 5 (17.24%) Adobe
4 2 (6.897%) Cisco