The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT jobs advertised for the Luton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 19 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 Luton region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 24 9 4
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -5
Permanent jobs citing .NET 23 60 58
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 6.628% 16.71% 20.49%
As % of the Application Development category 29.87% 39.47% 63.04%
Number of salaries quoted 21 54 57
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £56,750 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.35% +5.71%
All Application Development
Luton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
77 152 92
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 22.19% 42.34% 32.51%
Number of salaries quoted 63 116 89
Average salary £33,000 £41,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-19.51% +17.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £30,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
.NET
Bedfordshire

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton .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 Luton region.

Luton .NET Salary Trend

.NET
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing .NET across the Luton region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Luton .NET Salary Histogram

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 91 (75.21%) C#
2 84 (69.42%) SQL Server
3 58 (47.93%) Windows
4 48 (39.67%) Microsoft
5 47 (38.84%) Web Services
6 43 (35.54%) MVC
7 42 (34.71%) ASP.NET
8 39 (32.23%) Scrum
9 38 (31.40%) TDD
10 37 (30.58%) Internet
11 36 (29.75%) Oracle
12 35 (28.93%) SQL Server 2005
13 32 (26.45%) .NET Framework
13 32 (26.45%) SQL Server 2008
13 32 (26.45%) XML
14 31 (25.62%) MS Excel
14 31 (25.62%) E-Commerce
14 31 (25.62%) HTML
14 31 (25.62%) Web Development
15 29 (23.97%) JavaScript
16 25 (20.66%) Visual Studio
16 25 (20.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 22 (18.18%) SQL
17 22 (18.18%) ETL
17 22 (18.18%) Change Management
18 21 (17.36%) SOA
19 20 (16.53%) DOC1
19 20 (16.53%) Unit Testing
20 19 (15.70%) XMPie
21 18 (14.88%) N-Tier

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 47 (38.84%) Web Services
2 42 (34.71%) ASP.NET
3 32 (26.45%) .NET Framework
3 32 (26.45%) XML
4 31 (25.62%) HTML
5 14 (11.57%) ASP.NET MVC
6 13 (10.74%) NHibernate
7 7 (5.785%) WinForms
8 6 (4.959%) WCF
9 5 (4.132%) jQuery
10 4 (3.306%) CSS
11 3 (2.479%) RESTful
11 3 (2.479%) JSON
11 3 (2.479%) Ajax
11 3 (2.479%) WPF
11 3 (2.479%) ASP
12 2 (1.653%) J2EE
12 2 (1.653%) MFC
12 2 (1.653%) WF
12 2 (1.653%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 17 (14.05%) SharePoint
2 15 (12.40%) Windows Azure
3 13 (10.74%) Exstream Dialogue
4 10 (8.264%) BizTalk Server
5 6 (4.959%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (3.306%) SharePoint 2010
7 2 (1.653%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (1.653%) IIS
8 1 (0.826%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.826%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.826%) Apache
8 1 (0.826%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.826%) Papyrus
Applications
1 31 (25.62%) MS Excel
2 20 (16.53%) DOC1
3 14 (11.57%) PrintSoft PReS
4 13 (10.74%) MS Office
5 3 (2.479%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 14 (11.57%) Exstream
Communications & Networking
1 37 (30.58%) Internet
2 1 (0.826%) HTTP
2 1 (0.826%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (69.42%) SQL Server
2 35 (28.93%) SQL Server 2005
3 32 (26.45%) SQL Server 2008
4 25 (20.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (13.22%) Crystal Reports
6 14 (11.57%) RDBMS
6 14 (11.57%) MS Access
6 14 (11.57%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (7.438%) SQL Server 2000
7 9 (7.438%) MySQL
8 5 (4.132%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (4.132%) GIS
9 4 (3.306%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (3.306%) SQL Server 2012
10 3 (2.479%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 25 (20.66%) Visual Studio
2 17 (14.05%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (3.306%) NUnit
4 1 (0.826%) Hudson
4 1 (0.826%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.826%) Maven
4 1 (0.826%) ReSharper
4 1 (0.826%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.826%) Selenium
4 1 (0.826%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (0.826%) Ant
4 1 (0.826%) JUnit
General
1 11 (9.091%) Retail
2 9 (7.438%) Finance
3 7 (5.785%) Games
4 3 (2.479%) Investment Banking
4 3 (2.479%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.479%) Banking
4 3 (2.479%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.826%) Publishing
5 1 (0.826%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 61 (50.41%) Developer
2 36 (29.75%) .NET Developer
3 29 (23.97%) C# Developer
4 20 (16.53%) Architect
4 20 (16.53%) C# .NET Developer
5 19 (15.70%) Solutions Architect
6 16 (13.22%) Development Manager
7 15 (12.40%) Analyst
8 6 (4.959%) Developer Analyst
8 6 (4.959%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.959%) Analyst Programmer
8 6 (4.959%) Programmer
8 6 (4.959%) .NET Analyst Programmer
8 6 (4.959%) .NET Programmer
8 6 (4.959%) C# Analyst Programmer
8 6 (4.959%) C# Programmer
9 5 (4.132%) Lead Developer
10 4 (3.306%) ASP.NET Developer
10 4 (3.306%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.306%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.88%) N-Tier
2 12 (9.917%) Inversion of Control
3 9 (7.438%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.306%) Mathematics
4 4 (3.306%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.653%) Physics
5 2 (1.653%) Computer Science
5 2 (1.653%) Data Integration
5 2 (1.653%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (0.826%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 58 (47.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (35.54%) MVC
2 39 (32.23%) Scrum
3 38 (31.40%) TDD
4 31 (25.62%) E-Commerce
4 31 (25.62%) Web Development
5 22 (18.18%) ETL
5 22 (18.18%) Change Management
6 21 (17.36%) SOA
7 20 (16.53%) Unit Testing
8 18 (14.88%) BDD
9 17 (14.05%) Service Delivery
10 15 (12.40%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (11.57%) Refactoring
12 13 (10.74%) Dependency Injection
13 12 (9.917%) Data Analysis
13 12 (9.917%) OO
13 12 (9.917%) Project Management
14 7 (5.785%) Enterprise Architecture
14 7 (5.785%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 91 (75.21%) C#
2 29 (23.97%) JavaScript
3 22 (18.18%) SQL
4 18 (14.88%) VB
4 18 (14.88%) VB.NET
5 16 (13.22%) VBA
6 3 (2.479%) Java
6 3 (2.479%) C++
7 2 (1.653%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.653%) C
7 2 (1.653%) VB6
8 1 (0.826%) VBScript
8 1 (0.826%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (7.438%) Degree
2 4 (3.306%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.479%) MCP
3 3 (2.479%) MCAD
3 3 (2.479%) MCSD
3 3 (2.479%) ISEB
4 2 (1.653%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.88%) QA
Vendors
1 48 (39.67%) Microsoft
2 36 (29.75%) Oracle
3 19 (15.70%) XMPie
4 14 (11.57%) HP
5 9 (7.438%) Sybase
6 1 (0.826%) Twitter
6 1 (0.826%) Dundas
6 1 (0.826%) JBoss
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