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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 47 62 67
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +5
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 216 143 116
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 5.275% 3.946% 2.934%
As % of the Application Development category 10.13% 8.171% 6.897%
Number of salaries quoted 201 134 113
Average salary £35,000 £33,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.06% +4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,100 £24,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,000 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.36% +4.28%
All Application Development
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2132 1750 1682
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 52.06% 48.29% 42.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1954 1598 1559
Average salary £35,000 £33,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
.NET Framework
North West

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester .NET Framework Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Framework
Salary Trend

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

Manchester .NET Framework Salary Trend

.NET Framework
Salary Histogram

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

Manchester .NET Framework Salary Histogram

.NET Framework
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Stockport +13 27 £29,000 +16.00%
Wigan +21 17 £27,500 -17.29%
Bolton +3 5 £41,500 +23.88%
Cheadle - 3 £35,000 -
Oldham +3 2 £39,246 +56.98%
Altrincham -8 2 £35,500 -7.18%
Sale - 1 £33,500 -
.NET Framework
North West

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing .NET Framework 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 Framework.

1 433 (100.00%) .NET
2 387 (89.38%) C#
3 357 (82.45%) ASP.NET
4 252 (58.20%) SQL Server
5 237 (54.73%) MVC
6 230 (53.12%) SQL
7 208 (48.04%) JavaScript
8 184 (42.49%) CSS
9 182 (42.03%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 172 (39.72%) WCF
11 171 (39.49%) HTML
12 143 (33.03%) ASP.NET MVC
13 131 (30.25%) TDD
14 129 (29.79%) LINQ
15 128 (29.56%) Microsoft
16 127 (29.33%) Agile Software Development
17 107 (24.71%) OO
18 100 (23.09%) Web Services
19 92 (21.25%) Windows
19 92 (21.25%) jQuery
20 88 (20.32%) Visual Studio
21 87 (20.09%) SharePoint
22 84 (19.40%) Degree
23 78 (18.01%) T-SQL
24 75 (17.32%) Ajax
25 70 (16.17%) WPF
26 65 (15.01%) E-Commerce
26 65 (15.01%) UML
27 61 (14.09%) MS Excel
28 60 (13.86%) XML

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing .NET Framework 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 Framework. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 433 (100.00%) .NET
2 357 (82.45%) ASP.NET
3 184 (42.49%) CSS
4 182 (42.03%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 172 (39.72%) WCF
6 171 (39.49%) HTML
7 143 (33.03%) ASP.NET MVC
8 129 (29.79%) LINQ
9 100 (23.09%) Web Services
10 92 (21.25%) jQuery
11 75 (17.32%) Ajax
12 70 (16.17%) WPF
13 60 (13.86%) XML
14 51 (11.78%) WinForms
15 48 (11.09%) NHibernate
16 43 (9.931%) Silverlight
17 41 (9.469%) Razor View Engine
18 34 (7.852%) HTML5
19 28 (6.467%) ASP
20 27 (6.236%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 87 (20.09%) SharePoint
2 51 (11.78%) CMS
3 38 (8.776%) IIS
4 31 (7.159%) Windows Azure
5 22 (5.081%) BizTalk Server
6 19 (4.388%) SharePoint 2010
7 15 (3.464%) SharePoint Server
8 11 (2.540%) SharePoint Foundation
9 8 (1.848%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.924%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.462%) Zen Cart
11 2 (0.462%) Sitefinity
12 1 (0.231%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 61 (14.09%) MS Excel
2 12 (2.771%) MS Office
3 11 (2.540%) InfoPath
4 2 (0.462%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.231%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 29 (6.697%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.617%) Bond Adapt
2 7 (1.617%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.309%) Intranet
2 5 (1.155%) CTI
3 4 (0.924%) DNS
3 4 (0.924%) Internet
4 2 (0.462%) Extranet
4 2 (0.462%) NFC
5 1 (0.231%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (58.20%) SQL Server
2 56 (12.93%) SQL Server 2008
3 26 (6.005%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 20 (4.619%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (3.233%) SQL Server 2005
6 10 (2.309%) Crystal Reports
7 7 (1.617%) SQL Server 2012
8 3 (0.693%) SQL Server 2000
8 3 (0.693%) MySQL
9 2 (0.462%) Oracle 8/8i
10 1 (0.231%) Oracle 10g
10 1 (0.231%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.231%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 88 (20.32%) Visual Studio
2 39 (9.007%) NUnit
3 17 (3.926%) Subversion
4 12 (2.771%) CruiseControl
4 12 (2.771%) Visual Studio Team System
4 12 (2.771%) MSBuild
5 11 (2.540%) Moq
6 10 (2.309%) MSTest
7 8 (1.848%) Rhino Mocks
8 6 (1.386%) Git (software)
9 5 (1.155%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.924%) Dreamweaver
11 3 (0.693%) Selenium
12 2 (0.462%) TortoiseSVN
12 2 (0.462%) VisualSVN
13 1 (0.231%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 40 (9.238%) Finance
2 10 (2.309%) Marketing
2 10 (2.309%) Retail
3 8 (1.848%) Back Office
4 7 (1.617%) Legal
4 7 (1.617%) Telecoms
5 5 (1.155%) Law
6 1 (0.231%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 383 (88.45%) Developer
2 210 (48.50%) .NET Developer
3 134 (30.95%) C# Developer
4 121 (27.94%) C# .NET Developer
5 88 (20.32%) ASP.NET Developer
6 75 (17.32%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 73 (16.86%) Senior Developer
8 67 (15.47%) Web Developer
9 52 (12.01%) Software Developer
10 41 (9.469%) Junior Developer
10 41 (9.469%) Junior
11 38 (8.776%) Senior C# Developer
12 37 (8.545%) Senior .NET Developer
13 29 (6.697%) .NET Web Developer
14 27 (6.236%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
15 24 (5.543%) Agile C# Developer
16 22 (5.081%) .NET Software Developer
17 19 (4.388%) Lead Developer
18 18 (4.157%) Programmer
18 18 (4.157%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 49 (11.32%) N-Tier
2 41 (9.469%) Computer Science
3 18 (4.157%) Mobile App
4 10 (2.309%) Smartphone
4 10 (2.309%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.079%) Social Media
6 8 (1.848%) RIA
6 8 (1.848%) Inversion of Control
7 7 (1.617%) LIMS
8 6 (1.386%) Informatics
9 5 (1.155%) iPad
9 5 (1.155%) iPhone
10 3 (0.693%) New Media
11 2 (0.462%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.462%) Augmented Reality
11 2 (0.462%) FMCG
12 1 (0.231%) SaaS
12 1 (0.231%) NHS
12 1 (0.231%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 92 (21.25%) Windows
2 11 (2.540%) Android
3 7 (1.617%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.386%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.924%) Windows Mobile
6 3 (0.693%) Windows Phone
7 2 (0.462%) UNIX
7 2 (0.462%) Windows 8
7 2 (0.462%) Windows Phone 8
8 1 (0.231%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (54.73%) MVC
2 131 (30.25%) TDD
3 127 (29.33%) Agile Software Development
4 107 (24.71%) OO
5 65 (15.01%) E-Commerce
5 65 (15.01%) UML
6 56 (12.93%) Web Development
7 49 (11.32%) Unit Testing
8 40 (9.238%) Software Engineering
9 39 (9.007%) Scrum
10 36 (8.314%) CRM
11 32 (7.390%) Continuous Integration
12 23 (5.312%) Enterprise Architecture
13 22 (5.081%) OOP
14 20 (4.619%) BDD
15 19 (4.388%) Project Management
16 16 (3.695%) Web Application Development
17 15 (3.464%) MVVM
17 15 (3.464%) OOA/OOD
18 14 (3.233%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 387 (89.38%) C#
2 230 (53.12%) SQL
3 208 (48.04%) JavaScript
4 78 (18.01%) T-SQL
5 49 (11.32%) VB.NET
6 9 (2.079%) VB
6 9 (2.079%) Java
6 9 (2.079%) C++
7 8 (1.848%) XAML
8 7 (1.617%) VBScript
8 7 (1.617%) PHP
9 6 (1.386%) X++
10 3 (0.693%) VB6
11 2 (0.462%) ABAP
11 2 (0.462%) XPath
12 1 (0.231%) PHP5
12 1 (0.231%) C
12 1 (0.231%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (19.40%) Degree
2 41 (9.469%) Security Cleared
3 29 (6.697%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (3.695%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.464%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.233%) MCTS
7 13 (3.002%) MCP
8 12 (2.771%) MCSD
9 11 (2.540%) MCAD
10 7 (1.617%) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.079%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.231%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 128 (29.56%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.390%) Telerik
3 20 (4.619%) Infragistics
4 14 (3.233%) Oracle
5 12 (2.771%) Sitecore
6 8 (1.848%) DevExpress
7 6 (1.386%) VMware
8 5 (1.155%) Google
8 5 (1.155%) Adobe
9 3 (0.693%) Twitter
9 3 (0.693%) SAP
10 2 (0.462%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.462%) Fujitsu
11 1 (0.231%) Apple
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JAM
Salary: £25000 - £32000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 2 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
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Kingfisher Consultancy
Salary: £30000 - £38000 per annum + pension, life assurance
Posted: 17 May 2013
Salford, Lancashire
Essential skills / experience: - C# - .NET Framework 4.0 - SQL Server 2008 Desirable skills / experience: - MVC - JavaScript - WPF and WCF The Senior C# Developer with skills in .Net, MVC,...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
We are currently seeking an exceptional and enthusiastic Senior C# Developer/Technical Lead to join one of Manchester flagship companies. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Stockport, North West
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IT Ventures Ltd
Salary: £28000 - £30000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 29 April 2013
Manchester, North West
Net Software Engineer / Developer - Upto £35k + Great Benefits - ManchesterWorking for one of the North West's leading software houses who are currently enjoying a significant period of growth,...
JAM
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 2 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
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Lorien Resourcing
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Posted: 21 May 2013
Cheadle, Cheshire
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Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 32,000 - 40,000
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 4 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
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Circle Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £43000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 22 May 2013
Manchester, North West
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Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
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Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits
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Manchester, Lancashire
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Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + 5K bens/bonus
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Circle Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £46000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 23 May 2013
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Manchester, North West
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Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 8 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
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Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
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Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum
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Manchester, North West
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Amoria Bond
Salary: £20000 - £28000 per annum + Pension, Healthcare and PMI
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Amoria Bond
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + Pension, Healthcare
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Stafford-Sharp Associates
Salary: From £40,000 to £45,000 per annum + Bens + Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
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Pertemps IT
Salary: £0 to £45000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Wigan, North West
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Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £37000 per annum + +Great Benefits
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Applause IT Innovation
Salary: £37000 - £40000 per annum + +Bens
Posted: 22 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
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Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £18000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Manchester, North West
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Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £38000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 10 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
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LA International
Salary: £38000 - £45000 per annum + Excellent Benefits Package
Posted: 22 May 2013
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Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £38000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
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