Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C# over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Manchester region.

 C#
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank549
Rank change year-on-year
Down-1Up+5
Matching permanent IT job ads551527659
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester20.44 %19.44 %11.57 %
As % of the Programming Languages category36.76 %35.80 %28.09 %
Salaries quoted509449560
Average salary£32,500£30,000£33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.330 %-10.44 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£21,500£22,700£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£44,000£41,600£62,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
Manchester IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
149914722346
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester55.60 %54.30 %41.20 %
Salaries quoted137512491960
Average salary£30,000£29,000£31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.440 %-7.930 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£21,500£22,500£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£42,500£48,500£42,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£34,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.440 %
C# North WestC#
North West

C#
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing C# across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Manchester C# Demand Trend

C#
Salary Trend

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

Manchester C# Salary Trend

C#
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C# across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Manchester C# Salary Histogram

C#
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
OldhamNo change026£22,000-8.33 %
StockportDown-69£29,250+6.36 %
SaleNew entry-4--
BoltonUp+53£27,500-15.38 %
RochdaleDown-13£20,000-33.33 %
BuryNew entry-3£25,250-
SalfordDown-42£42,500+21.42 %
CheadleUp+31£25,000-37.50 %
C# North WestC#
North West

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Manchester 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#.

11018 (94.43 %).NET
2783 (72.63 %)ASP.NET
3652 (60.48 %)SQL Server
4436 (40.45 %)SQL
5335 (31.08 %)VB.NET
6257 (23.84 %)XML
7245 (22.73 %)JavaScript
8224 (20.78 %)Windows
9218 (20.22 %)CSS
10205 (19.02 %)Web Services
11183 (16.98 %)Microsoft
12177 (16.42 %)VB
13162 (15.03 %)Web Development
14160 (14.84 %)HTML
15145 (13.45 %)Project Management
16134 (12.43 %).NET Framework
17132 (12.24 %)MVC
18131 (12.15 %)OO
19122 (11.32 %)WinForms
19122 (11.32 %)SQL Server 2005
20118 (10.95 %)NHibernate
21108 (10.02 %)AJAX
22106 (9.833 %)E-Commerce
23100 (9.276 %)WCF
2497 (8.998 %)XHTML
2583 (7.699 %)Degree
2679 (7.328 %)ASP
2776 (7.050 %)Java
2874 (6.865 %)UML
2874 (6.865 %)Subversion

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Manchester 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.

Manchester IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11018 (94.43 %).NET
2783 (72.63 %)ASP.NET
3257 (23.84 %)XML
4218 (20.22 %)CSS
5205 (19.02 %)Web Services
6160 (14.84 %)HTML
7134 (12.43 %).NET Framework
8122 (11.32 %)WinForms
9118 (10.95 %)NHibernate
10108 (10.02 %)AJAX
11100 (9.276 %)WCF
1297 (8.998 %)XHTML
1379 (7.328 %)ASP
1454 (5.009 %)LINQ
1549 (4.545 %)jQuery
1634 (3.154 %)XSLT
1733 (3.061 %)WPF
1832 (2.968 %)ASP.NET MVC
1925 (2.319 %)Silverlight
2024 (2.226 %)Flash
Manchester IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
166 (6.122 %)CMS
253 (4.917 %)IIS
317 (1.577 %)Umbraco
416 (1.484 %)SharePoint
513 (1.206 %)BizTalk Server
513 (1.206 %)SharePoint Server 2007
69 (0.835 %)EPiServer
78 (0.742 %)ColdFusion
84 (0.371 %)Content Management Server
93 (0.278 %)Plone
93 (0.278 %)MS Exchange
93 (0.278 %)WordPress
93 (0.278 %)Drupal
101 (0.093 %)Apache
Manchester IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
154 (5.009 %)MS Excel
214 (1.299 %)Photoshop
38 (0.742 %)MS Project
46 (0.557 %)MS Visio
53 (0.278 %)MS Office
61 (0.093 %)InfoPath
Manchester IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (0.093 %)JDE OneWorld
11 (0.093 %)Pivotal CRM
Manchester IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
138 (3.525 %)Internet
210 (0.928 %)HTTP
39 (0.835 %)TCP/IP
39 (0.835 %)CTI
39 (0.835 %)Intranet
47 (0.649 %)LAN
47 (0.649 %)WAN
53 (0.278 %)Extranet
53 (0.278 %)SAN
61 (0.093 %)DAB
61 (0.093 %)DHCP
61 (0.093 %)DNS
61 (0.093 %)HTTPS
Manchester IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1652 (60.48 %)SQL Server
2122 (11.32 %)SQL Server 2005
345 (4.174 %)SQL Server 2000
441 (3.803 %)MySQL
441 (3.803 %)SQL Server 2008
536 (3.340 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
624 (2.226 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
723 (2.134 %)SQL Server Integration Services
821 (1.948 %)Datawarehouse
920 (1.855 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1016 (1.484 %)DB2
1112 (1.113 %)Crystal Reports
129 (0.835 %)RDBMS
137 (0.649 %)DTS
146 (0.557 %)GIS
155 (0.464 %)BusinessObjects
163 (0.278 %)InterBase
163 (0.278 %)Firebird
172 (0.186 %)Informix
181 (0.093 %)Oracle 8/8i
Manchester IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
174 (6.865 %)Subversion
266 (6.122 %)Visual Studio
327 (2.505 %)NUnit
416 (1.484 %)ProC
510 (0.928 %)VSS/SourceSafe
65 (0.464 %)InstallShield
65 (0.464 %)Zend Studio
74 (0.371 %)PVCS
83 (0.278 %)Ant
83 (0.278 %)Xcode
83 (0.278 %)Eclipse
83 (0.278 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
92 (0.186 %)csUnit
92 (0.186 %)PowerBuilder
92 (0.186 %)CruiseControl
101 (0.093 %)CppUnit
101 (0.093 %)FrontPage
101 (0.093 %)ReSharper
101 (0.093 %)WATIR
101 (0.093 %)Selenium
Manchester IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
164 (5.937 %)Finance
248 (4.453 %)Pensions
329 (2.690 %)Marketing
428 (2.597 %)Billing
518 (1.670 %)Retail
617 (1.577 %)Insurance
617 (1.577 %)Health
713 (1.206 %)Education
811 (1.020 %)Telecoms
97 (0.649 %)Legal
104 (0.371 %)Advertising
113 (0.278 %)Banking
122 (0.186 %)Multimedia
122 (0.186 %)Publishing
122 (0.186 %)Back Office
131 (0.093 %)Government
131 (0.093 %)Games
131 (0.093 %)Local Government
131 (0.093 %)Auditing
Manchester IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1849 (78.76 %)Developer
2535 (49.63 %).NET Developer
3353 (32.75 %)C# Developer
4243 (22.54 %)Web Developer
5171 (15.86 %)ASP.NET Developer
6165 (15.31 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
7135 (12.52 %)Senior Developer
8111 (10.30 %).NET Web Developer
9107 (9.926 %)C# Web Developer
1093 (8.627 %)Software Developer
1192 (8.534 %)Team Leader
1282 (7.607 %)Senior .NET Developer
1377 (7.143 %)VB.NET Developer
1472 (6.679 %)Applications Developer
1552 (4.824 %)Senior C# Developer
1552 (4.824 %).NET Team Leader
1647 (4.360 %)Web Applications Developer
1746 (4.267 %)SQL Developer
1746 (4.267 %)Analyst
1845 (4.174 %)C# Application Developer
Manchester IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
150 (4.638 %)N-Tier
223 (2.134 %)Computer Science
316 (1.484 %)Google App Engine
316 (1.484 %)Replication
412 (1.113 %)Open Source
59 (0.835 %)Client/Server
68 (0.742 %)BBC
77 (0.649 %)Multithreading
85 (0.464 %)Mathematics
85 (0.464 %)Device Driver
94 (0.371 %)CCTV
103 (0.278 %)W3C
112 (0.186 %)Handset
112 (0.186 %)PDA
112 (0.186 %)Blog
112 (0.186 %)RIA
112 (0.186 %)iPhone
121 (0.093 %)E-Learning
121 (0.093 %)Pocket PC
Manchester IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1224 (20.78 %)Windows
222 (2.041 %)UNIX
39 (0.835 %)Windows Mobile
39 (0.835 %)Windows Server 2003
45 (0.464 %)Solaris
54 (0.371 %)VxWorks
63 (0.278 %)AIX
63 (0.278 %)Linux
72 (0.186 %)Windows 2000
72 (0.186 %)Windows XP
81 (0.093 %)Windows Vista
81 (0.093 %)Windows 2000 Server
Manchester IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1162 (15.03 %)Web Development
2145 (13.45 %)Project Management
3132 (12.24 %)MVC
4131 (12.15 %)OO
5106 (9.833 %)E-Commerce
674 (6.865 %)UML
771 (6.586 %)Agile Software Development
838 (3.525 %)Unit Testing
937 (3.432 %)OOP
1030 (2.783 %)CRM
1030 (2.783 %)Web Design
1127 (2.505 %)Content Management
1127 (2.505 %)Requirements Analysis
1225 (2.319 %)TDD
1322 (2.041 %)OOD
1421 (1.948 %)Scrum
1520 (1.855 %)Continuous Integration
1614 (1.299 %)Software Architecture
1713 (1.206 %)Technical Architecture
1812 (1.113 %)OOA/OOD
Manchester IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1436 (40.45 %)SQL
2335 (31.08 %)VB.NET
3245 (22.73 %)JavaScript
4177 (16.42 %)VB
576 (7.050 %)Java
671 (6.586 %)VB6
753 (4.917 %)PHP
852 (4.824 %)C
950 (4.638 %)C++
950 (4.638 %)T-SQL
1024 (2.226 %)FoxPro (VFP)
1120 (1.855 %)Python
1215 (1.391 %)Perl
139 (0.835 %)PHP5
147 (0.649 %)Ruby
156 (0.557 %)Shell Script
163 (0.278 %)XAML
163 (0.278 %)Delphi
163 (0.278 %)PL/SQL
163 (0.278 %)Embedded C
Manchester IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
183 (7.699 %)Degree
217 (1.577 %)Microsoft Certification
312 (1.113 %)MCTS
411 (1.020 %)MCPD
510 (0.928 %)Security Cleared
62 (0.186 %)MCSD
62 (0.186 %)MCSE
71 (0.093 %)SCJP
71 (0.093 %)SCJA
Manchester IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
141 (3.803 %)QA
Manchester IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (0.186 %)Active Directory
12 (0.186 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
12 (0.186 %)VMware Infrastructure
21 (0.093 %)MSMQ
Manchester IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (0.278 %)Data Guard
Manchester IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1183 (16.98 %)Microsoft
273 (6.772 %)Oracle
317 (1.577 %)Google
410 (0.928 %)IBM
59 (0.835 %)Alcatel
67 (0.649 %)Adobe
76 (0.557 %)Intel
85 (0.464 %)Business Objects
85 (0.464 %)Zend
94 (0.371 %)Hitachi
103 (0.278 %)JBoss
103 (0.278 %)HP
112 (0.186 %)Infragistics
112 (0.186 %)VMware
112 (0.186 %)Sun
121 (0.093 %)JD Edwards
121 (0.093 %)Sage
121 (0.093 %)telerik
121 (0.093 %)Visualfiles