Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for ASP.NET skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ASP.NET 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 Application Development category for the North West region.

 Microsoft ASP.NET
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank8613
Rank change year-on-year
Down-2Up+7
Matching permanent IT job ads81210541145
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West15.00 %18.46 %9.098 %
As % of the Application Development category36.59 %42.43 %27.91 %
Salaries quoted728950978
Average salary£31,500£30,000£30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.000 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,000£24,000£23,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£37,500£40,000£40,000
UK excluding London average salary£34,000£32,500£32,500
% change year-on-year
+4.610 %-
North West IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
221924844103
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West40.98 %43.50 %32.60 %
Salaries quoted199021753494
Average salary£32,500£30,000£32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.330 %-6.250 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£23,000£23,000£23,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£43,000£50,000£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
ASP.NET EnglandASP.NET
England

ASP.NET
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

North West ASP.NET Demand Trend

ASP.NET
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the North West region.

North West ASP.NET Salary Trend

ASP.NET
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the North West region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

North West ASP.NET Salary Histogram

ASP.NET
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ASP.NET within the North West 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
ManchesterNo change0529£31,500+10.52 %
CheshireDown-4162£30,000+7.14 %
LancashireDown-659£27,500-15.38 %
MerseysideDown-138£31,500+8.62 %
CumbriaUp+35£32,500-7.14 %
ASP.NET EnglandASP.NET
England

ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the North West region citing ASP.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 ASP.NET.

11651 (100.00 %).NET
21235 (74.80 %)C#
31203 (72.86 %)SQL Server
4685 (41.49 %)SQL
5652 (39.49 %)VB.NET
6530 (32.10 %)JavaScript
7517 (31.31 %)XML
8459 (27.80 %)CSS
9441 (26.71 %)HTML
10337 (20.41 %)Web Services
11312 (18.90 %)Windows
12311 (18.84 %)SQL Server 2005
13276 (16.72 %)Web Development
14275 (16.66 %)AJAX
15265 (16.05 %)Microsoft
16217 (13.14 %)OO
17205 (12.42 %)E-Commerce
18201 (12.17 %)VB
19196 (11.87 %)T-SQL
19196 (11.87 %)ASP
20187 (11.33 %)XHTML
21186 (11.27 %).NET Framework
22169 (10.24 %)WCF
23159 (9.631 %)MVC
24148 (8.964 %)Project Management
25140 (8.480 %)Visual Studio
26130 (7.874 %)XSLT
26130 (7.874 %)VB6
27128 (7.753 %)CMS
28126 (7.632 %)SQL Server 2000

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the North West region citing ASP.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 ASP.NET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

North West IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11651 (100.00 %).NET
2517 (31.31 %)XML
3459 (27.80 %)CSS
4441 (26.71 %)HTML
5337 (20.41 %)Web Services
6275 (16.66 %)AJAX
7196 (11.87 %)ASP
8187 (11.33 %)XHTML
9186 (11.27 %).NET Framework
10169 (10.24 %)WCF
11130 (7.874 %)XSLT
12122 (7.389 %)WinForms
13117 (7.087 %)LINQ
14116 (7.026 %)NHibernate
15103 (6.239 %)jQuery
1663 (3.816 %)DHTML
1759 (3.574 %)ASP.NET MVC
1858 (3.513 %)WPF
1941 (2.483 %)Flash
2038 (2.302 %)Silverlight
North West IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1128 (7.753 %)CMS
293 (5.633 %)IIS
345 (2.726 %)SharePoint
426 (1.575 %)BizTalk Server
525 (1.514 %)SharePoint Server 2007
617 (1.030 %)Umbraco
715 (0.909 %)EPiServer
89 (0.545 %)MS Exchange
98 (0.485 %)ColdFusion
104 (0.242 %)Content Management Server
112 (0.121 %)SharePoint Portal Server
121 (0.061 %)Apache
121 (0.061 %)Immediacy CMS
North West IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1102 (6.178 %)MS Excel
253 (3.210 %)Photoshop
322 (1.333 %)Fireworks
415 (0.909 %)MS Visio
58 (0.485 %)MS Office
64 (0.242 %)Adobe Illustrator
71 (0.061 %)InfoPath
North West IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
18 (0.485 %)Microsoft CRM
18 (0.485 %)Dynamics CRM
21 (0.061 %)Google Analytics
21 (0.061 %)Pivotal CRM
North West IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
163 (3.816 %)Internet
258 (3.513 %)Intranet
311 (0.666 %)HTTP
49 (0.545 %)CTI
57 (0.424 %)SAN
57 (0.424 %)Extranet
63 (0.182 %)TCP/IP
72 (0.121 %)HTTPS
81 (0.061 %)DNS
81 (0.061 %)LAN
81 (0.061 %)WAN
81 (0.061 %)DHCP
81 (0.061 %)SMPP
81 (0.061 %)DAB
81 (0.061 %)Firewall
81 (0.061 %)iSCSI
North West IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11203 (72.86 %)SQL Server
2311 (18.84 %)SQL Server 2005
3126 (7.632 %)SQL Server 2000
4108 (6.541 %)SQL Server 2008
553 (3.210 %)MySQL
643 (2.604 %)RDBMS
734 (2.059 %)Crystal Reports
825 (1.514 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
920 (1.211 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1016 (0.969 %)BusinessObjects
1114 (0.848 %)OLTP
1213 (0.787 %)MS Access
1213 (0.787 %)Datawarehouse
138 (0.485 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
147 (0.424 %)DTS
147 (0.424 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
155 (0.303 %)Informix
164 (0.242 %)Oracle 10g
164 (0.242 %)Oracle 11g
173 (0.182 %)InterBase
North West IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1140 (8.480 %)Visual Studio
268 (4.119 %)Subversion
343 (2.604 %)VSS/SourceSafe
422 (1.333 %)NUnit
518 (1.090 %)Dreamweaver
65 (0.303 %)PowerBuilder
65 (0.303 %)Ant
74 (0.242 %)Team Foundation Server
83 (0.182 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
83 (0.182 %)Oracle APEX
83 (0.182 %)Oracle Forms
92 (0.121 %)InstallShield
92 (0.121 %)CruiseControl
92 (0.121 %)FrontPage
92 (0.121 %)MSTest
101 (0.061 %)NDepend
101 (0.061 %)ReSharper
101 (0.061 %)WATIR
101 (0.061 %)Selenium
101 (0.061 %)FitNesse
North West IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
197 (5.875 %)Finance
288 (5.330 %)Pensions
386 (5.209 %)Marketing
461 (3.695 %)Retail
547 (2.847 %)Health
619 (1.151 %)Education
717 (1.030 %)Telecoms
815 (0.909 %)Insurance
914 (0.848 %)Billing
1012 (0.727 %)Legal
1111 (0.666 %)Government
128 (0.485 %)Manufacturing
134 (0.242 %)Advertising
134 (0.242 %)Local Government
134 (0.242 %)Graphic Design
134 (0.242 %)Banking
142 (0.121 %)Interactive Media
142 (0.121 %)Social Media
142 (0.121 %)Games
142 (0.121 %)Construction
North West IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11390 (84.19 %)Developer
2891 (53.97 %).NET Developer
3506 (30.65 %)Web Developer
4488 (29.56 %)C# Developer
5371 (22.47 %)ASP.NET Developer
6283 (17.14 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
7243 (14.72 %).NET Web Developer
8216 (13.08 %)VB.NET Developer
9211 (12.78 %)Senior Developer
10204 (12.36 %)C# Web Developer
11126 (7.632 %)Senior .NET Developer
12120 (7.268 %)Software Developer
13116 (7.026 %)Applications Developer
14108 (6.541 %)Team Leader
1597 (5.875 %)VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
1681 (4.906 %)Analyst
1777 (4.664 %).NET Team Leader
1874 (4.482 %)Web Applications Developer
1967 (4.058 %)Senior C# Developer
2060 (3.634 %)Senior Web Developer
North West IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1100 (6.057 %)N-Tier
227 (1.635 %)Computer Science
319 (1.151 %)Client/Server
416 (0.969 %)Google App Engine
511 (0.666 %)E-Learning
511 (0.666 %)W3C
68 (0.485 %)BBC
68 (0.485 %)Multithreading
76 (0.363 %)Open Source
85 (0.303 %)iPhone
85 (0.303 %)PDA
94 (0.242 %)Data Integration
102 (0.121 %)RIA
102 (0.121 %)Blog
111 (0.061 %)Social Network
111 (0.061 %)Fat Client
111 (0.061 %)Pocket PC
111 (0.061 %)Handset
111 (0.061 %)Clustering
111 (0.061 %)Thin Client
North West IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1312 (18.90 %)Windows
232 (1.938 %)Windows Server 2003
320 (1.211 %)Windows Server 2008
415 (0.909 %)Windows Mobile
513 (0.787 %)Linux
69 (0.545 %)UNIX
78 (0.485 %)Windows 2000
85 (0.303 %)Solaris
93 (0.182 %)Windows CE
101 (0.061 %)Windows 2000 Server
101 (0.061 %)Windows 7
101 (0.061 %)Windows XP
101 (0.061 %)Windows Vista
101 (0.061 %)Android
North West IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1276 (16.72 %)Web Development
2217 (13.14 %)OO
3205 (12.42 %)E-Commerce
4159 (9.631 %)MVC
5148 (8.964 %)Project Management
6102 (6.178 %)Agile Software Development
783 (5.027 %)OOP
865 (3.937 %)OOA/OOD
960 (3.634 %)Requirements Analysis
1058 (3.513 %)Unit Testing
1157 (3.452 %)CRM
1157 (3.452 %)Content Management
1241 (2.483 %)UML
1338 (2.302 %)Scrum
1436 (2.180 %)SEO
1533 (1.999 %)OOD
1632 (1.938 %)Web Design
1730 (1.817 %)TDD
1828 (1.696 %)Online Marketing
1922 (1.333 %)SOA
North West IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11235 (74.80 %)C#
2685 (41.49 %)SQL
3652 (39.49 %)VB.NET
4530 (32.10 %)JavaScript
5201 (12.17 %)VB
6196 (11.87 %)T-SQL
7130 (7.874 %)VB6
891 (5.512 %)PHP
944 (2.665 %)C
1033 (1.999 %)VBScript
1129 (1.757 %)XPath
1220 (1.211 %)Python
1220 (1.211 %)Java
1317 (1.030 %)FoxPro (VFP)
1416 (0.969 %)VBA
1515 (0.909 %)C++
1612 (0.727 %)Delphi
1711 (0.666 %)Perl
1810 (0.606 %)PL/SQL
194 (0.242 %)ActionScript
North West IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1124 (7.511 %)Degree
218 (1.090 %)Microsoft Certification
313 (0.787 %)PRINCE2 Certification
49 (0.545 %)MCSE
54 (0.242 %)ITIL Certification
54 (0.242 %)MCSD
63 (0.182 %)MCTS
72 (0.121 %)MCAD
72 (0.121 %)Security Cleared
North West IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
143 (2.604 %)QA
21 (0.061 %)SLA
North West IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
19 (0.545 %)VMware Infrastructure
26 (0.363 %)Active Directory
32 (0.121 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
41 (0.061 %)ISA Server
North West IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (0.061 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
North West IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1265 (16.05 %)Microsoft
230 (1.817 %)Oracle
319 (1.151 %)Sybase
319 (1.151 %)Adobe
418 (1.090 %)Google
516 (0.969 %)Business Objects
69 (0.545 %)Alcatel
69 (0.545 %)VMware
76 (0.363 %)Intel
85 (0.303 %)Sun
94 (0.242 %)Hitachi
94 (0.242 %)Red Hat
102 (0.121 %)Infragistics
102 (0.121 %)Zend
102 (0.121 %)ION Trading
102 (0.121 %)Tridion
111 (0.061 %)telerik
111 (0.061 %)Visualfiles
111 (0.061 %)RedDot
111 (0.061 %)AppSense