The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT jobs advertised for the Northampton 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 Northampton region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 46 51 57
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +6
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 8 5 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 2.030% 1.092% 1.266%
As % of the Application Development category 4.908% 2.941% 2.791%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 6
Average salary £32,250 £40,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-19.37% +33.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £21,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £35,950 £40,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,000 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.36% +4.28%
All Application Development
Northampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
163 170 215
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 41.37% 37.12% 45.36%
Number of salaries quoted 150 168 201
Average salary £34,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.85% -
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £20,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
.NET Framework
Northamptonshire

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northampton .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 Northampton region.

Northampton .NET Framework Salary Trend

.NET Framework
Salary Histogram

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

Northampton .NET Framework Salary Histogram

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 22 (100.00%) .NET
2 21 (95.45%) C#
3 19 (86.36%) ASP.NET
4 16 (72.73%) SQL Server
5 11 (50.00%) CSS
5 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
6 10 (45.45%) TDD
6 10 (45.45%) Unit Testing
7 8 (36.36%) QA
7 8 (36.36%) SQL Server 2008
7 8 (36.36%) MVC
7 8 (36.36%) E-Commerce
7 8 (36.36%) XHTML
7 8 (36.36%) XML
8 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
8 7 (31.82%) N-Tier
8 7 (31.82%) SQL Server 2000
8 7 (31.82%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (31.82%) SQL Server 2005
9 6 (27.27%) Selenium
9 6 (27.27%) WPF
9 6 (27.27%) MS Excel
9 6 (27.27%) Visual Studio
9 6 (27.27%) Validation
10 5 (22.73%) SQL
10 5 (22.73%) ASP.NET MVC
11 4 (18.18%) Dependency Injection
11 4 (18.18%) WCF
11 4 (18.18%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 4 (18.18%) HTML

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 22 (100.00%) .NET
2 19 (86.36%) ASP.NET
3 11 (50.00%) CSS
4 8 (36.36%) XHTML
4 8 (36.36%) XML
5 6 (27.27%) WPF
6 5 (22.73%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (18.18%) WCF
7 4 (18.18%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 4 (18.18%) HTML
8 3 (13.64%) ASP
8 3 (13.64%) Castle Windsor
8 3 (13.64%) jQuery
8 3 (13.64%) HTML5
9 2 (9.091%) Spring.NET
9 2 (9.091%) Ninject
9 2 (9.091%) Unity DI Container
9 2 (9.091%) Razor View Engine
9 2 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 2 (9.091%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 3 (13.64%) IIS
2 1 (4.545%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) HTTP
2 1 (4.545%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (72.73%) SQL Server
2 8 (36.36%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (31.82%) SQL Server 2000
3 7 (31.82%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Selenium
1 6 (27.27%) Visual Studio
2 3 (13.64%) NUnit
3 2 (9.091%) Rhino Mocks
3 2 (9.091%) Moq
3 2 (9.091%) MSTest
4 1 (4.545%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (4.545%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Developer
2 10 (45.45%) Analyst
3 8 (36.36%) Test Analyst
4 5 (22.73%) .NET Developer
5 4 (18.18%) Automation Test Analyst
5 4 (18.18%) Automation Analyst
6 3 (13.64%) C# Developer
6 3 (13.64%) ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Web Developer
6 3 (13.64%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (13.64%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (9.091%) Graduate .NET Developer
7 2 (9.091%) Graduate
7 2 (9.091%) Junior
7 2 (9.091%) Junior Developer
7 2 (9.091%) Junior .NET Developer
7 2 (9.091%) Graduate Developer
7 2 (9.091%) Analyst Developer
8 1 (4.545%) Applications Support Analyst
8 1 (4.545%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) N-Tier
1 7 (31.82%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (13.64%) Inversion of Control
3 2 (9.091%) Computer Science
3 2 (9.091%) Tandem
4 1 (4.545%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
2 1 (4.545%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.545%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) TDD
1 10 (45.45%) Unit Testing
2 8 (36.36%) MVC
2 8 (36.36%) E-Commerce
3 6 (27.27%) Validation
4 4 (18.18%) Dependency Injection
4 4 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (13.64%) MVVM
5 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (9.091%) Kanban
6 2 (9.091%) Web Application Development
6 2 (9.091%) ITIL
6 2 (9.091%) PRINCE2
6 2 (9.091%) Configuration Management
6 2 (9.091%) Scrum
6 2 (9.091%) RUP
7 1 (4.545%) Automated Testing
7 1 (4.545%) Workflow
7 1 (4.545%) Change Management
7 1 (4.545%) OO
Programming Languages
1 21 (95.45%) C#
2 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
3 5 (22.73%) SQL
4 3 (13.64%) VB.NET
5 2 (9.091%) Java
6 1 (4.545%) VB6
6 1 (4.545%) XAML
6 1 (4.545%) PHP
6 1 (4.545%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) MCP
1 4 (18.18%) MCAD
1 4 (18.18%) MCSD
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (9.091%) MCTS
3 1 (4.545%) ISEB
3 1 (4.545%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft