The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT jobs advertised for the Rochdale region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 17 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 Rochdale region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 8 4 6
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 3 20 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Rochdale 16.67% 28.99% 30.77%
As % of the Application Development category 75.00% 64.52% 46.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3 20 12
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +33.92%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,200 £30,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,000 £50,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
All Application Development
Rochdale
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
4 31 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Rochdale 22.22% 44.93% 66.67%
Number of salaries quoted 4 31 26
Average salary £34,500 £32,500 £26,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.15% +22.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £24,000 £18,000
10% offered a salary of more than £36,750 £37,500 £42,400
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
.NET
Manchester

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Rochdale .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 Rochdale region.

Rochdale .NET Salary Trend

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Rochdale 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 11 (100.00%) C#
2 8 (72.73%) T-SQL
2 8 (72.73%) SQL Server
3 6 (54.55%) ASP.NET
4 5 (45.45%) VB.NET
4 5 (45.45%) MVC
4 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
4 5 (45.45%) WCF
5 4 (36.36%) iPhone
5 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (36.36%) LINQ
5 4 (36.36%) jQuery
5 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET MVC
5 4 (36.36%) Dependency Injection
5 4 (36.36%) Ninject
5 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 4 (36.36%) OOD
5 4 (36.36%) SQL
5 4 (36.36%) Visual Studio
5 4 (36.36%) OO
6 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
6 3 (27.27%) DTS
6 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (27.27%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2000
6 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2012
6 3 (27.27%) Database Security
6 3 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (27.27%) Data Architecture
6 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Rochdale 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 6 (54.55%) ASP.NET
2 5 (45.45%) WCF
3 4 (36.36%) LINQ
3 4 (36.36%) jQuery
3 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (36.36%) Ninject
3 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (9.091%) CSS
4 1 (9.091%) Web Services
4 1 (9.091%) WinForms
4 1 (9.091%) WPF
4 1 (9.091%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
1 3 (27.27%) BizTalk Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) Broadband
1 1 (9.091%) VPN
1 1 (9.091%) Internet
1 1 (9.091%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (27.27%) DTS
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2000
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (27.27%) Retail
2 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Web Developer
3 3 (27.27%) DBA
3 3 (27.27%) BizTalk Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Administrator
5 1 (9.091%) Systems Developer
5 1 (9.091%) SQL DBA
5 1 (9.091%) Junior Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Graduate Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Teradata DBA
5 1 (9.091%) Graduate
5 1 (9.091%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) iPhone
2 1 (9.091%) N-Tier
2 1 (9.091%) Mathematics
2 1 (9.091%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) MVC
2 4 (36.36%) Dependency Injection
2 4 (36.36%) OO
2 4 (36.36%) OOD
3 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (27.27%) Security Management
3 3 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (27.27%) Data Architecture
3 3 (27.27%) Database Security
4 1 (9.091%) MVVM
4 1 (9.091%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) C#
2 8 (72.73%) T-SQL
3 5 (45.45%) VB.NET
4 4 (36.36%) SQL
5 1 (9.091%) VB6
5 1 (9.091%) VB
5 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.091%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) Citrix
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