The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET Framework over the 3 months to 21 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 60 51 108
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +57
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 110 118 51
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 3.472% 3.382% 1.499%
As % of the Application Development category 8.296% 9.641% 4.374%
Number of salaries quoted 60 94 43
Average salary £31,750 £35,000 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.28% +1.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,100 £29,350 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,750 £62,300
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.28%
All Application Development
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1326 1224 1166
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 41.86% 35.08% 34.26%
Number of salaries quoted 803 990 865
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £46,100
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
.NET Framework
UK

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland .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 Scotland region.

Scotland .NET Framework Salary Trend

.NET Framework
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing .NET Framework across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Scotland .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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 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
Edinburgh +7 52 £31,000 -11.42%
Glasgow -16 40 £45,000 +28.57%
Dundee -5 13 £31,000 -22.50%
Aberdeen +7 11 £38,750 -3.12%
Fife - 2 £31,250 -
Renfrewshire - 1 - -
Aberdeenshire - 1 - -
.NET Framework
UK

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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.

1 199 (100.00%) .NET
2 179 (89.95%) C#
3 114 (57.29%) ASP.NET
4 112 (56.28%) SQL Server
5 109 (54.77%) Microsoft
6 93 (46.73%) JavaScript
7 77 (38.69%) WCF
8 75 (37.69%) jQuery
9 69 (34.67%) MVC
9 69 (34.67%) Finance
10 67 (33.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 65 (32.66%) SQL
12 64 (32.16%) ASP.NET MVC
13 57 (28.64%) Visual Studio
13 57 (28.64%) XML
14 55 (27.64%) HTML
14 55 (27.64%) Scrum
15 54 (27.14%) CSS
16 51 (25.63%) Degree
17 48 (24.12%) Agile Software Development
18 46 (23.12%) Team Foundation Server
19 45 (22.61%) Unit Testing
20 41 (20.60%) MS Excel
21 39 (19.60%) Ajax
22 37 (18.59%) TDD
22 37 (18.59%) OO
23 33 (16.58%) Java
24 31 (15.58%) WPF
25 30 (15.08%) Windows
26 29 (14.57%) SQL Server 2008

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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
1 199 (100.00%) .NET
2 114 (57.29%) ASP.NET
3 77 (38.69%) WCF
4 75 (37.69%) jQuery
5 67 (33.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 64 (32.16%) ASP.NET MVC
7 57 (28.64%) XML
8 55 (27.64%) HTML
9 54 (27.14%) CSS
10 39 (19.60%) Ajax
11 31 (15.58%) WPF
12 26 (13.07%) ASP.NET MVC 3
13 22 (11.06%) Web Services
14 21 (10.55%) NHibernate
15 20 (10.05%) XSLT
16 19 (9.548%) HTML5
17 18 (9.045%) WinForms
17 18 (9.045%) LINQ
18 16 (8.040%) ASP
19 12 (6.030%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 18 (9.045%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.025%) IIS
3 7 (3.518%) TIBCO EMS
3 7 (3.518%) WebSphere MQ
4 6 (3.015%) MSMQ
5 5 (2.513%) NServiceBus
6 3 (1.508%) Windows Azure
6 3 (1.508%) Captiva
6 3 (1.508%) Apache
6 3 (1.508%) MTS
6 3 (1.508%) Documentum
7 2 (1.005%) LiveLink
7 2 (1.005%) CMS
7 2 (1.005%) FileNet
7 2 (1.005%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (1.005%) Alfresco
7 2 (1.005%) Umbraco
7 2 (1.005%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.503%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.503%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 41 (20.60%) MS Excel
2 7 (3.518%) MS Office
3 2 (1.005%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.005%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.005%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.503%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.503%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.503%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.518%) Internet
2 4 (2.010%) HTTP
3 1 (0.503%) VLAN
3 1 (0.503%) Extranet
3 1 (0.503%) DNS
3 1 (0.503%) Intranet
3 1 (0.503%) Firewall
3 1 (0.503%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (56.28%) SQL Server
2 29 (14.57%) SQL Server 2008
3 12 (6.030%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (5.528%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (5.528%) RDBMS
5 6 (3.015%) MySQL
5 6 (3.015%) SQL Server 2012
6 5 (2.513%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (2.513%) SQL Server 2005
7 4 (2.010%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 4 (2.010%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.005%) MS Access
9 1 (0.503%) GIS
Development Applications
1 57 (28.64%) Visual Studio
2 46 (23.12%) Team Foundation Server
3 19 (9.548%) Subversion
4 9 (4.523%) MSTest
5 8 (4.020%) Git (software)
6 5 (2.513%) Selenium
6 5 (2.513%) JUnit
7 4 (2.010%) Mercurial
7 4 (2.010%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
8 3 (1.508%) NUnit
9 2 (1.005%) Ant
9 2 (1.005%) VSS/SourceSafe
9 2 (1.005%) Maven
9 2 (1.005%) Hudson
9 2 (1.005%) Rhino Mocks
9 2 (1.005%) Moq
10 1 (0.503%) TestPartner
10 1 (0.503%) MSI
10 1 (0.503%) InstallShield
10 1 (0.503%) JMeter
General
1 69 (34.67%) Finance
2 13 (6.533%) Publishing
3 12 (6.030%) Financial Institution
3 12 (6.030%) Banking
4 7 (3.518%) Legal
5 6 (3.015%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.513%) Back Office
7 3 (1.508%) Games
8 1 (0.503%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.503%) Marketing
8 1 (0.503%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 159 (79.90%) Developer
2 109 (54.77%) .NET Developer
3 58 (29.15%) C# Developer
4 47 (23.62%) C# .NET Developer
5 28 (14.07%) ASP.NET Developer
6 26 (13.07%) Senior Developer
7 24 (12.06%) Software Developer
8 20 (10.05%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 19 (9.548%) Web Developer
10 16 (8.040%) Software Engineer
10 16 (8.040%) Analyst
10 16 (8.040%) Senior .NET Developer
11 14 (7.035%) Programmer
12 12 (6.030%) Junior
12 12 (6.030%) Junior Developer
12 12 (6.030%) .NET Web Developer
12 12 (6.030%) C# Programmer
13 11 (5.528%) Agile .NET Developer
13 11 (5.528%) .NET Programmer
13 11 (5.528%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.07%) Computer Science
2 8 (4.020%) Equities
3 7 (3.518%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.015%) N-Tier
4 6 (3.015%) Web 2.0
5 5 (2.513%) SWIFT
5 5 (2.513%) Mathematics
6 4 (2.010%) SaaS
7 3 (1.508%) Replication
7 3 (1.508%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.508%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.005%) Derivative
8 2 (1.005%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.005%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.005%) Economics
8 2 (1.005%) Visualisation
9 1 (0.503%) Social Media
9 1 (0.503%) Inversion of Control
9 1 (0.503%) Social Network
9 1 (0.503%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.08%) Windows
2 19 (9.548%) Linux
3 14 (7.035%) UNIX
4 8 (4.020%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (3.015%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.503%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.503%) Android
6 1 (0.503%) Windows Vista
6 1 (0.503%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (34.67%) MVC
2 55 (27.64%) Scrum
3 48 (24.12%) Agile Software Development
4 45 (22.61%) Unit Testing
5 37 (18.59%) TDD
5 37 (18.59%) OO
6 28 (14.07%) OOD
7 24 (12.06%) Continuous Integration
8 20 (10.05%) Web Development
9 16 (8.040%) Data Modelling
10 13 (6.533%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (5.025%) ETL
11 10 (5.025%) Software Engineering
12 9 (4.523%) BDD
12 9 (4.523%) Automated Testing
12 9 (4.523%) Wealth Management
13 8 (4.020%) Integration Testing
13 8 (4.020%) Performance Testing
14 7 (3.518%) Waterfall
14 7 (3.518%) Extreme Programming
Programming Languages
1 179 (89.95%) C#
2 93 (46.73%) JavaScript
3 65 (32.66%) SQL
4 33 (16.58%) Java
5 19 (9.548%) VB.NET
6 9 (4.523%) T-SQL
6 9 (4.523%) Python
7 8 (4.020%) PHP
8 7 (3.518%) Perl
8 7 (3.518%) C++
9 6 (3.015%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.513%) XPath
10 5 (2.513%) XQuery
10 5 (2.513%) VB
11 3 (1.508%) F#
11 3 (1.508%) VBScript
12 2 (1.005%) VBA
12 2 (1.005%) C
13 1 (0.503%) ActionScript 3.0
13 1 (0.503%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 51 (25.63%) Degree
2 23 (11.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (2.010%) MCDBA
3 4 (2.010%) MCPD
3 4 (2.010%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.508%) ISEB
4 3 (1.508%) MCP
5 2 (1.005%) MCSD
5 2 (1.005%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.503%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.503%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.508%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.005%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.503%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (0.503%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 109 (54.77%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.035%) Oracle
3 12 (6.030%) Sybase
4 9 (4.523%) Twitter
5 8 (4.020%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.508%) VMware
6 3 (1.508%) EMC
6 3 (1.508%) Kofax
6 3 (1.508%) ReadSoft
7 2 (1.005%) Open Text
7 2 (1.005%) Alterian
8 1 (0.503%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.503%) Facebook
8 1 (0.503%) Wall Street Systems
8 1 (0.503%) HP
8 1 (0.503%) Cognos
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