The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT jobs advertised for the Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year
0 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 147 136 144
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 26.16% 23.13% 26.42%
As % of the Application Development category 70.67% 59.39% 62.61%
Number of salaries quoted 139 122 128
Average salary £34,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.85% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £22,650 £26,200
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
All Application Development
Tyne and Wear
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
208 229 230
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 37.01% 38.95% 42.20%
Number of salaries quoted 195 190 211
Average salary £34,250 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,075 £24,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,200 £42,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
.NET
North East

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear .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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear .NET Salary Trend

.NET
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing .NET across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Tyne and Wear .NET Salary Histogram

.NET
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 17 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
Newcastle upon Tyne 0 115 £35,000 -
Sunderland +1 17 £30,000 +21.21%
South Shields 0 7 £35,000 +7.69%
South Tyneside - 1 £30,000 -
.NET
North East

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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.

1 246 (75.69%) C#
2 200 (61.54%) SQL Server
3 196 (60.31%) ASP.NET
4 127 (39.08%) CSS
5 116 (35.69%) MVC
6 113 (34.77%) HTML
6 113 (34.77%) Microsoft
7 111 (34.15%) Scrum
8 97 (29.85%) SQL
9 86 (26.46%) JavaScript
10 80 (24.62%) TDD
11 77 (23.69%) ASP.NET MVC
12 72 (22.15%) VB.NET
13 58 (17.85%) SQL Server 2008
14 57 (17.54%) .NET Framework
15 56 (17.23%) jQuery
16 54 (16.62%) XML
17 48 (14.77%) WCF
18 47 (14.46%) Microsoft Certification
19 46 (14.15%) Web Services
19 46 (14.15%) Ajax
20 45 (13.85%) Web Application Development
21 44 (13.54%) XHTML
22 43 (13.23%) MS Excel
23 42 (12.92%) MCSD
23 42 (12.92%) Team Foundation Server
24 41 (12.62%) ASP.NET MVC 4
25 38 (11.69%) MCTS
25 38 (11.69%) MCP
25 38 (11.69%) MCAD

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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
1 196 (60.31%) ASP.NET
2 127 (39.08%) CSS
3 113 (34.77%) HTML
4 77 (23.69%) ASP.NET MVC
5 57 (17.54%) .NET Framework
6 56 (17.23%) jQuery
7 54 (16.62%) XML
8 48 (14.77%) WCF
9 46 (14.15%) Web Services
9 46 (14.15%) Ajax
10 44 (13.54%) XHTML
11 41 (12.62%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 34 (10.46%) Razor View Engine
13 31 (9.538%) HTML5
13 31 (9.538%) LINQ
14 20 (6.154%) CSS3
15 19 (5.846%) NHibernate
15 19 (5.846%) ASP
16 17 (5.231%) WinForms
16 17 (5.231%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 36 (11.08%) SharePoint
2 23 (7.077%) SharePoint Server
3 14 (4.308%) Windows Azure
3 14 (4.308%) SharePoint 2010
4 7 (2.154%) CMS
5 5 (1.538%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.923%) IIS
6 3 (0.923%) Amazon AWS
7 2 (0.615%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.308%) Apache
8 1 (0.308%) DotNetNuke
8 1 (0.308%) Magento
8 1 (0.308%) nginx
Applications
1 43 (13.23%) MS Excel
2 11 (3.385%) Photoshop
3 6 (1.846%) Acrobat
4 5 (1.538%) Fireworks
5 4 (1.231%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.615%) MS Office
6 2 (0.615%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 10 (3.077%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.769%) Internet
2 6 (1.846%) Intranet
2 6 (1.846%) HTTP
3 3 (0.923%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.615%) RIP
5 1 (0.308%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (61.54%) SQL Server
2 58 (17.85%) SQL Server 2008
3 24 (7.385%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 15 (4.615%) MySQL
5 11 (3.385%) SQL Server 2005
6 10 (3.077%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (1.846%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.846%) SQL Server 2012
8 4 (1.231%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.923%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.923%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.615%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.615%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 42 (12.92%) Team Foundation Server
2 31 (9.538%) NUnit
3 30 (9.231%) Rhino Mocks
3 30 (9.231%) Moq
4 21 (6.462%) Visual Studio
5 13 (4.000%) MSTest
6 9 (2.769%) Selenium
7 8 (2.462%) Dreamweaver
8 3 (0.923%) ProC
8 3 (0.923%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.308%) Xcode
9 1 (0.308%) VSS/SourceSafe
9 1 (0.308%) Git (software)
9 1 (0.308%) Subversion
9 1 (0.308%) JIRA
General
1 18 (5.538%) Finance
2 12 (3.692%) Publishing
3 9 (2.769%) Music
3 9 (2.769%) Law
4 8 (2.462%) Retail
5 7 (2.154%) Advertising
6 4 (1.231%) Music Industry
6 4 (1.231%) Marketing
7 3 (0.923%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (0.923%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.615%) Games
9 1 (0.308%) Banking
Job Titles
1 265 (81.54%) Developer
2 111 (34.15%) .NET Developer
3 64 (19.69%) Web Developer
4 49 (15.08%) Software Developer
5 33 (10.15%) Senior Developer
6 24 (7.385%) C# Developer
6 24 (7.385%) Junior
6 24 (7.385%) ASP.NET Developer
7 23 (7.077%) Junior Developer
8 20 (6.154%) Analyst
8 20 (6.154%) SharePoint Developer
9 19 (5.846%) C# .NET Developer
10 16 (4.923%) .NET Web Developer
11 15 (4.615%) Consultant
11 15 (4.615%) C# ASP.NET Developer
12 14 (4.308%) Applications Developer
13 13 (4.000%) Graduate
13 13 (4.000%) Graduate Developer
14 10 (3.077%) Team Leader
14 10 (3.077%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.692%) N-Tier
2 15 (4.615%) DTV
3 14 (4.308%) Computer Science
4 12 (3.692%) Mobile App
5 11 (3.385%) Inversion of Control
6 10 (3.077%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.462%) iPad
7 8 (2.462%) iPhone
8 6 (1.846%) SaaS
9 5 (1.538%) Open Source
9 5 (1.538%) Tandem
9 5 (1.538%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.231%) Streaming Music
11 3 (0.923%) Mathematics
11 3 (0.923%) NHS
12 1 (0.308%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.308%) Social Media
12 1 (0.308%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.538%) Windows
2 13 (4.000%) Android
3 7 (2.154%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.846%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (1.538%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.615%) Windows Phone
7 1 (0.308%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.308%) CentOS
7 1 (0.308%) Linux
7 1 (0.308%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (35.69%) MVC
2 111 (34.15%) Scrum
3 80 (24.62%) TDD
4 45 (13.85%) Web Application Development
5 34 (10.46%) Web Development
5 34 (10.46%) Kanban
6 30 (9.231%) OO
7 29 (8.923%) Unit Testing
7 29 (8.923%) BDD
8 27 (8.308%) CRM
9 26 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
10 15 (4.615%) Dependency Injection
11 14 (4.308%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (4.000%) Waterfall
13 12 (3.692%) OOP
13 12 (3.692%) OOD
14 11 (3.385%) Continuous Integration
15 10 (3.077%) E-Commerce
15 10 (3.077%) Configuration Management
16 9 (2.769%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 246 (75.69%) C#
2 97 (29.85%) SQL
3 86 (26.46%) JavaScript
4 72 (22.15%) VB.NET
5 35 (10.77%) VB
6 17 (5.231%) Java
7 14 (4.308%) PHP
8 12 (3.692%) C++
8 12 (3.692%) Ruby
9 10 (3.077%) PL/SQL
9 10 (3.077%) T-SQL
10 9 (2.769%) C
11 3 (0.923%) XAML
12 2 (0.615%) Python
Qualifications
1 47 (14.46%) Microsoft Certification
2 42 (12.92%) MCSD
3 38 (11.69%) MCP
3 38 (11.69%) MCAD
3 38 (11.69%) MCTS
4 21 (6.462%) Degree
5 1 (0.308%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.385%) QA
2 6 (1.846%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 2 (0.615%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 113 (34.77%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.615%) Oracle
3 11 (3.385%) Adobe
4 8 (2.462%) Symbian
5 1 (0.308%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.308%) Sage
5 1 (0.308%) F5
5 1 (0.308%) Twitter
Newcastle, Staffordshire
You will need 3 years ASP.Net, C# experience along with SQL Server... C# ASP.Net. SQL Server... Key Skills: C# / ASP.Net / SQL Server / Developer / Engineer / Web / ...
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Salary: £17000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
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Salary: £30000.00 - £38000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 4 May 2013
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Salary: £28000.00 - £32000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 4 May 2013
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Posted: 2 May 2013
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Salary: £35000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 11 May 2013
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Developer LeadNewcastle£44,000We are working with a Times Top 100 employer based in Newcastle who are looking to appoint a Development Lead to their growing team.My...
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Salary: £35000.00 - £44000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 4 May 2013
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i4 Recruitment
Salary: £30k - 37k per year + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013
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Relevant programming experience in C#, ASP.NET, MVC, MS-SQL, MySQL, Jscript, JQuery, HTML, CSS. Some exposure to Microsoft Visual Studio / TFS would be desirable. Understanding of .NET...
Roc Search
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 12 May 2013
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Technically you should have experience of c#, ASP.Net Web Forms, ASP.Net MVC 4, SQL Server, XML, TFS and a knowledge of object orientated concepts and design...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000.00 - £44000.00 per annum + Benefits + Flexible Working
Posted: 10 May 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
You will have a solid background in maintaining & developing applications from conception to implementation using the windows .net framework C#, and SQL... Key Skills for this role include:...
IT Executive Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
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Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 17 May 2013
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Salary: £35000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 16 May 2013
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Catalyst
Salary: From £20,000 to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
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Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013
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i4 Recruitment
Salary: £40k - 47k per year + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013
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Salary: From £27,000 to £34,000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
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Salary: From £25,000 to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
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Ashdown IT
Salary: £29000 - £36000 per annum + benefits + parking
Posted: 17 May 2013
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Salary: From £18,000 to £22,000 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013
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Northern Recruitment Group
Salary: Negotiable on Experience
Posted: 16 May 2013
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Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 18,000 - 20,000 Plus Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
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Catalyst
Salary: From £16,000 to £20,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
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Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Xperian Recruitment Limited
Salary: From £18,000 to £20,000 per annum + Pension + Benefits + Training
Posted: 17 May 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
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Catalyst
Salary: From £20,000 to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
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Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000.00 - £44000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 10 May 2013
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Salary: From £14,000 to £18,000 per annum
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Accenture
Salary: £34,915 to £41,000
Posted: 18 May 2013
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Accenture
Salary: £40,805 to £47,000 depending level, experience and location
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