The first part of the table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET Framework over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 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.

Microsoft .NET Framework
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank9610191
Rank change year-on-year
Up+5Down-10
Matching permanent IT job ads330229722243
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK2.725 %2.436 %2.356 %
As % of the Application Development category6.512 %6.073 %6.178 %
Number of salaries quoted303227102000
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£67,500£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£36,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+4.28 %-
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
507084893836309
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK41.84 %40.11 %38.13 %
Number of salaries quoted450904320731294
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

.NET Framework
Demand Trend

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

.NET Framework Demand Trend

.NET Framework
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the UK.

.NET Framework Salary Trend

.NET Framework
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing .NET Framework over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

.NET Framework Salary Histogram

.NET Framework
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. 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
EnglandUp+23106£40,000-
LondonDown-121088£50,000-4.76 %
South EastNo change0644£40,000+5.26 %
East of EnglandUp+9351£40,000+6.66 %
North WestUp+12344£35,000+11.11 %
City of LondonDown-18241£52,500-8.69 %
YorkshireUp+4236£32,500-
South WestUp+28202£32,500-13.33 %
West YorkshireUp+9187£32,500-
SurreyDown-3180£45,000+12.50 %
ManchesterUp+11147£33,000+4.76 %
West MidlandsDown-3137£34,000+4.61 %
LeedsUp+4130£35,000+7.69 %
BerkshireDown-12128£45,000+5.88 %
ScotlandUp+57118£35,000+1.44 %
HampshireDown-20114£36,000+2.85 %
CambridgeshireDown-1105£40,000+9.21 %
CheshireUp+24103£37,250+24.16 %
HertfordshireUp+1996£55,000+37.50 %
East MidlandsUp+485£35,000+7.69 %
CambridgeDown-175£37,500+13.63 %
BuckinghamshireUp+1360£37,500+8.69 %
MerseysideDown-359£40,000+17.64 %
West SussexUp+2758£34,000+19.29 %
BristolDown-456£32,500-15.58 %
EdinburghUp+4855£35,000+16.66 %
NorfolkUp+652£32,500+15.04 %
NorwichUp+751£32,500+16.07 %
ReadingDown-849£55,000+29.41 %
NottinghamshireUp+2445£32,500-

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

16312 (100.00 %).NET
25191 (82.24 %)C#
33890 (61.63 %)SQL Server
43577 (56.67 %)ASP.NET
52592 (41.06 %)SQL
62450 (38.81 %)Microsoft
72056 (32.57 %)JavaScript
81869 (29.61 %)WCF
91748 (27.69 %)MVC
101709 (27.08 %)CSS
111611 (25.52 %)HTML
121523 (24.13 %)XML
131438 (22.78 %)Web Services
141432 (22.69 %)SQL Server 2008
151397 (22.13 %)Windows
161316 (20.85 %)Visual Studio
171295 (20.52 %)OO
181250 (19.80 %)jQuery
191219 (19.31 %)Agile Software Development
201136 (18.00 %)WPF
211118 (17.71 %)Finance
221095 (17.35 %)ADO.NET Entity Framework
231077 (17.06 %)Degree
241032 (16.35 %)VB.NET
251024 (16.22 %)ASP.NET MVC
261007 (15.95 %)TDD
27944 (14.96 %)SQL Server 2005
28935 (14.81 %)Ajax
29910 (14.42 %)Scrum
30849 (13.45 %)SharePoint

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
16312 (100.00 %).NET
23577 (56.67 %)ASP.NET
31869 (29.61 %)WCF
41709 (27.08 %)CSS
51611 (25.52 %)HTML
61523 (24.13 %)XML
71438 (22.78 %)Web Services
81250 (19.80 %)jQuery
91136 (18.00 %)WPF
101095 (17.35 %)ADO.NET Entity Framework
111024 (16.22 %)ASP.NET MVC
12935 (14.81 %)Ajax
13835 (13.23 %)LINQ
14804 (12.74 %)WinForms
15571 (9.046 %)Silverlight
16482 (7.636 %)NHibernate
17421 (6.670 %)ASP.NET MVC 3
18409 (6.480 %)XSLT
19357 (5.656 %)ASP
20304 (4.816 %)HTML5
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1849 (13.45 %)SharePoint
2531 (8.413 %)IIS
3320 (5.070 %)BizTalk Server
4300 (4.753 %)CMS
5290 (4.594 %)SharePoint 2010
6259 (4.103 %)SharePoint Server
7110 (1.743 %)Umbraco
867 (1.061 %)Apache
867 (1.061 %)DotNetNuke
964 (1.014 %)Sitecore CMS
1059 (0.935 %)Tomcat
1157 (0.903 %)ESB
1242 (0.665 %)TIBCO EMS
1327 (0.428 %)MS Exchange
1421 (0.333 %)MSMQ
1520 (0.317 %)SharePoint Foundation
1619 (0.301 %)LiveLink
1619 (0.301 %)Amazon EC2
1717 (0.269 %)Commerce Server
1717 (0.269 %)Oracle Coherence
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1767 (12.15 %)MS Excel
2126 (1.996 %)MS Office
3118 (1.869 %)MS Visio
447 (0.745 %)InfoPath
540 (0.634 %)Photoshop
634 (0.539 %)MATLAB
721 (0.333 %)DOC1
818 (0.285 %)MS Project
913 (0.206 %)Fireworks
1011 (0.174 %)PrintSoft PReS
118 (0.127 %)Acrobat
126 (0.095 %)MS PowerPoint
135 (0.079 %)Office 365
144 (0.063 %)Spreadsheet
144 (0.063 %)Paint Shop Pro
152 (0.032 %)Adobe Illustrator
161 (0.016 %)InDesign
161 (0.016 %)SPSS
161 (0.016 %)PowerPivot
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1123 (1.949 %)Dynamics CRM
220 (0.317 %)Pivotal CRM
313 (0.206 %)Google Analytics
412 (0.190 %)SAP Business One
511 (0.174 %)Exstream
511 (0.174 %)Dynamics AX
610 (0.158 %)ION MarketView
79 (0.143 %)Dynamics NAV
88 (0.127 %)Visualfiles
88 (0.127 %)WebTrends
93 (0.048 %)Oracle Payroll
93 (0.048 %)BusinessWorks
102 (0.032 %)Line 50
102 (0.032 %)Tridion
102 (0.032 %)Oracle Applications
102 (0.032 %)SAP R/3
111 (0.016 %)Endur
111 (0.016 %)Line 500
111 (0.016 %)Dynamics GP
111 (0.016 %)SalesLogix
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1272 (4.309 %)Internet
2140 (2.218 %)Intranet
3111 (1.759 %)HTTP
487 (1.378 %)DNS
584 (1.331 %)TCP/IP
649 (0.776 %)Broadband
739 (0.618 %)Firewall
833 (0.523 %)Extranet
922 (0.349 %)SSL
1015 (0.238 %)FTP
1114 (0.222 %)Kerberos
1213 (0.206 %)VoIP
1312 (0.190 %)GPRS
1312 (0.190 %)SAN
1312 (0.190 %)WLAN
1312 (0.190 %)3G
149 (0.143 %)Ethernet
149 (0.143 %)LDAP
158 (0.127 %)GSM
158 (0.127 %)DHCP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
13890 (61.63 %)SQL Server
21432 (22.69 %)SQL Server 2008
3944 (14.96 %)SQL Server 2005
4472 (7.478 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
5336 (5.323 %)SQL Server Integration Services
6188 (2.978 %)SQL Server 2000
7176 (2.788 %)RDBMS
8159 (2.519 %)MySQL
9134 (2.123 %)Data Warehouse
10125 (1.980 %)Crystal Reports
11108 (1.711 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1278 (1.236 %)Oracle 10g
1370 (1.109 %)MS Access
1466 (1.046 %)ETL
1565 (1.030 %)Oracle 8/8i
1663 (0.998 %)Oracle 11g
1753 (0.840 %)NoSQL
1850 (0.792 %)DTS
1947 (0.745 %)GIS
2038 (0.602 %)Apache Cassandra
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11316 (20.85 %)Visual Studio
2596 (9.442 %)Team Foundation Server
3414 (6.559 %)NUnit
4402 (6.369 %)Subversion
5163 (2.582 %)Rhino Mocks
6156 (2.471 %)VSS/SourceSafe
7103 (1.632 %)TeamCity
892 (1.458 %)Moq
977 (1.220 %)MSBuild
1063 (0.998 %)CruiseControl
1162 (0.982 %)ReSharper
1261 (0.966 %)Visual Studio Team System
1360 (0.951 %)Selenium
1459 (0.935 %)JIRA
1558 (0.919 %)MSTest
1644 (0.697 %)Eclipse
1735 (0.554 %)Git (software)
1833 (0.523 %)Oracle Forms
1930 (0.475 %)MSI
2028 (0.444 %)InstallShield
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11118 (17.71 %)Finance
2304 (4.816 %)Banking
3296 (4.689 %)Marketing
4163 (2.582 %)Telecoms
5161 (2.551 %)Retail
6126 (1.996 %)Games
7108 (1.711 %)Legal
8106 (1.679 %)Back Office
998 (1.553 %)Investment Banking
1097 (1.537 %)Front Office
1180 (1.267 %)Music
1261 (0.966 %)Advertising
1338 (0.602 %)Manufacturing
1431 (0.491 %)Financial Institution
1431 (0.491 %)Online Betting
1527 (0.428 %)Multimedia
1626 (0.412 %)Aerospace
1723 (0.364 %)Automotive
1723 (0.364 %)Publishing
1821 (0.333 %)Law
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
15031 (79.71 %)Developer
22499 (39.59 %).NET Developer
31604 (25.41 %)C# Developer
41184 (18.76 %)C# .NET Developer
5887 (14.05 %)Senior Developer
6751 (11.90 %)Software Developer
7653 (10.35 %)ASP.NET Developer
8629 (9.965 %)Web Developer
9465 (7.367 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
10374 (5.925 %)Senior .NET Developer
11352 (5.577 %)Software Engineer
12331 (5.244 %)Architect
13310 (4.911 %)Junior
14304 (4.816 %)Analyst
15300 (4.753 %)Junior Developer
16235 (3.723 %)Senior C# Developer
17220 (3.485 %)Applications Developer
18206 (3.264 %)Lead Developer
19205 (3.248 %).NET Web Developer
20199 (3.153 %)Graduate
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1444 (7.034 %)Computer Science
2358 (5.672 %)N-Tier
3140 (2.218 %)Mathematics
4120 (1.901 %)iPhone
5101 (1.600 %)Client/Server
694 (1.489 %)SaaS
771 (1.125 %)W3C
771 (1.125 %)Inversion of Control
868 (1.077 %)Blackberry
963 (0.998 %)Derivative
1058 (0.919 %)Cloud Computing
1155 (0.871 %)Statistics
1252 (0.824 %)Open Source
1350 (0.792 %)Fixed Income
1448 (0.760 %)iPad
1545 (0.713 %)RIA
1640 (0.634 %)Digital Media
1640 (0.634 %)Social Network
1737 (0.586 %)Physics
1835 (0.554 %)Management Information System
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11397 (22.13 %)Windows
2191 (3.026 %)Windows Server 2003
3162 (2.567 %)Linux
4130 (2.060 %)Android
5129 (2.044 %)Windows Server 2008
691 (1.442 %)UNIX
761 (0.966 %)Windows XP
855 (0.871 %)Windows Mobile
954 (0.856 %)Apple iOS
1049 (0.776 %)Windows 7
1131 (0.491 %)Windows CE
1230 (0.475 %)Windows Vista
1230 (0.475 %)Solaris
1312 (0.190 %)Windows Phone 7
149 (0.143 %)Mac OS X
157 (0.111 %)Mac OS
166 (0.095 %)BlackBerry OS
175 (0.079 %)Debian
175 (0.079 %)Windows 2000
175 (0.079 %)Ubuntu
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11748 (27.69 %)MVC
21295 (20.52 %)OO
31219 (19.31 %)Agile Software Development
41007 (15.95 %)TDD
5910 (14.42 %)Scrum
6598 (9.474 %)Web Development
7509 (8.064 %)Unit Testing
8482 (7.636 %)UML
9394 (6.242 %)SOA
10374 (5.925 %)E-Commerce
11355 (5.624 %)Software Engineering
12354 (5.608 %)OOP
13293 (4.642 %)Web Application Development
14249 (3.945 %)Continuous Integration
15243 (3.850 %)OOD
16231 (3.660 %)Workflow
17199 (3.153 %)CRM
18189 (2.994 %)Multithreading
19182 (2.883 %)Project Management
20178 (2.820 %)Business Intelligence
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15191 (82.24 %)C#
22592 (41.06 %)SQL
32056 (32.57 %)JavaScript
41032 (16.35 %)VB.NET
5747 (11.83 %)T-SQL
6593 (9.395 %)Java
7477 (7.557 %)C++
8391 (6.195 %)VB
9212 (3.359 %)C
10176 (2.788 %)PHP
11175 (2.772 %)PL/SQL
12162 (2.567 %)VB6
1394 (1.489 %)VBScript
1490 (1.426 %)XAML
1587 (1.378 %)Python
1587 (1.378 %)VBA
1683 (1.315 %)Ruby
1769 (1.093 %)XPath
1866 (1.046 %)PowerShell
1866 (1.046 %)Perl
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11077 (17.06 %)Degree
2446 (7.066 %)Microsoft Certification
3245 (3.881 %)MCTS
4244 (3.866 %)MCP
5237 (3.755 %)MCSD
6200 (3.169 %)MCAD
7138 (2.186 %)Security Cleared
889 (1.410 %)SC Cleared
962 (0.982 %)ISEB
1059 (0.935 %)MCPD
1129 (0.459 %)MCSE
1219 (0.301 %)CFA
1317 (0.269 %)ISTQB
1413 (0.206 %)HND
1512 (0.190 %)DV Cleared
1610 (0.158 %)MCITP
179 (0.143 %)MCDBA
187 (0.111 %)ITIL Certification
196 (0.095 %)Microsoft Certified Master
196 (0.095 %)PhD
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1263 (4.167 %)QA
235 (0.554 %)SLA
321 (0.333 %)HL7
412 (0.190 %)ISO 9001
57 (0.111 %)WAI
64 (0.063 %)PCI DSS
73 (0.048 %)COBIT
73 (0.048 %)Basel III
82 (0.032 %)WCAG
82 (0.032 %)TickIT
91 (0.016 %)ISO/IEC 27001
91 (0.016 %)Dublin Core
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1106 (1.679 %)Active Directory
260 (0.951 %)VMware Infrastructure
341 (0.650 %)Hyper-V
424 (0.380 %)XenDesktop
516 (0.253 %)vSphere
611 (0.174 %)XenServer
78 (0.127 %)VMware ESXi
78 (0.127 %)ISA Server
85 (0.079 %)Snort
85 (0.079 %)FreeRADIUS
94 (0.063 %)Squid
94 (0.063 %)Oracle RAC
103 (0.048 %)VMware ESX
112 (0.032 %)XenApp
112 (0.032 %)Terminal Services
112 (0.032 %)VMware Workstation
112 (0.032 %)VMware GSX
121 (0.016 %)Terminal Server
121 (0.016 %)Novell eDirectory
121 (0.016 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
113 (0.206 %)SCCM
113 (0.206 %)SCVMM
113 (0.206 %)WMI
210 (0.158 %)NetBackup
39 (0.143 %)Puppet
47 (0.111 %)HP Quality Center
56 (0.095 %)Backup Exec
65 (0.079 %)Nagios
65 (0.079 %)SCOM
65 (0.079 %)Cacti
65 (0.079 %)OpenNMS
74 (0.063 %)Splunk
74 (0.063 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
74 (0.063 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
83 (0.048 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
83 (0.048 %)Data Guard
92 (0.032 %)McAfee ePO
92 (0.032 %)OpenView Configuration Management
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12450 (38.81 %)Microsoft
2646 (10.23 %)Oracle
3109 (1.727 %)TIBCO
493 (1.473 %)VMware
572 (1.141 %)Google
671 (1.125 %)Adobe
764 (1.014 %)Sitecore
850 (0.792 %)Sybase
947 (0.745 %)Infragistics
1046 (0.729 %)DevExpress
1144 (0.697 %)Ektron
1237 (0.586 %)Cisco
1237 (0.586 %)HP
1336 (0.570 %)Business Objects
1336 (0.570 %)DataSynapse
1435 (0.554 %)SAP
1435 (0.554 %)Symbian
1534 (0.539 %)Sun
1633 (0.523 %)Telerik
1633 (0.523 %)Citrix