Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 3 September 2010 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.

LinkMicrosoft .NET (dotNet)
Location
3 months to
3 Sep 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank445
Rank change year-on-year
No change0Up+1
Matching permanent IT job ads204321300230266
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK18.93 %18.94 %16.89 %
As % of the Application Development category48.13 %49.77 %51.34 %
Salaries quoted178451143226776
Average salary£40,000£35,500£36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.67 %-1.380 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£67,500£62,500£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£33,000£33,500
% change year-on-year
+6.060 %-1.490 %
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
424512612658957
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK39.32 %38.06 %32.90 %
Salaries quoted363162228550897
Average salary£40,000£36,500£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.580 %-2.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£25,500£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£33,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.060 %-5.710 %

.NET
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing .NET within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

.NET Demand Trend

.NET
Salary Trend

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

.NET Salary Trend

.NET
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing .NET over the 3 months to 3 September 2010 within the UK.

.NET Salary Histogram

.NET
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 within the UK over the 3 months to 3 September 2010. 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
EnglandNo change019601£40,000+11.11 %
LondonDown-28890£50,000+5.26 %
South EastDown-13632£39,000+8.33 %
City of LondonDown-12387£55,000+10.00 %
East of EnglandDown-11656£35,000-
North WestDown-11348£32,500+8.33 %
South WestNo change01140£32,500-
YorkshireDown-21068£31,500-1.56 %
SurreyDown-11062£42,500+6.25 %
West MidlandsNo change01004£34,000+7.93 %
BerkshireUp+3823£39,500-
ManchesterNo change0804£32,500+8.33 %
East MidlandsDown-1697£34,000+4.61 %
West YorkshireDown-2615£30,000-6.25 %
HertfordshireUp+5574£37,400+1.08 %
CambridgeshireDown-1549£35,000+6.06 %
HampshireUp+1457£32,500-2.98 %
ScotlandDown-1457£35,000+6.06 %
LeedsDown-2444£31,500-1.56 %
CambridgeDown-3436£35,000+7.69 %
OxfordshireDown-2366£37,500+15.38 %
BristolNo change0329£31,500-10.00 %
CheshireDown-1317£31,500+8.62 %
South YorkshireNo change0312£32,500-7.14 %
ReadingUp+3280£43,000+17.80 %
BuckinghamshireDown-2264£37,500+7.14 %
SheffieldNo change0252£33,500-4.28 %
StaffordshireNo change0248£40,000+6.66 %
WalesUp+1243£32,500+20.37 %
WiltshireUp+2241£32,000-

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 September 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

127020 (70.45 %)C#
219920 (51.94 %)SQL Server
319222 (50.12 %)ASP.NET
414014 (36.54 %)SQL
59884 (25.77 %)Microsoft
68514 (22.20 %)XML
78273 (21.57 %)JavaScript
87961 (20.76 %)Finance
97291 (19.01 %)VB.NET
107198 (18.77 %)HTML
116959 (18.14 %)CSS
126422 (16.74 %)Windows
136368 (16.60 %)Degree
146023 (15.70 %)Java
155839 (15.22 %)SQL Server 2005
165452 (14.21 %)OO
175403 (14.09 %)Web Services
185291 (13.80 %).NET Framework
195238 (13.66 %)WCF
205216 (13.60 %)AJAX
214692 (12.23 %)WPF
224663 (12.16 %)MS Excel
234482 (11.69 %)Agile Software Development
244411 (11.50 %)Oracle
254091 (10.67 %)Visual Studio
264033 (10.52 %)VB
273929 (10.24 %)SQL Server 2008
283928 (10.24 %)WinForms
293874 (10.10 %)SharePoint
303768 (9.824 %)C++

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 September 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
119222 (50.12 %)ASP.NET
28514 (22.20 %)XML
37198 (18.77 %)HTML
46959 (18.14 %)CSS
55403 (14.09 %)Web Services
65291 (13.80 %).NET Framework
75238 (13.66 %)WCF
85216 (13.60 %)AJAX
94692 (12.23 %)WPF
103928 (10.24 %)WinForms
113177 (8.283 %)Silverlight
122695 (7.027 %)ASP
132349 (6.125 %)XHTML
142258 (5.887 %)jQuery
151923 (5.014 %)XSLT
161748 (4.558 %)LINQ
171745 (4.550 %)NHibernate
181544 (4.026 %)J2EE
191277 (3.330 %)ASP.NET MVC
201124 (2.931 %)Spring
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13874 (10.10 %)SharePoint
22330 (6.075 %)IIS
31602 (4.177 %)SharePoint Server 2007
41448 (3.775 %)CMS
51030 (2.686 %)BizTalk Server
6528 (1.377 %)Apache
7340 (0.886 %)SharePoint 2010
8312 (0.813 %)Tomcat
9264 (0.688 %)WebLogic
10215 (0.561 %)ESB
11188 (0.490 %)Sitecore CMS
12184 (0.480 %)Rendezvous
13179 (0.467 %)WebSphere MQ
14152 (0.396 %)Umbraco
15146 (0.381 %)MS Exchange
16124 (0.323 %)ColdFusion
17119 (0.310 %)Commerce Server
18118 (0.308 %)Drupal
19114 (0.297 %)EPiServer CMS
20107 (0.279 %)MQSeries
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14663 (12.16 %)MS Excel
21174 (3.061 %)MS Office
3641 (1.671 %)Photoshop
4610 (1.590 %)MS Visio
5195 (0.508 %)InfoPath
6171 (0.446 %)MS Project
7157 (0.409 %)Spreadsheet
8148 (0.386 %)Fireworks
9141 (0.368 %)Adobe Illustrator
1097 (0.253 %)MATLAB
1193 (0.242 %)MS PowerPoint
1250 (0.130 %)FrameMaker
1320 (0.052 %)Acrobat
1419 (0.050 %)InDesign
1419 (0.050 %)XMetaL
1513 (0.034 %)PrintSoft PReS
1513 (0.034 %)3ds Max
1611 (0.029 %)Maya
1710 (0.026 %)SPSS
187 (0.018 %)Paint Shop Pro
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1619 (1.614 %)Dynamics CRM
2372 (0.970 %)Microsoft CRM
3168 (0.438 %)Dynamics AX
4134 (0.349 %)Dynamics NAV
5133 (0.347 %)Navision
689 (0.232 %)Axapta
785 (0.222 %)Summit
872 (0.188 %)Visualfiles
950 (0.130 %)Pivotal CRM
1047 (0.123 %)SalesLogix
1141 (0.107 %)WebTrends
1238 (0.099 %)Google Analytics
1335 (0.091 %)SAP CRM
1431 (0.081 %)Oracle EBS
1528 (0.073 %)Oracle BPM
1626 (0.068 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
1725 (0.065 %)SAP PM
1823 (0.060 %)TIBCO iProcess
1823 (0.060 %)BusinessWorks
1921 (0.055 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11659 (4.325 %)Internet
2783 (2.042 %)Intranet
3558 (1.455 %)TCP/IP
4387 (1.009 %)HTTP
5203 (0.529 %)DNS
6197 (0.514 %)Firewall
7162 (0.422 %)Extranet
8147 (0.383 %)LAN
9139 (0.362 %)WAN
10132 (0.344 %)SAN
11129 (0.336 %)FTP
1292 (0.240 %)VoIP
1387 (0.227 %)SMTP
1485 (0.222 %)SSL
1584 (0.219 %)Broadband
1672 (0.188 %)DHCP
1767 (0.175 %)LDAP
1863 (0.164 %)VPN
1953 (0.138 %)Wireless
2048 (0.125 %)NAS
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
119920 (51.94 %)SQL Server
25839 (15.22 %)SQL Server 2005
33929 (10.24 %)SQL Server 2008
41960 (5.110 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
51723 (4.492 %)SQL Server Integration Services
61630 (4.250 %)SQL Server 2000
71261 (3.288 %)MySQL
8878 (2.289 %)RDBMS
9871 (2.271 %)Data Warehouse (DWH)
10840 (2.190 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
11755 (1.969 %)Crystal Reports
12537 (1.400 %)ETL
13482 (1.257 %)OLAP
14377 (0.983 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
15351 (0.915 %)BusinessObjects
16342 (0.892 %)DB2
17328 (0.855 %)DTS
18312 (0.813 %)Oracle 10g
19301 (0.785 %)Oracle 8/8i
20278 (0.725 %)MS Access
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
14091 (10.67 %)Visual Studio
21970 (5.136 %)NUnit
31619 (4.221 %)Subversion
41037 (2.704 %)Team Foundation Server
5948 (2.472 %)Rhino Mocks
6623 (1.624 %)VSS/SourceSafe
7290 (0.756 %)Moq
8274 (0.714 %)Selenium
9234 (0.610 %)Dreamweaver
10197 (0.514 %)CruiseControl
11191 (0.498 %)JUnit
12190 (0.495 %)ClearCase
13185 (0.482 %)TeamCity
14169 (0.441 %)Ant
15168 (0.438 %)Eclipse
16135 (0.352 %)QuickTest Pro
17127 (0.331 %)Oracle Forms
18126 (0.329 %)JIRA
19115 (0.300 %)FitNesse
20102 (0.266 %)NCover
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
17961 (20.76 %)Finance
23747 (9.770 %)Banking
32348 (6.122 %)Pensions
41813 (4.727 %)Front Office
51722 (4.490 %)Health
61704 (4.443 %)Investment Banking
71615 (4.211 %)Insurance
81279 (3.335 %)Marketing
91162 (3.030 %)Retail
101126 (2.936 %)Education
11744 (1.940 %)Back Office
12679 (1.770 %)Telecoms
13645 (1.682 %)Games
14496 (1.293 %)Advertising
15382 (0.996 %)Government
16372 (0.970 %)Financial Institution
17336 (0.876 %)Law
18335 (0.873 %)Music
19321 (0.837 %)Legal
20266 (0.694 %)Publishing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
126155 (68.19 %)Developer
211166 (29.11 %).NET Developer
39278 (24.19 %)C# Developer
44263 (11.11 %)Senior Developer
53803 (9.916 %)ASP.NET Developer
63575 (9.321 %)Web Developer
73100 (8.083 %)Analyst
83048 (7.947 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
92732 (7.123 %)Software Developer
102096 (5.465 %)Architect
111901 (4.956 %)Senior .NET Developer
121555 (4.054 %)Senior C# Developer
131492 (3.890 %)VB.NET Developer
141395 (3.637 %)Programmer
151392 (3.629 %)Consultant
161374 (3.582 %)Software Engineer
171216 (3.170 %)SQL Developer
181172 (3.056 %).NET Web Developer
191075 (2.803 %)Junior
201070 (2.790 %)Applications Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12116 (5.517 %)Computer Science
21504 (3.921 %)Derivative
31423 (3.710 %)N-Tier
41256 (3.275 %)Client/Server
5873 (2.276 %)Mathematics
6831 (2.167 %)Fixed Income
7801 (2.088 %)Multithreading
8707 (1.843 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
9706 (1.841 %)Hedge funds
10517 (1.348 %)Open Source
11466 (1.215 %)W3C
12456 (1.189 %)Management Information System
13442 (1.152 %)Equities
14385 (1.004 %)Equity Derivative
15337 (0.879 %)SaaS
16325 (0.847 %)Web 2.0
17267 (0.696 %)Tandem
18249 (0.649 %)Credit Derivative
19245 (0.639 %)Social Network
20225 (0.587 %)iPhone
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16422 (16.74 %)Windows
21361 (3.549 %)Linux
31205 (3.142 %)UNIX
4875 (2.281 %)Windows Server 2003
5450 (1.173 %)Windows Server 2008
6343 (0.894 %)Windows XP
7285 (0.743 %)Windows Vista
8222 (0.579 %)Windows Mobile
9208 (0.542 %)Solaris
10171 (0.446 %)Windows 2000
11144 (0.375 %)AIX
12140 (0.365 %)Windows 7
13133 (0.347 %)Windows CE
14126 (0.329 %)Windows 2000 Server
15113 (0.295 %)Android
1682 (0.214 %)Red Hat Linux
1727 (0.070 %)CentOS
1825 (0.065 %)Windows NT
1919 (0.050 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2016 (0.042 %)OpenBSD
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15452 (14.21 %)OO
24482 (11.69 %)Agile Software Development
33328 (8.677 %)Scrum
43224 (8.406 %)E-Commerce
53215 (8.382 %)TDD
63006 (7.838 %)MVC
72926 (7.629 %)Web Development
81953 (5.092 %)Project Management
91839 (4.795 %)UML
101692 (4.412 %)CRM
111453 (3.788 %)Unit Testing
121374 (3.582 %)SOA
131351 (3.522 %)Business Intelligence
141065 (2.777 %)OOD
15989 (2.579 %)Continuous Integration
16958 (2.498 %)Software Engineering
17955 (2.490 %)OOP
18917 (2.391 %)Content Management
19897 (2.339 %)Workflow
20762 (1.987 %)Business Analysis
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
127020 (70.45 %)C#
214014 (36.54 %)SQL
38273 (21.57 %)JavaScript
47291 (19.01 %)VB.NET
56023 (15.70 %)Java
64033 (10.52 %)VB
73768 (9.824 %)C++
83661 (9.545 %)T-SQL
92124 (5.538 %)C
101905 (4.967 %)VB6
111654 (4.312 %)PHP
121217 (3.173 %)VBA
13857 (2.234 %)PL/SQL
14664 (1.731 %)VBScript
15501 (1.306 %)Perl
16393 (1.025 %)Python
17392 (1.022 %)ActionScript
18350 (0.913 %)VC++
19329 (0.858 %)Ruby
20316 (0.824 %)Delphi
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
16368 (16.60 %)Degree
22426 (6.325 %)Microsoft Certification
31331 (3.470 %)MCSD
41188 (3.097 %)MCP
51181 (3.079 %)MCAD
61150 (2.998 %)MCTS
7527 (1.374 %)Security Cleared
8304 (0.793 %)ISEB
9265 (0.691 %)MCPD
10238 (0.621 %)SC Cleared
11142 (0.370 %)MCSE
12100 (0.261 %)PhD
1385 (0.222 %)MCDBA
1479 (0.206 %)ITIL Certification
1565 (0.169 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1659 (0.154 %)PMI Certification
1756 (0.146 %)HND
1854 (0.141 %)ISTQB
1940 (0.104 %)Cisco Certification
1940 (0.104 %)DV Cleared
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11126 (2.936 %)QA
2236 (0.615 %)SLA
372 (0.188 %)WAI
459 (0.154 %)PCI DSS
558 (0.151 %)ISO 9001
629 (0.076 %)WCAG
726 (0.068 %)ISO/IEC 27001
824 (0.063 %)TickIT
916 (0.042 %)GAMP
1013 (0.034 %)COBIT
1013 (0.034 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
1110 (0.026 %)HL7
1110 (0.026 %)Dublin Core
129 (0.023 %)ISO 12207
137 (0.018 %)ISO 14001
146 (0.016 %)Basel II
154 (0.010 %)ISO 9000
154 (0.010 %)JTAG
154 (0.010 %)MiFID
162 (0.005 %)GLP
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1658 (1.716 %)Active Directory
2300 (0.782 %)MSMQ
3197 (0.514 %)VMware Infrastructure
464 (0.167 %)Hyper-V
555 (0.143 %)VMware ESX
642 (0.110 %)ISA Server
730 (0.078 %)Oracle RAC
820 (0.052 %)vSphere
915 (0.039 %)Oracle RMAN
1014 (0.037 %)VMware Workstation
1014 (0.037 %)Hadoop
119 (0.023 %)Postfix
119 (0.023 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
128 (0.021 %)Terminal Services
137 (0.018 %)Samba
146 (0.016 %)Terminal Server
146 (0.016 %)WebInspect
146 (0.016 %)XenApp
155 (0.013 %)OpenSSO
155 (0.013 %)Xen
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1130 (0.339 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
2124 (0.323 %)SCCM
3122 (0.318 %)HP Quality Center
443 (0.112 %)MSI
535 (0.091 %)Control-M
631 (0.081 %)AutoSys
728 (0.073 %)Data Guard
823 (0.060 %)SCOM
920 (0.052 %)MOM
1019 (0.050 %)Tivoli
1118 (0.047 %)OpenView
1118 (0.047 %)Nagios
1118 (0.047 %)Backup Exec
129 (0.023 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
138 (0.021 %)CA SiteMinder
138 (0.021 %)Dollar Universe
138 (0.021 %)Sysprep
147 (0.018 %)CA Wily
147 (0.018 %)MIIS
155 (0.013 %)Cisco IPCC
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
19884 (25.77 %)Microsoft
24411 (11.50 %)Oracle
3763 (1.989 %)Sybase
4446 (1.163 %)TIBCO
5418 (1.090 %)IBM
6388 (1.012 %)Adobe
7360 (0.939 %)VMware
8351 (0.915 %)Business Objects
9263 (0.686 %)EPiServer
10260 (0.678 %)SAP
11223 (0.581 %)Sitecore
12212 (0.553 %)Perforce
13209 (0.545 %)Infragistics
14205 (0.534 %)Google
15202 (0.527 %)Bloomberg
16199 (0.519 %)HP
17187 (0.488 %)DevExpress
18174 (0.454 %)Citrix
19152 (0.396 %)Cognos
20134 (0.349 %)Siebel