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 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 (dotNet)
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank444
Rank change year-on-year
No change0No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads233612345617154
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK19.28 %19.22 %18.01 %
As % of the Application Development category46.07 %47.93 %47.24 %
Number of salaries quoted212922108715079
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£27,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£70,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£36,000£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.85 %-
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
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total 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 21 May 2012 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 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
EnglandNo change022170£40,000-
LondonUp+27736£47,500-9.52 %
South EastDown-15047£40,000+6.66 %
East of EnglandNo change02328£40,000+6.66 %
North WestNo change02176£34,250+0.73 %
City of LondonNo change01737£50,000-13.04 %
SurreyDown-11492£45,000+7.14 %
YorkshireNo change01483£32,500-
BerkshireUp+21265£40,000+8.10 %
South WestUp+11233£33,950+4.46 %
ManchesterNo change01156£34,000+3.03 %
West MidlandsDown-11080£35,000+2.94 %
East MidlandsUp+1963£35,000+0.71 %
West YorkshireUp+1911£32,500-
CambridgeshireUp+2883£40,000+11.28 %
HampshireNo change0712£37,500+7.14 %
ScotlandUp+3665£35,000-5.40 %
LeedsNo change0658£34,000+4.61 %
CambridgeUp+2607£39,000+11.42 %
CheshireNo change0567£35,000-
ReadingDown-2508£40,000+8.10 %
HertfordshireUp+2441£42,500+6.25 %
EssexUp+1416£37,500+7.14 %
BuckinghamshireDown-1399£37,500+7.14 %
NottinghamshireUp+2384£34,000-2.85 %
BristolUp+2379£35,000+4.47 %
OxfordshireNo change0353£35,000-12.50 %
NottinghamUp+3321£34,000-2.85 %
North YorkshireUp+2319£31,000-1.58 %
EdinburghUp+2287£35,000-4.10 %

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, 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.

133888 (73.82 %)C#
225093 (54.66 %)ASP.NET
324937 (54.32 %)SQL Server
418365 (40.00 %)SQL
513045 (28.42 %)JavaScript
612448 (27.12 %)Microsoft
711295 (24.60 %)HTML
811264 (24.54 %)CSS
99123 (19.87 %)Finance
109100 (19.82 %)XML
118485 (18.48 %)MVC
128343 (18.17 %)VB.NET
137801 (16.99 %)WCF
147590 (16.53 %)SQL Server 2008
157407 (16.13 %)Windows
166979 (15.20 %)Web Services
176946 (15.13 %)Degree
186704 (14.60 %)jQuery
196703 (14.60 %)Java
206386 (13.91 %)Agile Software Development
216357 (13.85 %)OO
226312 (13.75 %).NET Framework
236210 (13.53 %)TDD
245955 (12.97 %)Ajax
255870 (12.79 %)Visual Studio
265515 (12.01 %)SharePoint
275490 (11.96 %)Scrum
285289 (11.52 %)MS Excel
295186 (11.30 %)ASP.NET MVC
305066 (11.04 %)SQL Server 2005

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, 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
125093 (54.66 %)ASP.NET
211295 (24.60 %)HTML
311264 (24.54 %)CSS
49100 (19.82 %)XML
57801 (16.99 %)WCF
66979 (15.20 %)Web Services
76704 (14.60 %)jQuery
86312 (13.75 %).NET Framework
95955 (12.97 %)Ajax
105186 (11.30 %)ASP.NET MVC
115016 (10.93 %)WPF
123770 (8.212 %)WinForms
133210 (6.992 %)LINQ
142854 (6.217 %)NHibernate
152783 (6.062 %)Silverlight
162656 (5.785 %)XSLT
172523 (5.496 %)ASP
182307 (5.025 %)XHTML
192005 (4.367 %)ASP.NET MVC 3
201997 (4.350 %)HTML5
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
15515 (12.01 %)SharePoint
22963 (6.454 %)IIS
32120 (4.618 %)CMS
41640 (3.572 %)SharePoint 2010
51351 (2.943 %)BizTalk Server
61342 (2.923 %)SharePoint Server
7801 (1.745 %)Umbraco
8592 (1.290 %)Apache
9427 (0.930 %)Sitecore CMS
10391 (0.852 %)Tomcat
11359 (0.782 %)WebLogic
12273 (0.595 %)ESB
13236 (0.514 %)MS Exchange
14209 (0.455 %)Drupal
15191 (0.416 %)MSMQ
16177 (0.386 %)WordPress
17176 (0.383 %)SAS
18152 (0.331 %)DotNetNuke
19126 (0.274 %)ColdFusion
20123 (0.268 %)GlassFish
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
15289 (11.52 %)MS Excel
2781 (1.701 %)MS Office
3657 (1.431 %)Photoshop
4585 (1.274 %)MS Visio
5248 (0.540 %)MATLAB
6203 (0.442 %)InfoPath
7198 (0.431 %)MS Project
8108 (0.235 %)Fireworks
9107 (0.233 %)Adobe Illustrator
10105 (0.229 %)MS PowerPoint
1186 (0.187 %)Spreadsheet
1227 (0.059 %)Acrobat
1325 (0.054 %)Office 365
1424 (0.052 %)DOC1
1520 (0.044 %)InDesign
1615 (0.033 %)SPSS
1714 (0.030 %)PrintSoft PReS
1813 (0.028 %)XMetaL
1910 (0.022 %)Simulink
1910 (0.022 %)Mingle
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11184 (2.579 %)Dynamics CRM
2322 (0.701 %)Dynamics AX
3199 (0.433 %)Dynamics NAV
4109 (0.237 %)Google Analytics
552 (0.113 %)WebTrends
647 (0.102 %)SAP ERP
746 (0.100 %)Visualfiles
838 (0.083 %)Pivotal CRM
937 (0.081 %)Summit
1035 (0.076 %)RMDS
1134 (0.074 %)Line 500
1134 (0.074 %)Tridion
1224 (0.052 %)Oracle CRM
1322 (0.048 %)BusinessWorks
1419 (0.041 %)Oracle Applications
1517 (0.037 %)Dynamics GP
1517 (0.037 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
1616 (0.035 %)SAP Retail
1715 (0.033 %)ION MarketView
1715 (0.033 %)Exstream
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11754 (3.821 %)Internet
2883 (1.923 %)Intranet
3769 (1.675 %)HTTP
4562 (1.224 %)TCP/IP
5442 (0.963 %)DNS
6324 (0.706 %)Firewall
7264 (0.575 %)Extranet
8184 (0.401 %)Broadband
9182 (0.396 %)FTP
10146 (0.318 %)SAN
11132 (0.288 %)GSM
12126 (0.274 %)WAN
13124 (0.270 %)SSL
13124 (0.270 %)LAN
13124 (0.270 %)VPN
13124 (0.270 %)SMTP
14112 (0.244 %)Wireless
1596 (0.209 %)DHCP
1695 (0.207 %)UMTS
1785 (0.185 %)LDAP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
124937 (54.32 %)SQL Server
27590 (16.53 %)SQL Server 2008
35066 (11.04 %)SQL Server 2005
43032 (6.605 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
52659 (5.792 %)SQL Server Integration Services
61465 (3.191 %)MySQL
71149 (2.503 %)Data Warehouse
81107 (2.411 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
9965 (2.102 %)SQL Server 2000
10854 (1.860 %)RDBMS
11738 (1.608 %)Crystal Reports
12734 (1.599 %)ETL
13413 (0.900 %)Oracle 8/8i
14388 (0.845 %)DTS
15373 (0.812 %)OLAP
16352 (0.767 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
17325 (0.708 %)MS Access
18293 (0.638 %)Oracle 10g
19254 (0.553 %)Oracle 11g
20212 (0.462 %)Oracle Reports
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
15870 (12.79 %)Visual Studio
22879 (6.271 %)NUnit
32239 (4.877 %)Team Foundation Server
42138 (4.657 %)Subversion
51855 (4.041 %)Rhino Mocks
6752 (1.638 %)Selenium
7701 (1.527 %)Moq
8527 (1.148 %)VSS/SourceSafe
9426 (0.928 %)Git (software)
10362 (0.789 %)TeamCity
11334 (0.728 %)Eclipse
12333 (0.725 %)Cucumber
13278 (0.606 %)CruiseControl
14277 (0.603 %)MSBuild
15254 (0.553 %)JIRA
16250 (0.545 %)Maven
17243 (0.529 %)Ant
18236 (0.514 %)MSTest
19186 (0.405 %)QuickTest Pro
20156 (0.340 %)JUnit
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
19123 (19.87 %)Finance
22305 (5.021 %)Banking
31567 (3.413 %)Retail
41495 (3.257 %)Marketing
51349 (2.938 %)Telecoms
6951 (2.072 %)Games
7906 (1.974 %)Front Office
8810 (1.764 %)Investment Banking
9733 (1.597 %)Advertising
10590 (1.285 %)Law
11555 (1.209 %)Back Office
12462 (1.006 %)Legal
13428 (0.932 %)Manufacturing
14397 (0.865 %)Music
15369 (0.804 %)Publishing
16302 (0.658 %)Financial Institution
17206 (0.449 %)Pharmaceutical
18163 (0.355 %)Electronics
19155 (0.338 %)Billing
20153 (0.333 %)Automotive
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
133047 (71.99 %)Developer
216171 (35.22 %).NET Developer
310393 (22.64 %)C# Developer
47603 (16.56 %)C# .NET Developer
55473 (11.92 %)ASP.NET Developer
64911 (10.70 %)Web Developer
74615 (10.05 %)Senior Developer
84066 (8.857 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
93808 (8.295 %)Software Developer
103068 (6.683 %)Analyst
112182 (4.753 %)Senior .NET Developer
122058 (4.483 %)Architect
131951 (4.250 %)Software Engineer
141760 (3.834 %)Junior
151678 (3.655 %).NET Web Developer
161590 (3.463 %)Junior Developer
171554 (3.385 %)VB.NET Developer
181523 (3.318 %)Consultant
191482 (3.228 %)SQL Developer
201447 (3.152 %)Senior C# Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12792 (6.082 %)Computer Science
21299 (2.830 %)N-Tier
31241 (2.703 %)Mathematics
4782 (1.703 %)Hedge funds
5680 (1.481 %)Client/Server
6658 (1.433 %)Open Source
7605 (1.318 %)Derivative
8538 (1.172 %)iPhone
9537 (1.170 %)SaaS
10458 (0.998 %)Management Information System
11413 (0.900 %)W3C
12412 (0.897 %)Social Media
12412 (0.897 %)Digital Media
13370 (0.806 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
14362 (0.789 %)Physics
14362 (0.789 %)Inversion of Control
15351 (0.765 %)Cloud Computing
16339 (0.738 %)Tandem
17323 (0.704 %)Fixed Income
18303 (0.660 %)Blackberry
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
17407 (16.13 %)Windows
21620 (3.529 %)Linux
31162 (2.531 %)UNIX
4844 (1.838 %)Windows Server 2003
4844 (1.838 %)Android
5782 (1.703 %)Windows Server 2008
6467 (1.017 %)Apple iOS
7254 (0.553 %)Windows XP
8238 (0.518 %)Windows 7
9170 (0.370 %)Windows Mobile
10165 (0.359 %)Solaris
11136 (0.296 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12121 (0.264 %)Windows Vista
1393 (0.203 %)AIX
1483 (0.181 %)Windows Phone 7
1573 (0.159 %)Windows CE
1657 (0.124 %)Windows 2000 Server
1754 (0.118 %)Windows 2000
1852 (0.113 %)VxWorks
1951 (0.111 %)Debian
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
18485 (18.48 %)MVC
26386 (13.91 %)Agile Software Development
36357 (13.85 %)OO
46210 (13.53 %)TDD
55490 (11.96 %)Scrum
64266 (9.292 %)Web Development
73540 (7.711 %)E-Commerce
82425 (5.282 %)Web Application Development
92243 (4.886 %)CRM
102187 (4.764 %)Project Management
112161 (4.707 %)Unit Testing
121834 (3.995 %)BDD
131813 (3.949 %)Business Intelligence
141777 (3.871 %)UML
151527 (3.326 %)SOA
161467 (3.196 %)Software Engineering
171407 (3.065 %)Continuous Integration
181335 (2.908 %)Content Management
191331 (2.899 %)OOP
201199 (2.612 %)Multithreading
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
133888 (73.82 %)C#
218365 (40.00 %)SQL
313045 (28.42 %)JavaScript
48343 (18.17 %)VB.NET
56703 (14.60 %)Java
64929 (10.74 %)T-SQL
73967 (8.641 %)VB
83891 (8.476 %)C++
92084 (4.540 %)PHP
101466 (3.193 %)C
111442 (3.141 %)VB6
12956 (2.082 %)PL/SQL
13925 (2.015 %)Python
14887 (1.932 %)VBA
15766 (1.669 %)Perl
16697 (1.518 %)Ruby
17632 (1.377 %)VBScript
18420 (0.915 %)PowerShell
19386 (0.841 %)Delphi
20348 (0.758 %)ActionScript
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
16946 (15.13 %)Degree
23247 (7.073 %)Microsoft Certification
32180 (4.749 %)MCP
42141 (4.664 %)MCTS
52121 (4.620 %)MCSD
62029 (4.420 %)MCAD
7673 (1.466 %)Security Cleared
8408 (0.889 %)ISEB
9382 (0.832 %)SC Cleared
10225 (0.490 %)PhD
11177 (0.386 %)MCSE
12171 (0.372 %)MCPD
13144 (0.314 %)ISTQB
14111 (0.242 %)ITIL Certification
15106 (0.231 %)PMI Certification
1694 (0.205 %)Cisco Certification
1793 (0.203 %)MCITP
1891 (0.198 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1980 (0.174 %)DV Cleared
2071 (0.155 %)CISSP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11858 (4.047 %)QA
2288 (0.627 %)SLA
3200 (0.436 %)ISO 9001
4108 (0.235 %)WAI
576 (0.166 %)Data Quality
664 (0.139 %)WCAG
751 (0.111 %)PCI DSS
849 (0.107 %)ISO/IEC 27001
947 (0.102 %)HL7
1044 (0.096 %)DO-178B
1132 (0.070 %)ISO 9000
1223 (0.050 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
1318 (0.039 %)GAMP
1417 (0.037 %)COBIT
1512 (0.026 %)TickIT
1611 (0.024 %)PAS 78
178 (0.017 %)Basel III
185 (0.011 %)Solvency II
185 (0.011 %)DICOM
194 (0.009 %)COSO
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1686 (1.494 %)Active Directory
2261 (0.569 %)VMware Infrastructure
394 (0.205 %)Hyper-V
452 (0.113 %)vSphere
536 (0.078 %)VMware ESXi
635 (0.076 %)Squid
728 (0.061 %)ISA Server
826 (0.057 %)XenDesktop
925 (0.054 %)VMware ESX
925 (0.054 %)Xen
1024 (0.052 %)Snort
1122 (0.048 %)Samba
1219 (0.041 %)Varnish
1318 (0.039 %)XenServer
1416 (0.035 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1515 (0.033 %)Oracle RAC
1612 (0.026 %)UAG
1612 (0.026 %)XenApp
1710 (0.022 %)Terminal Services
187 (0.015 %)Oracle RMAN
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1168 (0.366 %)HP Quality Center
2104 (0.227 %)SCCM
371 (0.155 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
466 (0.144 %)WMI
538 (0.083 %)Puppet
629 (0.063 %)Nagios
728 (0.061 %)OpenView
827 (0.059 %)Backup Exec
827 (0.059 %)SCOM
925 (0.054 %)MOM
1017 (0.037 %)ZABBIX
1116 (0.035 %)SCVMM
1116 (0.035 %)NetBackup
1116 (0.035 %)Plesk
1215 (0.033 %)CA SiteMinder
1311 (0.024 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
1311 (0.024 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
149 (0.020 %)McAfee ePO
149 (0.020 %)Control-M
149 (0.020 %)Data Guard
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
112448 (27.12 %)Microsoft
24382 (9.545 %)Oracle
3586 (1.276 %)Sitecore
4480 (1.046 %)SAP
5419 (0.913 %)VMware
6412 (0.897 %)IBM
7379 (0.826 %)TIBCO
8372 (0.810 %)Adobe
9371 (0.808 %)Business Objects
10344 (0.749 %)Google
11339 (0.738 %)JBoss
12319 (0.695 %)Cisco
13314 (0.684 %)EPiServer
14289 (0.630 %)Sybase
15282 (0.614 %)Salesforce.com
16250 (0.545 %)HP
17234 (0.510 %)Facebook
18202 (0.440 %)Cognos
19189 (0.412 %)Citrix
20183 (0.399 %)Telerik