The first table below looks at the demand for NCover skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NCover over the 3 months to 24 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 Development Applications category.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
NCover
Rank 834 876 847
Rank change year-on-year
+42 -29
Permanent jobs citing NCover 28 23 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.026% 0.019% 0.027%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.176% 0.135% 0.214%
Number of salaries quoted 27 22 31
Average salary £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.00% -9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £38,200 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £41,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year
+9.75% -31.66%
All Development Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
15947 17092 15900
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 14.75% 14.16% 12.78%
Number of salaries quoted 13623 14969 13983
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%

NCover
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing NCover within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

NCover Jobs Demand Trend

NCover
Salary Trend

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

NCover Salary Trend

NCover
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing NCover over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

NCover Salary Histogram

NCover
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NCover within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England +32 28 £47,500 -5.00%
London +53 20 £47,500 -5.00%
West Midlands - 7 £45,000 -
Coventry - 5 £45,000 -
Birmingham - 2 £46,250 -
East Midlands -3 1 £35,000 -12.50%
Leicestershire - 1 £35,000 -
Leicester - 1 £35,000 -

NCover
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing NCover 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 NCover.

1 40 (100.00%) NUnit
2 39 (97.50%) C#
3 35 (87.50%) .NET
4 29 (72.50%) Microsoft
5 27 (67.50%) JavaScript
5 27 (67.50%) ASP.NET
5 27 (67.50%) CSS
6 25 (62.50%) MVC
7 24 (60.00%) Web Services
7 24 (60.00%) Visual Studio
7 24 (60.00%) SQL
8 23 (57.50%) TeamCity
9 22 (55.00%) NHibernate
9 22 (55.00%) W3C
10 21 (52.50%) .NET Framework
10 21 (52.50%) ReSharper
10 21 (52.50%) jQuery
11 20 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
12 19 (47.50%) LINQ
13 18 (45.00%) Sitecore CMS
13 18 (45.00%) Sitecore
13 18 (45.00%) HTML5
13 18 (45.00%) LINQ to SQL
13 18 (45.00%) CSS3
13 18 (45.00%) CMS
13 18 (45.00%) XSLT
13 18 (45.00%) XHTML
13 18 (45.00%) SharePoint
13 18 (45.00%) GitHub
14 16 (40.00%) OO

NCover
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing NCover 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 NCover. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 35 (87.50%) .NET
2 27 (67.50%) ASP.NET
2 27 (67.50%) CSS
3 24 (60.00%) Web Services
4 22 (55.00%) NHibernate
5 21 (52.50%) .NET Framework
5 21 (52.50%) jQuery
6 19 (47.50%) LINQ
7 18 (45.00%) HTML5
7 18 (45.00%) LINQ to SQL
7 18 (45.00%) CSS3
7 18 (45.00%) XSLT
7 18 (45.00%) XHTML
8 9 (22.50%) HTML
9 7 (17.50%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (10.00%) ASP
10 4 (10.00%) Flash
10 4 (10.00%) DHTML
10 4 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
10 4 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 18 (45.00%) Sitecore CMS
1 18 (45.00%) CMS
1 18 (45.00%) SharePoint
2 15 (37.50%) Umbraco
3 4 (10.00%) IIS
4 3 (7.500%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (7.500%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.500%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) SSL
2 2 (5.000%) BGP
2 2 (5.000%) LAN
2 2 (5.000%) WAN
2 2 (5.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) SQL Server
2 7 (17.50%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (10.00%) SQL Server 2000
4 3 (7.500%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (2.500%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 40 (100.00%) NUnit
2 24 (60.00%) Visual Studio
3 23 (57.50%) TeamCity
4 21 (52.50%) ReSharper
5 20 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (45.00%) GitHub
7 9 (22.50%) CruiseControl
7 9 (22.50%) Subversion
8 7 (17.50%) Rhino Mocks
9 4 (10.00%) MSBuild
10 3 (7.500%) FitNesse
10 3 (7.500%) Cucumber
10 3 (7.500%) WatiN
10 3 (7.500%) FxCop
10 3 (7.500%) NDepend
11 2 (5.000%) Git (software)
General
1 16 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 40 (100.00%) Developer
2 27 (67.50%) C# Developer
3 21 (52.50%) .NET Developer
4 17 (42.50%) C# .NET Developer
5 12 (30.00%) Umbraco Developer
6 10 (25.00%) Senior Developer
7 9 (22.50%) Senior C# Developer
8 5 (12.50%) Lead Developer
9 4 (10.00%) C++ Developer
9 4 (10.00%) Senior C++ Developer
9 4 (10.00%) Agile C# Developer
9 4 (10.00%) WPF Developer
9 4 (10.00%) UI Developer
9 4 (10.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 4 (10.00%) C++/C# Developer
10 3 (7.500%) Mid-Level C# Developer
10 3 (7.500%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
10 3 (7.500%) Junior C# .NET Developer
10 3 (7.500%) Mid-Level C# .NET Developer
10 3 (7.500%) Junior C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 22 (55.00%) W3C
2 5 (12.50%) N-Tier
2 5 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (10.00%) Derivative
4 2 (5.000%) Fixed Income
4 2 (5.000%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (10.00%) Windows
1 4 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (7.500%) Windows XP
3 1 (2.500%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.500%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) MVC
2 16 (40.00%) OO
2 16 (40.00%) TDD
3 9 (22.50%) Scrum
4 7 (17.50%) Load Balancing
4 7 (17.50%) BDD
5 4 (10.00%) UML
5 4 (10.00%) Unit Testing
5 4 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (10.00%) Multithreading
6 3 (7.500%) Refactoring
6 3 (7.500%) Kanban
6 3 (7.500%) Static Code Analysis
6 3 (7.500%) Dependency Injection
6 3 (7.500%) E-Commerce
6 3 (7.500%) SOA
6 3 (7.500%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (7.500%) Pair Programming
6 3 (7.500%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (5.000%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (97.50%) C#
2 27 (67.50%) JavaScript
3 24 (60.00%) SQL
4 9 (22.50%) C++
5 4 (10.00%) XAML
6 3 (7.500%) Ruby
6 3 (7.500%) Python
7 2 (5.000%) Java
8 1 (2.500%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.500%) QA
Vendors
1 29 (72.50%) Microsoft
2 18 (45.00%) Sitecore
3 4 (10.00%) Adobe
4 2 (5.000%) Cisco