The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 23 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 Aberdeen region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 6 26 23
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -3
Contract jobs citing .NET 20 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 14.18% 1.596% 3.175%
As % of the Application Development category 64.52% 25.00% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 5
Average daily rate £375 £300 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £300 £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £563 £300 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £75.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.75 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+17.64% -11.19%
All Application Development
Aberdeen
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
31 12 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 21.99% 6.383% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 15
Average daily rate £325 £300 £351
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -14.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £200 £244
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £305 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £75.00 - £14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET
Scotland

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Aberdeen .NET Jobs Demand Trend

.NET
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing .NET across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen .NET Daily Rate Trend

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Aberdeen .NET Daily Rate Histogram

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing .NET across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen .NET Hourly Rate Trend

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited .NET.

1 26 (66.67%) C#
2 20 (51.28%) SQL Server
3 19 (48.72%) SharePoint
3 19 (48.72%) SharePoint 2010
4 18 (46.15%) ASP.NET
5 14 (35.90%) MVC
5 14 (35.90%) jQuery
6 12 (30.77%) ASP.NET MVC
6 12 (30.77%) CSS
6 12 (30.77%) Web Services
6 12 (30.77%) HTML
7 11 (28.21%) JavaScript
8 9 (23.08%) OOP
8 9 (23.08%) OO
8 9 (23.08%) Intranet
8 9 (23.08%) Document Management
9 8 (20.51%) CAML
9 8 (20.51%) Lotus
9 8 (20.51%) Lotus Notes
9 8 (20.51%) XML
9 8 (20.51%) XSLT
10 7 (17.95%) ISO 9001
10 7 (17.95%) Finance
10 7 (17.95%) .NET Framework
10 7 (17.95%) Kindle
10 7 (17.95%) SQL Server 2008
11 6 (15.38%) SharePoint Server
12 4 (10.26%) Migration
13 3 (7.692%) WinForms
13 3 (7.692%) InfoPath

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited .NET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (46.15%) ASP.NET
2 14 (35.90%) jQuery
3 12 (30.77%) ASP.NET MVC
3 12 (30.77%) CSS
3 12 (30.77%) Web Services
3 12 (30.77%) HTML
4 8 (20.51%) CAML
4 8 (20.51%) XML
4 8 (20.51%) XSLT
5 7 (17.95%) .NET Framework
6 3 (7.692%) WinForms
6 3 (7.692%) WPF
7 2 (5.128%) HTML5
7 2 (5.128%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 2 (5.128%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 1 (2.564%) WCF
8 1 (2.564%) Unity DI Container
8 1 (2.564%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 1 (2.564%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 19 (48.72%) SharePoint
1 19 (48.72%) SharePoint 2010
2 8 (20.51%) Lotus Notes
3 6 (15.38%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (2.564%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (2.564%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 3 (7.692%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.08%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (51.28%) SQL Server
2 7 (17.95%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (5.128%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (5.128%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (5.128%) MS Access
4 1 (2.564%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.564%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (2.564%) Oracle 9i
4 1 (2.564%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.564%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (2.564%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 7 (17.95%) Finance
2 1 (2.564%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 39 (100.00%) Developer
2 19 (48.72%) .NET Developer
2 19 (48.72%) SharePoint Developer
3 4 (10.26%) ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (7.692%) C# Developer
4 3 (7.692%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (7.692%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (2.564%) Junior Developer
5 1 (2.564%) Junior C# Developer
5 1 (2.564%) Junior .NET Developer
5 1 (2.564%) Junior ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (2.564%) Software Developer
5 1 (2.564%) Junior
5 1 (2.564%) Junior C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Kindle
2 3 (7.692%) EPoS
3 1 (2.564%) Data Conversion
3 1 (2.564%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.128%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) MVC
2 9 (23.08%) OOP
2 9 (23.08%) OO
2 9 (23.08%) Document Management
3 4 (10.26%) Migration
4 3 (7.692%) Workflow
5 2 (5.128%) TDD
6 1 (2.564%) Web Development
6 1 (2.564%) Dependency Injection
6 1 (2.564%) Data Migration
6 1 (2.564%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 26 (66.67%) C#
2 11 (28.21%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.128%) VBA
3 2 (5.128%) SQL
4 1 (2.564%) VB6
4 1 (2.564%) VB
4 1 (2.564%) VB.NET
4 1 (2.564%) Java
4 1 (2.564%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 1 (2.564%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Lotus
2 1 (2.564%) Oracle
2 1 (2.564%) Microsoft
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