The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Aylesbury region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Aylesbury 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 8 2 4
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +2
Contract jobs citing .NET 3 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aylesbury 12.50% 22.22% 14.29%
As % of the Application Development category 60.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £325 £375 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% -14.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
All Application Development
Aylesbury
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
5 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aylesbury 20.83% 22.22% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
Average daily rate £325 £375 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% -14.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
.NET
Buckinghamshire

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Aylesbury .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 Aylesbury region.

Aylesbury .NET Daily Rate Trend

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Aylesbury .NET Hourly Rate Trend

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aylesbury 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (25.00%) WATIR
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) LINQ
3 1 (25.00%) Email Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) WatiN
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (25.00%) MSTest
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (25.00%) Automation Testing
3 1 (25.00%) NUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Subversion
3 1 (25.00%) Automated Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aylesbury 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 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) LINQ
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (25.00%) Ajax
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) WATIR
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) WatiN
1 1 (25.00%) MSTest
1 1 (25.00%) NUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Email Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft