The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basildon 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 Basildon 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 11 10 18
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +8
Contract jobs citing .NET 3 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basildon 7.317% 11.43% 1.818%
As % of the Application Development category 50.00% 50.00% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
Average daily rate £250 £356 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.82% -
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 £29.75 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+17.64% -11.19%
All Application Development
Basildon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6 8 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basildon 14.63% 22.86% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
Average daily rate £250 £350 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% +64.70%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
Average hourly rate £34.25 £29.75 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.12% -0.83%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET
Essex

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basildon .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 Basildon region.

Basildon .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 Basildon region.

Basildon .NET Hourly Rate Trend

.NET
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basildon 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 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (75.00%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) XSLT
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) NHS
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) WSDL
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (25.00%) XPath
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) HL7
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Rational Rhapsody

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basildon 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 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) XML
1 2 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (25.00%) WSDL
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (25.00%) Rational Rhapsody
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) NHS
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (25.00%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) HL7