.NET Framework Contracts in Bedfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Framework over the 3 months to 17 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 Bedfordshire 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 23 30 22
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -8
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 7 6 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 3.784% 2.128% 6.122%
As % of the Application Development category 18.42% 12.00% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 12
Average daily rate £350 £325 £198
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +64.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
All Application Development
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 38 50 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 20.54% 17.73% 28.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 28 37
Average daily rate £350 £325 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +62.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET Framework
East of England

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire .NET Framework Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire .NET Framework Daily Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire .NET Framework Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton 0 4 £325 -
Bedford 0 1 - -
.NET Framework
East of England

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing .NET Framework 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 Framework.

1 17 (100.00%) .NET
2 15 (88.24%) C#
3 14 (82.35%) SQL Server
4 12 (70.59%) Windows
5 11 (64.71%) Microsoft
6 9 (52.94%) Web Services
6 9 (52.94%) XML
7 8 (47.06%) TDD
7 8 (47.06%) SQL Server 2005
7 8 (47.06%) SQL Server 2008
8 7 (41.18%) Unit Testing
8 7 (41.18%) Internet
9 5 (29.41%) MVC
9 5 (29.41%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (23.53%) PrintSoft PReS
10 4 (23.53%) Change Management
10 4 (23.53%) DOC1
10 4 (23.53%) Exstream
10 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (23.53%) Refactoring
10 4 (23.53%) QA
10 4 (23.53%) SOA
10 4 (23.53%) HP
10 4 (23.53%) OO
10 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
10 4 (23.53%) ASP.NET
10 4 (23.53%) Visual Studio
10 4 (23.53%) SQL
11 3 (17.65%) Java

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing .NET Framework 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 Framework. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (52.94%) Web Services
2 9 (52.94%) XML
3 4 (23.53%) ASP.NET
4 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (5.882%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (5.882%) NHibernate
5 1 (5.882%) WCF
5 1 (5.882%) WF
5 1 (5.882%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) IIS
1 1 (5.882%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.882%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (5.882%) Papyrus
1 1 (5.882%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
1 4 (23.53%) DOC1
1 4 (23.53%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Exstream
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (82.35%) SQL Server
2 8 (47.06%) SQL Server 2005
2 8 (47.06%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
5 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (5.882%) GIS
6 1 (5.882%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (23.53%) Visual Studio
3 3 (17.65%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (11.76%) SpecFlow
4 2 (11.76%) WebDriver
4 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
4 2 (11.76%) WATIR
4 2 (11.76%) Selenium
4 2 (11.76%) Git (software)
5 1 (5.882%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (5.882%) NUnit
General
1 2 (11.76%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) .NET Developer
3 4 (23.53%) C# Developer
3 4 (23.53%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Lead Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Test Leader
6 1 (5.882%) Agile .NET Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Team Leader
6 1 (5.882%) Development Team Leader
6 1 (5.882%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Client/Server
1 3 (17.65%) N-Tier
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.882%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) TDD
2 7 (41.18%) Unit Testing
3 5 (29.41%) MVC
4 4 (23.53%) SOA
4 4 (23.53%) OO
4 4 (23.53%) Change Management
4 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (23.53%) Refactoring
5 3 (17.65%) UML
5 3 (17.65%) ETL
5 3 (17.65%) Project Management
5 3 (17.65%) Scrum
5 3 (17.65%) AOP
5 3 (17.65%) Web Development
6 2 (11.76%) TOGAF
6 2 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
6 2 (11.76%) E-Commerce
6 2 (11.76%) Kanban
6 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) C#
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) Python
4 2 (11.76%) Ruby
5 1 (5.882%) VB6
5 1 (5.882%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.882%) VB
5 1 (5.882%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
2 1 (5.882%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) HP
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
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