The first table below looks at the demand for .NET 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 over the 3 months to 19 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 8 25 5
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -20
Contract jobs citing .NET 26 10 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 13.20% 3.817% 18.07%
As % of the Application Development category 50.00% 24.39% 63.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 5 23
Average daily rate £360 £350 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% +55.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £280 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £420 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
All Application Development
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
52 41 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 26.40% 15.65% 28.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 25 32
Average daily rate £350 £350 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +64.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £250 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £460 £401
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
Average hourly rate - £190.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +300.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
.NET
East of England

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire .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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire .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 Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Bedfordshire .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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire .NET Hourly Rate Trend

.NET
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Luton +7 14 £356 +9.61% 6
Bedford +4 4 £413 - 19
.NET
East of England

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 31 (77.50%) C#
2 22 (55.00%) SQL Server
3 20 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 19 (47.50%) ASP.NET
5 17 (42.50%) Windows
6 16 (40.00%) MVC
7 15 (37.50%) Scrum
7 15 (37.50%) TDD
8 14 (35.00%) E-Commerce
9 13 (32.50%) SOA
10 12 (30.00%) Web Services
10 12 (30.00%) .NET Framework
11 11 (27.50%) BDD
12 10 (25.00%) JavaScript
13 9 (22.50%) Visual Studio
14 8 (20.00%) XML
15 7 (17.50%) SQL
15 7 (17.50%) MS Excel
15 7 (17.50%) Agile Software Development
15 7 (17.50%) Web Development
15 7 (17.50%) Git (software)
15 7 (17.50%) Windows Azure
15 7 (17.50%) ASP.NET MVC
15 7 (17.50%) SpecFlow
16 5 (12.50%) Internet
16 5 (12.50%) SharePoint
16 5 (12.50%) HTML
16 5 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
16 5 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
16 5 (12.50%) WCF

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 19 (47.50%) ASP.NET
2 12 (30.00%) Web Services
2 12 (30.00%) .NET Framework
3 8 (20.00%) XML
4 7 (17.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (12.50%) HTML
5 5 (12.50%) WCF
5 5 (12.50%) NHibernate
6 4 (10.00%) KnockoutJS
7 3 (7.500%) WPF
8 2 (5.000%) Gherkin
8 2 (5.000%) MSMQ
8 2 (5.000%) XSLT
8 2 (5.000%) CSS
8 2 (5.000%) jQuery
9 1 (2.500%) WF
9 1 (2.500%) XML Schema
9 1 (2.500%) Hibernate
9 1 (2.500%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 7 (17.50%) Windows Azure
2 5 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 5 (12.50%) NServiceBus
3 3 (7.500%) CMS
4 2 (5.000%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (5.000%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (5.000%) IIS
5 1 (2.500%) DotNetNuke
5 1 (2.500%) Immediacy CMS
5 1 (2.500%) Amazon AWS
5 1 (2.500%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (2.500%) Kentico
5 1 (2.500%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (17.50%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.000%) MS Office
2 2 (5.000%) PrintSoft PReS
2 2 (5.000%) DOC1
3 1 (2.500%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.000%) Exstream
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (55.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (7.500%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (7.500%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (5.000%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (5.000%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.500%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (2.500%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Visual Studio
2 7 (17.50%) Git (software)
2 7 (17.50%) SpecFlow
3 5 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 4 (10.00%) WebDriver
4 4 (10.00%) Selenium
5 2 (5.000%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (5.000%) NUnit
5 2 (5.000%) JIRA
5 2 (5.000%) WATIR
6 1 (2.500%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.500%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.500%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (2.500%) Log4Net
6 1 (2.500%) FinalBuilder
General
1 2 (5.000%) Aerospace
2 1 (2.500%) Finance
Job Titles
1 21 (52.50%) Developer
2 8 (20.00%) Architect
3 7 (17.50%) .NET Developer
4 6 (15.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 6 (15.00%) C# Developer
4 6 (15.00%) Web Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.500%) Test Leader
6 3 (7.500%) Agile .NET Developer
6 3 (7.500%) ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (7.500%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.500%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.000%) Consultant
7 2 (5.000%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.000%) SharePoint Consultant
7 2 (5.000%) Agile C# Developer
7 2 (5.000%) Senior Architect
7 2 (5.000%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (5.000%) ScrumMaster
8 1 (2.500%) SharePoint Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.500%) N-Tier
1 3 (7.500%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.000%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.500%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.500%) Open Source
3 1 (2.500%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (2.500%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (42.50%) Windows
2 1 (2.500%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (2.500%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) MVC
2 15 (37.50%) Scrum
2 15 (37.50%) TDD
3 14 (35.00%) E-Commerce
4 13 (32.50%) SOA
5 11 (27.50%) BDD
6 7 (17.50%) Agile Software Development
6 7 (17.50%) Web Development
7 5 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (12.50%) Unit Testing
7 5 (12.50%) Agile Testing
8 3 (7.500%) Refactoring
8 3 (7.500%) AOP
8 3 (7.500%) OO
8 3 (7.500%) Change Management
8 3 (7.500%) MVVM
8 3 (7.500%) Waterfall
9 2 (5.000%) Configuration Management
9 2 (5.000%) Project Management
9 2 (5.000%) UML
Programming Languages
1 31 (77.50%) C#
2 10 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (17.50%) SQL
4 3 (7.500%) Ruby
5 2 (5.000%) Python
5 2 (5.000%) Java
5 2 (5.000%) T-SQL
5 2 (5.000%) VB
5 2 (5.000%) VBA
6 1 (2.500%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.500%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (5.000%) ISEB
1 2 (5.000%) Degree
2 1 (2.500%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.500%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.500%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.500%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.500%) Oracle
3 2 (5.000%) HP
4 1 (2.500%) Sitecore
Luton, Bedfordshire
Using the following technology: C#, SQL ASP.net, WCF, JavaScript, CSS, Webforms, MVC, Winforms and VB.net Skills required for the role of C# Developer / Programmer (SQL Server):...
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Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013