Birmingham .NET Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts within the Birmingham region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Cleveland Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edenbridge Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Romford Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sutton-in-Ashfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Witham Woking Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	30
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	25	42
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	4.554 %	4.273 %
Daily rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£230
Average daily rate	£317	£245
% change on same period last year	+29.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£338	£260
UK excluding London average daily rate	£281	£316
% change on same period last year	-11.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.33	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£45.00
% change on same period last year	-27.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.67	£50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.32	£32.65
% change on same period last year	-13.28 %
Job Titles Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	549	983
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.865 %	1.053 %
Daily rates quoted	169	229
Average minimum daily rate	£354	£375
Average daily rate	£378	£402
% change on same period last year	-6.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£401	£429
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	82	182
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.45	£16.15
Average hourly rate	£23.17	£17.23
% change on same period last year	+34.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.89	£18.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
.NET Developer West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing .NET Developer across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited .NET Developer in their job title 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 with .NET Developer in their job title.

1 70 (100.00 %) .NET 2 53 (75.71 %) ASP.NET 3 43 (61.43 %) C# 4 41 (58.57 %) SQL Server 5 29 (41.43 %) VB.NET 6 28 (40.00 %) SQL Server 2005 7 22 (31.43 %) SQL 8 21 (30.00 %) XML 9 19 (27.14 %) CSS 9 19 (27.14 %) HTML 10 14 (20.00 %) JavaScript 11 12 (17.14 %) VB 12 11 (15.71 %) WebServices 12 11 (15.71 %) ASP 12 11 (15.71 %) Microsoft

13 10 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 14 8 (11.43 %) MS Excel 14 8 (11.43 %) Visual Studio 14 8 (11.43 %) Retail 15 7 (10.00 %) AJAX 16 6 (8.571 %) MySQL 16 6 (8.571 %) Transact-SQL 16 6 (8.571 %) Intranet 16 6 (8.571 %) Internet 16 6 (8.571 %) Finance 16 6 (8.571 %) Manufacturing 17 5 (7.143 %) Construction 18 4 (5.714 %) Oracle 18 4 (5.714 %) N-Tier 18 4 (5.714 %) UML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited .NET Developer in their job title 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 with .NET Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 70 (100.00 %) .NET 2 53 (75.71 %) ASP.NET 3 21 (30.00 %) XML 4 19 (27.14 %) HTML 4 19 (27.14 %) CSS 5 11 (15.71 %) WebServices 5 11 (15.71 %) ASP 6 7 (10.00 %) AJAX 7 4 (5.714 %) .NET Remoting 7 4 (5.714 %) .NET Framework 7 4 (5.714 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 3 (4.286 %) WCF 8 3 (4.286 %) ADO.NET 9 1 (1.429 %) XHTML 9 1 (1.429 %) Middleware 9 1 (1.429 %) WinForms 9 1 (1.429 %) WPF 9 1 (1.429 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 9 1 (1.429 %) NHibernate	Application Platforms 1 3 (4.286 %) IIS 2 2 (2.857 %) Oracle Spatial 3 1 (1.429 %) ESB 3 1 (1.429 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 8 (11.43 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 6 (8.571 %) Intranet 1 6 (8.571 %) Internet 2 2 (2.857 %) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 41 (58.57 %) SQL Server 2 28 (40.00 %) SQL Server 2005 3 10 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 4 6 (8.571 %) MySQL 5 3 (4.286 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 2 (2.857 %) RDBMS 6 2 (2.857 %) SQL Server 2008	Development Applications 1 8 (11.43 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (2.857 %) NUnit 3 1 (1.429 %) CruiseControl 3 1 (1.429 %) Subversion 3 1 (1.429 %) Flash 3 1 (1.429 %) ClearCase
General 1 8 (11.43 %) Retail 2 6 (8.571 %) Finance 2 6 (8.571 %) Manufacturing 3 5 (7.143 %) Construction 4 3 (4.286 %) Government 5 2 (2.857 %) Telecoms 5 2 (2.857 %) Electric 6 1 (1.429 %) Insurance 6 1 (1.429 %) Pensions 6 1 (1.429 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (1.429 %) Education 6 1 (1.429 %) Health 6 1 (1.429 %) Games	Miscellaneous 1 4 (5.714 %) N-Tier 2 3 (4.286 %) Web 2.0 3 1 (1.429 %) Social Network 3 1 (1.429 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 2 (2.857 %) Windows 2 1 (1.429 %) Linux 2 1 (1.429 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (1.429 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (5.714 %) UML 1 4 (5.714 %) Agile Software Development 1 4 (5.714 %) Web Development 2 3 (4.286 %) OO 3 2 (2.857 %) SEO 3 2 (2.857 %) Migration 3 2 (2.857 %) Unit Testing 3 2 (2.857 %) OOD 4 1 (1.429 %) SOA 4 1 (1.429 %) Project Management 4 1 (1.429 %) TDD 4 1 (1.429 %) System Testing 4 1 (1.429 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (1.429 %) Scrum 4 1 (1.429 %) Unified Process 4 1 (1.429 %) Web Design 4 1 (1.429 %) RUP 4 1 (1.429 %) CRM 4 1 (1.429 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 43 (61.43 %) C# 2 29 (41.43 %) VB.NET 3 22 (31.43 %) SQL 4 14 (20.00 %) JavaScript 5 12 (17.14 %) VB 6 6 (8.571 %) Transact-SQL 7 3 (4.286 %) VB6 8 2 (2.857 %) PL/SQL 9 1 (1.429 %) C 9 1 (1.429 %) ActionScript	System Software 1 1 (1.429 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 11 (15.71 %) Microsoft 2 4 (5.714 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.429 %) Citrix