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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 16 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Birmingham region.

 .NET Developer
Location
3 months to
16 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank162027
Rank change year-on-year
Up+4Up+7
Matching contract IT job ads232638
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham6.085 %5.603 %4.047 %
As % of the Job Titles category6.686 %6.147 %4.393 %
Daily rates quoted1259
Average daily rate£284£325£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.69 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£213£288£249
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£374£375£350
UK excluding London average daily rate£275£264£300
% change year-on-year
+4.260 %-12.08 %
Hourly rates quoted142
Average hourly rate£32.50£35.00£21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.140 %+66.66 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.00£31.75£31.50
% change year-on-year
-11.81 %+0.790 %
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
344423865
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham91.01 %91.16 %92.12 %
Daily rates quoted144145241
Average daily rate£310£306£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.220 %-18.33 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£200£200£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£450£460£515
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£340£350
% change year-on-year
-4.410 %-2.850 %
Hourly rates quoted2938125
Average hourly rate£13.50£17.50£15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.85 %+16.66 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£11.00£10.25
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£25.00£35.00£32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.60£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-12.00 %-9.090 %
.NET Developer West Midlands.NET Developer
West Midlands

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.

.NET Developer
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.

Birmingham .NET Developer Demand Trend

.NET Developer
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.

Birmingham .NET Developer Daily Rate Trend

.NET Developer
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 16 March 2010.

Birmingham .NET Developer Daily Rate Histogram

.NET Developer
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.

Birmingham .NET Developer Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, 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.

135 (100.00 %).NET
229 (82.86 %)ASP.NET
324 (68.57 %)C#
423 (65.71 %)CSS
522 (62.86 %)JavaScript
620 (57.14 %)SQL Server
717 (48.57 %)Web Services
717 (48.57 %)HTML
717 (48.57 %)SQL Server 2005
814 (40.00 %)SQL
913 (37.14 %)SQL Server 2008
1012 (34.29 %)XML
1110 (28.57 %)XHTML
1110 (28.57 %)ASP.NET 2.0
129 (25.71 %)VB.NET
129 (25.71 %)Visual Studio
138 (22.86 %)T-SQL
147 (20.00 %)VSS/SourceSafe
147 (20.00 %)ADO.NET
147 (20.00 %)IIS
147 (20.00 %)OO
156 (17.14 %)E-Commerce
156 (17.14 %).NET Framework
165 (14.29 %)Multithreading
165 (14.29 %)N-Tier
165 (14.29 %)W3C
174 (11.43 %)Government
174 (11.43 %)AJAX
174 (11.43 %)XSLT
174 (11.43 %)Oracle

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, 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.

Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
135 (100.00 %).NET
229 (82.86 %)ASP.NET
323 (65.71 %)CSS
417 (48.57 %)Web Services
417 (48.57 %)HTML
512 (34.29 %)XML
610 (28.57 %)XHTML
610 (28.57 %)ASP.NET 2.0
77 (20.00 %)ADO.NET
86 (17.14 %).NET Framework
94 (11.43 %)AJAX
94 (11.43 %)XSLT
102 (5.714 %)SOAP
102 (5.714 %)WCF
111 (2.857 %)WF
111 (2.857 %)Silverlight
111 (2.857 %)jQuery
111 (2.857 %)XSL
111 (2.857 %)JSP
111 (2.857 %)ASP
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
17 (20.00 %)IIS
23 (8.571 %)SharePoint
32 (5.714 %)Content Management Server
32 (5.714 %)AquaLogic
41 (2.857 %)Oracle Workflow
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (2.857 %)MS Excel
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (2.857 %)Oracle 11i
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (2.857 %)Internet
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
120 (57.14 %)SQL Server
217 (48.57 %)SQL Server 2005
313 (37.14 %)SQL Server 2008
42 (5.714 %)SQL Server Integration Services
51 (2.857 %)Ingres
51 (2.857 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
51 (2.857 %)SQL Server 2000
51 (2.857 %)Datawarehouse
51 (2.857 %)DTS
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
19 (25.71 %)Visual Studio
27 (20.00 %)VSS/SourceSafe
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14 (11.43 %)Government
21 (2.857 %)Pensions
21 (2.857 %)Finance
21 (2.857 %)Education
21 (2.857 %)Advertising
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
15 (14.29 %)Multithreading
15 (14.29 %)N-Tier
15 (14.29 %)W3C
21 (2.857 %)Data Protection Act
21 (2.857 %)E-Learning
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (2.857 %)Windows
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
17 (20.00 %)OO
26 (17.14 %)E-Commerce
34 (11.43 %)Web Development
42 (5.714 %)Content Management
51 (2.857 %)Requirements Analysis
51 (2.857 %)Data Protection
51 (2.857 %)Data Modelling
51 (2.857 %)Business Analysis
51 (2.857 %)Workflow
51 (2.857 %)Scrum
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
124 (68.57 %)C#
222 (62.86 %)JavaScript
314 (40.00 %)SQL
49 (25.71 %)VB.NET
58 (22.86 %)T-SQL
62 (5.714 %)PL/SQL
71 (2.857 %)VBA
71 (2.857 %)VB
71 (2.857 %)PHP
71 (2.857 %)C
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11 (2.857 %)SC Cleared
11 (2.857 %)Security Cleared
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
14 (11.43 %)Oracle
23 (8.571 %)Microsoft
32 (5.714 %)BEA
32 (5.714 %)Plumtree
41 (2.857 %)Mercator