The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Birmingham 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
.NET Software Engineer
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Software Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.686% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.737% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £525 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £233 £300
% change year-on-year
+72.04% -22.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 £12.50 -
% change year-on-year
+280.00% -
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
407 595 468
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 93.14% 95.05% 90.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 322 258
Average daily rate £340 £325 £333
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -2.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £183 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 28
Average hourly rate £16.38 £14.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.96% +7.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.68 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £33.00 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
.NET Software Engineer
West Midlands

.NET Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing .NET Software Engineer across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Birmingham .NET Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham .NET Software Engineer Daily Rate Trend

.NET Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited .NET Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (50.00%) Moq
3 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (50.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
3 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (50.00%) MSTest
3 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (50.00%) UML
3 2 (50.00%) IIS
3 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (50.00%) ESRI
3 2 (50.00%) ArcGIS
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (50.00%) WCF
3 2 (50.00%) Silverlight
3 2 (50.00%) RIA
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) EPiServer
4 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (25.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) Telecoms

.NET Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited .NET Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (50.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (50.00%) WCF
3 2 (50.00%) Silverlight
4 1 (25.00%) SOAP
4 1 (25.00%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) IIS
1 2 (50.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (25.00%) CMS
2 1 (25.00%) EPiServer CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (50.00%) Moq
2 2 (50.00%) MSTest
2 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (50.00%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) UML
1 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) ESRI
2 1 (25.00%) EPiServer
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft