The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bracknell region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 21 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 Bracknell 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 34 12 16
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +4
Contract jobs citing .NET 6 13 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 2.459% 8.844% 4.734%
As % of the Application Development category 17.14% 52.00% 18.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
Average daily rate £538 £288 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+86.95% -3.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £278 £296
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £298 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £28.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -6.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.32 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+19.37% -12.47%
All Application Development
Bracknell
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
35 25 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 14.34% 17.01% 25.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 4 9
Average daily rate £425 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
Average hourly rate £17.33 £28.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-38.12% +86.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET
Berkshire

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bracknell .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 Bracknell region.

Bracknell .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 Bracknell region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Bracknell .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 Bracknell region.

Bracknell .NET Hourly Rate Trend

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 5 (55.56%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (22.22%) MVC
3 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (22.22%) HTML
3 2 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) E-business
3 2 (22.22%) XML
3 2 (22.22%) Windows
4 1 (11.11%) Lotus Domino
4 1 (11.11%) Apache
4 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
4 1 (11.11%) MS Access
4 1 (11.11%) XML Schema
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) Adobe
4 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (11.11%) Lotus
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) XSLT
4 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
4 1 (11.11%) UNIX
4 1 (11.11%) FrameMaker
4 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
4 1 (11.11%) VB.NET

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) XML
3 1 (11.11%) XML Schema
3 1 (11.11%) XSLT
3 1 (11.11%) J2EE
3 1 (11.11%) ADO.NET
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) Castle Windsor
3 1 (11.11%) WPF
3 1 (11.11%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Lotus Domino
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
1 1 (11.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) FrameMaker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (11.11%) MS Access
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
1 1 (11.11%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 1 (11.11%) Retail
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Head of Development
3 2 (22.22%) Development Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Author
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Author
4 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
4 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (11.11%) UNIX
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) MVC
1 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (22.22%) E-business
2 1 (11.11%) Project Management
2 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
2 1 (11.11%) Release Management
2 1 (11.11%) TDD
2 1 (11.11%) BPEL
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
3 1 (11.11%) VB.NET
3 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) XAML
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe
1 1 (11.11%) Lotus
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle