The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Framework 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 Bradford 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 Framework
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 1.935% - -
As % of the Application Development category 8.333% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.45% -2.40%
All Application Development
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
36 29 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 23.23% 17.90% 17.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 9
Average daily rate £325 £160 £215
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+103.12% -25.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £150 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £300 £295
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £12.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET Framework
West Yorkshire

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford .NET Framework Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bradford .NET Framework Daily Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing .NET Framework across the Bradford region.

Bradford .NET Framework Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing .NET Framework 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 Framework.

1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) jQuery
3 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (60.00%) MVC
3 3 (60.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (20.00%) SOAP
5 1 (20.00%) XML
5 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
5 1 (20.00%) VBA
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (20.00%) WCF
5 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 1 (20.00%) Razor View Engine

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing .NET Framework 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 Framework. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) jQuery
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (60.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (20.00%) WCF
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) XML Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) VB.NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) MVC
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (20.00%) VBA