The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Framework over the 3 months to 20 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 Brighton 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 25 26 23
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -3
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 2 9 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 1.408% 3.516% 1.538%
As % of the Application Development category 3.030% 11.54% 4.167%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £358 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.45% -2.40%
All Application Development
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
66 78 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 46.48% 30.47% 36.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 26 23
Average daily rate £315 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £183 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET Framework
East Sussex

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton .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 Brighton region.

Brighton .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 Brighton region.

Brighton .NET Framework Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) LINQ
1 3 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 2 (66.67%) Razor View Engine
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (66.67%) DevExpress
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (66.67%) HTML5
2 2 (66.67%) Rhino Mocks
2 2 (66.67%) VB.NET
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Pair Programming
2 2 (66.67%) NUnit
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) OOA/OOD

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) LINQ
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 2 (66.67%) Razor View Engine
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (66.67%) HTML5
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) WF
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 1 (33.33%) LINQ to SQL
3 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
1 2 (66.67%) NUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (66.67%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
1 1 (33.33%) Informatics
1 1 (33.33%) Health Informatics
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Pair Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) SOA
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) VB.NET
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) DevExpress