The first table below looks at the demand for .NET 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 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 (dotNet)
Rank 9 8 9
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +1
Contract jobs citing .NET 22 35 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 15.49% 13.67% 12.31%
As % of the Application Development category 33.33% 44.87% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 7
Average daily rate £335 £300 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.66% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £231 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £380
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 £29.41 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+19.00% -12.20%
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
East Sussex

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton .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 Brighton region.

Brighton .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 Brighton region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Brighton .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 Brighton region.

Brighton .NET Hourly Rate Trend

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 27 (65.85%) C#
2 18 (43.90%) ASP.NET
3 17 (41.46%) TDD
4 12 (29.27%) MVC
5 11 (26.83%) Windows
5 11 (26.83%) ASP.NET MVC
6 10 (24.39%) SQL
6 10 (24.39%) SQL Server
7 9 (21.95%) Scrum
8 8 (19.51%) JavaScript
9 7 (17.07%) Windows Azure
9 7 (17.07%) QA
10 6 (14.63%) Selenium
10 6 (14.63%) Gherkin
10 6 (14.63%) Agile Software Development
11 5 (12.20%) VB.NET
11 5 (12.20%) HTML
11 5 (12.20%) CSS
11 5 (12.20%) Web Services
11 5 (12.20%) HTTP
11 5 (12.20%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 5 (12.20%) jQuery
11 5 (12.20%) LINQ
11 5 (12.20%) User Acceptance Testing
11 5 (12.20%) Performance Testing
11 5 (12.20%) SQL Server 2008
12 4 (9.756%) Multithreading
12 4 (9.756%) Enterprise Architecture
12 4 (9.756%) Microsoft
12 4 (9.756%) Visual Studio

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 18 (43.90%) ASP.NET
2 11 (26.83%) ASP.NET MVC
3 6 (14.63%) Gherkin
4 5 (12.20%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 5 (12.20%) jQuery
4 5 (12.20%) HTML
4 5 (12.20%) LINQ
4 5 (12.20%) CSS
4 5 (12.20%) Web Services
5 3 (7.317%) .NET Framework
5 3 (7.317%) HTML5
5 3 (7.317%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 3 (7.317%) RESTful
5 3 (7.317%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 2 (4.878%) ServiceStack
6 2 (4.878%) REST
6 2 (4.878%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (4.878%) WCF
6 2 (4.878%) WPF
6 2 (4.878%) XML
Application Platforms
1 7 (17.07%) Windows Azure
2 2 (4.878%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (4.878%) SharePoint 2013
2 2 (4.878%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.878%) CMS
2 2 (4.878%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (2.439%) IIS
3 1 (2.439%) MSMQ
Applications
1 2 (4.878%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.439%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) HTTP
2 1 (2.439%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (24.39%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.20%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (4.878%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (2.439%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.439%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.439%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.439%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) Selenium
2 4 (9.756%) Visual Studio
3 3 (7.317%) SpecFlow
4 2 (4.878%) NUnit
4 2 (4.878%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (4.878%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (2.439%) PhoneGap
General
1 2 (4.878%) Banking
2 1 (2.439%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (2.439%) Finance
Job Titles
1 26 (63.41%) Developer
2 12 (29.27%) .NET Developer
3 11 (26.83%) C# Developer
4 10 (24.39%) C# .NET Developer
5 7 (17.07%) Analyst
6 6 (14.63%) Test Analyst
6 6 (14.63%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 5 (12.20%) Automated Tester
7 5 (12.20%) Tester
8 3 (7.317%) Agile C# Developer
9 2 (4.878%) Administrator
9 2 (4.878%) Teradata DBA
9 2 (4.878%) SharePoint Developer
9 2 (4.878%) QA Analyst
9 2 (4.878%) .NET Software Engineer
9 2 (4.878%) Software Engineer
9 2 (4.878%) Software Developer
9 2 (4.878%) VB.NET Developer
9 2 (4.878%) C# Software Engineer
9 2 (4.878%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.878%) Open Source
2 1 (2.439%) PaaS
2 1 (2.439%) iPad
2 1 (2.439%) Health Informatics
2 1 (2.439%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (2.439%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.439%) NHS
2 1 (2.439%) Handset
2 1 (2.439%) Informatics
2 1 (2.439%) iPhone
2 1 (2.439%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 11 (26.83%) Windows
2 1 (2.439%) Linux
2 1 (2.439%) Android
2 1 (2.439%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) TDD
2 12 (29.27%) MVC
3 9 (21.95%) Scrum
4 6 (14.63%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (12.20%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (12.20%) Performance Testing
6 4 (9.756%) OO
6 4 (9.756%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (9.756%) Multithreading
7 2 (4.878%) BDD
7 2 (4.878%) Project Management
7 2 (4.878%) Pair Programming
7 2 (4.878%) Automated Testing
8 1 (2.439%) Systems Analysis
8 1 (2.439%) Data Analysis
8 1 (2.439%) Unit Testing
8 1 (2.439%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (2.439%) SOA
8 1 (2.439%) Business Intelligence
8 1 (2.439%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 27 (65.85%) C#
2 10 (24.39%) SQL
3 8 (19.51%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.20%) VB.NET
5 2 (4.878%) VBA
5 2 (4.878%) Lua
6 1 (2.439%) VB
6 1 (2.439%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (9.756%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.878%) Sitecore
2 2 (4.878%) DevExpress
3 1 (2.439%) TIBCO