Bristol .NET Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts within the Bristol region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

.NET Developer
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Banbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Ipswich Kendal Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tadworth Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	55
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching contract IT job ads	33	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	4.242 %	1.589 %
Daily rates quoted	11	3
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£315
Average daily rate	£328	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£303	£307
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.67	£33.75
Average hourly rate	£36.83	£37.50
% change on same period last year	-1.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.00	£41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.58	£32.82
% change on same period last year	-9.86 %
Job Titles Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	778	1070
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.106 %	1.081 %
Daily rates quoted	236	382
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£317
Average daily rate	£346	£334
% change on same period last year	+3.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	134	146
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.03	£25.91
Average hourly rate	£29.61	£28.66
% change on same period last year	+3.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.19	£31.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.69	£25.18
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
.NET Developer South West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

.NET Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing .NET Developer across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing .NET Developer across the Bristol region.

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing .NET Developer across the Bristol region.

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region that cited .NET Developer 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 Developer in their job title.

1 71 (100.00 %) .NET 2 53 (74.65 %) C# 3 48 (67.61 %) ASP.NET 4 32 (45.07 %) SQL Server 5 20 (28.17 %) SQL 6 15 (21.13 %) XML 7 14 (19.72 %) CSS 8 13 (18.31 %) AJAX 8 13 (18.31 %) SQL Server 2005 8 13 (18.31 %) HTML 9 11 (15.49 %) VB.NET 10 10 (14.08 %) ASP 10 10 (14.08 %) Visual Studio 11 8 (11.27 %) WebServices 11 8 (11.27 %) .NET Framework

12 7 (9.859 %) WinForms 12 7 (9.859 %) Windows 13 6 (8.451 %) JavaScript 13 6 (8.451 %) SQL Server 2000 13 6 (8.451 %) Telecoms 13 6 (8.451 %) XHTML 14 5 (7.042 %) Web Development 14 5 (7.042 %) WCF 14 5 (7.042 %) Multimedia 14 5 (7.042 %) W3C 14 5 (7.042 %) VB 15 4 (5.634 %) C++ 15 4 (5.634 %) UML 15 4 (5.634 %) XSLT 15 4 (5.634 %) E-Commerce

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region that cited .NET Developer 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 71 (100.00 %) .NET 2 48 (67.61 %) ASP.NET 3 15 (21.13 %) XML 4 14 (19.72 %) CSS 5 13 (18.31 %) AJAX 5 13 (18.31 %) HTML 6 10 (14.08 %) ASP 7 8 (11.27 %) WebServices 7 8 (11.27 %) .NET Framework 8 7 (9.859 %) WinForms 9 6 (8.451 %) XHTML 10 5 (7.042 %) WCF 11 4 (5.634 %) XSLT 11 4 (5.634 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 3 (4.225 %) WPF 12 3 (4.225 %) Silverlight 12 3 (4.225 %) .NET Remoting 12 3 (4.225 %) COM+ 13 2 (2.817 %) ADO.NET 14 1 (1.408 %) MVC	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.408 %) CMS
Applications 1 2 (2.817 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (1.408 %) Microsoft CRM
Database & Business Intelligence 1 32 (45.07 %) SQL Server 2 13 (18.31 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (8.451 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (2.817 %) GIS 4 2 (2.817 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 10 (14.08 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (1.408 %) CruiseControl 2 1 (1.408 %) NUnit 2 1 (1.408 %) QuickTest Pro 2 1 (1.408 %) PVCS 2 1 (1.408 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 6 (8.451 %) Telecoms 2 5 (7.042 %) Multimedia 3 2 (2.817 %) Back Office 3 2 (2.817 %) Finance 3 2 (2.817 %) Government 3 2 (2.817 %) Insurance 4 1 (1.408 %) Front Office	Miscellaneous 1 5 (7.042 %) W3C 2 3 (4.225 %) Multithreading 3 2 (2.817 %) NHS 3 2 (2.817 %) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems 1 7 (9.859 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (7.042 %) Web Development 2 4 (5.634 %) UML 2 4 (5.634 %) E-Commerce 2 4 (5.634 %) Content Management 3 3 (4.225 %) Agile Software Development 3 3 (4.225 %) TDD 3 3 (4.225 %) CRM 4 2 (2.817 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (2.817 %) Migration 4 2 (2.817 %) Data Protection 4 2 (2.817 %) Unit Testing 5 1 (1.408 %) Integration Testing 5 1 (1.408 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (1.408 %) Automated Testing 5 1 (1.408 %) Software Engineering 5 1 (1.408 %) Regression Testing 5 1 (1.408 %) B2B 5 1 (1.408 %) B2C 5 1 (1.408 %) Scrum 5 1 (1.408 %) Unified Process
Programming Languages 1 53 (74.65 %) C# 2 20 (28.17 %) SQL 3 11 (15.49 %) VB.NET 4 6 (8.451 %) JavaScript 5 5 (7.042 %) VB 6 4 (5.634 %) C++ 7 2 (2.817 %) Delphi 7 2 (2.817 %) Java 7 2 (2.817 %) VB6 8 1 (1.408 %) XPath 8 1 (1.408 %) Transact-SQL 8 1 (1.408 %) DHTML	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.408 %) WAI
System Software 1 3 (4.225 %) MSMQ	Vendors 1 4 (5.634 %) Microsoft 2 2 (2.817 %) Infragistics 2 2 (2.817 %) ComponentOne 2 2 (2.817 %) Syncfusion