The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Framework over the 3 months to 24 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 Buckinghamshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 45 51 45
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -6
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 23 24 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 2.840% 2.459% 3.090%
As % of the Application Development category 11.11% 13.11% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 10
Average daily rate £325 £313 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -10.71%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £304
% change year-on-year
- +6.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.45% -2.40%
All Application Development
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
207 183 234
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 25.56% 18.75% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 94 103
Average daily rate £325 £310 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +59.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET Framework
South East

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire .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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire .NET Framework Daily Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Framework across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire .NET Framework Daily Rate Histogram

.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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire .NET Framework Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes -1 12 £325 +4.00%
High Wycombe - 6 £275 -
Marlow - 1 - -
Beaconsfield - 1 - -
.NET Framework
South East

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 36 (100.00%) .NET
2 29 (80.56%) C#
3 21 (58.33%) MVC
4 20 (55.56%) SQL Server
5 19 (52.78%) ASP.NET
6 16 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
7 15 (41.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 13 (36.11%) SQL
9 12 (33.33%) NHibernate
9 12 (33.33%) WCF
10 10 (27.78%) jQuery
11 9 (25.00%) TDD
12 8 (22.22%) HTML
12 8 (22.22%) LINQ
12 8 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
13 7 (19.44%) ASP.NET MVC
13 7 (19.44%) Windows
14 6 (16.67%) XML
15 5 (13.89%) Web Development
15 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
15 5 (13.89%) Team Foundation Server
16 4 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (11.11%) T-SQL
17 3 (8.333%) Scrum
17 3 (8.333%) BizTalk Server
17 3 (8.333%) WinForms
17 3 (8.333%) Visual Studio
17 3 (8.333%) SharePoint
17 3 (8.333%) OO
17 3 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 36 (100.00%) .NET
2 19 (52.78%) ASP.NET
3 15 (41.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 12 (33.33%) NHibernate
4 12 (33.33%) WCF
5 10 (27.78%) jQuery
6 8 (22.22%) HTML
6 8 (22.22%) LINQ
7 7 (19.44%) ASP.NET MVC
8 6 (16.67%) XML
9 3 (8.333%) WinForms
9 3 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 2 (5.556%) Fluent NHibernate
10 2 (5.556%) KnockoutJS
10 2 (5.556%) Web Services
10 2 (5.556%) WPF
11 1 (2.778%) Ajax
11 1 (2.778%) CSS
11 1 (2.778%) ADO.NET
11 1 (2.778%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.333%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (8.333%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.778%) IIS
2 1 (2.778%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (2.778%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.778%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 8 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (8.333%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (5.556%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (5.556%) OLAP
4 2 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (2.778%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (8.333%) Visual Studio
3 2 (5.556%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (2.778%) NUnit
4 1 (2.778%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (2.778%) NMock
General
1 2 (5.556%) Spanish Language
2 1 (2.778%) Retail
2 1 (2.778%) Marketing
2 1 (2.778%) Finance
Job Titles
1 32 (88.89%) Developer
2 31 (86.11%) .NET Developer
3 15 (41.67%) ASP.NET Developer
4 12 (33.33%) C# Developer
4 12 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
5 11 (30.56%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 6 (16.67%) Senior Developer
7 5 (13.89%) Senior .NET Developer
8 4 (11.11%) SQL Developer
9 3 (8.333%) Administrator
9 3 (8.333%) BizTalk Administrator
10 2 (5.556%) Senior SQL Developer
10 2 (5.556%) Agile .NET Developer
10 2 (5.556%) Web Developer
10 2 (5.556%) .NET Web Developer
10 2 (5.556%) Senior C# Developer
10 2 (5.556%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
10 2 (5.556%) C# Web Developer
11 1 (2.778%) Release Engineer
11 1 (2.778%) .NET Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.556%) SaaS
2 1 (2.778%) Statistics
2 1 (2.778%) NHS
2 1 (2.778%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.778%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Windows
2 4 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.778%) Windows NT
4 1 (2.778%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (58.33%) MVC
2 16 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (25.00%) TDD
4 5 (13.89%) Web Development
5 3 (8.333%) Scrum
5 3 (8.333%) OO
5 3 (8.333%) Web Application Development
6 1 (2.778%) Business Continuity
6 1 (2.778%) Data Modelling
6 1 (2.778%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (2.778%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 29 (80.56%) C#
2 13 (36.11%) SQL
3 4 (11.11%) T-SQL
4 2 (5.556%) VB.NET
4 2 (5.556%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.778%) VB6
5 1 (2.778%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (2.778%) MCITP
1 1 (2.778%) MCPD
1 1 (2.778%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (2.778%) MCP
1 1 (2.778%) MCAD
1 1 (2.778%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.778%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (5.556%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.778%) Twitter