Buckinghamshire .NET Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for .NET 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 over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Buckinghamshire region.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Avon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Billingham Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carshalton Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cobham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Falmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harpenden Harrow Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Littlehampton Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rochdale Romsey Rotherham Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 19 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	16	14	10
Rank change year-on-year	-2 -4
Matching contract IT job ads	48	53	153
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire	6.676 %	9.282 %	10.57 %
As % of the Application Development category	42.48 %	57.61 %	52.58 %
Daily rates quoted	13	13	26
Average daily rate	£250	£313	£313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-20.00 % -
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£238	£279	£263
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£293	£395	£475
UK excluding London average daily rate	£288	£297	£325
% change year-on-year	-3.030 % -8.760 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2	1
Average hourly rate	£15.50	£25.00	£17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-38.00 % +47.05 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.50	£27.50	£32.50
% change year-on-year	-3.630 % -15.38 %
All Application Development Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Application Development category	113	92	291
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire	15.72 %	16.11 %	20.11 %
Daily rates quoted	45	20	58
Average daily rate	£250	£300	£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-16.66 % -7.690 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£158	£200	£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£390	£450	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£300	£325
% change year-on-year	- -7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	5	8
Average hourly rate	£26.00	£17.50	£22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	+48.57 % -22.22 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.50	£27.50	£32.50
% change year-on-year	+3.630 % -15.38 %
.NET South East

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.

.NET
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing .NET across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

.NET
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. 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	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	-6	26	£265	-24.28 %
High Wycombe	-1	2	£238	-20.83 %
Aylesbury	-1	2	£256	-18.00 %
Beaconsfield	-	1	-	-

.NET South East

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 43 (48.31 %) C# 1 43 (48.31 %) SQL Server 2 28 (31.46 %) Microsoft 3 27 (30.34 %) Finance 4 23 (25.84 %) ASP.NET 5 20 (22.47 %) Oracle 5 20 (22.47 %) Windows 6 15 (16.85 %) SQL 7 14 (15.73 %) Visual Studio 7 14 (15.73 %) UNIX 7 14 (15.73 %) MS Excel 8 13 (14.61 %) .NET Framework 9 11 (12.36 %) DB2 9 11 (12.36 %) WinForms 10 10 (11.24 %) Java

10 10 (11.24 %) Web Services 10 10 (11.24 %) XML 11 9 (10.11 %) C++ 11 9 (10.11 %) HTML 11 9 (10.11 %) SharePoint 11 9 (10.11 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 8 (8.989 %) OO 12 8 (8.989 %) Middleware 12 8 (8.989 %) SQL Server 2005 13 7 (7.865 %) WPF 13 7 (7.865 %) C 13 7 (7.865 %) VB.NET 13 7 (7.865 %) ASP 13 7 (7.865 %) Agile Software Development 14 6 (6.742 %) Spring

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 23 (25.84 %) ASP.NET 2 13 (14.61 %) .NET Framework 3 11 (12.36 %) WinForms 4 10 (11.24 %) Web Services 4 10 (11.24 %) XML 5 9 (10.11 %) HTML 6 8 (8.989 %) Middleware 7 7 (7.865 %) WPF 7 7 (7.865 %) ASP 8 6 (6.742 %) Spring 9 5 (5.618 %) XSLT 10 4 (4.494 %) CSS 10 4 (4.494 %) AJAX 11 3 (3.371 %) J2EE 11 3 (3.371 %) XSL 12 2 (2.247 %) XSD 12 2 (2.247 %) COM 12 2 (2.247 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 2 (2.247 %) OOXML 13 1 (1.124 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 9 (10.11 %) SharePoint 2 5 (5.618 %) BizTalk Server 3 4 (4.494 %) MQSeries 4 3 (3.371 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 3 (3.371 %) Documentum 4 3 (3.371 %) Apache 4 3 (3.371 %) IIS 5 2 (2.247 %) CMS 5 2 (2.247 %) Umbraco 5 2 (2.247 %) DotNetNuke 6 1 (1.124 %) Commerce Server
Applications 1 14 (15.73 %) MS Excel 2 2 (2.247 %) MS Project 2 2 (2.247 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.124 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 5 (5.618 %) BSS 2 4 (4.494 %) FTP 3 3 (3.371 %) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence 1 43 (48.31 %) SQL Server 2 11 (12.36 %) DB2 3 9 (10.11 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 8 (8.989 %) SQL Server 2005 5 6 (6.742 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 5 (5.618 %) SQL Server 2008 6 5 (5.618 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 4 (4.494 %) SQL Server 2000 7 4 (4.494 %) BusinessObjects 7 4 (4.494 %) Oracle Reports 7 4 (4.494 %) DTS 8 2 (2.247 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 1 (1.124 %) MS Access 9 1 (1.124 %) Datawarehouse 9 1 (1.124 %) Crystal Reports	Development Applications 1 14 (15.73 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (5.618 %) Team Foundation Server 3 2 (2.247 %) QuickTest Pro 3 2 (2.247 %) Visual Studio Team System 4 1 (1.124 %) Visual Studio Tools for Office 4 1 (1.124 %) NUnit
General 1 27 (30.34 %) Finance 2 5 (5.618 %) Telecoms 3 4 (4.494 %) Banking 4 3 (3.371 %) Education 5 2 (2.247 %) Financial Institution 5 2 (2.247 %) Graphic Design 5 2 (2.247 %) Pensions 5 2 (2.247 %) Marketing 6 1 (1.124 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 56 (62.92 %) Developer 2 22 (24.72 %) .NET Developer 3 19 (21.35 %) C# Developer 4 10 (11.24 %) Analyst 4 10 (11.24 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 8 (8.989 %) Designer 6 7 (7.865 %) Team Leader 6 7 (7.865 %) Technical Team Leader 6 7 (7.865 %) Consultant 7 6 (6.742 %) DBA 7 6 (6.742 %) SQL Developer 8 5 (5.618 %) BizTalk Developer 8 5 (5.618 %) SQL DBA 9 4 (4.494 %) Web Developer 9 4 (4.494 %) Applications Developer 9 4 (4.494 %) Developer Analyst 10 3 (3.371 %) UI Designer 10 3 (3.371 %) Teradata DBA 10 3 (3.371 %) Graphic Designer 10 3 (3.371 %) SQL Server Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (4.494 %) Mainframe 2 2 (2.247 %) IBM Mainframe 3 1 (1.124 %) Computer Science 3 1 (1.124 %) NHS 3 1 (1.124 %) E-Learning	Operating Systems 1 20 (22.47 %) Windows 2 14 (15.73 %) UNIX 3 2 (2.247 %) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (8.989 %) OO 2 7 (7.865 %) Agile Software Development 3 6 (6.742 %) Data Management 3 6 (6.742 %) SOA 4 4 (4.494 %) Project Management 4 4 (4.494 %) OOD 5 3 (3.371 %) CRM 5 3 (3.371 %) Migration 5 3 (3.371 %) E-business 6 2 (2.247 %) Scrum 6 2 (2.247 %) Business Intelligence 6 2 (2.247 %) V-Model 6 2 (2.247 %) Release Management 6 2 (2.247 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 2 (2.247 %) Test Scripting 6 2 (2.247 %) Investment Management 6 2 (2.247 %) Software Engineering 7 1 (1.124 %) UML 7 1 (1.124 %) E-Commerce 7 1 (1.124 %) EAI	Programming Languages 1 43 (48.31 %) C# 2 15 (16.85 %) SQL 3 10 (11.24 %) Java 4 9 (10.11 %) C++ 5 7 (7.865 %) C 5 7 (7.865 %) VB.NET 6 6 (6.742 %) JavaScript 7 4 (4.494 %) VB 8 3 (3.371 %) Perl 8 3 (3.371 %) PHP 8 3 (3.371 %) T-SQL 8 3 (3.371 %) VBScript 8 3 (3.371 %) VB6 9 2 (2.247 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 2 (2.247 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (2.247 %) Degree 2 1 (1.124 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (1.124 %) DV Cleared 2 1 (1.124 %) Security Cleared	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.247 %) QA 2 1 (1.124 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 2 (2.247 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 28 (31.46 %) Microsoft 2 20 (22.47 %) Oracle 3 6 (6.742 %) IBM 4 4 (4.494 %) Business Objects 5 3 (3.371 %) Siebel 6 2 (2.247 %) VMware 6 2 (2.247 %) HP 7 1 (1.124 %) BT