Cambridgeshire .NET Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts within the Cambridgeshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Dunfermline East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kendal Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester 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 Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	16
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	40	68
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.053 %	0.069 %
As % of the category below	5.326 %	7.203 %
Daily rates quoted	6	10
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£319
Average daily rate	£323	£327
% change on same period last year	-1.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£307	£305
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.50	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£34.25	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-14.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.79	£33.45
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
Job Titles Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	751	944
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.001 %	0.955 %
Daily rates quoted	129	201
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£300
Average daily rate	£331	£314
% change on same period last year	+5.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£328
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	137	156
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.87	£24.87
Average hourly rate	£20.63	£26.39
% change on same period last year	-21.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.39	£27.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
.NET Developer East of England

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Developer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Peterborough	-3	18	£320	-
Cambridge	+1	17	£330	-8.33 %
Huntingdon	-	1	-	-

.NET Developer East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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.

1 132 (100.00 %) .NET 2 93 (70.45 %) SQL Server 3 89 (67.42 %) ASP.NET 4 76 (57.58 %) C# 5 64 (48.48 %) VB.NET 6 54 (40.91 %) XML 7 45 (34.09 %) OO 8 40 (30.30 %) SQL Server 2005 9 38 (28.79 %) JavaScript 9 38 (28.79 %) SQL 10 35 (26.52 %) CSS 11 34 (25.76 %) WinForms 12 31 (23.48 %) WCF 13 27 (20.45 %) WebServices 14 26 (19.70 %) WPF

15 25 (18.94 %) VB 16 24 (18.18 %) Agile Software Development 17 22 (16.67 %) ASP 17 22 (16.67 %) N-Tier 18 21 (15.91 %) Windows 18 21 (15.91 %) CRM 18 21 (15.91 %) VB6 18 21 (15.91 %) Finance 19 20 (15.15 %) UML 19 20 (15.15 %) Transact-SQL 20 19 (14.39 %) Visual Studio 21 14 (10.61 %) XSLT 22 13 (9.848 %) OOA/OOD 23 12 (9.091 %) OOD 23 12 (9.091 %) Microsoft

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 1 132 (100.00 %) .NET 2 89 (67.42 %) ASP.NET 3 54 (40.91 %) XML 4 35 (26.52 %) CSS 5 34 (25.76 %) WinForms 6 31 (23.48 %) WCF 7 27 (20.45 %) WebServices 8 26 (19.70 %) WPF 9 22 (16.67 %) ASP 10 14 (10.61 %) XSLT 11 12 (9.091 %) HTML 12 11 (8.333 %) ADO.NET 13 10 (7.576 %) .NET Framework 14 8 (6.061 %) ASP.NET 2.0 14 8 (6.061 %) AJAX 15 5 (3.788 %) COM+ 16 3 (2.273 %) Middleware 17 2 (1.515 %) Silverlight 18 1 (0.758 %) .NET Remoting 18 1 (0.758 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 7 (5.303 %) IIS 2 3 (2.273 %) SharePoint 2 3 (2.273 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (0.758 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 1 (0.758 %) MS Office 1 1 (0.758 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 4 (3.030 %) SMS 2 2 (1.515 %) Internet 3 1 (0.758 %) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence 1 93 (70.45 %) SQL Server 2 40 (30.30 %) SQL Server 2005 3 12 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000 4 4 (3.030 %) MySQL 5 2 (1.515 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (0.758 %) MS Access 6 1 (0.758 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (0.758 %) DTS 6 1 (0.758 %) GIS 6 1 (0.758 %) DB2	Development Applications 1 19 (14.39 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (3.030 %) NUnit 3 1 (0.758 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (0.758 %) ClearCase 3 1 (0.758 %) Bugzilla
General 1 21 (15.91 %) Finance 2 12 (9.091 %) Banking 3 3 (2.273 %) Government 3 3 (2.273 %) Telecoms 4 2 (1.515 %) Financial Institution 4 2 (1.515 %) Animation 5 1 (0.758 %) Local Government 5 1 (0.758 %) Music	Miscellaneous 1 22 (16.67 %) N-Tier 2 2 (1.515 %) CCTV 2 2 (1.515 %) Arabic Language 3 1 (0.758 %) Client/Server 3 1 (0.758 %) Computer Science 3 1 (0.758 %) AS400 3 1 (0.758 %) Device Driver 3 1 (0.758 %) Clustering 3 1 (0.758 %) E-Learning 3 1 (0.758 %) Tandem
Operating Systems 1 21 (15.91 %) Windows 2 3 (2.273 %) Windows XP 3 2 (1.515 %) Windows CE 3 2 (1.515 %) Symbian OS 4 1 (0.758 %) Windows Mobile 4 1 (0.758 %) Linux 4 1 (0.758 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (0.758 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 45 (34.09 %) OO 2 24 (18.18 %) Agile Software Development 3 21 (15.91 %) CRM 4 20 (15.15 %) UML 5 13 (9.848 %) OOA/OOD 6 12 (9.091 %) OOD 7 11 (8.333 %) Web Development 8 5 (3.788 %) OOP 9 4 (3.030 %) TDD 9 4 (3.030 %) Unit Testing 10 3 (2.273 %) Performance Testing 11 2 (1.515 %) E-Commerce 11 2 (1.515 %) ERP 12 1 (0.758 %) SOA 12 1 (0.758 %) Business Intelligence 12 1 (0.758 %) Scrum 12 1 (0.758 %) Web Design 12 1 (0.758 %) Data Management 12 1 (0.758 %) Requirements Analysis 12 1 (0.758 %) Load Balancing
Programming Languages 1 76 (57.58 %) C# 2 64 (48.48 %) VB.NET 3 38 (28.79 %) JavaScript 3 38 (28.79 %) SQL 4 25 (18.94 %) VB 5 21 (15.91 %) VB6 6 20 (15.15 %) Transact-SQL 7 4 (3.030 %) C 8 3 (2.273 %) C++ 8 3 (2.273 %) DHTML 9 2 (1.515 %) Java 9 2 (1.515 %) VBScript 9 2 (1.515 %) Python 10 1 (0.758 %) PowerShell 10 1 (0.758 %) PHP 10 1 (0.758 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (1.515 %) Degree 2 1 (0.758 %) PhD
Systems Management 1 3 (2.273 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 12 (9.091 %) Microsoft 2 4 (3.030 %) Oracle 3 2 (1.515 %) Symbian 4 1 (0.758 %) BMC 4 1 (0.758 %) Remedy 4 1 (0.758 %) ION Trading