The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Framework over the 3 months to 23 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 Canary Wharf 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 45 38 55
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +17
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 5 11 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 1.285% 2.880% 1.165%
As % of the Application Development category 4.167% 8.730% 3.659%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 5
Average daily rate £600 £443 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+35.59% -19.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £580 £275 £516
10% offered a daily rate of more than £612 £650 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.45% -2.40%
All Application Development
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
120 126 164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 30.85% 32.98% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 79 135
Average daily rate £600 £525 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £400 £418
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET Framework
London

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf .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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf .NET Framework Daily Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 10 (100.00%) C#
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (80.00%) WPF
3 6 (60.00%) Silverlight
3 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (60.00%) Degree
4 5 (50.00%) Multithreading
4 5 (50.00%) Java
4 5 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET
5 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (40.00%) Front Office
5 4 (40.00%) WCF
5 4 (40.00%) Mathematics
5 4 (40.00%) Physics
5 4 (40.00%) Investment Banking
5 4 (40.00%) Banking
6 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (30.00%) Use Case
6 3 (30.00%) Finance
6 3 (30.00%) Scrum
6 3 (30.00%) Oracle
6 3 (30.00%) C++
6 3 (30.00%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
6 3 (30.00%) MVVM
7 2 (20.00%) OO
7 2 (20.00%) RAD
7 2 (20.00%) WinForms
7 2 (20.00%) Web Services

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (80.00%) WPF
3 6 (60.00%) Silverlight
4 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET
4 4 (40.00%) WCF
5 2 (20.00%) WinForms
5 2 (20.00%) Web Services
6 1 (10.00%) JSON
6 1 (10.00%) LINQ
6 1 (10.00%) jQuery
6 1 (10.00%) DCOM
6 1 (10.00%) Struts
6 1 (10.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 1 (10.00%) Task Parallel Library
6 1 (10.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) RMDS
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) TOAD
1 1 (10.00%) SQLPlus
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (30.00%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
3 1 (10.00%) NUnit
3 1 (10.00%) CruiseControl
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (10.00%) Rhino Mocks
3 1 (10.00%) Moq
General
1 4 (40.00%) Front Office
1 4 (40.00%) Investment Banking
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (20.00%) WPF Developer
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (10.00%) CRM Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) UI Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Front Office Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) UI Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) Agile .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft CRM Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (40.00%) Mathematics
2 4 (40.00%) Physics
3 1 (10.00%) Market Risk
3 1 (10.00%) Inversion of Control
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Use Case
2 3 (30.00%) Scrum
2 3 (30.00%) MVVM
3 2 (20.00%) OO
3 2 (20.00%) RAD
3 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (10.00%) BPEL
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) BPMN
4 1 (10.00%) Stress Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Process Management
4 1 (10.00%) UML
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (50.00%) Java
3 3 (30.00%) C++
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Perforce
3 1 (10.00%) Infragistics
3 1 (10.00%) TIBCO
3 1 (10.00%) Reuters
3 1 (10.00%) Bloomberg
3 1 (10.00%) 29West