The first table below looks at the demand for .NET 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 over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 31 17 16
Rank change year-on-year
-14 -1
Contract jobs citing .NET 15 39 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 4.478% 10.03% 12.30%
As % of the Application Development category 14.56% 30.00% 40.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 36 53
Average daily rate £500 £525 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £329 £374 £404
10% offered a daily rate of more than £603 £635 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
All Application Development
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
103 130 154
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 30.75% 33.42% 30.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 79 129
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 £425 £375 £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 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
.NET
London

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf .NET Jobs Demand Trend

.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

Canary Wharf .NET Daily Rate Trend

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Canary Wharf .NET Daily Rate Histogram

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Canary Wharf .NET Hourly Rate Trend

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 23 (76.67%) C#
2 15 (50.00%) Banking
3 14 (46.67%) WPF
4 12 (40.00%) Investment Banking
4 12 (40.00%) Degree
5 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
5 11 (36.67%) SQL Server
6 10 (33.33%) Java
6 10 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (30.00%) Multithreading
7 9 (30.00%) Oracle
7 9 (30.00%) Front Office
7 9 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
8 8 (26.67%) Finance
8 8 (26.67%) .NET Framework
9 7 (23.33%) Scrum
10 6 (20.00%) SQL
10 6 (20.00%) C++
10 6 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (20.00%) Silverlight
10 6 (20.00%) WCF
11 5 (16.67%) Mathematics
11 5 (16.67%) Physics
11 5 (16.67%) Computer Science
11 5 (16.67%) VBA
11 5 (16.67%) Web Services
12 4 (13.33%) Back Office
12 4 (13.33%) Risk Management
12 4 (13.33%) WinForms
12 4 (13.33%) TDD

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 14 (46.67%) WPF
2 8 (26.67%) .NET Framework
3 6 (20.00%) Silverlight
3 6 (20.00%) WCF
4 5 (16.67%) Web Services
5 4 (13.33%) WinForms
5 4 (13.33%) ASP.NET
6 3 (10.00%) jQuery
6 3 (10.00%) JSON
7 2 (6.667%) HTML
7 2 (6.667%) XML
7 2 (6.667%) Struts
7 2 (6.667%) LINQ
7 2 (6.667%) REST
8 1 (3.333%) Managed Extensibility Framework
8 1 (3.333%) Task Parallel Library
8 1 (3.333%) Flash
8 1 (3.333%) DCOM
8 1 (3.333%) JSP
8 1 (3.333%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.667%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (3.333%) GemFire
2 1 (3.333%) IIS
2 1 (3.333%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.333%) Photoshop
2 1 (3.333%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.333%) RMDS
1 1 (3.333%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.667%) HTTP
1 2 (6.667%) Internet
2 1 (3.333%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.333%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.00%) KDB
3 2 (6.667%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (3.333%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.333%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (3.333%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.333%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (3.333%) DTS
4 1 (3.333%) Data Mart
4 1 (3.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (3.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (13.33%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
3 3 (10.00%) TeamCity
4 2 (6.667%) JIRA
5 1 (3.333%) Hudson
5 1 (3.333%) Microsoft Blend
5 1 (3.333%) Ant
5 1 (3.333%) JUnit
5 1 (3.333%) ERwin
5 1 (3.333%) Eclipse
General
1 15 (50.00%) Banking
2 12 (40.00%) Investment Banking
3 9 (30.00%) Front Office
4 8 (26.67%) Finance
5 4 (13.33%) Back Office
6 1 (3.333%) Legal
6 1 (3.333%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (3.333%) Marketing
6 1 (3.333%) General Ledger
6 1 (3.333%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) C# Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Front Office Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Data Architect
4 4 (13.33%) Architect
5 3 (10.00%) WPF Developer
5 3 (10.00%) .NET Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Real Time Engineer
6 2 (6.667%) Excel Developer
6 2 (6.667%) Real Time Software Engineer
6 2 (6.667%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.667%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (6.667%) Analyst Developer
6 2 (6.667%) Programmer
6 2 (6.667%) Lead Developer
6 2 (6.667%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.667%) C# Programmer
7 1 (3.333%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (3.333%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Mathematics
1 5 (16.67%) Physics
1 5 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (10.00%) N-Tier
3 3 (10.00%) Derivative
4 1 (3.333%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (3.333%) Mobile Payment
4 1 (3.333%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.333%) Visualisation
4 1 (3.333%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (3.333%) Credit Risk
4 1 (3.333%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.333%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.333%) Grid Computing
4 1 (3.333%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Multithreading
1 9 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (23.33%) Scrum
3 6 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (13.33%) Risk Management
4 4 (13.33%) TDD
4 4 (13.33%) OO
4 4 (13.33%) MVVM
5 3 (10.00%) System Testing
5 3 (10.00%) Data Analysis
5 3 (10.00%) Use Case
5 3 (10.00%) RAD
5 3 (10.00%) E-Commerce
6 2 (6.667%) Software Engineering
6 2 (6.667%) Business Analysis
6 2 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (6.667%) Data Modelling
6 2 (6.667%) SOA
6 2 (6.667%) Project Management
6 2 (6.667%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 23 (76.67%) C#
2 10 (33.33%) Java
3 6 (20.00%) SQL
3 6 (20.00%) C++
4 5 (16.67%) VBA
5 4 (13.33%) F#
6 3 (10.00%) Haskell
6 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (6.667%) Python
8 1 (3.333%) VBScript
8 1 (3.333%) VB
8 1 (3.333%) Assembly Language
8 1 (3.333%) XAML
8 1 (3.333%) VB6
8 1 (3.333%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.333%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (3.333%) Basel II
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (3.333%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (30.00%) Oracle
3 2 (6.667%) TIBCO
3 2 (6.667%) Reuters
3 2 (6.667%) Bloomberg
3 2 (6.667%) Sybase
4 1 (3.333%) 29West
4 1 (3.333%) JBoss
4 1 (3.333%) SAP
4 1 (3.333%) Perforce
4 1 (3.333%) Infragistics
4 1 (3.333%) DataSynapse