Cheshire .NET Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts within the Cheshire 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	46	13
Rank change on same period last year	-33
Matching contract IT job ads	24	57
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.058 %
As % of the category below	2.597 %	7.451 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£400
Average daily rate	£325	£400
% change on same period last year	-18.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£307	£305
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.50	£24.80
Average hourly rate	£33.75	£26.60
% change on same period last year	+26.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£28.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.79	£33.45
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
Job Titles Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	924	765
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.232 %	0.774 %
Daily rates quoted	281	200
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£300
Average daily rate	£337	£315
% change on same period last year	+7.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	90	56
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.99	£20.87
Average hourly rate	£25.17	£22.05
% change on same period last year	+14.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.34	£23.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
.NET Developer North West

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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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
Warrington	-4	5	-	-
Chester	-9	4	-	-
Macclesfield	-2	2	£325	-
Alderley Edge	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 63 (100.00 %) .NET 2 43 (68.25 %) ASP.NET 3 42 (66.67 %) C# 4 37 (58.73 %) SQL Server 5 22 (34.92 %) VB.NET 6 20 (31.75 %) SQL Server 2005 6 20 (31.75 %) SQL 7 17 (26.98 %) HTML 8 15 (23.81 %) XML 9 14 (22.22 %) JavaScript 10 12 (19.05 %) CSS 10 12 (19.05 %) XSLT 11 10 (15.87 %) UML 12 9 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 13 8 (12.70 %) OO

13 8 (12.70 %) WebServices 13 8 (12.70 %) .NET Framework 13 8 (12.70 %) Finance 14 7 (11.11 %) VB 14 7 (11.11 %) Oracle 14 7 (11.11 %) Windows 14 7 (11.11 %) SharePoint 14 7 (11.11 %) E-Commerce 15 6 (9.524 %) Microsoft 16 5 (7.937 %) CRM 16 5 (7.937 %) DHTML 16 5 (7.937 %) XSD 16 5 (7.937 %) WinForms 17 4 (6.349 %) WF 17 4 (6.349 %) VB6

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 63 (100.00 %) .NET 2 43 (68.25 %) ASP.NET 3 17 (26.98 %) HTML 4 15 (23.81 %) XML 5 12 (19.05 %) XSLT 5 12 (19.05 %) CSS 6 8 (12.70 %) WebServices 6 8 (12.70 %) .NET Framework 7 5 (7.937 %) WinForms 7 5 (7.937 %) XSD 8 4 (6.349 %) SOAP 8 4 (6.349 %) ADO.NET 8 4 (6.349 %) WF 9 3 (4.762 %) WCF 9 3 (4.762 %) ASP 9 3 (4.762 %) AJAX 10 2 (3.175 %) ArcObjects 11 1 (1.587 %) XSL 11 1 (1.587 %) XHTML 11 1 (1.587 %) Java RMI	Application Platforms 1 7 (11.11 %) SharePoint 2 4 (6.349 %) ArcIMS 3 2 (3.175 %) ArcGIS 4 1 (1.587 %) IIS 4 1 (1.587 %) Oracle 9iAS 4 1 (1.587 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (1.587 %) CMS 4 1 (1.587 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 4 (6.349 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (3.175 %) Dynamics CRM 2 1 (1.587 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.175 %) Internet 2 1 (1.587 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 37 (58.73 %) SQL Server 2 20 (31.75 %) SQL Server 2005 3 9 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 4 4 (6.349 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 4 (6.349 %) Oracle 9i 4 4 (6.349 %) SQL Server 7 5 3 (4.762 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 2 (3.175 %) GIS 6 2 (3.175 %) Informix
Development Applications 1 3 (4.762 %) Visual Studio	General 1 8 (12.70 %) Finance 2 3 (4.762 %) Health 3 1 (1.587 %) Games 3 1 (1.587 %) Retail 3 1 (1.587 %) Insurance 3 1 (1.587 %) Marketing 3 1 (1.587 %) Construction 3 1 (1.587 %) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous 1 4 (6.349 %) N-Tier 2 2 (3.175 %) NHS 2 2 (3.175 %) W3C 3 1 (1.587 %) CCTV 3 1 (1.587 %) Informatics 3 1 (1.587 %) Chemistry	Operating Systems 1 7 (11.11 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (15.87 %) UML 2 8 (12.70 %) OO 3 7 (11.11 %) E-Commerce 4 5 (7.937 %) CRM 5 4 (6.349 %) OOD 5 4 (6.349 %) SSADM 6 3 (4.762 %) OOP 6 3 (4.762 %) OOA/OOD 6 3 (4.762 %) PRINCE2 6 3 (4.762 %) Migration 7 2 (3.175 %) Project Management 7 2 (3.175 %) Workflow 7 2 (3.175 %) Web Development 7 2 (3.175 %) Use Case 8 1 (1.587 %) Security Cleared 8 1 (1.587 %) Web Design 8 1 (1.587 %) Content Management 8 1 (1.587 %) B2B	Programming Languages 1 42 (66.67 %) C# 2 22 (34.92 %) VB.NET 3 20 (31.75 %) SQL 4 14 (22.22 %) JavaScript 5 7 (11.11 %) VB 6 5 (7.937 %) DHTML 7 4 (6.349 %) VB6 7 4 (6.349 %) PL/SQL 8 1 (1.587 %) Ruby 8 1 (1.587 %) Java 8 1 (1.587 %) C++ 8 1 (1.587 %) Delphi 8 1 (1.587 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 1 (1.587 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 1 (1.587 %) MSMQ
Vendors 1 7 (11.11 %) Oracle 2 6 (9.524 %) Microsoft 3 2 (3.175 %) Sage