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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Cheshire region.

 .NET Developer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank352524
Rank change year-on-year
Down-10Down-1
Matching contract IT job ads201637
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire3.040 %3.774 %4.405 %
As % of the Job Titles category3.515 %4.255 %4.940 %
Daily rates quoted518
Average daily rate£200£350£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-42.85 %+16.66 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£195£350£293
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£335£350£398
UK excluding London average daily rate£275£263£300
% change year-on-year
+4.760 %-12.50 %
Hourly rates quoted013
Average hourly rate-£40.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-+33.33 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£31.25£31.50
% change year-on-year
-8.800 %-0.790 %
Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
569376749
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire86.47 %88.68 %89.17 %
Daily rates quoted276125204
Average daily rate£300£390£315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.07 %+23.80 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£195£240£175
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£418£500£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£350
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %-3.570 %
Hourly rates quoted534394
Average hourly rate£21.50£19.25£19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.68 %-1.280 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.00£10.52£10.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.25£37.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %-9.090 %
.NET Developer North West.NET Developer
North West

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 Developer
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.

Cheshire .NET Developer Demand Trend

.NET Developer
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.

Cheshire .NET Developer Daily Rate Trend

.NET Developer
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 19 March 2010.

Cheshire .NET Developer Daily Rate Histogram

.NET Developer
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.

Cheshire .NET Developer Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Developer
Contract Locations

The table below 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 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.

LocationRank 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
WarringtonNew entry-5£288-
CreweDown-12£195-44.28 %
ChesterDown-31--
MacclesfieldNew entry-1--
.NET Developer North West.NET Developer
North West

.NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

132 (100.00 %).NET
226 (81.25 %)SQL Server
318 (56.25 %)ASP.NET
415 (46.88 %)C#
415 (46.88 %)VB.NET
415 (46.88 %)XML
512 (37.50 %)SQL Server 2005
611 (34.38 %)Web Services
77 (21.88 %)SQL
77 (21.88 %)T-SQL
86 (18.75 %)ASP
86 (18.75 %)Visual Studio
86 (18.75 %)SQL Server 2000
95 (15.63 %)CSS
95 (15.63 %)VBA
95 (15.63 %)MS Access
104 (12.50 %)MS Excel
104 (12.50 %)JavaScript
104 (12.50 %)SOAP
113 (9.375 %)Degree
113 (9.375 %)SQL Server 2008
113 (9.375 %)AJAX
113 (9.375 %)HTML
113 (9.375 %)N-Tier
113 (9.375 %)OOP
113 (9.375 %)OO
122 (6.250 %)XHTML
122 (6.250 %)Intranet
122 (6.250 %)Internet
122 (6.250 %)AS400

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
132 (100.00 %).NET
218 (56.25 %)ASP.NET
315 (46.88 %)XML
411 (34.38 %)Web Services
56 (18.75 %)ASP
65 (15.63 %)CSS
74 (12.50 %)SOAP
83 (9.375 %)AJAX
83 (9.375 %)HTML
92 (6.250 %)XHTML
92 (6.250 %)WCF
101 (3.125 %)ASP.NET MVC
101 (3.125 %)ADO.NET
101 (3.125 %)WinForms
101 (3.125 %)SAML
Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (6.250 %)IIS
21 (3.125 %)SharePoint Server 2007
21 (3.125 %)CMS
Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14 (12.50 %)MS Excel
Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12 (6.250 %)Intranet
12 (6.250 %)Internet
Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
126 (81.25 %)SQL Server
212 (37.50 %)SQL Server 2005
36 (18.75 %)SQL Server 2000
45 (15.63 %)MS Access
53 (9.375 %)SQL Server 2008
61 (3.125 %)Crystal Reports
Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
16 (18.75 %)Visual Studio
Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (6.250 %)Retail
Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
13 (9.375 %)N-Tier
22 (6.250 %)AS400
31 (3.125 %)NHS
Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (3.125 %)Windows
Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13 (9.375 %)OOP
13 (9.375 %)OO
22 (6.250 %)Agile Software Development
31 (3.125 %)Web Development
31 (3.125 %)MVC
31 (3.125 %)Migration
Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
115 (46.88 %)C#
115 (46.88 %)VB.NET
27 (21.88 %)SQL
27 (21.88 %)T-SQL
35 (15.63 %)VBA
44 (12.50 %)JavaScript
51 (3.125 %)C
Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13 (9.375 %)Degree
Cheshire IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11 (3.125 %)RedDot
11 (3.125 %)Microsoft