.NET Framework Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills 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 Framework over the 3 months to 20 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 Cheshire 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 40 61 72
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +11
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 21 8 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 2.909% 0.984% 0.514%
As % of the Application Development category 12.88% 3.320% 1.938%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 3
Average daily rate £325 £305 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.55% +6.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £281 £218
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £330 £314
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
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
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 163 241 258
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.58% 29.64% 26.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 128 173
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £488 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 3
Average hourly rate £30.00 £16.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+81.81% -13.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET Framework
North West

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire .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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire .NET Framework Daily Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Framework across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Cheshire .NET Framework Daily Rate Histogram

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire .NET Framework Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank 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
Warrington -1 7 £266 -15.47%
Chester - 2 £300 -
Knutsford - 1 £160 -
.NET Framework
North West

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 35 (100.00%) .NET
2 30 (85.71%) SQL Server
3 29 (82.86%) C#
4 27 (77.14%) ASP.NET
5 25 (71.43%) JavaScript
6 22 (62.86%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 20 (57.14%) SQL Server 2005
8 18 (51.43%) SQL Server 2008
8 18 (51.43%) SQL
9 17 (48.57%) WCF
10 16 (45.71%) HTML
10 16 (45.71%) Visual Studio
11 14 (40.00%) MVC
12 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
12 12 (34.29%) CSS
12 12 (34.29%) XML
12 12 (34.29%) jQuery
13 11 (31.43%) Agile Software Development
14 10 (28.57%) LINQ
15 9 (25.71%) Android
15 9 (25.71%) Web Services
15 9 (25.71%) IIS
16 8 (22.86%) Photoshop
16 8 (22.86%) VB.NET
16 8 (22.86%) Windows
16 8 (22.86%) iPad
17 7 (20.00%) LINQ to SQL
18 6 (17.14%) Razor View Engine
18 6 (17.14%) Team Foundation Server
18 6 (17.14%) ASP.NET MVC

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 35 (100.00%) .NET
2 27 (77.14%) ASP.NET
3 22 (62.86%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 17 (48.57%) WCF
5 16 (45.71%) HTML
6 12 (34.29%) XML
6 12 (34.29%) CSS
6 12 (34.29%) jQuery
7 10 (28.57%) LINQ
8 9 (25.71%) Web Services
9 7 (20.00%) LINQ to SQL
10 6 (17.14%) ASP.NET MVC
10 6 (17.14%) Razor View Engine
11 5 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 5 (14.29%) Ajax
11 5 (14.29%) WinForms
11 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
11 5 (14.29%) JSON
12 3 (8.571%) Unity DI Container
13 2 (5.714%) Ninject
Application Platforms
1 9 (25.71%) IIS
2 2 (5.714%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Photoshop
2 4 (11.43%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.857%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.857%) Acrobat
3 1 (2.857%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (2.857%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (5.714%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) SMS
2 1 (2.857%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 20 (57.14%) SQL Server 2005
3 18 (51.43%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (11.43%) SQL Server 2012
6 2 (5.714%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 16 (45.71%) Visual Studio
2 6 (17.14%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (14.29%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (2.857%) Git (software)
4 1 (2.857%) Subversion
General
1 3 (8.571%) Finance
1 3 (8.571%) Banking
1 3 (8.571%) Retail
2 1 (2.857%) Local Government
2 1 (2.857%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 31 (88.57%) Developer
2 16 (45.71%) .NET Developer
3 5 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
3 5 (14.29%) CRM Developer
4 4 (11.43%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Dynamics CRM Developer
4 4 (11.43%) ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (8.571%) Web Developer
5 3 (8.571%) Software Engineer
5 3 (8.571%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (8.571%) Lead Developer
6 2 (5.714%) SQL Developer
6 2 (5.714%) Lead .NET Developer
7 1 (2.857%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (2.857%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.857%) C# Web Developer
7 1 (2.857%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) iPad
2 6 (17.14%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.571%) N-Tier
4 1 (2.857%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (2.857%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.71%) Android
2 8 (22.86%) Windows
3 1 (2.857%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) MVC
2 11 (31.43%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (14.29%) MVVM
3 5 (14.29%) CRM
3 5 (14.29%) SOA
4 4 (11.43%) Contact Management
4 4 (11.43%) TDD
5 3 (8.571%) Dependency Injection
6 2 (5.714%) Feature Driven Development
6 2 (5.714%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (5.714%) Asset Management
6 2 (5.714%) Data Management
6 2 (5.714%) Scrum
6 2 (5.714%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (2.857%) E-Commerce
7 1 (2.857%) Workflow
7 1 (2.857%) Web Development
7 1 (2.857%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 29 (82.86%) C#
2 25 (71.43%) JavaScript
3 18 (51.43%) SQL
4 8 (22.86%) VB.NET
5 4 (11.43%) T-SQL
6 2 (5.714%) Java
7 1 (2.857%) VBA
7 1 (2.857%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) MCAD
1 5 (14.29%) MCSD
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (14.29%) MCTS
1 5 (14.29%) MCPD
2 2 (5.714%) Degree
3 1 (2.857%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (2.857%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.714%) Oracle
2 2 (5.714%) SAP
2 2 (5.714%) IBM
2 2 (5.714%) Razor Risk
3 1 (2.857%) Adobe
3 1 (2.857%) VMware
3 1 (2.857%) Telerik
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