The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Software Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Software Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised for the Chester 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
.NET Software Developer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Software Developer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £258 £305
% change year-on-year
+16.50% -15.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 - £18.25
All Job Titles
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
131 110 149
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 95.62% 95.65% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 37 52
Average daily rate £325 £375 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +5.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £153 £215 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £451 £464 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 7
Average hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £12.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +292.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.54 £50.00 £6.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.39 £50.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
.NET Software Developer
Cheshire

.NET Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing .NET Software Developer across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Chester .NET Software Developer Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Software Developer
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region that cited .NET Software 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 Software Developer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ to SQL

.NET Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region that cited .NET Software 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 Software Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ to SQL
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL