Chester .NET Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET (dotNet) skills within the Chester region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 19 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carrickfergus Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleveland Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dalkeith Darlington Dartford Darwen Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dronfield Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edenbridge Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horley Hounslow Hove Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton-in-Ashfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 19 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	15
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	22	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	40.74 %	51.43 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£170	£200
Average daily rate	£178	£250
% change on same period last year	-28.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£186	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£338
% change on same period last year	-6.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.75	£18.00
Average hourly rate	£36.50	£18.00
% change on same period last year	+102.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.25	£18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.00	£31.87
% change on same period last year	-12.14 %
Application Development Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	54	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.084 %	0.038 %
Daily rates quoted	9	3
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£337
Average daily rate	£333	£355
% change on same period last year	-6.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£333
% change on same period last year	-2.05 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.25	£18.00
Average hourly rate	£34.00	£18.00
% change on same period last year	+88.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.75	£18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.95	£31.52
% change on same period last year	-8.17 %
.NET Cheshire

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 across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development 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 across the Chester region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Chester region over the 3 months to 19 November 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 across the Chester region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Chester region over the 3 months to 19 November 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 29 (85.29 %) C# 2 24 (70.59 %) ASP.NET 3 16 (47.06 %) WebServices 4 15 (44.12 %) SOAP 5 13 (38.24 %) SQL 6 11 (32.35 %) SQL Server 7 9 (26.47 %) German Language 8 7 (20.59 %) XML 9 6 (17.65 %) OO 9 6 (17.65 %) Microsoft 10 5 (14.71 %) SQL Server 2000 10 5 (14.71 %) N-Tier 10 5 (14.71 %) OOD 10 5 (14.71 %) OOP 10 5 (14.71 %) OOA/OOD

10 5 (14.71 %) CRM 11 4 (11.76 %) Dutch Language 11 4 (11.76 %) Oracle 11 4 (11.76 %) Visual Studio 11 4 (11.76 %) ESRI 11 4 (11.76 %) ArcIMS 12 3 (8.824 %) Intranet 12 3 (8.824 %) Internet 12 3 (8.824 %) PRINCE2 12 3 (8.824 %) Transact-SQL 12 3 (8.824 %) SQL Server 2005 13 2 (5.882 %) Dynamics CRM 13 2 (5.882 %) WinForms 13 2 (5.882 %) Data Analysis 13 2 (5.882 %) .NET Remoting

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 24 (70.59 %) ASP.NET 2 16 (47.06 %) WebServices 3 15 (44.12 %) SOAP 4 7 (20.59 %) XML 5 2 (5.882 %) XHTML 5 2 (5.882 %) CSS 5 2 (5.882 %) .NET Remoting 5 2 (5.882 %) .NET Framework 5 2 (5.882 %) WCF 5 2 (5.882 %) WF 5 2 (5.882 %) WinForms 6 1 (2.941 %) AJAX 6 1 (2.941 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 1 (2.941 %) ASP 6 1 (2.941 %) Java RMI	Application Platforms 1 4 (11.76 %) ArcIMS 2 1 (2.941 %) CMS 2 1 (2.941 %) Immediacy CMS 2 1 (2.941 %) ArcGIS
Business Applications 1 2 (5.882 %) Dynamics CRM 2 1 (2.941 %) Microsoft CRM 2 1 (2.941 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (2.941 %) MFGPRO	Communications & Networking 1 3 (8.824 %) Intranet 1 3 (8.824 %) Internet 2 1 (2.941 %) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (32.35 %) SQL Server 2 5 (14.71 %) SQL Server 2000 3 3 (8.824 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (2.941 %) MySQL 4 1 (2.941 %) GIS 4 1 (2.941 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (2.941 %) Datawarehouse	Development Applications 1 4 (11.76 %) Visual Studio
General 1 2 (5.882 %) Finance 2 1 (2.941 %) Government 2 1 (2.941 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 27 (79.41 %) Developer 2 13 (38.24 %) .NET Developer 3 12 (35.29 %) C# Developer 4 6 (17.65 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 5 (14.71 %) Programmer 5 5 (14.71 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 4 (11.76 %) Analyst 6 4 (11.76 %) Analyst Programmer 7 3 (8.824 %) Senior Developer 7 3 (8.824 %) Web Developer 8 2 (5.882 %) .NET Programmer 9 1 (2.941 %) C# Analyst Programmer 9 1 (2.941 %) Applications Support 9 1 (2.941 %) SQL Server Analyst 9 1 (2.941 %) Solutions Architect 9 1 (2.941 %) Architect 9 1 (2.941 %) Systems Support 9 1 (2.941 %) SQL Developer 9 1 (2.941 %) Progress Developer 9 1 (2.941 %) .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous 1 9 (26.47 %) German Language 2 5 (14.71 %) N-Tier 3 4 (11.76 %) Dutch Language 4 1 (2.941 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 2 (5.882 %) Windows 2 1 (2.941 %) Linux 2 1 (2.941 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (17.65 %) OO 2 5 (14.71 %) CRM 2 5 (14.71 %) OOP 2 5 (14.71 %) OOA/OOD 2 5 (14.71 %) OOD 3 3 (8.824 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (5.882 %) UML 4 2 (5.882 %) SSADM 4 2 (5.882 %) Data Analysis 4 2 (5.882 %) Unit Testing 5 1 (2.941 %) Web Development 5 1 (2.941 %) Network Load Balancing 5 1 (2.941 %) Change Management 5 1 (2.941 %) Identity Management 5 1 (2.941 %) ERP	Programming Languages 1 29 (85.29 %) C# 2 13 (38.24 %) SQL 3 3 (8.824 %) Transact-SQL 4 2 (5.882 %) VB 4 2 (5.882 %) JavaScript 5 1 (2.941 %) C 5 1 (2.941 %) C++ 5 1 (2.941 %) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.941 %) QA	Vendors 1 6 (17.65 %) Microsoft 2 4 (11.76 %) Oracle 2 4 (11.76 %) ESRI 3 1 (2.941 %) Progress 3 1 (2.941 %) Red Hat