.NET Contracts in Chester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills 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 over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 20 18 13
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -5
Contract jobs citing .NET 5 4 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 3.546% 3.448% 6.707%
As % of the Application Development category 33.33% 25.00% 26.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 9
Average daily rate £319 £381 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.39% -4.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £304 £306 £289
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £456 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.75 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+17.64% -11.19%
All Application Development
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 15 16 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 10.64% 13.79% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 22
Average daily rate £375 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -1.40%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £9.00 - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET
Cheshire

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester .NET Jobs Demand Trend

.NET
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing .NET across the Chester region.

Chester .NET Daily Rate Trend

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Chester .NET Hourly Rate Trend

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 19 (100.00%) C#
2 17 (89.47%) ASP.NET
3 14 (73.68%) SQL Server
4 11 (57.89%) JavaScript
5 10 (52.63%) MVC
6 9 (47.37%) SQL
7 8 (42.11%) HTML
7 8 (42.11%) CSS
7 8 (42.11%) WCF
7 8 (42.11%) SQL Server 2008
8 6 (31.58%) XML
9 5 (26.32%) WinForms
9 5 (26.32%) IIS
9 5 (26.32%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (26.32%) LINQ
9 5 (26.32%) jQuery
9 5 (26.32%) .NET Framework
9 5 (26.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (26.32%) SQL Server 2005
9 5 (26.32%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 5 (26.32%) LINQ to SQL
10 4 (21.05%) Web Services
10 4 (21.05%) Windows
10 4 (21.05%) E-Commerce
10 4 (21.05%) CMS
11 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 3 (15.79%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (15.79%) Sitecore
12 2 (10.53%) Local Government
12 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2012

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 17 (89.47%) ASP.NET
2 8 (42.11%) HTML
2 8 (42.11%) CSS
2 8 (42.11%) WCF
3 6 (31.58%) XML
4 5 (26.32%) WinForms
4 5 (26.32%) ASP.NET MVC
4 5 (26.32%) LINQ
4 5 (26.32%) jQuery
4 5 (26.32%) .NET Framework
4 5 (26.32%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 5 (26.32%) LINQ to SQL
5 4 (21.05%) Web Services
6 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 2 (10.53%) HTML5
8 1 (5.263%) Node.js
8 1 (5.263%) WPF
8 1 (5.263%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 5 (26.32%) IIS
2 4 (21.05%) CMS
3 3 (15.79%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (5.263%) ArcGIS
4 1 (5.263%) ArcSDE
4 1 (5.263%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (73.68%) SQL Server
2 8 (42.11%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (26.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (26.32%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (5.263%) GIS
General
1 2 (10.53%) Local Government
2 1 (5.263%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (94.74%) Developer
2 11 (57.89%) .NET Developer
3 6 (31.58%) Senior .NET Developer
3 6 (31.58%) Senior Developer
4 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Web Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.263%) .NET Software Developer
6 1 (5.263%) CRM Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) N-Tier
1 1 (5.263%) LLPG
1 1 (5.263%) Data Conversion
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) MVC
2 4 (21.05%) E-Commerce
3 1 (5.263%) CRM
3 1 (5.263%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) C#
2 11 (57.89%) JavaScript
3 9 (47.37%) SQL
4 1 (5.263%) Python
4 1 (5.263%) Java
4 1 (5.263%) C++
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Sitecore
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.263%) ESRI
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