The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Framework 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 City of London 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 Framework
Rank 130 121 104
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -17
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 69 100 168
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.086% 1.270% 1.685%
As % of the Application Development category 3.812% 4.955% 6.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 73 147
Average daily rate £400 £500 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -13.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £316 £325 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £547 £575 £725
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £41.25 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.45% -2.40%
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1810 2018 2793
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.49% 25.64% 28.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1434 1499 2176
Average daily rate £413 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 27 22
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £43.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -42.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £75.00 £45.50 £119.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET Framework
London

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London .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 City of London region.

City of London .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 City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London .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 City of London region.

City of London .NET Framework Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Framework across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London .NET Framework Hourly Rate Histogram

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

1 177 (100.00%) .NET
2 147 (83.05%) C#
3 116 (65.54%) ASP.NET
4 112 (63.28%) SQL Server
5 80 (45.20%) SQL
6 69 (38.98%) WCF
7 65 (36.72%) MVC
8 62 (35.03%) SQL Server 2008
9 58 (32.77%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 57 (32.20%) TDD
11 55 (31.07%) Finance
12 54 (30.51%) JavaScript
13 52 (29.38%) Microsoft
14 48 (27.12%) Agile Software Development
15 43 (24.29%) Scrum
16 42 (23.73%) jQuery
17 41 (23.16%) ASP.NET MVC
18 39 (22.03%) Banking
19 37 (20.90%) Visual Studio
19 37 (20.90%) XML
20 36 (20.34%) Web Services
21 34 (19.21%) CSS
22 32 (18.08%) WPF
23 31 (17.51%) Oracle
24 30 (16.95%) Windows
24 30 (16.95%) OO
25 29 (16.38%) SQL Server 2005
26 28 (15.82%) HTML
27 27 (15.25%) Investment Banking
28 26 (14.69%) Unit Testing

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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
1 177 (100.00%) .NET
2 116 (65.54%) ASP.NET
3 69 (38.98%) WCF
4 58 (32.77%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 42 (23.73%) jQuery
6 41 (23.16%) ASP.NET MVC
7 37 (20.90%) XML
8 36 (20.34%) Web Services
9 34 (19.21%) CSS
10 32 (18.08%) WPF
11 28 (15.82%) HTML
12 16 (9.040%) XSL
12 16 (9.040%) Ajax
13 15 (8.475%) ASP.NET MVC 4
14 14 (7.910%) Silverlight
15 13 (7.345%) LINQ
16 12 (6.780%) ASP
16 12 (6.780%) REST
17 11 (6.215%) HTML5
17 11 (6.215%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 17 (9.605%) IIS
1 17 (9.605%) SharePoint
2 14 (7.910%) CMS
3 11 (6.215%) SharePoint 2010
4 9 (5.085%) WebSphere MQ
5 6 (3.390%) Apache
5 6 (3.390%) Umbraco
5 6 (3.390%) Kentico
6 5 (2.825%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (2.825%) DotNetNuke
6 5 (2.825%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (2.260%) Tomcat
7 4 (2.260%) Alfresco
7 4 (2.260%) EPiServer CMS
8 3 (1.695%) Confluence
8 3 (1.695%) Sitefinity
8 3 (1.695%) Windows Azure
8 3 (1.695%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (1.695%) TIBCO EMS
8 3 (1.695%) MSMQ
Applications
1 21 (11.86%) MS Excel
2 9 (5.085%) MS Office
3 4 (2.260%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.565%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 4 (2.260%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.130%) RMDS
2 2 (1.130%) 3000 Xtra
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.910%) HTTP
2 9 (5.085%) Internet
3 1 (0.565%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (63.28%) SQL Server
2 62 (35.03%) SQL Server 2008
3 29 (16.38%) SQL Server 2005
4 20 (11.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (6.215%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (3.955%) Oracle 8/8i
7 6 (3.390%) SQL Server 2000
7 6 (3.390%) SQL Server 2012
8 5 (2.825%) MS Access
9 4 (2.260%) Crystal Reports
9 4 (2.260%) MySQL
10 3 (1.695%) SSDT
10 3 (1.695%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.695%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.130%) Oracle 10g
11 2 (1.130%) GIS
11 2 (1.130%) Oracle 11g
11 2 (1.130%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.130%) MarkLogic
12 1 (0.565%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (20.90%) Visual Studio
2 21 (11.86%) NUnit
2 21 (11.86%) Team Foundation Server
3 20 (11.30%) Subversion
4 8 (4.520%) JIRA
4 8 (4.520%) CruiseControl
5 6 (3.390%) MSBuild
5 6 (3.390%) MSTest
6 5 (2.825%) Rhino Mocks
6 5 (2.825%) TeamCity
7 4 (2.260%) Eclipse
7 4 (2.260%) WinDbg
8 3 (1.695%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.695%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
8 3 (1.695%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.695%) Selenium
9 2 (1.130%) Visual Studio Team System
9 2 (1.130%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.565%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.565%) QUnit
General
1 55 (31.07%) Finance
2 39 (22.03%) Banking
3 27 (15.25%) Investment Banking
4 15 (8.475%) Front Office
5 4 (2.260%) Back Office
5 4 (2.260%) Law
6 3 (1.695%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.130%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.565%) Legal
8 1 (0.565%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.565%) Retail
Job Titles
1 144 (81.36%) Developer
2 73 (41.24%) .NET Developer
3 48 (27.12%) C# Developer
4 32 (18.08%) C# .NET Developer
5 22 (12.43%) ASP.NET Developer
6 13 (7.345%) Senior Developer
6 13 (7.345%) Web Developer
7 11 (6.215%) Analyst
8 10 (5.650%) SharePoint Developer
8 10 (5.650%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 8 (4.520%) SQL Developer
10 7 (3.955%) Senior .NET Developer
10 7 (3.955%) Applications Developer
11 6 (3.390%) Support Analyst
11 6 (3.390%) Web Applications Developer
11 6 (3.390%) WPF Developer
12 5 (2.825%) Middleware Developer
12 5 (2.825%) Agile .NET Developer
12 5 (2.825%) Agile C# Developer
12 5 (2.825%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.345%) Derivative
2 8 (4.520%) Fixed Income
2 8 (4.520%) iPad
3 6 (3.390%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (3.390%) iPhone
4 5 (2.825%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.260%) Mathematics
5 4 (2.260%) SWIFT
5 4 (2.260%) Open Source
5 4 (2.260%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.695%) Computer Science
6 3 (1.695%) PKI
6 3 (1.695%) Equities
6 3 (1.695%) W3C
7 2 (1.130%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.130%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.130%) Physics
7 2 (1.130%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.130%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.130%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 30 (16.95%) Windows
2 9 (5.085%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (3.955%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (2.260%) Linux
4 4 (2.260%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.130%) Windows 2000 Server
5 2 (1.130%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.565%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.565%) Android
6 1 (0.565%) UNIX
6 1 (0.565%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (36.72%) MVC
2 57 (32.20%) TDD
3 48 (27.12%) Agile Software Development
4 43 (24.29%) Scrum
5 30 (16.95%) OO
6 26 (14.69%) Unit Testing
7 16 (9.040%) CRM
7 16 (9.040%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (7.345%) Investment Management
9 12 (6.780%) Change Management
9 12 (6.780%) BDD
10 9 (5.085%) Volume Testing
10 9 (5.085%) Web Accessibility
10 9 (5.085%) MVVM
10 9 (5.085%) E-business
10 9 (5.085%) Asset Management
10 9 (5.085%) Systems Analysis
11 8 (4.520%) Domain-Driven Design
11 8 (4.520%) User Acceptance Testing
12 7 (3.955%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 147 (83.05%) C#
2 80 (45.20%) SQL
3 54 (30.51%) JavaScript
4 24 (13.56%) Java
5 20 (11.30%) T-SQL
6 19 (10.73%) VBA
7 18 (10.17%) VB
8 15 (8.475%) PL/SQL
9 12 (6.780%) VB.NET
10 9 (5.085%) VBScript
11 7 (3.955%) VB6
12 6 (3.390%) C++
13 4 (2.260%) MATLAB
13 4 (2.260%) XAML
14 3 (1.695%) Ruby
14 3 (1.695%) Perl
15 2 (1.130%) XQuery
15 2 (1.130%) XPath
15 2 (1.130%) SPARQL
16 1 (0.565%) F#
Qualifications
1 15 (8.475%) Degree
2 6 (3.390%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (3.390%) MCP
2 6 (3.390%) MCAD
2 6 (3.390%) MCSD
2 6 (3.390%) MCTS
3 5 (2.825%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.695%) ISEB
5 2 (1.130%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.565%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.565%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.565%) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.650%) WCAG
2 8 (4.520%) QA
3 3 (1.695%) Dublin Core
4 2 (1.130%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.565%) Basel III
5 1 (0.565%) WAI
System Software
1 4 (2.260%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.130%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.130%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.260%) Control-M
2 1 (0.565%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 52 (29.38%) Microsoft
2 31 (17.51%) Oracle
3 9 (5.085%) IBM
4 6 (3.390%) Sitecore
4 6 (3.390%) Cadis
5 5 (2.825%) JBoss
5 5 (2.825%) Mercator
6 4 (2.260%) Reuters
6 4 (2.260%) TIBCO
6 4 (2.260%) Plumtree
6 4 (2.260%) Lotus
6 4 (2.260%) thinkFolio
6 4 (2.260%) EPiServer
7 3 (1.695%) Telerik
7 3 (1.695%) Open Text
7 3 (1.695%) Business Objects
7 3 (1.695%) Charles River
8 2 (1.130%) Citrix
8 2 (1.130%) SunGard
8 2 (1.130%) Unisys
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