The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Programmer role 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 Programmer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
.NET Programmer
Rank - 218 237
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Programmer 0 1 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - 0.013% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.014% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 5
Average daily rate - - £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £368 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
+22.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £36.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
- +71.42%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5876 7201 9157
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.51% 91.48% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4326 5182 6677
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 179 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.25 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
.NET Programmer
London

.NET Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London .NET Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London .NET Programmer Daily Rate Trend

.NET Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London .NET Programmer Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited .NET Programmer 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 Programmer in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Front Office
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Grid Computing
2 1 (50.00%) NUnit
2 1 (50.00%) VB6
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) DataSynapse
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) MSBuild
2 1 (50.00%) W3C
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) VBScript

.NET Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited .NET Programmer 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 Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) COM+
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) MSMQ
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (50.00%) MSBuild
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (50.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
1 1 (50.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) VB6
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) VBScript
2 1 (50.00%) VB
2 1 (50.00%) VBA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) DataSynapse