County Antrim .NET Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET (dotNet) skills within the County Antrim 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	8	4
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	25	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	43.86 %	76.92 %
Daily rates quoted	6	4
Average minimum daily rate	£202	£245
Average daily rate	£227	£258
% change on same period last year	-11.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£252	£270
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£338
% change on same period last year	-6.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.43	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£28.07	£34.50
% change on same period last year	-18.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.71	£39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.00	£31.87
% change on same period last year	-12.14 %
Application Development County Antrim
Matching contract IT job ads	57	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.089 %	0.028 %
Daily rates quoted	14	5
Average minimum daily rate	£239	£260
Average daily rate	£260	£265
% change on same period last year	-1.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£282	£271
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£333
% change on same period last year	-2.05 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.91	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£28.73	£34.40
% change on same period last year	-16.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.55	£38.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.95	£31.52
% change on same period last year	-8.17 %
.NET Northern Ireland

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 County Antrim region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

.NET
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing .NET across the County Antrim 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 County Antrim 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 County Antrim 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 County Antrim region over the 3 months to 19 November 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the County Antrim region over the 3 months to 19 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Belfast	-3	25	£227	-11.97 %
Carrickfergus	-	1	-	-

.NET Northern Ireland

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim 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 26 (65.00 %) SQL Server 1 26 (65.00 %) ASP.NET 2 24 (60.00 %) C# 3 12 (30.00 %) SQL 4 11 (27.50 %) SQL Server 2005 4 11 (27.50 %) VB.NET 5 9 (22.50 %) Microsoft 6 8 (20.00 %) BizTalk Server 7 7 (17.50 %) Visual Studio 8 6 (15.00 %) CSS 8 6 (15.00 %) SQL Server 2008 9 5 (12.50 %) Banking 9 5 (12.50 %) WebServices 9 5 (12.50 %) XML 9 5 (12.50 %) SharePoint

9 5 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 9 5 (12.50 %) Finance 10 4 (10.00 %) Education 10 4 (10.00 %) Scrum 10 4 (10.00 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 4 (10.00 %) Windows 10 4 (10.00 %) Oracle 10 4 (10.00 %) Sybase 10 4 (10.00 %) VB 10 4 (10.00 %) QA 11 3 (7.500 %) Derivative 11 3 (7.500 %) Technical Architecture 11 3 (7.500 %) .NET Framework 11 3 (7.500 %) MOS 11 3 (7.500 %) Business Analysis

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim 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 26 (65.00 %) ASP.NET 2 6 (15.00 %) CSS 3 5 (12.50 %) WebServices 3 5 (12.50 %) XML 4 3 (7.500 %) ASP 4 3 (7.500 %) .NET Framework 5 2 (5.000 %) HTML 5 2 (5.000 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 8 (20.00 %) BizTalk Server 2 5 (12.50 %) SharePoint 3 3 (7.500 %) IIS
Applications 1 2 (5.000 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 3 (7.500 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 2 (5.000 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 26 (65.00 %) SQL Server 2 11 (27.50 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (15.00 %) SQL Server 2008 4 4 (10.00 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 3 (7.500 %) DTS 6 2 (5.000 %) RDBMS 6 2 (5.000 %) SQL Server 2000 7 1 (2.500 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (2.500 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 7 (17.50 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (2.500 %) Flash	General 1 5 (12.50 %) Finance 1 5 (12.50 %) Banking 2 4 (10.00 %) Education 3 2 (5.000 %) Police 3 2 (5.000 %) Investment Banking 4 1 (2.500 %) Billing 4 1 (2.500 %) Back Office 4 1 (2.500 %) Government
Job Titles 1 21 (52.50 %) Developer 2 12 (30.00 %) C# Developer 3 10 (25.00 %) .NET Developer 4 4 (10.00 %) Architect 4 4 (10.00 %) Analyst 5 3 (7.500 %) Support Engineer 5 3 (7.500 %) VB.NET Developer 6 2 (5.000 %) SQL Developer 6 2 (5.000 %) Senior Analyst 6 2 (5.000 %) Information Architect 6 2 (5.000 %) Senior Developer 7 1 (2.500 %) Analyst Programmer 7 1 (2.500 %) Programmer 7 1 (2.500 %) Support Analyst 7 1 (2.500 %) Technical Architect 7 1 (2.500 %) Data Architect 7 1 (2.500 %) Data Analyst 7 1 (2.500 %) Software Developer 7 1 (2.500 %) Report Analyst 7 1 (2.500 %) Business Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 3 (7.500 %) Replication 1 3 (7.500 %) Derivative 2 1 (2.500 %) Data Integration
Operating Systems 1 4 (10.00 %) Windows 2 2 (5.000 %) UNIX 3 1 (2.500 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (2.500 %) Windows XP 3 1 (2.500 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (2.500 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 2 4 (10.00 %) Scrum 3 3 (7.500 %) Web Design 3 3 (7.500 %) Business Analysis 3 3 (7.500 %) Project Management 3 3 (7.500 %) Service Management 3 3 (7.500 %) ITIL 3 3 (7.500 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (7.500 %) Technical Architecture 4 2 (5.000 %) Manual Testing 4 2 (5.000 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (5.000 %) Information Management 5 1 (2.500 %) Software Testing 5 1 (2.500 %) Data Management
Programming Languages 1 24 (60.00 %) C# 2 12 (30.00 %) SQL 3 11 (27.50 %) VB.NET 4 4 (10.00 %) VB 5 3 (7.500 %) JavaScript 5 3 (7.500 %) VBScript 6 2 (5.000 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (2.500 %) C++ 7 1 (2.500 %) DHTML 7 1 (2.500 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 3 (7.500 %) MCSE 1 3 (7.500 %) CCNA 1 3 (7.500 %) Cisco Certification 1 3 (7.500 %) Microsoft Certification 1 3 (7.500 %) MOS 2 2 (5.000 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (10.00 %) QA	Vendors 1 9 (22.50 %) Microsoft 2 4 (10.00 %) Oracle 2 4 (10.00 %) Sybase 3 2 (5.000 %) Perforce 4 1 (2.500 %) Business Objects