Coventry .NET Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET (dotNet) skills within the Coventry 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 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Aylesbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire 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 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 Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Gwynedd 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 Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln 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 Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham 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 Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	8
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	28	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.046 %	0.036 %
As % of the category below	66.67 %	56.90 %
Daily rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum daily rate	£208	£281
Average daily rate	£220	£305
% change on same period last year	-27.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£233	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£340
% change on same period last year	-8.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.36	£32.33
Average hourly rate	£18.07	£35.33
% change on same period last year	-48.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.79	£38.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.81	£31.75
% change on same period last year	-12.40 %
Application Development Coventry
Matching contract IT job ads	42	58
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.069 %	0.064 %
Daily rates quoted	8	15
Average minimum daily rate	£234	£213
Average daily rate	£266	£226
% change on same period last year	+17.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£297	£238
UK excluding London average daily rate	£322	£333
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.89	£31.94
Average hourly rate	£20.61	£34.25
% change on same period last year	-39.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.33	£36.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.64	£31.31
% change on same period last year	-8.54 %
.NET West Midlands

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 Coventry 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 Coventry 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 Coventry region over the 3 months to 5 December 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 Coventry 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 Coventry region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 44 (61.97 %) ASP.NET 2 33 (46.48 %) C# 3 31 (43.66 %) SQL 4 25 (35.21 %) VB.NET 4 25 (35.21 %) SQL Server 5 24 (33.80 %) XML 6 20 (28.17 %) WebServices 7 19 (26.76 %) CSS 8 18 (25.35 %) VB 9 17 (23.94 %) XHTML 10 16 (22.54 %) Microsoft 10 16 (22.54 %) JavaScript 10 16 (22.54 %) VB6 11 14 (19.72 %) OO 11 14 (19.72 %) VBScript

11 14 (19.72 %) Agile Software Development 12 12 (16.90 %) Web Development 12 12 (16.90 %) W3C 13 11 (15.49 %) MS Excel 13 11 (15.49 %) Degree 13 11 (15.49 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 11 (15.49 %) Web Design 14 10 (14.08 %) NHS 14 10 (14.08 %) XSL 15 9 (12.68 %) SOAP 15 9 (12.68 %) UML 16 8 (11.27 %) AJAX 16 8 (11.27 %) SQL Server 2005 17 7 (9.859 %) OOP 18 6 (8.451 %) SharePoint

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 44 (61.97 %) ASP.NET 2 24 (33.80 %) XML 3 20 (28.17 %) WebServices 4 19 (26.76 %) CSS 5 17 (23.94 %) XHTML 6 11 (15.49 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 10 (14.08 %) XSL 8 9 (12.68 %) SOAP 9 8 (11.27 %) AJAX 10 5 (7.042 %) ASP 10 5 (7.042 %) HTML 10 5 (7.042 %) LINQ 11 4 (5.634 %) .NET Framework 12 1 (1.408 %) MFC 12 1 (1.408 %) ADO 12 1 (1.408 %) ATL 12 1 (1.408 %) COM+ 12 1 (1.408 %) .NET Remoting 12 1 (1.408 %) DAO 12 1 (1.408 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 6 (8.451 %) SharePoint 2 3 (4.225 %) ColdFusion 3 1 (1.408 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (1.408 %) CMS
Applications 1 11 (15.49 %) MS Excel 2 3 (4.225 %) AutoCAD	Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.408 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 25 (35.21 %) SQL Server 2 8 (11.27 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (2.817 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 5 (7.042 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 3 (4.225 %) Flash 2 3 (4.225 %) Visual Studio 3 2 (2.817 %) Subversion
General 1 5 (7.042 %) Health 2 3 (4.225 %) Games 2 3 (4.225 %) Finance 3 1 (1.408 %) Government 3 1 (1.408 %) Music	Job Titles 1 64 (90.14 %) Developer 2 21 (29.58 %) .NET Developer 3 15 (21.13 %) Software Developer 4 14 (19.72 %) Web Developer 5 11 (15.49 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 8 (11.27 %) C# Developer 7 7 (9.859 %) VB.NET Developer 8 6 (8.451 %) SharePoint Developer 8 6 (8.451 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 4 (5.634 %) Programmer 9 4 (5.634 %) Analyst 10 3 (4.225 %) Graduate 10 3 (4.225 %) Analyst Programmer 10 3 (4.225 %) Graduate .NET Developer 10 3 (4.225 %) Flash Developer 10 3 (4.225 %) Graduate Developer 11 2 (2.817 %) Website Developer 11 2 (2.817 %) C++ Developer 12 1 (1.408 %) Analyst Developer 12 1 (1.408 %) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 12 (16.90 %) W3C 2 10 (14.08 %) NHS 3 5 (7.042 %) Web 2.0 4 4 (5.634 %) Computer Science 5 3 (4.225 %) Social Network 6 2 (2.817 %) Management Information System 7 1 (1.408 %) PKI 7 1 (1.408 %) Smartcard 7 1 (1.408 %) Credit Risk	Operating Systems 1 1 (1.408 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (19.72 %) OO 1 14 (19.72 %) Agile Software Development 2 12 (16.90 %) Web Development 3 11 (15.49 %) Web Design 4 9 (12.68 %) UML 5 7 (9.859 %) OOP 6 6 (8.451 %) Scrum 7 5 (7.042 %) Content Management 8 4 (5.634 %) Migration 8 4 (5.634 %) RAD 9 3 (4.225 %) CAD 9 3 (4.225 %) TDD 10 2 (2.817 %) OOD 10 2 (2.817 %) E-Commerce 10 2 (2.817 %) Enterprise Architecture 11 1 (1.408 %) User Acceptance Testing 11 1 (1.408 %) Test Scripting 11 1 (1.408 %) Security Cleared 11 1 (1.408 %) Data Modelling 11 1 (1.408 %) Validation	Programming Languages 1 33 (46.48 %) C# 2 31 (43.66 %) SQL 3 25 (35.21 %) VB.NET 4 18 (25.35 %) VB 5 16 (22.54 %) VB6 5 16 (22.54 %) JavaScript 6 14 (19.72 %) VBScript 7 4 (5.634 %) C++ 8 3 (4.225 %) VC++ 9 2 (2.817 %) C 9 2 (2.817 %) Transact-SQL 10 1 (1.408 %) Delphi 10 1 (1.408 %) Java 10 1 (1.408 %) ActionScript
Qualifications 1 11 (15.49 %) Degree 2 3 (4.225 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (2.817 %) MCAD 3 2 (2.817 %) MCSD 4 1 (1.408 %) MCDST	Vendors 1 16 (22.54 %) Microsoft 2 3 (4.225 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.408 %) Progress 3 1 (1.408 %) Mercator