The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley 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 Crawley 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 24 31 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 1 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 0.694% 1.444% -
As % of the Application Development category 3.125% 9.756% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £325 £450 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.77% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.45% -2.40%
All Application Development
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
32 41 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 22.22% 14.80% 17.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 24 11
Average daily rate £360 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £345 £300 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Average hourly rate £38.00 - £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET Framework
West Sussex

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley .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 Crawley region.

Crawley .NET Framework Daily Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (80.00%) WCF
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 4 (80.00%) Razor View Engine
2 4 (80.00%) SOAP
2 4 (80.00%) XML
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) VB
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) WCF
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 4 (80.00%) Razor View Engine
2 4 (80.00%) SOAP
2 4 (80.00%) XML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) C# Developer
2 4 (80.00%) XML Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) VB