The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Crewe region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET 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 Crewe 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 (dotNet)
Rank 7 3 3
Rank change year-on-year
-4 0
Contract jobs citing .NET 5 18 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crewe 11.90% 28.13% 46.30%
As % of the Application Development category 33.33% 56.25% 96.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 21
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.75 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+17.64% -11.19%
All Application Development
Crewe
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
15 32 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crewe 35.71% 50.00% 48.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 21
Average daily rate £300 £315 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% -10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET
Cheshire

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crewe .NET Jobs Demand Trend

.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

Crewe .NET Daily Rate Trend

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crewe 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 20 (95.24%) VB.NET
2 18 (85.71%) C#
3 15 (71.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (52.38%) SQL
5 4 (19.05%) ASP.NET
5 4 (19.05%) CSS
5 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
5 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
6 3 (14.29%) jQuery
7 2 (9.524%) Web Development
8 1 (4.762%) .NET Framework
8 1 (4.762%) MS Office
8 1 (4.762%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (4.762%) HTML5
8 1 (4.762%) Hedge funds
8 1 (4.762%) Ajax
8 1 (4.762%) MS PowerPoint
8 1 (4.762%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (4.762%) Financial Institution
8 1 (4.762%) Telecoms
8 1 (4.762%) Finance
8 1 (4.762%) VMware
8 1 (4.762%) T-SQL
8 1 (4.762%) HTML
8 1 (4.762%) XHTML
8 1 (4.762%) MS Excel
8 1 (4.762%) MS Visio
8 1 (4.762%) Business Intelligence
8 1 (4.762%) Microsoft
8 1 (4.762%) Adobe

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crewe 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 4 (19.05%) ASP.NET
1 4 (19.05%) CSS
2 3 (14.29%) jQuery
3 1 (4.762%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.762%) HTML5
3 1 (4.762%) Ajax
3 1 (4.762%) HTML
3 1 (4.762%) XHTML
Applications
1 1 (4.762%) MS Office
1 1 (4.762%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (4.762%) MS Excel
1 1 (4.762%) MS Visio
1 1 (4.762%) Acrobat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.762%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (71.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.762%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (4.762%) Financial Institution
1 1 (4.762%) Telecoms
1 1 (4.762%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (95.24%) Developer
2 13 (61.90%) .NET Developer
3 4 (19.05%) SQL Developer
4 3 (14.29%) .NET Web Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Web Developer
5 2 (9.524%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.524%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (4.762%) Report Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.762%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (9.524%) Web Development
2 1 (4.762%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 20 (95.24%) VB.NET
2 18 (85.71%) C#
3 11 (52.38%) SQL
4 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.762%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (4.762%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (4.762%) VMware
1 1 (4.762%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.762%) Adobe