The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 17 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 Croydon 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 13 17 24
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +7
Contract jobs citing .NET 1 8 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 2.000% 5.970% 6.897%
As % of the Application Development category 12.50% 30.77% 21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 10
Average daily rate £265 £325 £258
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.46% +26.21%
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
Croydon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
8 26 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 16.00% 19.40% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 30
Average daily rate £350 £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £17.00 £11.20
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +51.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET
London

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon .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 Croydon region.

Croydon .NET Daily Rate Trend

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Croydon .NET Hourly Rate Trend

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (50.00%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
3 3 (37.50%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (25.00%) Mainframe
4 2 (25.00%) HTML5
4 2 (25.00%) Web Development
4 2 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) CMS
4 2 (25.00%) Zachman Framework
4 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (25.00%) SOA
4 2 (25.00%) SAS
4 2 (25.00%) WebLogic
4 2 (25.00%) IIS
4 2 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (25.00%) CSS
4 2 (25.00%) UNIX
4 2 (25.00%) Windows
4 2 (25.00%) Cognos
4 2 (25.00%) Informatica
5 1 (12.50%) Tridion
5 1 (12.50%) zOS
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (12.50%) VB
5 1 (12.50%) Intranet

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (12.50%) Ninject
3 1 (12.50%) CSS3
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) ASP
3 1 (12.50%) Ajax
3 1 (12.50%) NHibernate
3 1 (12.50%) jQuery
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (25.00%) IIS
1 2 (25.00%) SAS
1 2 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (25.00%) CMS
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Intranet
1 1 (12.50%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) NUnit
1 1 (12.50%) Moq
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Support Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Applications Support
2 2 (25.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Server Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Intranet Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Server Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) UNIX
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
2 2 (25.00%) SOA
2 2 (25.00%) Zachman Framework
2 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (25.00%) Web Development
3 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
3 1 (12.50%) System Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Software Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Change Control
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Content Management
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow Management
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) MVC
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow
3 1 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Cognos
2 2 (25.00%) Informatica
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft