Devon .NET Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET (dotNet) skills within the Devon 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	18	14
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	8	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	14.55 %	34.21 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£350
Average daily rate	£367	£375
% change on same period last year	-2.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£340
% change on same period last year	-8.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.00	£21.50
Average hourly rate	£29.50	£27.00
% change on same period last year	+9.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.00	£32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.81	£31.75
% change on same period last year	-12.40 %
Application Development Devon
Matching contract IT job ads	55	76
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.090 %	0.083 %
Daily rates quoted	11	32
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£350
Average daily rate	£311	£354
% change on same period last year	-12.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£322	£333
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.16	£19.93
Average hourly rate	£20.39	£22.81
% change on same period last year	-10.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.63	£25.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.64	£31.31
% change on same period last year	-8.54 %
.NET South West

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.

.NET
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing .NET across the Devon 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 Devon region.

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Devon region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008.

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

.NET
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 Devon region over the 3 months to 5 December 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
Plymouth	+6	3	£375	-
Exeter	-9	1	-	-
Newton Abbot	-	1	-	-

.NET South West

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 24 (68.57 %) SQL Server 2 21 (60.00 %) Microsoft 3 20 (57.14 %) SQL 4 17 (48.57 %) SharePoint 5 14 (40.00 %) MS Exchange 5 14 (40.00 %) Cisco 5 14 (40.00 %) Citrix 5 14 (40.00 %) Cisco Certification 5 14 (40.00 %) BizTalk Server 5 14 (40.00 %) Intranet 5 14 (40.00 %) Extranet 5 14 (40.00 %) J2EE 5 14 (40.00 %) CCNA 5 14 (40.00 %) VMware 5 14 (40.00 %) Exchange Server 2007

6 13 (37.14 %) OVPI 6 13 (37.14 %) VMware Server 6 13 (37.14 %) ITSM 6 13 (37.14 %) UNIX 7 12 (34.29 %) Clustering 7 12 (34.29 %) Content Management 8 11 (31.43 %) C# 9 10 (28.57 %) ASP.NET 10 8 (22.86 %) JavaScript 11 7 (20.00 %) VB.NET 11 7 (20.00 %) CSS 12 6 (17.14 %) MS Project 12 6 (17.14 %) HTML 13 5 (14.29 %) Telecoms 13 5 (14.29 %) Migration

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 14 (40.00 %) J2EE 2 10 (28.57 %) ASP.NET 3 7 (20.00 %) CSS 4 6 (17.14 %) HTML 5 5 (14.29 %) XML 6 4 (11.43 %) .NET Framework 7 3 (8.571 %) AJAX 7 3 (8.571 %) Windows SharePoint Services 7 3 (8.571 %) XHTML 7 3 (8.571 %) ASP 8 2 (5.714 %) JSP 8 2 (5.714 %) JSF 8 2 (5.714 %) Ext JS 9 1 (2.857 %) Silverlight 9 1 (2.857 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 1 (2.857 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 17 (48.57 %) SharePoint 2 14 (40.00 %) MS Exchange 2 14 (40.00 %) BizTalk Server 2 14 (40.00 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 3 (8.571 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 3 (8.571 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 6 (17.14 %) MS Project 2 3 (8.571 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 14 (40.00 %) Intranet 1 14 (40.00 %) Extranet 2 5 (14.29 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (68.57 %) SQL Server 2 2 (5.714 %) Crystal Reports 2 2 (5.714 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (5.714 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (2.857 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 1 (2.857 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 1 (2.857 %) MySQL 3 1 (2.857 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 2 (5.714 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (2.857 %) Flash
General 1 5 (14.29 %) Telecoms 2 2 (5.714 %) Education	Job Titles 1 20 (57.14 %) Developer 2 13 (37.14 %) Consultant 3 11 (31.43 %) Technical Consultant 4 6 (17.14 %) .NET Developer 5 5 (14.29 %) Implementation Consultant 6 4 (11.43 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 3 (8.571 %) SharePoint Developer 8 2 (5.714 %) Java Developer 8 2 (5.714 %) Applications Developer 9 1 (2.857 %) Senior Developer 9 1 (2.857 %) Web Developer 9 1 (2.857 %) Tester 9 1 (2.857 %) Performance Tester 9 1 (2.857 %) Design Engineer 9 1 (2.857 %) SQL Server Developer 9 1 (2.857 %) HTML Developer 9 1 (2.857 %) Senior Performance Tester 9 1 (2.857 %) C# Developer 9 1 (2.857 %) VB.NET Developer 9 1 (2.857 %) VB Developer
Miscellaneous 1 12 (34.29 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 13 (37.14 %) UNIX 2 5 (14.29 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (37.14 %) ITSM 2 12 (34.29 %) Content Management 3 5 (14.29 %) Migration 4 4 (11.43 %) OO 4 4 (11.43 %) Web Development 5 1 (2.857 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (2.857 %) BC Cleared 5 1 (2.857 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (2.857 %) Project Management 5 1 (2.857 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (2.857 %) TDD 5 1 (2.857 %) Logistics	Programming Languages 1 20 (57.14 %) SQL 2 11 (31.43 %) C# 3 8 (22.86 %) JavaScript 4 7 (20.00 %) VB.NET 5 3 (8.571 %) PHP 6 2 (5.714 %) Java 7 1 (2.857 %) Perl 7 1 (2.857 %) VB6 7 1 (2.857 %) VB
Qualifications 1 14 (40.00 %) CCNA 1 14 (40.00 %) Cisco Certification	System Software 1 13 (37.14 %) VMware Server
Systems Management 1 13 (37.14 %) OVPI	Vendors 1 21 (60.00 %) Microsoft 2 14 (40.00 %) Citrix 2 14 (40.00 %) VMware 2 14 (40.00 %) Cisco 3 1 (2.857 %) Oracle