The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dundee region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 22 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 Dundee 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 5 8 6
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -2
Contract jobs citing .NET 3 7 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dundee 15.00% 16.28% 12.50%
As % of the Application Development category 30.00% 36.84% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £225 £220 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £28.75 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.41 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+19.00% -12.20%
All Application Development
Dundee
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
10 19 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dundee 50.00% 44.19% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 1
Average daily rate £225 £225 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Average hourly rate - £32.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET
Scotland

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dundee .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 Dundee region.

Dundee .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 Dundee region.

Dundee .NET Hourly Rate Trend

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dundee 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 8 (88.89%) SQL Server
2 5 (55.56%) VB.NET
3 4 (44.44%) C#
4 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 3 (33.33%) MS Excel
4 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 3 (33.33%) Finance
4 3 (33.33%) Retail
5 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (22.22%) RIA
5 2 (22.22%) Internet
5 2 (22.22%) XML
5 2 (22.22%) XSD
5 2 (22.22%) XSLT
5 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
6 1 (11.11%) SQL
6 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
6 1 (11.11%) HTML
6 1 (11.11%) MVC
6 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
6 1 (11.11%) ADO.NET
6 1 (11.11%) jQuery
6 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
6 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (11.11%) NHibernate
6 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dundee 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 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (22.22%) XML
2 2 (22.22%) XSD
2 2 (22.22%) XSLT
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) ADO.NET
3 1 (11.11%) jQuery
3 1 (11.11%) NHibernate
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
3 1 (11.11%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 5 (55.56%) VB.NET Developer
4 3 (33.33%) SQL Developer
4 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Developer
4 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (22.22%) Lead Developer
6 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) RIA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (11.11%) MVC
2 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) VB.NET
2 4 (44.44%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft