East of England .NET Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts within the East of England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Banbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Ipswich Kendal Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tadworth Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	31
Rank change on same period last year	-20
Matching contract IT job ads	97	228
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.138 %	0.230 %
As % of the category below	3.030 %	5.017 %
Daily rates quoted	25	41
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£278
Average daily rate	£306	£304
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£303	£307
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.28	£36.07
Average hourly rate	£26.67	£37.07
% change on same period last year	-28.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.06	£38.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.58	£32.82
% change on same period last year	-9.86 %
Job Titles East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	3201	4545
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.549 %	4.590 %
Daily rates quoted	952	1386
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£318
Average daily rate	£336	£335
% change on same period last year	+0.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	498	714
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.25	£26.06
Average hourly rate	£22.61	£27.45
% change on same period last year	-17.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.97	£28.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.69	£25.18
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
.NET Developer England

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 Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing .NET Developer across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing .NET Developer across the East of England region.

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Developer within the East of England region over the 3 months to 7 October 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
Cambridgeshire	-5	32	£383	+45.95 %
Essex	+9	24	£258	-27.28 %
Hertfordshire	-24	19	£327	+1.57 %
Norfolk	-13	12	£201	-38.30 %
Suffolk	+10	8	-	-
East Anglia	-3	4	£350	+29.62 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited .NET Developer in their job title 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 with .NET Developer in their job title.

1 221 (100.00 %) .NET 2 149 (67.42 %) C# 3 142 (64.25 %) ASP.NET 4 122 (55.20 %) SQL Server 5 78 (35.29 %) VB.NET 6 67 (30.32 %) SQL 7 57 (25.79 %) XML 8 55 (24.89 %) JavaScript 9 47 (21.27 %) CSS 10 46 (20.81 %) WebServices 11 45 (20.36 %) SQL Server 2005 12 44 (19.91 %) HTML 13 40 (18.10 %) VB 14 37 (16.74 %) AJAX 15 34 (15.38 %) WinForms

16 32 (14.48 %) OO 17 30 (13.57 %) ASP 17 30 (13.57 %) Web Development 18 27 (12.22 %) WCF 18 27 (12.22 %) WPF 18 27 (12.22 %) VB6 19 26 (11.76 %) Windows 20 25 (11.31 %) SQL Server 2000 21 22 (9.955 %) UML 22 21 (9.502 %) Transact-SQL 23 20 (9.050 %) E-Commerce 24 19 (8.597 %) Microsoft 24 19 (8.597 %) XSLT 24 19 (8.597 %) Agile Software Development 25 18 (8.145 %) Finance

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited .NET Developer in their job title 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 with .NET Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 221 (100.00 %) .NET 2 142 (64.25 %) ASP.NET 3 57 (25.79 %) XML 4 47 (21.27 %) CSS 5 46 (20.81 %) WebServices 6 44 (19.91 %) HTML 7 37 (16.74 %) AJAX 8 34 (15.38 %) WinForms 9 30 (13.57 %) ASP 10 27 (12.22 %) WCF 10 27 (12.22 %) WPF 11 19 (8.597 %) XSLT 12 17 (7.692 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 16 (7.240 %) ADO.NET 14 14 (6.335 %) .NET Framework 15 7 (3.167 %) SOAP 16 5 (2.262 %) XHTML 17 4 (1.810 %) XSL 17 4 (1.810 %) WF 18 3 (1.357 %) Silverlight	Application Platforms 1 10 (4.525 %) IIS 1 10 (4.525 %) BizTalk Server 2 4 (1.810 %) CMS 3 3 (1.357 %) SharePoint 4 1 (0.452 %) CICS 4 1 (0.452 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (0.452 %) MTS 4 1 (0.452 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (0.452 %) Immediacy CMS 4 1 (0.452 %) Commerce Server 4 1 (0.452 %) Site Server
Applications 1 2 (0.905 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.452 %) AutoCAD 2 1 (0.452 %) Photoshop 2 1 (0.452 %) MS Project 2 1 (0.452 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 8 (3.620 %) Internet 2 7 (3.167 %) SMTP 2 7 (3.167 %) FTP 2 7 (3.167 %) HTTP 2 7 (3.167 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (0.905 %) CTI 3 2 (0.905 %) Intranet 3 2 (0.905 %) TETRA 4 1 (0.452 %) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 122 (55.20 %) SQL Server 2 45 (20.36 %) SQL Server 2005 3 25 (11.31 %) SQL Server 2000 4 9 (4.072 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 5 (2.262 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 2 (0.905 %) MySQL 6 2 (0.905 %) MS Access 6 2 (0.905 %) Datawarehouse 6 2 (0.905 %) OLAP 6 2 (0.905 %) Crystal Reports 7 1 (0.452 %) Oracle 9i 7 1 (0.452 %) Oracle 10g 7 1 (0.452 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 1 (0.452 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 1 (0.452 %) SQL Server 2008	Development Applications 1 16 (7.240 %) Visual Studio 2 9 (4.072 %) QuickTest Pro 3 4 (1.810 %) NUnit 3 4 (1.810 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 2 (0.905 %) Oracle Forms 4 2 (0.905 %) Bugzilla 5 1 (0.452 %) Visual Studio Team System 5 1 (0.452 %) Flash
General 1 18 (8.145 %) Finance 2 11 (4.977 %) Retail 3 6 (2.715 %) Pensions 3 6 (2.715 %) Banking 4 4 (1.810 %) Government 5 3 (1.357 %) Telecoms 5 3 (1.357 %) Manufacturing 5 3 (1.357 %) Marketing 5 3 (1.357 %) Insurance 6 1 (0.452 %) Local Government 6 1 (0.452 %) Investment Banking 6 1 (0.452 %) Animation 6 1 (0.452 %) FMCG 6 1 (0.452 %) Music 6 1 (0.452 %) Games 6 1 (0.452 %) Health 6 1 (0.452 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (0.452 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (0.452 %) Back Office	Miscellaneous 1 13 (5.882 %) N-Tier 2 4 (1.810 %) Client/Server 3 2 (0.905 %) Arabic Language 4 1 (0.452 %) Market Risk 4 1 (0.452 %) NHS 4 1 (0.452 %) Blackberry 4 1 (0.452 %) Clustering 4 1 (0.452 %) Tandem 4 1 (0.452 %) Web 2.0
Operating Systems 1 26 (11.76 %) Windows 2 5 (2.262 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (1.357 %) Windows 2000 3 3 (1.357 %) Windows XP 4 2 (0.905 %) Windows CE 4 2 (0.905 %) Symbian OS 4 2 (0.905 %) Windows Vista 4 2 (0.905 %) Windows Server 2008 5 1 (0.452 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (0.452 %) Windows Mobile 5 1 (0.452 %) HPUX 5 1 (0.452 %) Linux 5 1 (0.452 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 32 (14.48 %) OO 2 30 (13.57 %) Web Development 3 22 (9.955 %) UML 4 20 (9.050 %) E-Commerce 5 19 (8.597 %) Agile Software Development 6 11 (4.977 %) Scrum 7 10 (4.525 %) RAD 8 9 (4.072 %) CRM 9 4 (1.810 %) OOP 9 4 (1.810 %) OOD 9 4 (1.810 %) Project Management 9 4 (1.810 %) Data Management 9 4 (1.810 %) Automated Testing 10 3 (1.357 %) TDD 10 3 (1.357 %) Unit Testing 10 3 (1.357 %) Risk Management 10 3 (1.357 %) OOA/OOD 11 2 (0.905 %) Migration 11 2 (0.905 %) Business Intelligence 11 2 (0.905 %) B2C
Programming Languages 1 149 (67.42 %) C# 2 78 (35.29 %) VB.NET 3 67 (30.32 %) SQL 4 55 (24.89 %) JavaScript 5 40 (18.10 %) VB 6 27 (12.22 %) VB6 7 21 (9.502 %) Transact-SQL 8 15 (6.787 %) C++ 9 7 (3.167 %) DHTML 10 6 (2.715 %) Java 10 6 (2.715 %) VBA 11 5 (2.262 %) VBScript 11 5 (2.262 %) PHP 12 4 (1.810 %) VC++ 13 3 (1.357 %) C 13 3 (1.357 %) PL/SQL 14 2 (0.905 %) XAML 14 2 (0.905 %) PowerShell 15 1 (0.452 %) XPath 15 1 (0.452 %) COBOL	Qualifications 1 5 (2.262 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (0.905 %) Degree 2 2 (0.905 %) MCAD 2 2 (0.905 %) MCSD 3 1 (0.452 %) MCP
Vendors 1 19 (8.597 %) Microsoft 2 8 (3.620 %) Oracle 3 2 (0.905 %) Symbian 3 2 (0.905 %) telerik 4 1 (0.452 %) Sybase 4 1 (0.452 %) Adobe 4 1 (0.452 %) Macromedia 4 1 (0.452 %) Lotus 4 1 (0.452 %) InterSystems 4 1 (0.452 %) Infragistics 4 1 (0.452 %) Serena 4 1 (0.452 %) ION Trading