The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 24 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 East of England 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 7 8 7
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -1
Contract jobs citing .NET 265 397 348
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 12.39% 13.43% 13.16%
As % of the Application Development category 43.37% 47.04% 44.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 213 190
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £250 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £468 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 13
Average hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.57% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.75 £29.10 £26.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £36.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -10.44%
All Application Development
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
611 844 774
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 28.56% 28.56% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 436 355
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 59 60
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £27.50 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.40 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET
England

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England .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 East of England region.

East of England .NET Daily Rate Trend

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England .NET Daily Rate Histogram

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England .NET Hourly Rate Trend

.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England .NET Hourly Rate Histogram

.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 East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hertfordshire -1 73 £375 +27.65%
Essex +8 64 £265 -26.89%
Norfolk 0 41 £283 -5.83%
Suffolk +4 37 £325 -
Cambridgeshire -11 36 £375 +15.38%
Bedfordshire +4 20 £350 -0.70%
East Anglia +9 2 £293 -10.00%
.NET
England

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

1 345 (63.89%) C#
2 266 (49.26%) ASP.NET
3 217 (40.19%) SQL Server
4 165 (30.56%) SQL
5 149 (27.59%) Microsoft
6 135 (25.00%) JavaScript
7 122 (22.59%) HTML
8 116 (21.48%) Windows
9 112 (20.74%) TDD
10 109 (20.19%) CSS
11 103 (19.07%) WCF
12 95 (17.59%) Web Services
13 94 (17.41%) MVC
14 89 (16.48%) .NET Framework
15 87 (16.11%) Agile Software Development
16 85 (15.74%) XML
17 81 (15.00%) jQuery
18 70 (12.96%) Scrum
19 69 (12.78%) SharePoint
19 69 (12.78%) Oracle
19 69 (12.78%) E-Commerce
20 68 (12.59%) Retail
21 67 (12.41%) Visual Studio
21 67 (12.41%) OO
22 66 (12.22%) SQL Server 2008
23 65 (12.04%) T-SQL
24 64 (11.85%) SOA
25 63 (11.67%) VB.NET
26 56 (10.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
26 56 (10.37%) SQL Server Integration Services

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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
1 266 (49.26%) ASP.NET
2 122 (22.59%) HTML
3 109 (20.19%) CSS
4 103 (19.07%) WCF
5 95 (17.59%) Web Services
6 89 (16.48%) .NET Framework
7 85 (15.74%) XML
8 81 (15.00%) jQuery
9 51 (9.444%) ASP.NET MVC
10 45 (8.333%) Ajax
11 30 (5.556%) LINQ
12 29 (5.370%) NHibernate
13 28 (5.185%) DHTML
14 25 (4.630%) ADO.NET
15 22 (4.074%) WinForms
16 21 (3.889%) ASP
16 21 (3.889%) WPF
17 20 (3.704%) HTML5
18 19 (3.519%) KnockoutJS
19 18 (3.333%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 69 (12.78%) SharePoint
2 31 (5.741%) BizTalk Server
3 24 (4.444%) IIS
4 23 (4.259%) SharePoint 2010
5 14 (2.593%) Windows Azure
6 12 (2.222%) CMS
7 10 (1.852%) ESB
8 5 (0.926%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (0.741%) Documentum
9 4 (0.741%) Apache
10 3 (0.556%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.556%) MSMQ
11 2 (0.370%) ColdFusion
11 2 (0.370%) DotNetNuke
11 2 (0.370%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.370%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.370%) Kentico
11 2 (0.370%) Confluence
12 1 (0.185%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.185%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 40 (7.407%) MS Excel
2 23 (4.259%) MS Office
3 7 (1.296%) Photoshop
4 5 (0.926%) MS Project
5 4 (0.741%) PrintSoft PReS
5 4 (0.741%) DOC1
6 3 (0.556%) GIMP
6 3 (0.556%) Simulink
7 1 (0.185%) MS PowerPoint
7 1 (0.185%) XMetaL
Business Applications
1 4 (0.741%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (0.741%) Exstream
2 2 (0.370%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.370%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.370%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.185%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.259%) Internet
2 16 (2.963%) FTP
3 10 (1.852%) Ethernet
3 10 (1.852%) Intranet
4 9 (1.667%) HTTP
5 7 (1.296%) CTI
6 6 (1.111%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.926%) Extranet
8 3 (0.556%) Firewall
8 3 (0.556%) WAN
9 2 (0.370%) DNS
9 2 (0.370%) LAN
9 2 (0.370%) 3G
9 2 (0.370%) Cisco PIX
10 1 (0.185%) 2G
10 1 (0.185%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (40.19%) SQL Server
2 66 (12.22%) SQL Server 2008
3 56 (10.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 56 (10.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 37 (6.852%) SQL Server 2005
5 24 (4.444%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 17 (3.148%) DTS
7 10 (1.852%) VLDB
8 9 (1.667%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.481%) MS Access
9 8 (1.481%) GIS
10 7 (1.296%) Oracle 11g
10 7 (1.296%) Oracle 10g
10 7 (1.296%) TOAD
11 5 (0.926%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.741%) MySQL
13 3 (0.556%) Oracle 8/8i
13 3 (0.556%) Crystal Reports
14 2 (0.370%) SQL Server 2000
14 2 (0.370%) Oracle OWB
Development Applications
1 67 (12.41%) Visual Studio
2 47 (8.704%) Team Foundation Server
3 11 (2.037%) Git (software)
3 11 (2.037%) SpecFlow
4 10 (1.852%) Selenium
5 6 (1.111%) Subversion
5 6 (1.111%) JIRA
6 5 (0.926%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.741%) LabVIEW
7 4 (0.741%) WebDriver
7 4 (0.741%) PhoneGap
7 4 (0.741%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.556%) Appcelerator Titanium
8 3 (0.556%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.556%) WatiN
8 3 (0.556%) JSUnit
8 3 (0.556%) Fiddler
8 3 (0.556%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.556%) NUnit
8 3 (0.556%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 68 (12.59%) Retail
2 45 (8.333%) Finance
3 24 (4.444%) Telecoms
4 9 (1.667%) Banking
5 8 (1.481%) Publishing
5 8 (1.481%) Marketing
6 5 (0.926%) Billing
7 4 (0.741%) Electronics
7 4 (0.741%) Advertising
8 3 (0.556%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.556%) Games
9 2 (0.370%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.370%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.185%) Law
10 1 (0.185%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 385 (71.30%) Developer
2 191 (35.37%) .NET Developer
3 132 (24.44%) C# Developer
4 112 (20.74%) C# .NET Developer
5 71 (13.15%) Web Developer
6 61 (11.30%) ASP.NET Developer
7 59 (10.93%) Architect
8 53 (9.815%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 25 (4.630%) Solutions Architect
9 25 (4.630%) SharePoint Developer
10 23 (4.259%) .NET Architect
11 22 (4.074%) Analyst
12 21 (3.889%) Senior Developer
13 20 (3.704%) Agile .NET Developer
13 20 (3.704%) C# Architect
14 18 (3.333%) Software Developer
15 17 (3.148%) Project Manager
16 14 (2.593%) Software Engineer
16 14 (2.593%) ScrumMaster
16 14 (2.593%) Agile C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.111%) N-Tier
2 16 (2.963%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (2.222%) Open Source
4 10 (1.852%) Contract for Difference
5 9 (1.667%) Graphic Design
6 7 (1.296%) Human Factors
6 7 (1.296%) Computer Science
7 6 (1.111%) Client/Server
7 6 (1.111%) NHS
7 6 (1.111%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.111%) SaaS
8 5 (0.926%) IVR
9 3 (0.556%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.556%) Online Games
9 3 (0.556%) Tandem
10 2 (0.370%) W3C
11 1 (0.185%) Digital Media
11 1 (0.185%) Social Media
11 1 (0.185%) Inversion of Control
11 1 (0.185%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 116 (21.48%) Windows
2 26 (4.815%) Windows Server 2003
3 16 (2.963%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (1.111%) Linux
4 6 (1.111%) Windows 7
5 4 (0.741%) UNIX
5 4 (0.741%) Android
6 2 (0.370%) Windows Mobile
6 2 (0.370%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.185%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.185%) Debian
7 1 (0.185%) AIX
7 1 (0.185%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (20.74%) TDD
2 94 (17.41%) MVC
3 87 (16.11%) Agile Software Development
4 70 (12.96%) Scrum
5 69 (12.78%) E-Commerce
6 67 (12.41%) OO
7 64 (11.85%) SOA
8 33 (6.111%) Unit Testing
9 32 (5.926%) BDD
10 30 (5.556%) Migration
11 28 (5.185%) Business Intelligence
12 25 (4.630%) Web Development
13 22 (4.074%) Project Management
14 21 (3.889%) Continuous Integration
15 18 (3.333%) AOP
16 17 (3.148%) Stakeholder Management
17 15 (2.778%) Validation
18 14 (2.593%) PRINCE2
18 14 (2.593%) CRM
18 14 (2.593%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 345 (63.89%) C#
2 165 (30.56%) SQL
3 135 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 65 (12.04%) T-SQL
5 63 (11.67%) VB.NET
6 48 (8.889%) Java
7 26 (4.815%) VB
8 19 (3.519%) VBScript
9 15 (2.778%) C
10 14 (2.593%) C++
10 14 (2.593%) PHP
11 13 (2.407%) VB6
12 11 (2.037%) PL/SQL
13 10 (1.852%) VBA
13 10 (1.852%) Ruby
14 7 (1.296%) F#
15 6 (1.111%) Python
16 5 (0.926%) XPath
16 5 (0.926%) Perl
17 4 (0.741%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (2.778%) Degree
2 6 (1.111%) Security Cleared
3 4 (0.741%) ISEB
4 3 (0.556%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.370%) PMP
5 2 (0.370%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.185%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.519%) QA
2 2 (0.370%) SLA
2 2 (0.370%) HL7
3 1 (0.185%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.185%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (1.481%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.370%) Xen
2 2 (0.370%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.370%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.185%) Cygwin
3 1 (0.185%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 3 (0.556%) Splunk
2 1 (0.185%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.185%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 149 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 69 (12.78%) Oracle
3 12 (2.222%) SAP
4 11 (2.037%) Business Objects
5 5 (0.926%) Telerik
5 5 (0.926%) HP
6 4 (0.741%) CA
6 4 (0.741%) Cognos
6 4 (0.741%) VMware
7 3 (0.556%) Sencha
7 3 (0.556%) Sitecore
7 3 (0.556%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.556%) Citrix
7 3 (0.556%) Salesforce.com
8 2 (0.370%) Cisco
8 2 (0.370%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.370%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.370%) CODA
8 2 (0.370%) Google
8 2 (0.370%) Retalix
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