The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles advertised for the 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
.NET Designer
Rank 511 559 561
Rank change year-on-year
+48 +2
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Designer 7 3 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.017% 0.006% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.006% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 3
Average daily rate £275 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate - £315 £400
% change year-on-year
- -21.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38380 49421 52947
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.44% 92.55% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22598 27956 29382
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1965 2419 2806
Average hourly rate £18.88 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.02% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £11.13 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
.NET Designer
UK

.NET Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England .NET Designer Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Designer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing .NET Designer across the England region.

England .NET Designer Daily Rate Trend

.NET Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England .NET Designer Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Designer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Designer within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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
London +39 7 £275 -
.NET Designer
UK

.NET Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited .NET Designer 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 Designer in their job title.

1 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (64.29%) WCF
3 8 (57.14%) TDD
4 6 (42.86%) C#
5 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET
5 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
5 3 (21.43%) SQL
6 2 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (14.29%) Web Application Development
6 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Business Analysis
7 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 1 (7.143%) Data Governance
7 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (7.143%) Casewise
7 1 (7.143%) .NET Framework
7 1 (7.143%) Java EE
7 1 (7.143%) QA
7 1 (7.143%) Unit Testing
7 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (7.143%) User Experience Design
7 1 (7.143%) Ektron
7 1 (7.143%) E-Commerce
7 1 (7.143%) N-Tier
7 1 (7.143%) SOA
7 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
7 1 (7.143%) Adobe
7 1 (7.143%) Middleware
7 1 (7.143%) SQLPlus
7 1 (7.143%) Web Services

.NET Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited .NET Designer 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 Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (64.29%) WCF
3 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET
4 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (7.143%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.143%) Java EE
4 1 (7.143%) Middleware
4 1 (7.143%) Web Services
4 1 (7.143%) J2EE
4 1 (7.143%) Hibernate
4 1 (7.143%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (7.143%) SQLPlus
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
1 1 (7.143%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) TDD
2 2 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (14.29%) Web Application Development
2 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (14.29%) Business Analysis
3 1 (7.143%) Data Governance
3 1 (7.143%) Unit Testing
3 1 (7.143%) User Experience Design
3 1 (7.143%) E-Commerce
3 1 (7.143%) SOA
3 1 (7.143%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (7.143%) MVC
3 1 (7.143%) Migration
3 1 (7.143%) Scrum
3 1 (7.143%) Content Management
3 1 (7.143%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) C#
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 1 (7.143%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (7.143%) Casewise
1 1 (7.143%) Ektron
1 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.143%) Adobe
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle