England C#/ASP.NET Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the C#/ASP.NET Developer role in IT contracts within the 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 C#/ASP.NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

C#/ASP.NET Developer
Location Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Falkirk Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Preston Reading Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Stockport Sunderland Surrey Swindon Teddington Thame Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	189	163
Rank change on same period last year	-26
Matching contract IT job ads	555	943
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.740 %	0.941 %
As % of the category below	0.886 %	1.100 %
Daily rates quoted	191	291
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£317
Average daily rate	£367	£347
% change on same period last year	+5.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£323
% change on same period last year	-0.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	90
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.42	£27.93
Average hourly rate	£31.77	£30.29
% change on same period last year	+4.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.13	£32.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.98	£32.18
% change on same period last year	-3.72 %
Job Titles England
Matching contract IT job ads	62639	85738
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	83.49 %	85.53 %
Daily rates quoted	21406	26624
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£391
Average daily rate	£406	£416
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£432	£441
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	5411	7254
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.58	£24.25
Average hourly rate	£24.18	£25.80
% change on same period last year	-6.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.78	£27.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
C#/ASP.NET Developer UK

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.

C#/ASP.NET Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C#/ASP.NET Developer across the 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 C#/ASP.NET Developer across the England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C#/ASP.NET Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 C#/ASP.NET Developer across the England region.

C#/ASP.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C#/ASP.NET Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

C#/ASP.NET Developer
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C#/ASP.NET Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
London	-15	271	£380	+6.37 %
South East	-52	70	£361	+7.04 %
North West	-8	50	£307	+13.40 %
Yorkshire	+10	46	£337	+12.49 %
West Midlands	+8	35	£200	-35.92 %
South West	+17	20	£250	-19.64 %
East of England	-28	19	£330	+9.36 %
North East	+18	16	-	-
Midlands	+24	15	£356	-5.00 %
East Midlands	-6	14	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited C#/ASP.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 C#/ASP.NET Developer in their job title.

1 1195 (100.00 %) C# 1 1195 (100.00 %) .NET 1 1195 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 2 799 (66.86 %) SQL Server 3 380 (31.80 %) SQL Server 2005 4 325 (27.20 %) SQL 5 292 (24.44 %) CSS 6 288 (24.10 %) XML 7 282 (23.60 %) HTML 8 274 (22.93 %) JavaScript 9 216 (18.08 %) AJAX 10 179 (14.98 %) WebServices 11 159 (13.31 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 131 (10.96 %) OO 13 124 (10.38 %) Finance

14 122 (10.21 %) SQL Server 2000 14 122 (10.21 %) Visual Studio 15 113 (9.456 %) ASP 16 102 (8.536 %) Transact-SQL 17 101 (8.452 %) .NET Framework 18 100 (8.368 %) Microsoft 19 98 (8.201 %) VB.NET 20 94 (7.866 %) XSLT 21 87 (7.280 %) E-Commerce 22 77 (6.444 %) Windows 23 76 (6.360 %) XHTML 24 72 (6.025 %) UML 25 65 (5.439 %) Banking 26 61 (5.105 %) Agile Software Development 26 61 (5.105 %) SharePoint

C#/ASP.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited C#/ASP.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 C#/ASP.NET Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1195 (100.00 %) .NET 1 1195 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 2 292 (24.44 %) CSS 3 288 (24.10 %) XML 4 282 (23.60 %) HTML 5 216 (18.08 %) AJAX 6 179 (14.98 %) WebServices 7 159 (13.31 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 113 (9.456 %) ASP 9 101 (8.452 %) .NET Framework 10 94 (7.866 %) XSLT 11 76 (6.360 %) XHTML 12 57 (4.770 %) WCF 13 42 (3.515 %) WinForms 14 31 (2.594 %) ADO.NET 15 30 (2.510 %) WPF 16 24 (2.008 %) Silverlight 17 20 (1.674 %) ADO 18 19 (1.590 %) SOAP 18 19 (1.590 %) NHibernate	Application Platforms 1 61 (5.105 %) SharePoint 2 48 (4.017 %) CMS 3 23 (1.925 %) IIS 4 22 (1.841 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 21 (1.757 %) BizTalk Server 6 9 (0.753 %) Commerce Server 7 7 (0.586 %) Commerce Server 2007 8 5 (0.418 %) EPiServer 9 4 (0.335 %) ArcGIS 9 4 (0.335 %) ArcIMS 9 4 (0.335 %) ArcSDE 10 3 (0.251 %) SharePoint Portal Server 10 3 (0.251 %) JBoss 10 3 (0.251 %) Lotus Notes 10 3 (0.251 %) Lotus Domino 10 3 (0.251 %) WebLogic 11 2 (0.167 %) Tomcat 11 2 (0.167 %) Content Management Server 11 2 (0.167 %) Immediacy CMS 11 2 (0.167 %) Sitecore CMS
Applications 1 23 (1.925 %) MS Excel 2 16 (1.339 %) Photoshop 3 6 (0.502 %) InfoPath 4 3 (0.251 %) MS PowerPoint 5 2 (0.167 %) MS Office 6 1 (0.084 %) ArcView 6 1 (0.084 %) MS Visio 6 1 (0.084 %) Fireworks 6 1 (0.084 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 6 (0.502 %) Microsoft CRM 2 2 (0.167 %) Navision 2 2 (0.167 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 37 (3.096 %) Internet 2 35 (2.929 %) Intranet 3 7 (0.586 %) Extranet 4 5 (0.418 %) CTI 5 3 (0.251 %) SSL 5 3 (0.251 %) TETRA 6 2 (0.167 %) Reverse Proxy 6 2 (0.167 %) HTTP 6 2 (0.167 %) TCP/IP 7 1 (0.084 %) GPRS 7 1 (0.084 %) SMTP 7 1 (0.084 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 799 (66.86 %) SQL Server 2 380 (31.80 %) SQL Server 2005 3 122 (10.21 %) SQL Server 2000 4 44 (3.682 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 32 (2.678 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 14 (1.172 %) SQL Server 2008 7 13 (1.088 %) RDBMS 8 11 (0.921 %) Crystal Reports 9 8 (0.669 %) MySQL 9 8 (0.669 %) DTS 10 6 (0.502 %) Oracle 10g 10 6 (0.502 %) Oracle 9i 11 5 (0.418 %) GIS 12 4 (0.335 %) MS Access 13 3 (0.251 %) Datawarehouse 13 3 (0.251 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 14 2 (0.167 %) BusinessObjects 14 2 (0.167 %) TOAD 14 2 (0.167 %) Oracle 8/8i 15 1 (0.084 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 122 (10.21 %) Visual Studio 2 31 (2.594 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 28 (2.343 %) NUnit 4 26 (2.176 %) Flash 5 5 (0.418 %) Ant 5 5 (0.418 %) Log4Net 5 5 (0.418 %) Subversion 6 3 (0.251 %) MSI 7 2 (0.167 %) ClearCase 7 2 (0.167 %) Dreamweaver 8 1 (0.084 %) ClearQuest 8 1 (0.084 %) Bugzilla 8 1 (0.084 %) JUnit 8 1 (0.084 %) CruiseControl	General 1 124 (10.38 %) Finance 2 65 (5.439 %) Banking 3 44 (3.682 %) Investment Banking 4 36 (3.013 %) Retail 5 34 (2.845 %) Marketing 6 25 (2.092 %) Insurance 7 23 (1.925 %) Financial Institution 8 17 (1.423 %) Advertising 9 15 (1.255 %) Front Office 10 14 (1.172 %) Construction 11 13 (1.088 %) Education 12 12 (1.004 %) Automotive 12 12 (1.004 %) Publishing 13 10 (0.837 %) Games 14 8 (0.669 %) Back Office 14 8 (0.669 %) Telecoms 14 8 (0.669 %) Music 15 6 (0.502 %) Corporate Banking 15 6 (0.502 %) Manufacturing 16 5 (0.418 %) Health
Miscellaneous 1 26 (2.176 %) N-Tier 2 16 (1.339 %) Computer Science 3 13 (1.088 %) W3C 4 9 (0.753 %) Multithreading 5 8 (0.669 %) Social Network 6 7 (0.586 %) NHS 7 6 (0.502 %) Client/Server 8 5 (0.418 %) Data Integration 9 4 (0.335 %) Equities 9 4 (0.335 %) Web 2.0 9 4 (0.335 %) PDA 10 3 (0.251 %) Derivative 10 3 (0.251 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 10 3 (0.251 %) E-Learning 10 3 (0.251 %) Spread Betting 11 2 (0.167 %) Arabic Language 11 2 (0.167 %) Wiki 11 2 (0.167 %) RIA 11 2 (0.167 %) Statistics 11 2 (0.167 %) Contract for Difference	Operating Systems 1 77 (6.444 %) Windows 2 12 (1.004 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 6 (0.502 %) Windows Server 2003 4 5 (0.418 %) UNIX 5 3 (0.251 %) Windows Mobile 5 3 (0.251 %) Linux 6 2 (0.167 %) Red Hat Linux 7 1 (0.084 %) Windows Server 2008 7 1 (0.084 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (0.084 %) Windows CE 7 1 (0.084 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 131 (10.96 %) OO 2 87 (7.280 %) E-Commerce 3 72 (6.025 %) UML 4 61 (5.105 %) Agile Software Development 5 59 (4.937 %) Web Development 6 51 (4.268 %) Content Management 7 35 (2.929 %) TDD 8 30 (2.510 %) Workflow 9 29 (2.427 %) OOD 10 27 (2.259 %) Migration 10 27 (2.259 %) Unit Testing 11 26 (2.176 %) OOP 12 25 (2.092 %) CRM 13 21 (1.757 %) Scrum 14 17 (1.423 %) B2B 15 12 (1.004 %) OOA/OOD 16 9 (0.753 %) Requirements Analysis 17 8 (0.669 %) Time Management 18 6 (0.502 %) Document Management 18 6 (0.502 %) Workflow Management	Programming Languages 1 1195 (100.00 %) C# 2 325 (27.20 %) SQL 3 274 (22.93 %) JavaScript 4 102 (8.536 %) Transact-SQL 5 98 (8.201 %) VB.NET 6 58 (4.854 %) VB 7 54 (4.519 %) DHTML 8 27 (2.259 %) VB6 9 21 (1.757 %) Java 9 21 (1.757 %) PHP 10 13 (1.088 %) VBScript 11 12 (1.004 %) PL/SQL 11 12 (1.004 %) C++ 12 9 (0.753 %) C 12 9 (0.753 %) ActionScript 13 7 (0.586 %) VBA 14 4 (0.335 %) Perl 15 2 (0.167 %) Python 15 2 (0.167 %) Shell Script 16 1 (0.084 %) XAML
Qualifications 1 22 (1.841 %) Degree 2 13 (1.088 %) Microsoft Certification 3 8 (0.669 %) MCAD 3 8 (0.669 %) MCSD 4 6 (0.502 %) MCP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (0.418 %) QA 2 1 (0.084 %) ISO9001
System Software 1 7 (0.586 %) Active Directory 2 4 (0.335 %) MSMQ 3 1 (0.084 %) Intellisync	Systems Management 1 1 (0.084 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 100 (8.368 %) Microsoft 2 51 (4.268 %) Oracle 3 6 (0.502 %) Perforce 4 4 (0.335 %) Sybase 5 3 (0.251 %) Lotus 5 3 (0.251 %) Hummingbird 5 3 (0.251 %) Sitecore 6 2 (0.167 %) Omniture 6 2 (0.167 %) Red Hat 6 2 (0.167 %) Business Objects 6 2 (0.167 %) Hitachi 7 1 (0.084 %) Nokia 7 1 (0.084 %) Adobe 7 1 (0.084 %) Sun 7 1 (0.084 %) Progress 7 1 (0.084 %) Mercator 7 1 (0.084 %) Reuters 7 1 (0.084 %) Bloomberg 7 1 (0.084 %) Infragistics 7 1 (0.084 %) Open Text