The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior .NET Developer 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 Senior .NET Developer in their job title 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior .NET Developer
Rank 419 403 455
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Senior .NET Developer 94 157 116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.226% 0.294% 0.206%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.245% 0.318% 0.223%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 117 81
Average daily rate £410 £325 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.15% -23.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £275 £301
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £510 £570
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £323 £425
% change year-on-year
+0.77% -24.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
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 1983 2412 2765
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior .NET Developer
UK

Senior .NET Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Senior .NET Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior .NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Senior .NET Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior .NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Senior .NET Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Senior .NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Senior .NET Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior .NET Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior .NET Developer within the 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
London +31 49 £450 +22.03%
South East +16 22 £350 -17.64%
West Midlands +11 9 £313 -6.71%
North West +4 5 £300 +9.09%
South West +19 3 £325 -
East Midlands -1 3 £328 -
East of England -5 3 £400 +39.13%
Senior .NET Developer
UK

Senior .NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Senior .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 Senior .NET Developer in their job title.

1 232 (100.00%) .NET
2 206 (88.79%) C#
3 137 (59.05%) SQL Server
4 123 (53.02%) ASP.NET
5 106 (45.69%) SQL
6 91 (39.22%) MVC
7 75 (32.33%) JavaScript
8 72 (31.03%) WCF
9 67 (28.88%) TDD
10 62 (26.72%) SQL Server 2008
10 62 (26.72%) HTML
10 62 (26.72%) XML
11 61 (26.29%) WPF
12 58 (25.00%) jQuery
12 58 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
13 56 (24.14%) ASP.NET MVC
14 53 (22.84%) CSS
15 51 (21.98%) OO
15 51 (21.98%) .NET Framework
16 46 (19.83%) Microsoft
16 46 (19.83%) Web Services
17 43 (18.53%) Multithreading
18 42 (18.10%) Ajax
19 40 (17.24%) Banking
20 38 (16.38%) Team Foundation Server
21 35 (15.09%) Scrum
22 34 (14.66%) Finance
23 33 (14.22%) Visual Studio
24 29 (12.50%) Oracle
25 28 (12.07%) ADO.NET Entity Framework

Senior .NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Senior .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 Senior .NET Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 232 (100.00%) .NET
2 123 (53.02%) ASP.NET
3 72 (31.03%) WCF
4 62 (26.72%) HTML
4 62 (26.72%) XML
5 61 (26.29%) WPF
6 58 (25.00%) jQuery
7 56 (24.14%) ASP.NET MVC
8 53 (22.84%) CSS
9 51 (21.98%) .NET Framework
10 46 (19.83%) Web Services
11 42 (18.10%) Ajax
12 28 (12.07%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 20 (8.621%) JSON
14 19 (8.190%) LINQ
15 18 (7.759%) REST
16 17 (7.328%) HTML5
16 17 (7.328%) XSLT
17 15 (6.466%) WinForms
18 13 (5.603%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 16 (6.897%) SharePoint
2 15 (6.466%) CMS
3 13 (5.603%) IIS
4 9 (3.879%) Umbraco
5 5 (2.155%) Sitecore CMS
6 4 (1.724%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (1.724%) Windows Azure
7 3 (1.293%) MSMQ
8 2 (0.862%) Amazon AWS
8 2 (0.862%) ESB
8 2 (0.862%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.431%) Apache
9 1 (0.431%) WordPress
9 1 (0.431%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.431%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.431%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.431%) Google App Engine
9 1 (0.431%) Facebook Platform
9 1 (0.431%) Kentico
Applications
1 23 (9.914%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.431%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.431%) DOC1
Business Applications
1 1 (0.431%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.431%) Google Analytics
1 1 (0.431%) Exstream
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.586%) Internet
2 5 (2.155%) HTTP
3 2 (0.862%) BSS
4 1 (0.431%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (59.05%) SQL Server
2 62 (26.72%) SQL Server 2008
3 17 (7.328%) SQL Server 2005
4 16 (6.897%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (5.172%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (3.017%) SQL Server 2012
7 5 (2.155%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (1.724%) SQLPlus
9 3 (1.293%) OLAP
9 3 (1.293%) TOAD
9 3 (1.293%) Ingres
9 3 (1.293%) Oracle OLAP
9 3 (1.293%) Oracle 11g
10 2 (0.862%) SQL Server 2000
10 2 (0.862%) Oracle 10g
11 1 (0.431%) MySQL
11 1 (0.431%) Oracle 8/8i
11 1 (0.431%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.431%) GIS
11 1 (0.431%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (16.38%) Team Foundation Server
2 33 (14.22%) Visual Studio
3 14 (6.034%) NUnit
4 9 (3.879%) Subversion
5 8 (3.448%) Selenium
6 6 (2.586%) TeamCity
6 6 (2.586%) Git (software)
7 5 (2.155%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 5 (2.155%) CruiseControl
7 5 (2.155%) MSTest
7 5 (2.155%) Rhino Mocks
7 5 (2.155%) Moq
7 5 (2.155%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.724%) Mercurial
9 2 (0.862%) MSBuild
9 2 (0.862%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.431%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.431%) NetAdvantage
10 1 (0.431%) JIRA
10 1 (0.431%) ReSharper
General
1 40 (17.24%) Banking
2 34 (14.66%) Finance
3 12 (5.172%) Investment Banking
4 9 (3.879%) Front Office
5 7 (3.017%) Back Office
6 5 (2.155%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.293%) Retail
8 2 (0.862%) Multimedia
8 2 (0.862%) Marketing
8 2 (0.862%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.862%) Publishing
9 1 (0.431%) Legal
9 1 (0.431%) Military
9 1 (0.431%) Local Government
9 1 (0.431%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.448%) N-Tier
2 6 (2.586%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (2.155%) Digital Media
4 3 (1.293%) Open Source
4 3 (1.293%) Web 2.0
5 2 (0.862%) Derivative
5 2 (0.862%) Social Media
5 2 (0.862%) SaaS
5 2 (0.862%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.431%) Grid Computing
6 1 (0.431%) Equities
6 1 (0.431%) NHS
6 1 (0.431%) W3C
6 1 (0.431%) PaaS
6 1 (0.431%) Inversion of Control
6 1 (0.431%) Mathematics
6 1 (0.431%) Computer Science
6 1 (0.431%) Social Network
6 1 (0.431%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (0.431%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.466%) Windows
2 3 (1.293%) UNIX
3 2 (0.862%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (0.862%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (0.862%) MVS
3 2 (0.862%) Linux
4 1 (0.431%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (39.22%) MVC
2 67 (28.88%) TDD
3 58 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 51 (21.98%) OO
5 43 (18.53%) Multithreading
6 35 (15.09%) Scrum
7 24 (10.34%) SOA
8 20 (8.621%) Continuous Integration
9 19 (8.190%) BDD
10 17 (7.328%) E-Commerce
11 16 (6.897%) Unit Testing
12 14 (6.034%) OOD
13 12 (5.172%) Web Development
14 10 (4.310%) Web Application Development
14 10 (4.310%) MVVM
15 8 (3.448%) Kanban
15 8 (3.448%) Dependency Injection
16 7 (3.017%) UML
17 6 (2.586%) Software Engineering
17 6 (2.586%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 206 (88.79%) C#
2 106 (45.69%) SQL
3 75 (32.33%) JavaScript
4 22 (9.483%) VB.NET
5 13 (5.603%) T-SQL
6 12 (5.172%) VB
7 11 (4.741%) Java
8 8 (3.448%) C++
9 7 (3.017%) Ruby
10 4 (1.724%) PHP
11 3 (1.293%) VBA
11 3 (1.293%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.293%) VB6
12 2 (0.862%) AWK
12 2 (0.862%) VBScript
12 2 (0.862%) Perl
13 1 (0.431%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.431%) C
13 1 (0.431%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 6 (2.586%) Degree
2 2 (0.862%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.431%) MCAD
3 1 (0.431%) MCSD
3 1 (0.431%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.431%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.431%) QA
System Software
1 2 (0.862%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.431%) Dollar Universe
Vendors
1 46 (19.83%) Microsoft
2 29 (12.50%) Oracle
3 14 (6.034%) Sitecore
4 6 (2.586%) Business Objects
5 4 (1.724%) Twitter
5 4 (1.724%) DevExpress
5 4 (1.724%) Syncfusion
6 3 (1.293%) Salesforce.com
6 3 (1.293%) Dundas
6 3 (1.293%) Google
6 3 (1.293%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (0.862%) Tableau
7 2 (0.862%) Facebook
7 2 (0.862%) Telerik
7 2 (0.862%) EPiServer
7 2 (0.862%) Infragistics
7 2 (0.862%) Sybase
8 1 (0.431%) VMware
8 1 (0.431%) Reuters
8 1 (0.431%) Bloomberg
London
An investment bank in Canary Wharf is seeking an experienced C# developer to join a team providing real time and intra-day risk system for use across the...
Aston Carter
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
East London
Senior Integration Developer (BizTalk, .Net/ C#, SQL 2008/2012, WCF & WPF, Agile) - East London... The successful candidate will need strong skills and experience with all of the following...
Ashdown IT
Rate: £300 - £340 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
KEY SKILLS - ASP MVC - Very strong - SQL Server - Entity Framework - Very strong - Auto mapper - Design patterns & practises - Agile (Scrum, Kanban) - Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)/Test Driven Developement(TDD) -...
Real Staffing
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Slough, Berkshire
Commercial Experience with: MVC3 or MVC4, C#, .Net 4.5, SQL Server 2012, JQuery, TFS, T - SQL is essential for this role... ASP.Net MVC4, MVC3, C#, .Net...
Involved Solutions Ltd
Rate: £280 - £300 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Extensive Agile experience, including TDD and BDD *Asp.Net /C#/MVC and Javascript *WPF and Silverlight *Exceptional academic background (Comp Sci Degree or similar) *Ideally a background from...
Stott & May
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
A strong background in C#, WPF, WCF .Net development is mandatory and a history of working on high profile, scalable systems, ideally within in the investment banking space...
Montash
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Due to a bottleneck of work and a looming deadline my client are in need of a Senior .NET developer to hit the floor running in this busy...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £400.00 - £500.00 per day
Posted: 9 May 2013