The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .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 Essex 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
.NET Developer
Rank 28 37 24
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -13
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 19 8 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 4.726% 1.928% 6.888%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.205% 2.046% 7.278%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 20
Average daily rate £265 £270 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.85% -25.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £212 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £270 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -8.39%
All Job Titles
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
365 391 371
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 90.80% 94.22% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 184 168
Average daily rate £300 £300 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £105 £78
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 58 68
Average hourly rate £28.00 £26.28 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.54% -4.43%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £41.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
.NET Developer
East of England

.NET Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex .NET Developer Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Essex .NET Developer Daily Rate Trend

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Essex .NET Developer Daily Rate Histogram

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex .NET Developer Hourly Rate Trend

.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 .NET Developer within the Essex 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
Chelmsford - 9 £265 -
Colchester +3 2 £200 +6.66%
Witham - 1 £215 -
.NET Developer
East of England

.NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 27 (100.00%) .NET
2 25 (92.59%) C#
3 23 (85.19%) ASP.NET
4 19 (70.37%) SQL
5 13 (48.15%) WCF
5 13 (48.15%) MVC
6 11 (40.74%) JavaScript
6 11 (40.74%) SQL Server
7 9 (33.33%) Visual Studio
8 8 (29.63%) HTML
8 8 (29.63%) ASP.NET MVC
8 8 (29.63%) LINQ
9 7 (25.93%) .NET Framework
9 7 (25.93%) CSS
10 6 (22.22%) E-Commerce
10 6 (22.22%) Ajax
10 6 (22.22%) jQuery
11 5 (18.52%) NHibernate
11 5 (18.52%) Web Development
11 5 (18.52%) XML
12 4 (14.81%) OO
12 4 (14.81%) XHTML
12 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
12 4 (14.81%) Web Services
12 4 (14.81%) CMS
12 4 (14.81%) TDD
12 4 (14.81%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 3 (11.11%) Unit Testing
13 3 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
13 3 (11.11%) SharePoint

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 27 (100.00%) .NET
2 23 (85.19%) ASP.NET
3 13 (48.15%) WCF
4 8 (29.63%) HTML
4 8 (29.63%) ASP.NET MVC
4 8 (29.63%) LINQ
5 7 (25.93%) .NET Framework
5 7 (25.93%) CSS
6 6 (22.22%) Ajax
6 6 (22.22%) jQuery
7 5 (18.52%) NHibernate
7 5 (18.52%) XML
8 4 (14.81%) XHTML
8 4 (14.81%) Web Services
8 4 (14.81%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 3 (11.11%) HTML5
10 2 (7.407%) XSLT
10 2 (7.407%) COM+
10 2 (7.407%) Razor View Engine
10 2 (7.407%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 4 (14.81%) CMS
2 3 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (11.11%) IIS
3 1 (3.704%) Umbraco
3 1 (3.704%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (3.704%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (3.704%) Content Management Server
Applications
1 1 (3.704%) MS Office
1 1 (3.704%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.704%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.704%) Intranet
1 1 (3.704%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (40.74%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (7.407%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (7.407%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (3.704%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.704%) GIS
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.704%) MSTest
2 1 (3.704%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.704%) ReSharper
2 1 (3.704%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (3.704%) NUnit
2 1 (3.704%) CruiseControl
General
1 1 (3.704%) Advertising
1 1 (3.704%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.407%) N-Tier
2 1 (3.704%) SaaS
2 1 (3.704%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (3.704%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) MVC
2 6 (22.22%) E-Commerce
3 5 (18.52%) Web Development
4 4 (14.81%) OO
4 4 (14.81%) TDD
5 3 (11.11%) Unit Testing
5 3 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (11.11%) OOP
6 2 (7.407%) Workflow
6 2 (7.407%) OOD
6 2 (7.407%) Dependency Injection
7 1 (3.704%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (3.704%) Technical Architecture
7 1 (3.704%) Analytics
7 1 (3.704%) B2B
7 1 (3.704%) Scrum
7 1 (3.704%) SSADM
Programming Languages
1 25 (92.59%) C#
2 19 (70.37%) SQL
3 11 (40.74%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.11%) T-SQL
5 2 (7.407%) C
5 2 (7.407%) VB.NET
5 2 (7.407%) XPath
6 1 (3.704%) XAML
6 1 (3.704%) Python
6 1 (3.704%) XQuery
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.704%) Google
2 1 (3.704%) Telerik
2 1 (3.704%) Adobe
Chelmsford, Essex
Web Developer (C#.Net) £200 - £230 day (6 months) Essex I have an immediate requirement for a C# Developer for a 6 month contract in Essex.
Cooper Lomaz Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £200 - 230 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Chelmsford, East Anglia
C/ASP/Net/MVC/Legacy/WCF-Opus Recruitment Solutions require an experienced C#-Net developer for an immediate requirement in Chelmsford- Working alongside a team of six, you...
OPUS
Rate: GBP250 to GBP350 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Chelmsford, Essex
C/ASP/Net/MVC/Legacy/WCF... More specifically, its important to note that there will be a large proportion of time spent on maintaining and re-engineering legacy...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £250 to £280 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Chelmsford, Essex
C/ASP/Net/MVC/Legacy/WCF... More specifically, its important to note that there will be a large proportion of time spent on maintaining and re-engineering legacy...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £250 to £350 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Essex, South East
C# .NET Developer (C#/.NET/MVC)- Essex - £220p.d. C# .NET Developer (C#/.NET/MVC) Essex £220p.d.4-6 Months, chance for extension My client, a leading...
Annapurna HR
Rate: £200.00 - £220 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013