Essex .NET Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET (dotNet) skills within the Essex region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Location Abbots Langley Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Altrincham Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Ringwood Rochester Romford Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing Wycombe Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	6
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	68	104
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.090 %	0.110 %
As % of the category below	35.23 %	50.98 %
Daily rates quoted	25	39
Average minimum daily rate	£301	£414
Average daily rate	£317	£433
% change on same period last year	-26.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£451
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£329
% change on same period last year	+2.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.60	£32.00
Average hourly rate	£37.10	£32.93
% change on same period last year	+12.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£43.60	£33.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.01	£32.92
% change on same period last year	+0.29 %
Application Development Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	193	204
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.254 %	0.216 %
Daily rates quoted	65	66
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£416
Average daily rate	£340	£447
% change on same period last year	-24.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£479
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	56
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.66	£30.78
Average hourly rate	£37.39	£31.78
% change on same period last year	+17.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.13	£32.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
.NET East of England

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.

.NET
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing .NET across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Essex region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Essex region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

.NET
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing .NET within the Essex region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Colchester	+1	10	-	-
Basildon	-2	8	£350	-32.03 %
Southend-on-Sea	-	5	-	-
Brentwood	+1	3	-	-
Chelmsford	-8	1	£350	-5.91 %

.NET East of England

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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.

1 102 (72.86 %) ASP.NET 2 99 (70.71 %) C# 3 78 (55.71 %) SQL Server 4 68 (48.57 %) SQL 5 43 (30.71 %) HTML 6 40 (28.57 %) Transact-SQL 7 36 (25.71 %) XML 8 35 (25.00 %) CSS 9 34 (24.29 %) SQL Server 2005 10 32 (22.86 %) UML 10 32 (22.86 %) SharePoint 11 31 (22.14 %) Visual Studio 12 29 (20.71 %) AJAX 13 28 (20.00 %) ADO.NET 13 28 (20.00 %) JavaScript

14 25 (17.86 %) Microsoft 15 24 (17.14 %) VB.NET 16 17 (12.14 %) WebServices 17 16 (11.43 %) VB 18 15 (10.71 %) ASP 19 13 (9.286 %) ASP.NET 2.0 19 13 (9.286 %) SQL Server 7 20 12 (8.571 %) Windows 20 12 (8.571 %) Scrum 21 11 (7.857 %) VB6 21 11 (7.857 %) OO 22 10 (7.143 %) Finance 22 10 (7.143 %) CMS 22 10 (7.143 %) N-Tier 22 10 (7.143 %) Marketing

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 1 102 (72.86 %) ASP.NET 2 43 (30.71 %) HTML 3 36 (25.71 %) XML 4 35 (25.00 %) CSS 5 29 (20.71 %) AJAX 6 28 (20.00 %) ADO.NET 7 17 (12.14 %) WebServices 8 15 (10.71 %) ASP 9 13 (9.286 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 10 (7.143 %) .NET Framework 11 8 (5.714 %) XSLT 11 8 (5.714 %) XHTML 12 5 (3.571 %) WinForms 13 4 (2.857 %) JRules 13 4 (2.857 %) JavaBeans 13 4 (2.857 %) Silverlight 13 4 (2.857 %) DOM 13 4 (2.857 %) J2EE 13 4 (2.857 %) JSP 13 4 (2.857 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 32 (22.86 %) SharePoint 2 10 (7.143 %) CMS 3 9 (6.429 %) IIS 4 8 (5.714 %) BizTalk Server 5 6 (4.286 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 3 (2.143 %) Oracle HTTP Server 6 3 (2.143 %) IBM HTTP Server 7 2 (1.429 %) DotNetNuke 8 1 (0.714 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 1 (0.714 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 1 (0.714 %) SharePoint Portal Server 8 1 (0.714 %) Office Project Server 8 1 (0.714 %) Lotus Notes 8 1 (0.714 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 9 (6.429 %) MS Excel 2 8 (5.714 %) InfoPath 3 4 (2.857 %) Photoshop 4 2 (1.429 %) MS Office 4 2 (1.429 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 5 (3.571 %) Internet 2 3 (2.143 %) Intranet 2 3 (2.143 %) LAN 2 3 (2.143 %) HTTP 3 2 (1.429 %) WAN 3 2 (1.429 %) Extranet 4 1 (0.714 %) Ethernet 4 1 (0.714 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 78 (55.71 %) SQL Server 2 34 (24.29 %) SQL Server 2005 3 13 (9.286 %) SQL Server 7 4 5 (3.571 %) SQL Server 2000 4 5 (3.571 %) Oracle 9i 4 5 (3.571 %) MySQL 4 5 (3.571 %) Oracle 10g 5 4 (2.857 %) Crystal Reports 5 4 (2.857 %) Oracle Reports 6 3 (2.143 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 2 (1.429 %) MS Access 7 2 (1.429 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 1 (0.714 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 1 (0.714 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 1 (0.714 %) SQL Server Analysis Services	Development Applications 1 31 (22.14 %) Visual Studio 2 7 (5.000 %) Flash 3 1 (0.714 %) NUnit 3 1 (0.714 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 10 (7.143 %) Finance 1 10 (7.143 %) Marketing 2 6 (4.286 %) Government 3 3 (2.143 %) Publishing 4 2 (1.429 %) Insurance 4 2 (1.429 %) Local Government 4 2 (1.429 %) Education 5 1 (0.714 %) FMCG 5 1 (0.714 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (0.714 %) Advertising 5 1 (0.714 %) Automotive 5 1 (0.714 %) Pharmaceutical 5 1 (0.714 %) Electronics	Job Titles 1 105 (75.00 %) Developer 2 55 (39.29 %) .NET Developer 3 34 (24.29 %) C# Developer 4 28 (20.00 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 22 (15.71 %) Web Developer 5 22 (15.71 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 14 (10.00 %) SQL Developer 7 12 (8.571 %) Analyst 8 11 (7.857 %) Senior Developer 9 8 (5.714 %) Architect 9 8 (5.714 %) Business Analyst 9 8 (5.714 %) SQL Server Developer 10 7 (5.000 %) Systems Architect 10 7 (5.000 %) VB.NET Developer 10 7 (5.000 %) .NET Web Developer 10 7 (5.000 %) Senior C# Developer 11 5 (3.571 %) ASP Developer 11 5 (3.571 %) Team Leader 12 4 (2.857 %) Software Developer 12 4 (2.857 %) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous 1 10 (7.143 %) N-Tier 2 5 (3.571 %) Computer Science 3 2 (1.429 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 3 2 (1.429 %) NHS 3 2 (1.429 %) Fixed Income 3 2 (1.429 %) Equities 3 2 (1.429 %) PDA 3 2 (1.429 %) Derivative 4 1 (0.714 %) Web 2.0 4 1 (0.714 %) NPfIT 4 1 (0.714 %) Social Network 4 1 (0.714 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 12 (8.571 %) Windows 2 8 (5.714 %) Linux 3 5 (3.571 %) Windows NT 3 5 (3.571 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (3.571 %) Unix 4 1 (0.714 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (0.714 %) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies 1 32 (22.86 %) UML 2 12 (8.571 %) Scrum 3 11 (7.857 %) OO 4 9 (6.429 %) RUP 5 8 (5.714 %) BPMN 6 7 (5.000 %) Web Development 6 7 (5.000 %) Extreme Programming 7 6 (4.286 %) RAD 8 5 (3.571 %) Use Case 9 4 (2.857 %) Content Management 9 4 (2.857 %) Project Management 10 3 (2.143 %) Workflow 10 3 (2.143 %) TDD 10 3 (2.143 %) E-Commerce 10 3 (2.143 %) OOD 10 3 (2.143 %) Internet Marketing 11 2 (1.429 %) User Acceptance Testing 11 2 (1.429 %) DSDM 11 2 (1.429 %) OOP 11 2 (1.429 %) Web Design	Programming Languages 1 99 (70.71 %) C# 2 68 (48.57 %) SQL 3 40 (28.57 %) Transact-SQL 4 28 (20.00 %) JavaScript 5 24 (17.14 %) VB.NET 6 16 (11.43 %) VB 7 11 (7.857 %) VB6 8 9 (6.429 %) DHTML 9 6 (4.286 %) PHP 9 6 (4.286 %) VBA 10 5 (3.571 %) ActionScript 11 4 (2.857 %) ECMAScript 11 4 (2.857 %) VBScript 11 4 (2.857 %) Java 12 3 (2.143 %) C 13 2 (1.429 %) C++
Qualifications 1 9 (6.429 %) MCSD 1 9 (6.429 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (5.714 %) MCAD 3 7 (5.000 %) Degree 4 5 (3.571 %) MCP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.429 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors 1 25 (17.86 %) Microsoft 2 7 (5.000 %) Cisco 3 6 (4.286 %) Oracle 4 4 (2.857 %) Adobe 4 4 (2.857 %) ILOG 5 3 (2.143 %) IBM 6 2 (1.429 %) SAP 7 1 (0.714 %) Lotus 7 1 (0.714 %) iSOFT 7 1 (0.714 %) McAfee Security