The first table below looks at the demand for ADO.NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ADO.NET 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 of the Application Development category 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
Microsoft ADO.NET
Rank 45 43 48
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +5
Contract jobs citing ADO.NET 2 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 0.498% 0.482% 0.510%
As % of the Application Development category 1.695% 2.532% 2.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
Average daily rate £250 £400 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-37.50% +60.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £342 £300
% change year-on-year
-12.15% +13.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
118 79 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 29.35% 19.04% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 37 50
Average daily rate £265 £270 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.85% -32.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £175 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 10
Average hourly rate £27.50 £32.25 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.72% +21.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £26.28 £26.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £35.22 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ADO.NET
East of England

ADO.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex ADO.NET Jobs Demand Trend

ADO.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

Essex ADO.NET Daily Rate Trend

ADO.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex ADO.NET Hourly Rate Trend

ADO.NET
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing ADO.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 ADO.NET.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) WinForms
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) WSE
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008

ADO.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing ADO.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 ADO.NET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) WinForms
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) WSE
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Junior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Junior C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Junior
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft