The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the Exeter region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Framework over the 3 months to 21 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 Exeter 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 16 16 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 5 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 4.630% 5.085% -
As % of the Application Development category 10.64% 11.54% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £10.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.45% -2.40%
All Application Development
Exeter
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
47 26 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 43.52% 44.07% 50.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 15 16
Average daily rate £325 £419 £423
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.43% -0.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £376
10% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
Average hourly rate - £10.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -66.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET Framework
Devon

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Exeter .NET Framework Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Trend

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

Exeter .NET Framework Daily Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter region citing .NET Framework 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 Framework.

1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) XQuery
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (66.67%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 4 (66.67%) SOA
2 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) VB.NET
2 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 4 (66.67%) CSS
2 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 4 (66.67%) XML
2 4 (66.67%) XSLT
2 4 (66.67%) MCAD
2 4 (66.67%) MCSD
2 4 (66.67%) OO
3 3 (50.00%) B2B
3 3 (50.00%) B2C
3 3 (50.00%) Back Office
3 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (50.00%) XPath
3 3 (50.00%) Git (software)
4 2 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
4 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 2 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (33.33%) Degree
4 2 (33.33%) WCF

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter region citing .NET Framework 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 Framework. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 4 (66.67%) CSS
2 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 4 (66.67%) XML
2 4 (66.67%) XSLT
3 2 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (33.33%) WCF
3 2 (33.33%) WPF
3 2 (33.33%) Silverlight
3 2 (33.33%) LINQ
Business Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (50.00%) Back Office
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) SOA
1 4 (66.67%) OO
2 3 (50.00%) B2B
2 3 (50.00%) B2C
2 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) XQuery
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) VB.NET
3 3 (50.00%) XPath
4 2 (33.33%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (66.67%) MCAD
1 4 (66.67%) MCSD
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
Exeter, Devon
Essential skills: C# TDD WPF Ideally with Prism Silverlight WCF SQLServer LINQ to Entities N-Tier Entity Framework Dependency Injection Knowledge of connecting WPF to existing WCF services...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Rate: Marker Rates
Posted: 20 May 2013