The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Gloucestershire 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 21 15 13
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -2
Contract jobs citing .NET 14 52 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 5.738% 10.46% 10.02%
As % of the Application Development category 29.79% 43.70% 39.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 39 25
Average daily rate £358 £375 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.66% +31.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £295 £140
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £450 £358
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Average hourly rate £24.50 £21.00 £16.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +29.23%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
All Application Development
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
47 119 114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 19.26% 23.94% 25.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 84 52
Average daily rate £365 £475 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.15% +53.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £325 £171
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £725 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 4
Average hourly rate £24.50 £21.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
.NET
South West

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire .NET Jobs Demand Trend

.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire .NET Daily Rate Trend

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Gloucestershire .NET Daily Rate Histogram

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire .NET Hourly Rate Trend

.NET
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cheltenham +3 5 £338 -10.00% 9
Gloucester -1 3 £301 -22.82% 4
Stroud - - - -
Tewkesbury - - - -
Wotton-under-Edge - - - -
Cirencester - - - - 6
.NET
South West

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 38 (63.33%) C#
2 36 (60.00%) Visual Studio
3 32 (53.33%) SQL
4 28 (46.67%) VB.NET
5 27 (45.00%) ASP.NET
6 26 (43.33%) SQL Server
7 23 (38.33%) Oracle
7 23 (38.33%) PL/SQL
8 22 (36.67%) HTML
8 22 (36.67%) CSS
8 22 (36.67%) Microsoft
9 21 (35.00%) XML
9 21 (35.00%) JavaScript
10 19 (31.67%) Finance
11 17 (28.33%) Data Warehouse
11 17 (28.33%) SQL Server 2008
12 16 (26.67%) SharePoint
13 15 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
14 14 (23.33%) TOAD
15 13 (21.67%) MVC
15 13 (21.67%) Dimensional Modelling
16 12 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 12 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (20.00%) OOP
17 11 (18.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 11 (18.33%) SharePoint 2010
18 9 (15.00%) Web Development
18 9 (15.00%) Silverlight
18 9 (15.00%) jQuery
19 8 (13.33%) OO

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 27 (45.00%) ASP.NET
2 22 (36.67%) HTML
2 22 (36.67%) CSS
3 21 (35.00%) XML
4 9 (15.00%) Silverlight
4 9 (15.00%) jQuery
5 7 (11.67%) WCF
6 5 (8.333%) Web Services
6 5 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (5.000%) .NET Framework
7 3 (5.000%) LINQ
7 3 (5.000%) XSLT
8 2 (3.333%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 2 (3.333%) HTML5
8 2 (3.333%) XSL
8 2 (3.333%) Hibernate
8 2 (3.333%) Spring
8 2 (3.333%) Ajax
9 1 (1.667%) Windows SharePoint Services
9 1 (1.667%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 16 (26.67%) SharePoint
2 11 (18.33%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (8.333%) MS Project Server
3 5 (8.333%) SharePoint 2013
4 4 (6.667%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (3.333%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (3.333%) CMS
6 1 (1.667%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (11.67%) MS Excel
2 5 (8.333%) MS Project
3 1 (1.667%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (5.000%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.667%) Intranet
1 1 (1.667%) Internet
1 1 (1.667%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (43.33%) SQL Server
2 17 (28.33%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (28.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 14 (23.33%) TOAD
4 12 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (18.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (11.67%) SQL Server 2005
7 5 (8.333%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (8.333%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (8.333%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (1.667%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 36 (60.00%) Visual Studio
2 7 (11.67%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (8.333%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (1.667%) NUnit
General
1 19 (31.67%) Finance
2 7 (11.67%) Banking
3 4 (6.667%) Retail
4 1 (1.667%) Retail Banking
4 1 (1.667%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.667%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 52 (86.67%) Developer
2 17 (28.33%) .NET Developer
3 11 (18.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 9 (15.00%) Analyst
5 8 (13.33%) Programmer
5 8 (13.33%) SharePoint Developer
6 6 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
7 5 (8.333%) Web Developer
8 4 (6.667%) Analyst Programmer
9 3 (5.000%) Web Analyst
9 3 (5.000%) .NET Programmer
9 3 (5.000%) SQL Developer
9 3 (5.000%) Developer Analyst
9 3 (5.000%) C# Developer
10 2 (3.333%) CRM Developer
10 2 (3.333%) C# .NET Developer
10 2 (3.333%) Senior Developer
10 2 (3.333%) Tester
10 2 (3.333%) Business Developer
10 2 (3.333%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.333%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.000%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.333%) iPad
3 2 (3.333%) iPhone
4 1 (1.667%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.333%) Windows
2 1 (1.667%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (1.667%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (21.67%) MVC
2 13 (21.67%) Dimensional Modelling
3 12 (20.00%) OOP
4 9 (15.00%) Web Development
5 8 (13.33%) OO
6 6 (10.00%) Data Modelling
6 6 (10.00%) Business Analysis
7 5 (8.333%) Data Architecture
7 5 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (8.333%) Scrum
7 5 (8.333%) Stochastic Modelling
8 3 (5.000%) Requirements Analysis
8 3 (5.000%) Migration
8 3 (5.000%) CRM
8 3 (5.000%) Unit Testing
9 2 (3.333%) Automated Testing
9 2 (3.333%) Manual Testing
9 2 (3.333%) System Testing
9 2 (3.333%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 38 (63.33%) C#
2 32 (53.33%) SQL
3 28 (46.67%) VB.NET
4 23 (38.33%) PL/SQL
5 21 (35.00%) JavaScript
6 7 (11.67%) VB
7 5 (8.333%) T-SQL
8 3 (5.000%) C
8 3 (5.000%) Java
8 3 (5.000%) C++
9 2 (3.333%) RPG IV
9 2 (3.333%) RPG
10 1 (1.667%) VB6
10 1 (1.667%) XAML
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (11.67%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.333%) MCP
3 5 (8.333%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.333%) MCAD
4 2 (3.333%) MCSD
4 2 (3.333%) ISEB
4 2 (3.333%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.667%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) Basel II
2 4 (6.667%) QA
3 1 (1.667%) DO-178B
Vendors
1 23 (38.33%) Oracle
2 22 (36.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.333%) Business Objects