Guildford .NET Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET (dotNet) skills within the Guildford region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Ceredigion Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dumbarton Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kendal Kent Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	3	7
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	17	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	47.22 %	41.82 %
Daily rates quoted	5	8
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£304
Average daily rate	£299	£334
% change on same period last year	-10.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£306	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£326
% change on same period last year	+0.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.80	£28.67
Average hourly rate	£31.20	£28.67
% change on same period last year	+8.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.60	£28.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.99	£32.56
% change on same period last year	-4.81 %
Application Development Guildford
Matching contract IT job ads	36	55
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.051 %	0.056 %
Daily rates quoted	12	20
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£331
Average daily rate	£343	£351
% change on same period last year	-2.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.80	£30.17
Average hourly rate	£31.20	£30.46
% change on same period last year	+2.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.60	£30.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.10	£32.14
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
.NET Surrey

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 Guildford 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 Guildford region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Guildford region.

.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 17 (65.38 %) C# 2 12 (46.15 %) SQL Server 2 12 (46.15 %) ASP.NET 3 9 (34.62 %) Web Development 4 7 (26.92 %) SQL 5 6 (23.08 %) Visual Studio 5 6 (23.08 %) XML 5 6 (23.08 %) Scrum 5 6 (23.08 %) TDD 5 6 (23.08 %) Microsoft 5 6 (23.08 %) SQL Server 2005 6 5 (19.23 %) JavaScript 7 4 (15.38 %) XSLT 7 4 (15.38 %) SharePoint 7 4 (15.38 %) C++

7 4 (15.38 %) HTML 7 4 (15.38 %) VB 7 4 (15.38 %) SQL Server 2000 7 4 (15.38 %) Marketing 8 3 (11.54 %) AJAX 8 3 (11.54 %) MS Excel 8 3 (11.54 %) Transact-SQL 8 3 (11.54 %) WebServices 9 2 (7.692 %) ASP 9 2 (7.692 %) SOA 9 2 (7.692 %) OO 9 2 (7.692 %) DSDM 9 2 (7.692 %) COM+ 9 2 (7.692 %) CSS 9 2 (7.692 %) VB.NET

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 12 (46.15 %) ASP.NET 2 6 (23.08 %) XML 3 4 (15.38 %) XSLT 3 4 (15.38 %) HTML 4 3 (11.54 %) AJAX 4 3 (11.54 %) WebServices 5 2 (7.692 %) .NET Framework 5 2 (7.692 %) WCF 5 2 (7.692 %) ASP 5 2 (7.692 %) COM+ 5 2 (7.692 %) CSS 6 1 (3.846 %) SOAP 6 1 (3.846 %) XHTML 6 1 (3.846 %) LINQ 6 1 (3.846 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library	Application Platforms 1 4 (15.38 %) SharePoint 2 1 (3.846 %) ColdFusion 2 1 (3.846 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (3.846 %) IIS
Applications 1 3 (11.54 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.846 %) Intranet 1 1 (3.846 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (46.15 %) SQL Server 2 6 (23.08 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (15.38 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (3.846 %) DTS	Development Applications 1 6 (23.08 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (3.846 %) QuickTest Pro 2 1 (3.846 %) NUnit
General 1 4 (15.38 %) Marketing 2 2 (7.692 %) Finance 2 2 (7.692 %) Insurance 3 1 (3.846 %) Back Office 3 1 (3.846 %) Legal 3 1 (3.846 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 17 (65.38 %) Developer 2 9 (34.62 %) C# Developer 3 8 (30.77 %) .NET Developer 4 5 (19.23 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 4 (15.38 %) VB Developer 5 4 (15.38 %) Web Developer 5 4 (15.38 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 3 (11.54 %) Applications Support 7 2 (7.692 %) 3rd Line Support 7 2 (7.692 %) ASP Developer 7 2 (7.692 %) .NET Web Developer 7 2 (7.692 %) Consultant 7 2 (7.692 %) Analyst 7 2 (7.692 %) .NET Consultant 7 2 (7.692 %) VB6 Developer 8 1 (3.846 %) Test Analyst 8 1 (3.846 %) Project Manager 8 1 (3.846 %) Tester 8 1 (3.846 %) Server Support 8 1 (3.846 %) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.846 %) N-Tier 1 1 (3.846 %) Computer Science 1 1 (3.846 %) Credit Risk	Operating Systems 1 1 (3.846 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (34.62 %) Web Development 2 6 (23.08 %) TDD 2 6 (23.08 %) Scrum 3 2 (7.692 %) Agile Software Development 3 2 (7.692 %) DSDM 3 2 (7.692 %) SOA 3 2 (7.692 %) OO 3 2 (7.692 %) Content Management 3 2 (7.692 %) Unit Testing 4 1 (3.846 %) Test Scripting 4 1 (3.846 %) ISMS 4 1 (3.846 %) Enterprise Architecture 4 1 (3.846 %) Refactoring 4 1 (3.846 %) RAD 4 1 (3.846 %) ITIL 4 1 (3.846 %) UML 4 1 (3.846 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 17 (65.38 %) C# 2 7 (26.92 %) SQL 3 5 (19.23 %) JavaScript 4 4 (15.38 %) VB 4 4 (15.38 %) C++ 5 3 (11.54 %) Transact-SQL 6 2 (7.692 %) VB.NET 6 2 (7.692 %) VB6 7 1 (3.846 %) VBA 7 1 (3.846 %) DHTML 7 1 (3.846 %) Java
Qualifications 1 1 (3.846 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.846 %) SLA
Vendors 1 6 (23.08 %) Microsoft 2 1 (3.846 %) Oracle 2 1 (3.846 %) IBM