The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET 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 Guildford 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 (dotNet)
Rank 5 8 7
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -1
Contract jobs citing .NET 34 11 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 15.45% 9.735% 8.871%
As % of the Application Development category 44.16% 47.83% 34.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 7
Average daily rate £315 £400 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.25% +37.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £375 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £37.25 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.32 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+19.37% -12.47%
All Application Development
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
77 23 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 35.00% 20.35% 25.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 10 15
Average daily rate £320 £375 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% +33.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £335 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £363
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 2
Average hourly rate £40.50 £31.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% -16.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET
Surrey

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford .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 Guildford region.

Guildford .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 Guildford region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Guildford .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 Guildford region.

Guildford .NET Hourly Rate Trend

.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Guildford .NET Hourly Rate Histogram

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 32 (80.00%) C#
2 18 (45.00%) Microsoft
3 16 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 15 (37.50%) ASP.NET
5 12 (30.00%) Games
6 11 (27.50%) SQL
7 10 (25.00%) JavaScript
7 10 (25.00%) IIS
8 9 (22.50%) Windows
8 9 (22.50%) PHP
9 8 (20.00%) HTML
9 8 (20.00%) VB.NET
10 7 (17.50%) Scrum
10 7 (17.50%) .NET Framework
11 6 (15.00%) TDD
11 6 (15.00%) WPF
11 6 (15.00%) SCOM
11 6 (15.00%) SQL Server 2008
11 6 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (15.00%) Windows Azure
11 6 (15.00%) MVC
12 5 (12.50%) MS Excel
12 5 (12.50%) Oracle
12 5 (12.50%) CSS
12 5 (12.50%) WCF
12 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
12 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
12 5 (12.50%) Release Management
12 5 (12.50%) jQuery
12 5 (12.50%) Online Games

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 15 (37.50%) ASP.NET
2 8 (20.00%) HTML
3 7 (17.50%) .NET Framework
4 6 (15.00%) WPF
5 5 (12.50%) CSS
5 5 (12.50%) WCF
5 5 (12.50%) jQuery
6 4 (10.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 4 (10.00%) WinForms
6 4 (10.00%) NHibernate
6 4 (10.00%) LINQ
6 4 (10.00%) HTML5
6 4 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (7.500%) CSS3
8 2 (5.000%) Caliburn.Micro
8 2 (5.000%) Backbone.js
8 2 (5.000%) KnockoutJS
8 2 (5.000%) XML
8 2 (5.000%) ASP
8 2 (5.000%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 10 (25.00%) IIS
2 6 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (15.00%) Windows Azure
3 2 (5.000%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (5.000%) ESB
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.500%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.500%) FrameMaker
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.500%) FTP
1 1 (2.500%) HTTP
1 1 (2.500%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.500%) DNS
1 1 (2.500%) Firewall
1 1 (2.500%) Intranet
1 1 (2.500%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (15.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (5.000%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (5.000%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (5.000%) GIS
4 2 (5.000%) MySQL
5 1 (2.500%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (2.500%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 2 (5.000%) MSI
1 2 (5.000%) Visual Studio
1 2 (5.000%) Moq
1 2 (5.000%) TeamCity
1 2 (5.000%) Subversion
1 2 (5.000%) ReSharper
2 1 (2.500%) NUnit
General
1 12 (30.00%) Games
2 3 (7.500%) Finance
3 1 (2.500%) Banking
3 1 (2.500%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 28 (70.00%) Developer
2 13 (32.50%) .NET Developer
3 7 (17.50%) C# Developer
4 6 (15.00%) PHP Developer
4 6 (15.00%) ASP.NET Developer
5 5 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
6 4 (10.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 3 (7.500%) Consultant
7 3 (7.500%) WPF Developer
8 2 (5.000%) Web Developer
8 2 (5.000%) BizTalk Consultant
8 2 (5.000%) VB.NET Developer
8 2 (5.000%) SQL Developer
9 1 (2.500%) .NET Web Developer
9 1 (2.500%) Developer Analyst
9 1 (2.500%) Systems Support Engineer
9 1 (2.500%) Systems Developer
9 1 (2.500%) Applications Support Analyst
9 1 (2.500%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Online Games
1 5 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (10.00%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 9 (22.50%) Windows
2 1 (2.500%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (17.50%) Scrum
2 6 (15.00%) TDD
2 6 (15.00%) MVC
3 5 (12.50%) Release Management
3 5 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (10.00%) BDD
4 4 (10.00%) Web Development
5 3 (7.500%) OO
5 3 (7.500%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (5.000%) Game Development
7 1 (2.500%) Web Design
7 1 (2.500%) Data Analysis
7 1 (2.500%) Strategic Planning
7 1 (2.500%) Test Automation
7 1 (2.500%) Performance Testing
7 1 (2.500%) Unit Testing
7 1 (2.500%) Waterfall
7 1 (2.500%) MVVM
7 1 (2.500%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (2.500%) UML
Programming Languages
1 32 (80.00%) C#
2 11 (27.50%) SQL
3 10 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (22.50%) PHP
5 8 (20.00%) VB.NET
6 4 (10.00%) Ruby
6 4 (10.00%) Java
7 3 (7.500%) Python
8 1 (2.500%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.500%) VB
8 1 (2.500%) C++
8 1 (2.500%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.500%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
1 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.500%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.500%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.500%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) SCOM
2 1 (2.500%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (5.000%) Adobe
4 1 (2.500%) SAP
4 1 (2.500%) Business Objects
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