Hampshire .NET Framework Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET Framework skills within the Hampshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited .NET Framework over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft .NET Framework
Location Basingstoke Bath Batley Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Fife Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hampshire Hastings Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool Livingston London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	65	99
Rank change on same period last year	+34
Matching contract IT job ads	37	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.049 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	6.572 %	3.337 %
Daily rates quoted	2	17
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£326
Average daily rate	£403	£348
% change on same period last year	+15.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£440	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£347
% change on same period last year	-1.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.86	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£41.57	£30.00
% change on same period last year	+38.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£44.29	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.04	£39.78
% change on same period last year	-16.95 %
Application Development Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	563	809
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.741 %	0.857 %
Daily rates quoted	96	192
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£310
Average daily rate	£374	£329
% change on same period last year	+13.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£335
% change on same period last year	+4.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	113	168
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.01	£34.09
Average hourly rate	£36.25	£35.84
% change on same period last year	+1.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.48	£37.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.61	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-2.04 %
.NET Framework South East

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 Framework
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing .NET Framework across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Trend

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

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Trend

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

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Framework across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

.NET Framework
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing .NET Framework within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Southampton	+19	14	-	-
Winchester	+4	7	-	-
Basingstoke	+14	4	£430	+22.85 %
Portsmouth	-	2	-	-
Gosport	-	2	£375	-

.NET Framework South East

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 64 (100.00 %) .NET 2 47 (73.44 %) C# 3 43 (67.19 %) SQL Server 4 37 (57.81 %) Windows 5 25 (39.06 %) Windows Mobile 6 20 (31.25 %) SQL 7 18 (28.13 %) Back Office 8 17 (26.56 %) PDA 8 17 (26.56 %) XML 8 17 (26.56 %) Visual Studio 9 14 (21.88 %) XHTML 9 14 (21.88 %) SQL Server 2005 10 13 (20.31 %) Microsoft 10 13 (20.31 %) CSS 11 12 (18.75 %) C++

11 12 (18.75 %) VB.NET 12 11 (17.19 %) VBScript 12 11 (17.19 %) ASP 12 11 (17.19 %) ASP.NET 12 11 (17.19 %) CMS 13 10 (15.63 %) IIS 13 10 (15.63 %) C 13 10 (15.63 %) Security Cleared 14 9 (14.06 %) WebServices 14 9 (14.06 %) VB 14 9 (14.06 %) VC++ 14 9 (14.06 %) Content Management 15 8 (12.50 %) CTC Cleared 16 7 (10.94 %) MS Excel 16 7 (10.94 %) HTML

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 64 (100.00 %) .NET 2 17 (26.56 %) XML 3 14 (21.88 %) XHTML 4 13 (20.31 %) CSS 5 11 (17.19 %) ASP 5 11 (17.19 %) ASP.NET 6 9 (14.06 %) WebServices 7 7 (10.94 %) HTML 8 4 (6.250 %) WCF 9 3 (4.688 %) WinForms 9 3 (4.688 %) AJAX 10 2 (3.125 %) ActiveX 10 2 (3.125 %) JSP 11 1 (1.563 %) J2EE 11 1 (1.563 %) ADO.NET 11 1 (1.563 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 11 (17.19 %) CMS 2 10 (15.63 %) IIS 3 6 (9.375 %) BizTalk Server 4 2 (3.125 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 2 (3.125 %) Apache 4 2 (3.125 %) Tomcat 4 2 (3.125 %) SharePoint 4 2 (3.125 %) MS Exchange 5 1 (1.563 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 7 (10.94 %) MS Excel 2 5 (7.813 %) Photoshop 3 2 (3.125 %) Acrobat 3 2 (3.125 %) InfoPath 4 1 (1.563 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 6 (9.375 %) Internet 1 6 (9.375 %) Wireless 2 5 (7.813 %) Intranet 3 1 (1.563 %) X.500 3 1 (1.563 %) LDAP 3 1 (1.563 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 43 (67.19 %) SQL Server 2 14 (21.88 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (9.375 %) SQL Server 2000 4 4 (6.250 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 17 (26.56 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (4.688 %) NUnit 3 1 (1.563 %) Subversion 3 1 (1.563 %) ClearCase 3 1 (1.563 %) ClearQuest
General 1 18 (28.13 %) Back Office 2 3 (4.688 %) Finance 3 2 (3.125 %) Government 3 2 (3.125 %) Military 4 1 (1.563 %) Banking 4 1 (1.563 %) Retail 4 1 (1.563 %) Insurance 4 1 (1.563 %) Pensions 4 1 (1.563 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (1.563 %) Aerospace	Job Titles 1 44 (68.75 %) Developer 2 16 (25.00 %) .NET Developer 2 16 (25.00 %) C# Developer 3 9 (14.06 %) Software Developer 4 4 (6.250 %) Web Developer 4 4 (6.250 %) Software Engineer 4 4 (6.250 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 4 (6.250 %) Software Manager 5 3 (4.688 %) Software Development Manager 5 3 (4.688 %) Architect 5 3 (4.688 %) Development Manager 5 3 (4.688 %) Programmer 6 2 (3.125 %) Applications Support 6 2 (3.125 %) 3rd Line Support 6 2 (3.125 %) Analyst Programmer 6 2 (3.125 %) Analyst 6 2 (3.125 %) .NET Architect 6 2 (3.125 %) Systems Developer 6 2 (3.125 %) Senior Software Engineer 6 2 (3.125 %) VB.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 17 (26.56 %) PDA 2 2 (3.125 %) N-Tier 3 1 (1.563 %) Pocket PC	Operating Systems 1 37 (57.81 %) Windows 2 25 (39.06 %) Windows Mobile 3 5 (7.813 %) Windows XP 4 2 (3.125 %) Linux 5 1 (1.563 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (1.563 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (15.63 %) Security Cleared 2 9 (14.06 %) Content Management 3 8 (12.50 %) CTC Cleared 4 6 (9.375 %) Web Development 5 3 (4.688 %) Unit Testing 5 3 (4.688 %) E-Commerce 5 3 (4.688 %) TDD 6 2 (3.125 %) Workflow 6 2 (3.125 %) UML 6 2 (3.125 %) OO 7 1 (1.563 %) SSADM 7 1 (1.563 %) Business Analysis 7 1 (1.563 %) Test Scripting 7 1 (1.563 %) System Testing 7 1 (1.563 %) SC Cleared 7 1 (1.563 %) Validation 7 1 (1.563 %) Scrum 7 1 (1.563 %) Agile Software Development 7 1 (1.563 %) OOD 7 1 (1.563 %) Configuration Management	Programming Languages 1 47 (73.44 %) C# 2 20 (31.25 %) SQL 3 12 (18.75 %) C++ 3 12 (18.75 %) VB.NET 4 11 (17.19 %) VBScript 5 10 (15.63 %) C 6 9 (14.06 %) VC++ 6 9 (14.06 %) VB 7 4 (6.250 %) JavaScript 8 3 (4.688 %) Perl 8 3 (4.688 %) Transact-SQL 9 2 (3.125 %) DHTML 9 2 (3.125 %) Java 9 2 (3.125 %) VB6 10 1 (1.563 %) VBA 10 1 (1.563 %) PHP
System Software 1 4 (6.250 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 13 (20.31 %) Microsoft 2 4 (6.250 %) Business Objects 3 2 (3.125 %) Adobe 3 2 (3.125 %) Citrix 3 2 (3.125 %) Tridion 3 2 (3.125 %) Google 4 1 (1.563 %) IBM 4 1 (1.563 %) Oracle