The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Herefordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 19 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 Herefordshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank - 2 4
Contract jobs citing .NET 0 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Herefordshire - 52.94% 12.50%
As % of the Application Development category - 81.82% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 0
Average daily rate - £225 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
All Application Development
Herefordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1 11 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Herefordshire 5.882% 64.71% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 0
Average daily rate £205 £225 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.88% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £12.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
.NET
West Midlands

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Herefordshire .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 Herefordshire region.

Herefordshire .NET Daily Rate Trend

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Herefordshire .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 Herefordshire region over the 3 months to 19 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
Hereford - - - -
Ross-on-Wye - - - -
.NET
West Midlands

.NET
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire 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 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 2 (66.67%) Mercurial
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 2 (66.67%) Web Development
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) CSS3
3 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile App

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire 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 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) CSS3
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Mercurial
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Web Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Web Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Web Development
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft