Hertfordshire .NET Framework Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET Framework skills within the Hertfordshire 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 Framework over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft .NET Framework
Location Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bath Batley Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham 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 England Essex Farnborough Fife Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Hampshire Hastings Hertfordshire Hove Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne 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 Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thame Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	73
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	10	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	2.028 %	4.506 %
Daily rates quoted	6	10
Average minimum daily rate	£370	£344
Average daily rate	£383	£377
% change on same period last year	+1.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£395	£410
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£331
% change on same period last year	+1.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£32.00
Average hourly rate	-	£34.67
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£37.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.56	£38.66
% change on same period last year	-13.18 %
Application Development Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	493	466
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.657 %	0.471 %
Daily rates quoted	213	179
Average minimum daily rate	£359	£311
Average daily rate	£394	£333
% change on same period last year	+18.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£430	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.90	£29.91
Average hourly rate	£31.25	£31.73
% change on same period last year	-1.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.59	£33.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
.NET Framework East of England

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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Framework across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

.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 Hertfordshire region.

.NET Framework
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 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
Potters Bar	-	1	-	-

.NET Framework East of England

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 19 (100.00 %) .NET 2 14 (73.68 %) C# 3 10 (52.63 %) Windows 4 8 (42.11 %) SQL Server 5 7 (36.84 %) C++ 5 7 (36.84 %) Retail 6 6 (31.58 %) SQL 7 5 (26.32 %) UNIX 7 5 (26.32 %) VC++ 7 5 (26.32 %) Windows Mobile 7 5 (26.32 %) Service Management 7 5 (26.32 %) Cisco 8 4 (21.05 %) Microsoft 8 4 (21.05 %) Wireless 8 4 (21.05 %) WinForms

8 4 (21.05 %) OO 8 4 (21.05 %) MS Excel 9 3 (15.79 %) MS Access 9 3 (15.79 %) JavaScript 9 3 (15.79 %) WebServices 9 3 (15.79 %) XML 9 3 (15.79 %) Visual Studio 9 3 (15.79 %) ASP.NET 9 3 (15.79 %) LabVIEW 9 3 (15.79 %) SQL Server 2005 9 3 (15.79 %) Security Cleared 10 2 (10.53 %) Use Case 10 2 (10.53 %) Lotus 10 2 (10.53 %) NHS 10 2 (10.53 %) Pharmaceutical

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 19 (100.00 %) .NET 2 4 (21.05 %) WinForms 3 3 (15.79 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (15.79 %) WebServices 3 3 (15.79 %) XML 4 2 (10.53 %) XSL 4 2 (10.53 %) CSS 4 2 (10.53 %) ADO.NET 4 2 (10.53 %) HTML 5 1 (5.263 %) AJAX 5 1 (5.263 %) WPF 5 1 (5.263 %) Silverlight 5 1 (5.263 %) ASP 5 1 (5.263 %) XHTML 5 1 (5.263 %) XSD	Application Platforms 1 2 (10.53 %) IIS 1 2 (10.53 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 4 (21.05 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (5.263 %) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking 1 4 (21.05 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (42.11 %) SQL Server 2 3 (15.79 %) MS Access 2 3 (15.79 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (5.263 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 3 (15.79 %) Visual Studio 1 3 (15.79 %) LabVIEW 2 1 (5.263 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 7 (36.84 %) Retail 2 2 (10.53 %) Pharmaceutical 2 2 (10.53 %) Military
Job Titles 1 9 (47.37 %) Developer 2 5 (26.32 %) Solutions Designer 3 3 (15.79 %) Applications Developer 3 3 (15.79 %) Software Developer 3 3 (15.79 %) Software Engineer 4 2 (10.53 %) Technical Designer 4 2 (10.53 %) .NET Developer 5 1 (5.263 %) C# Developer 5 1 (5.263 %) Enterprise Architect 5 1 (5.263 %) Architect 5 1 (5.263 %) Project Manager 5 1 (5.263 %) .NET Software Engineer 5 1 (5.263 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (10.53 %) NHS 1 2 (10.53 %) Informatics 2 1 (5.263 %) Smartphone 2 1 (5.263 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 10 (52.63 %) Windows 2 5 (26.32 %) UNIX 2 5 (26.32 %) Windows Mobile 3 2 (10.53 %) Windows XP 4 1 (5.263 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (26.32 %) Service Management 2 4 (21.05 %) OO 3 3 (15.79 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (10.53 %) Use Case 4 2 (10.53 %) UML 5 1 (5.263 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (5.263 %) CRM 5 1 (5.263 %) Time Management
Programming Languages 1 14 (73.68 %) C# 2 7 (36.84 %) C++ 3 6 (31.58 %) SQL 4 5 (26.32 %) VC++ 5 3 (15.79 %) JavaScript 6 2 (10.53 %) VB6 6 2 (10.53 %) VBScript 6 2 (10.53 %) VB 6 2 (10.53 %) VB.NET 7 1 (5.263 %) Java	Qualifications 1 2 (10.53 %) Degree 2 1 (5.263 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (5.263 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Vendors 1 5 (26.32 %) Cisco 2 4 (21.05 %) Microsoft 3 2 (10.53 %) Lotus 4 1 (5.263 %) Oracle