The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 8 10 16
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +6
Contract jobs citing .NET 71 114 69
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 11.11% 11.45% 7.500%
As % of the Application Development category 33.02% 37.13% 29.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 40 49
Average daily rate £388 £294 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.91% -9.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £378 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 4
Average hourly rate £20.00 £36.00 £31.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.44% +15.20%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
All Application Development
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
215 307 235
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 33.65% 30.82% 25.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 148 110
Average daily rate £344 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.78% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £275 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £463 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 24
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £19.60 £33.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.00 £36.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
.NET
East of England

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire .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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire .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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Hertfordshire .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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire .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 Hertfordshire 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
Letchworth -1 6 - - 6
Watford -3 5 £325 +12.06% 6
Stevenage +1 4 £275 +10.00% 5
Hertford - 3 - - 1
Welwyn Garden City 0 1 £400 - 7
St Albans -1 1 £400 +40.35% 4
Hemel Hempstead -6 1 - - 3
Hitchin - 1 £615 - 2
Kings Langley - - - -
Bishop's Stortford - - - - 2
Borehamwood - - - -
Harpenden - - - -
Rickmansworth - - - -
Royston - - - - 2
Sawbridgeworth - - - -
.NET
East of England

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 84 (54.55%) C#
2 62 (40.26%) Retail
3 54 (35.06%) SQL
3 54 (35.06%) ASP.NET
3 54 (35.06%) Windows
4 49 (31.82%) TDD
5 46 (29.87%) Scrum
5 46 (29.87%) JavaScript
6 44 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
7 42 (27.27%) SQL Server
8 38 (24.68%) Microsoft
9 31 (20.13%) HTML
10 29 (18.83%) OO
11 28 (18.18%) Oracle
12 27 (17.53%) SOA
13 25 (16.23%) CSS
14 24 (15.58%) T-SQL
14 24 (15.58%) Team Foundation Server
15 22 (14.29%) Web Services
15 22 (14.29%) jQuery
16 21 (13.64%) VB.NET
17 20 (12.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 20 (12.99%) BDD
18 19 (12.34%) Telecoms
19 17 (11.04%) Domain-Driven Design
19 17 (11.04%) XML
19 17 (11.04%) AOP
19 17 (11.04%) .NET Framework
20 16 (10.39%) Finance
21 15 (9.740%) WCF

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 54 (35.06%) ASP.NET
2 31 (20.13%) HTML
3 25 (16.23%) CSS
4 22 (14.29%) Web Services
4 22 (14.29%) jQuery
5 17 (11.04%) XML
5 17 (11.04%) .NET Framework
6 15 (9.740%) WCF
7 14 (9.091%) Ajax
8 11 (7.143%) DHTML
9 10 (6.494%) ADO.NET
9 10 (6.494%) KnockoutJS
10 9 (5.844%) WinForms
11 7 (4.545%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (3.896%) JSON
13 5 (3.247%) XHTML
13 5 (3.247%) Gherkin
14 4 (2.597%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 4 (2.597%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 4 (2.597%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 13 (8.442%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.844%) IIS
3 3 (1.948%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.948%) Apache
3 3 (1.948%) CMS
4 2 (1.299%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (1.299%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.299%) SAS
4 2 (1.299%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.649%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.649%) MS Exchange
5 1 (0.649%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.649%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (0.649%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.649%) DotNetNuke
5 1 (0.649%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.649%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.649%) Kentico
5 1 (0.649%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 11 (7.143%) MS Office
2 10 (6.494%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.299%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.948%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.299%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.844%) FTP
2 6 (3.896%) Internet
3 5 (3.247%) Ethernet
4 3 (1.948%) Firewall
4 3 (1.948%) WAN
5 2 (1.299%) Cisco PIX
5 2 (1.299%) LAN
5 2 (1.299%) DNS
6 1 (0.649%) 3G
6 1 (0.649%) CTI
6 1 (0.649%) HTTP
6 1 (0.649%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 20 (12.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (8.442%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (6.494%) DTS
5 8 (5.195%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 7 (4.545%) TOAD
6 7 (4.545%) Oracle 10g
6 7 (4.545%) Oracle 11g
7 6 (3.896%) SQL Server 2008
8 4 (2.597%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.948%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.948%) MS Access
9 3 (1.948%) SQL Server 2005
10 2 (1.299%) PerformancePoint
10 2 (1.299%) MySQL
11 1 (0.649%) GIS
11 1 (0.649%) OLTP
11 1 (0.649%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.649%) Oracle 8/8i
11 1 (0.649%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 24 (15.58%) Team Foundation Server
2 10 (6.494%) Visual Studio
3 7 (4.545%) TeamCity
4 6 (3.896%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.948%) Subversion
5 3 (1.948%) Fiddler
6 2 (1.299%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.299%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.299%) MSBuild
6 2 (1.299%) WiX
6 2 (1.299%) JIRA
6 2 (1.299%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.649%) ClearQuest
7 1 (0.649%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.649%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.649%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.649%) Redmine
7 1 (0.649%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.649%) Hudson
General
1 62 (40.26%) Retail
2 19 (12.34%) Telecoms
3 16 (10.39%) Finance
4 5 (3.247%) Marketing
4 5 (3.247%) Billing
5 3 (1.948%) Banking
6 2 (1.299%) Publishing
7 1 (0.649%) Electronics
7 1 (0.649%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.649%) Games
Job Titles
1 111 (72.08%) Developer
2 61 (39.61%) .NET Developer
3 47 (30.52%) C# Developer
4 43 (27.92%) C# .NET Developer
5 31 (20.13%) Architect
6 19 (12.34%) .NET Architect
6 19 (12.34%) Web Developer
7 18 (11.69%) C# Architect
8 14 (9.091%) Agile .NET Developer
9 13 (8.442%) Agile C# Developer
10 12 (7.792%) ASP.NET Developer
11 9 (5.844%) C# ASP.NET Developer
12 8 (5.195%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (5.195%) Senior Developer
13 7 (4.545%) PL/SQL Developer
14 6 (3.896%) ScrumMaster
15 5 (3.247%) Tester
15 5 (3.247%) Software Tester
15 5 (3.247%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 4 (2.597%) Agile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.545%) N-Tier
2 3 (1.948%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.299%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.649%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.649%) W3C
4 1 (0.649%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.649%) E-Learning
4 1 (0.649%) Web 2.0
4 1 (0.649%) Animation
4 1 (0.649%) Online Games
4 1 (0.649%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.649%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 54 (35.06%) Windows
2 9 (5.844%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (3.247%) Linux
3 5 (3.247%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (1.299%) Android
4 2 (1.299%) Windows Mobile
4 2 (1.299%) UNIX
5 1 (0.649%) zOS
5 1 (0.649%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.649%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.649%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.649%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (31.82%) TDD
2 46 (29.87%) Scrum
3 44 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
4 29 (18.83%) OO
5 27 (17.53%) SOA
6 20 (12.99%) BDD
7 17 (11.04%) Domain-Driven Design
7 17 (11.04%) AOP
8 12 (7.792%) MVC
8 12 (7.792%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (7.143%) E-Commerce
10 8 (5.195%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (4.545%) ETL
11 7 (4.545%) Automated Testing
11 7 (4.545%) Content Management
12 6 (3.896%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (3.896%) User Stories
12 6 (3.896%) Migration
12 6 (3.896%) Unit Testing
12 6 (3.896%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 84 (54.55%) C#
2 54 (35.06%) SQL
3 46 (29.87%) JavaScript
4 24 (15.58%) T-SQL
5 21 (13.64%) VB.NET
6 13 (8.442%) Java
7 11 (7.143%) VBScript
8 10 (6.494%) VB
9 7 (4.545%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.597%) VBA
10 4 (2.597%) C
10 4 (2.597%) Perl
11 3 (1.948%) VB6
12 2 (1.299%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.299%) PHP
12 2 (1.299%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.649%) C++
13 1 (0.649%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.649%) CoffeeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (1.948%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.299%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (1.299%) PMP
3 1 (0.649%) Degree
3 1 (0.649%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.195%) QA
System Software
1 8 (5.195%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.299%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.299%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.299%) Xen
3 1 (0.649%) Cygwin
3 1 (0.649%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 3 (1.948%) Splunk
Vendors
1 38 (24.68%) Microsoft
2 28 (18.18%) Oracle
3 11 (7.143%) Business Objects
4 4 (2.597%) CA
5 3 (1.948%) Cognos
6 2 (1.299%) Retalix
6 2 (1.299%) VMware
6 2 (1.299%) Cisco
6 2 (1.299%) IBM
6 2 (1.299%) Citrix
6 2 (1.299%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.299%) Informatica
7 1 (0.649%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.649%) HP
7 1 (0.649%) Lagan
7 1 (0.649%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.649%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.649%) Ektron
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