Home Counties .NET Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts within the Home Counties region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Dunfermline East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Isle of Man Kendal Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wellingborough West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	17
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	1	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	1.087 %	6.748 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£450
Average daily rate	-	£475
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£308	£309
% change on same period last year	-0.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.05	£33.05
% change on same period last year	-3.01 %
Job Titles Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	92	163
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.121 %	0.162 %
Daily rates quoted	17	38
Average minimum daily rate	£302	£369
Average daily rate	£313	£374
% change on same period last year	-16.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.67	£35.28
Average hourly rate	£16.67	£35.94
% change on same period last year	-53.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.67	£36.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
.NET Developer 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 Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing .NET Developer across the Home Counties region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties region that cited .NET Developer in their job title 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 with .NET Developer in their job title.

1 3 (100.00 %) .NET 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 2 (66.67 %) C# 3 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint 3 1 (33.33 %) EPoS 3 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 3 1 (33.33 %) Finance 3 1 (33.33 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (33.33 %) WinForms 3 1 (33.33 %) Asset Management 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (33.33 %) PDA 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET Framework

3 1 (33.33 %) German Language 3 1 (33.33 %) WCF

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties region that cited .NET Developer in their job title 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 with .NET Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (100.00 %) .NET 2 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) WinForms 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET Framework 2 1 (33.33 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance 1 1 (33.33 %) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) EPoS 1 1 (33.33 %) PDA 1 1 (33.33 %) German Language	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Asset Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) C# 2 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET