Ipswich .NET Framework Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET Framework skills within the Ipswich 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft .NET Framework
Location Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dronfield East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horley Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Stockport Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wirral Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	22
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	3	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	11.54 %	14.29 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£373
% change on same period last year	-10.57 %
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	£32.90	£35.02
% change on same period last year	-6.05 %
Application Development Ipswich
Matching contract IT job ads	26	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.023 %
Daily rates quoted	11	10
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£288
Average daily rate	£267	£295
% change on same period last year	-9.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£284	£303
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.00
Average hourly rate	-	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.92	£31.53
% change on same period last year	-8.25 %
.NET Framework Suffolk

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 Ipswich 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 Ipswich region.

.NET Framework
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Ipswich 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 3 (100.00 %) .NET 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 2 (66.67 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (66.67 %) C# 2 2 (66.67 %) XML 3 1 (33.33 %) MCP 3 1 (33.33 %) MCSD 3 1 (33.33 %) OO 3 1 (33.33 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (33.33 %) HTML 3 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL

3 1 (33.33 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) CSS 3 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 3 1 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development 3 1 (33.33 %) Insurance 3 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (33.33 %) Pensions 3 1 (33.33 %) E-business 3 1 (33.33 %) WinForms

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Ipswich 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 3 (100.00 %) .NET 2 2 (66.67 %) XML 3 1 (33.33 %) WinForms 3 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 3 1 (33.33 %) HTML 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) CSS 3 1 (33.33 %) WebServices	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (33.33 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Insurance 1 1 (33.33 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 2 2 (66.67 %) C# Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Web Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET Developer	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) OO 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) E-business 1 1 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) C# 2 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) MCP 1 1 (33.33 %) MCSD 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft