Leeds .NET Framework Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET Framework skills within the Leeds region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited .NET Framework over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft .NET Framework
Location Basingstoke Bath Batley Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham 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 Egham England Essex Fife Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hampshire Hastings Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool Livingston London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	61	56
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	18	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	6.040 %	4.096 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£383	-
Average daily rate	£392	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£400	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£346
% change on same period last year	-0.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.00	£27.00
Average hourly rate	£29.00	£27.00
% change on same period last year	+7.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.04	£39.39
% change on same period last year	-16.12 %
Application Development Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	298	293
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.393 %	0.311 %
Daily rates quoted	49	33
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£326
Average daily rate	£303	£346
% change on same period last year	-12.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.11	£24.38
Average hourly rate	£32.92	£25.87
% change on same period last year	+27.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.73	£27.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
.NET Framework West Yorkshire

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 Leeds 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 Leeds region.

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Framework across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 4 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 Leeds region.

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 36 (100.00 %) .NET 2 25 (69.44 %) C# 3 21 (58.33 %) ASP.NET 4 18 (50.00 %) SQL Server 5 15 (41.67 %) XML 6 12 (33.33 %) Microsoft 7 10 (27.78 %) ADO.NET 7 10 (27.78 %) VB.NET 8 9 (25.00 %) Windows 8 9 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2005 8 9 (25.00 %) Health 9 8 (22.22 %) WebServices 10 7 (19.44 %) JavaScript 10 7 (19.44 %) SQL 10 7 (19.44 %) ASP.NET 2.0

11 6 (16.67 %) Finance 11 6 (16.67 %) Oracle 11 6 (16.67 %) Visual Studio 12 5 (13.89 %) Oracle 9i 12 5 (13.89 %) MFC 12 5 (13.89 %) PL/SQL 12 5 (13.89 %) C++ 12 5 (13.89 %) Microsoft Certification 12 5 (13.89 %) SOA 12 5 (13.89 %) Pensions 13 4 (11.11 %) WCF 13 4 (11.11 %) TOAD 13 4 (11.11 %) DHTML 13 4 (11.11 %) UML 14 3 (8.333 %) RAD

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 36 (100.00 %) .NET 2 21 (58.33 %) ASP.NET 3 15 (41.67 %) XML 4 10 (27.78 %) ADO.NET 5 8 (22.22 %) WebServices 6 7 (19.44 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 5 (13.89 %) MFC 8 4 (11.11 %) WCF 9 3 (8.333 %) WinForms 9 3 (8.333 %) CSS 10 2 (5.556 %) AJAX 10 2 (5.556 %) WF 10 2 (5.556 %) XHTML 11 1 (2.778 %) DOM 11 1 (2.778 %) MonoRail 11 1 (2.778 %) Google Maps API 11 1 (2.778 %) NHibernate 11 1 (2.778 %) JSON 11 1 (2.778 %) KML 11 1 (2.778 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 2 (5.556 %) IIS 2 1 (2.778 %) SharePoint 2 1 (2.778 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (2.778 %) CMS
Applications 1 2 (5.556 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 3 (8.333 %) Internet 2 2 (5.556 %) X.509 2 2 (5.556 %) Firewall 2 2 (5.556 %) WAN 2 2 (5.556 %) Kerberos 2 2 (5.556 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (5.556 %) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 9 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (13.89 %) Oracle 9i 4 4 (11.11 %) TOAD 5 3 (8.333 %) Oracle Reports 6 2 (5.556 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 2 (5.556 %) SQL Server 7 7 1 (2.778 %) SQL Server 2000 7 1 (2.778 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 6 (16.67 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (8.333 %) Oracle Forms 2 3 (8.333 %) ProC 3 1 (2.778 %) Subversion
General 1 9 (25.00 %) Health 2 6 (16.67 %) Finance 3 5 (13.89 %) Pensions 4 3 (8.333 %) Government 5 2 (5.556 %) Advertising 6 1 (2.778 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 31 (86.11 %) Developer 2 25 (69.44 %) .NET Developer 3 15 (41.67 %) C# Developer 4 7 (19.44 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 6 (16.67 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 5 (13.89 %) Software Developer 6 5 (13.89 %) CSharp Software Developer 7 3 (8.333 %) Architect 7 3 (8.333 %) SQL Developer 7 3 (8.333 %) SQL Server Developer 7 3 (8.333 %) Analyst 8 2 (5.556 %) Technical Architect 8 2 (5.556 %) Web Developer 8 2 (5.556 %) Analyst Programmer 8 2 (5.556 %) Programmer 8 2 (5.556 %) 3rd Line Support 8 2 (5.556 %) Infrastructure Engineer 8 2 (5.556 %) VB.NET Developer 8 2 (5.556 %) VB Developer 8 2 (5.556 %) VB6 Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.556 %) NHS 2 1 (2.778 %) Thin Client 2 1 (2.778 %) Management Information System 2 1 (2.778 %) Web 2.0 2 1 (2.778 %) Fat Client 2 1 (2.778 %) RIA	Operating Systems 1 9 (25.00 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (13.89 %) SOA 2 4 (11.11 %) UML 3 3 (8.333 %) RAD 3 3 (8.333 %) Workflow 3 3 (8.333 %) Migration 3 3 (8.333 %) Unit Testing 3 3 (8.333 %) ERD 4 2 (5.556 %) Network Design 4 2 (5.556 %) Web Development 4 2 (5.556 %) OO 4 2 (5.556 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (2.778 %) E-business 5 1 (2.778 %) MVC 5 1 (2.778 %) RUP 5 1 (2.778 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (2.778 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (2.778 %) TDD	Programming Languages 1 25 (69.44 %) C# 2 10 (27.78 %) VB.NET 3 7 (19.44 %) SQL 3 7 (19.44 %) JavaScript 4 5 (13.89 %) PL/SQL 4 5 (13.89 %) C++ 5 4 (11.11 %) DHTML 6 3 (8.333 %) VB 6 3 (8.333 %) VB6 7 1 (2.778 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (2.778 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 5 (13.89 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 2 (5.556 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 12 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 6 (16.67 %) Oracle 3 1 (2.778 %) Google