The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Leicestershire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
.NET Developer
Rank 16 10 15
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +5
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 18 16 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 8.612% 7.442% 8.696%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.231% 8.040% 9.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 2
Average daily rate £294 £275 £189
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.81% +45.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £283 £180 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £341 £300 £190
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
Average hourly rate £35.00 - £33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
All Job Titles
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
195 199 220
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 93.30% 92.56% 95.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 51 60
Average daily rate £325 £301 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.15% -14.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £150 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £540 £425 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 29 31
Average hourly rate £13.50 £11.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.72% -66.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £20.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
.NET Developer
East Midlands

.NET Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing .NET Developer across the Leicestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Leicestershire .NET Developer Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leicestershire .NET Developer Daily Rate Trend

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Leicestershire .NET Developer Daily Rate Histogram

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leicestershire .NET Developer Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Developer within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 20 May 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
Leicester -1 14 £288 +4.54%
.NET Developer
East Midlands

.NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 33 (100.00%) .NET
2 27 (81.82%) ASP.NET
3 25 (75.76%) C#
4 15 (45.45%) SQL Server
5 12 (36.36%) JavaScript
5 12 (36.36%) MVC
6 11 (33.33%) Web Services
7 10 (30.30%) WCF
7 10 (30.30%) jQuery
8 9 (27.27%) DevExpress
8 9 (27.27%) Telerik
8 9 (27.27%) Visual Studio
8 9 (27.27%) OOP
9 8 (24.24%) N-Tier
9 8 (24.24%) Ajax
10 7 (21.21%) Razor View Engine
10 7 (21.21%) CSS
10 7 (21.21%) SQL
11 6 (18.18%) E-Commerce
11 6 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
11 6 (18.18%) SQL Server 2008
11 6 (18.18%) .NET Framework
12 5 (15.15%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 5 (15.15%) HTML
13 4 (12.12%) XML
13 4 (12.12%) VB.NET
13 4 (12.12%) OO
14 3 (9.091%) Microsoft
14 3 (9.091%) Web Development
14 3 (9.091%) CSS3

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 33 (100.00%) .NET
2 27 (81.82%) ASP.NET
3 11 (33.33%) Web Services
4 10 (30.30%) WCF
4 10 (30.30%) jQuery
5 8 (24.24%) Ajax
6 7 (21.21%) CSS
6 7 (21.21%) Razor View Engine
7 6 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
7 6 (18.18%) .NET Framework
8 5 (15.15%) HTML
8 5 (15.15%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 4 (12.12%) XML
10 3 (9.091%) LINQ
10 3 (9.091%) ASP.NET 2.0
10 3 (9.091%) CSS3
10 3 (9.091%) HTML5
11 2 (6.061%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 2 (6.061%) XHTML
12 1 (3.030%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.030%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 1 (3.030%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.061%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 6 (18.18%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (3.030%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.030%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (3.030%) Team Foundation Server
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.030%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) MVC
2 9 (27.27%) OOP
3 6 (18.18%) E-Commerce
4 4 (12.12%) OO
5 3 (9.091%) Web Development
6 1 (3.030%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 25 (75.76%) C#
2 12 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 7 (21.21%) SQL
4 4 (12.12%) VB.NET
5 1 (3.030%) VB6
5 1 (3.030%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.030%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (6.061%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Telerik
1 9 (27.27%) DevExpress
2 3 (9.091%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.030%) Oracle