The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills 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 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 of the Application Development category 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
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 2 3 2
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -1
Contract jobs citing .NET 39 35 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 18.66% 16.28% 30.43%
As % of the Application Development category 52.70% 55.56% 63.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 7 10
Average daily rate £300 £250 £234
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% +6.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £145 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £330 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 18
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -74.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.41 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+19.00% -12.20%
All Application Development
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
74 63 110
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 35.41% 29.30% 47.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 24 28
Average daily rate £295 £275 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.27% -26.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £150 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £383 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 20
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £33.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -74.90%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET
East Midlands

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire .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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire .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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Leicestershire .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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire .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 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 +2 27 £289 +5.00%
Loughborough - 4 - -
Hinckley -1 1 - -
.NET
East Midlands

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 69 (80.23%) C#
2 50 (58.14%) ASP.NET
3 41 (47.67%) SQL Server
4 37 (43.02%) Visual Studio
5 35 (40.70%) SQL
6 28 (32.56%) .NET Framework
7 23 (26.74%) Microsoft
8 21 (24.42%) JavaScript
9 20 (23.26%) Web Services
10 18 (20.93%) jQuery
11 17 (19.77%) Oracle
12 16 (18.60%) MVC
13 15 (17.44%) SQL Server 2008
14 14 (16.28%) Telerik
14 14 (16.28%) WCF
14 14 (16.28%) Ajax
14 14 (16.28%) CSS
14 14 (16.28%) Windows
15 13 (15.12%) UML
15 13 (15.12%) OOP
15 13 (15.12%) HTML
15 13 (15.12%) MS Excel
15 13 (15.12%) DevExpress
16 12 (13.95%) N-Tier
16 12 (13.95%) TCP/IP
17 10 (11.63%) Siemens
17 10 (11.63%) Modbus
18 9 (10.47%) Razor View Engine
18 9 (10.47%) OO
19 8 (9.302%) E-Commerce

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 50 (58.14%) ASP.NET
2 28 (32.56%) .NET Framework
3 20 (23.26%) Web Services
4 18 (20.93%) jQuery
5 14 (16.28%) CSS
5 14 (16.28%) WCF
5 14 (16.28%) Ajax
6 13 (15.12%) HTML
7 9 (10.47%) Razor View Engine
8 7 (8.140%) CSS3
9 6 (6.977%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (6.977%) HTML5
10 5 (5.814%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 5 (5.814%) XML
10 5 (5.814%) Silverlight
10 5 (5.814%) LINQ
10 5 (5.814%) WPF
11 4 (4.651%) XHTML
12 3 (3.488%) WinForms
12 3 (3.488%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.326%) IIS
1 2 (2.326%) SharePoint
1 2 (2.326%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (2.326%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (1.163%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (1.163%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 13 (15.12%) MS Excel
2 6 (6.977%) MS PowerPoint
2 6 (6.977%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.95%) TCP/IP
2 10 (11.63%) Modbus
3 2 (2.326%) Intranet
4 1 (1.163%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (47.67%) SQL Server
2 15 (17.44%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (8.140%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (5.814%) Oracle 8/8i
5 3 (3.488%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.488%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.326%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.326%) GIS
7 1 (1.163%) MS Access
7 1 (1.163%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 37 (43.02%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.163%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (1.163%) NUnit
2 1 (1.163%) JIRA
2 1 (1.163%) Selenium
2 1 (1.163%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.163%) WebDriver
2 1 (1.163%) Cucumber
General
1 7 (8.140%) Retail
2 2 (2.326%) Finance
Job Titles
1 69 (80.23%) Developer
2 36 (41.86%) C# Developer
3 33 (38.37%) .NET Developer
4 23 (26.74%) ASP.NET Developer
5 19 (22.09%) C# .NET Developer
6 18 (20.93%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 10 (11.63%) Project Manager
7 10 (11.63%) Web Developer
8 8 (9.302%) .NET Web Developer
9 7 (8.140%) C# Web Developer
10 6 (6.977%) Software Developer
11 4 (4.651%) Technical Project Manager
11 4 (4.651%) Development Manager
11 4 (4.651%) Senior Developer
11 4 (4.651%) Development Project Manager
11 4 (4.651%) Technical Manager
12 3 (3.488%) Database Developer
12 3 (3.488%) IT Project Manager
12 3 (3.488%) Analyst
12 3 (3.488%) IT Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.95%) N-Tier
2 4 (4.651%) Computer Science
3 2 (2.326%) EPoS
4 1 (1.163%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.28%) Windows
2 2 (2.326%) Linux
2 2 (2.326%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (2.326%) Windows Mobile
2 2 (2.326%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.163%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (18.60%) MVC
2 13 (15.12%) UML
2 13 (15.12%) OOP
3 9 (10.47%) OO
4 8 (9.302%) E-Commerce
4 8 (9.302%) Web Development
5 5 (5.814%) TDD
5 5 (5.814%) Project Management
6 4 (4.651%) Logistics
7 3 (3.488%) Migration
7 3 (3.488%) PRINCE2
7 3 (3.488%) ETL
8 2 (2.326%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (2.326%) PRINCE
8 2 (2.326%) Multithreading
8 2 (2.326%) Web Application Development
9 1 (1.163%) MVVM
9 1 (1.163%) BDD
9 1 (1.163%) Unit Testing
9 1 (1.163%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 69 (80.23%) C#
2 35 (40.70%) SQL
3 21 (24.42%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.140%) T-SQL
5 5 (5.814%) VB.NET
6 2 (2.326%) VB
6 2 (2.326%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.326%) C++
7 1 (1.163%) Java
7 1 (1.163%) VB6
Qualifications
1 6 (6.977%) Degree
2 2 (2.326%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.163%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.140%) ISO 9001
1 7 (8.140%) TickIT
Vendors
1 23 (26.74%) Microsoft
2 17 (19.77%) Oracle
3 14 (16.28%) Telerik
4 13 (15.12%) DevExpress
5 10 (11.63%) Siemens
6 1 (1.163%) Perforce