The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 26 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 Manchester 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
26 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
.NET Developer
Rank 32 20 20
Rank change year-on-year
-12 0
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 45 82 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 4.823% 6.347% 6.718%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.161% 6.891% 7.128%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 51 55
Average daily rate £295 £275 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.27% +5.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £139
10% offered a daily rate of more than £337 £320 £305
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 3
Average hourly rate £66.75 £33.30 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.45% +21.09%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -8.39%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
872 1190 982
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 93.46% 92.11% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 578 432
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £130
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £496
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 72 77
Average hourly rate £17.00 £19.50 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.82% +18.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.01 £9.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £82.50 £35.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
.NET Developer
North West

.NET Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester .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 Manchester region.

Manchester .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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 26 May 2013.

Manchester .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 Manchester region.

Manchester .NET Developer Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 26 May 2013.

Manchester .NET Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

.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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 26 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
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Job
Vacancies
Oldham - 2 £140 -
Stockport - 2 £300 -
Wigan +3 1 £300 -
Altrincham -3 1 - -
.NET Developer
North West

.NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 26 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 89 (100.00%) .NET
2 72 (80.90%) C#
3 67 (75.28%) ASP.NET
4 55 (61.80%) SQL Server
5 39 (43.82%) MVC
6 37 (41.57%) JavaScript
7 33 (37.08%) CSS
8 32 (35.96%) SQL
9 29 (32.58%) HTML
10 25 (28.09%) ASP.NET MVC
11 24 (26.97%) SQL Server 2008
12 21 (23.60%) TDD
12 21 (23.60%) XML
13 20 (22.47%) Web Services
14 17 (19.10%) Ajax
14 17 (19.10%) jQuery
15 16 (17.98%) WCF
16 15 (16.85%) E-Commerce
17 14 (15.73%) VB.NET
18 13 (14.61%) Visual Studio
18 13 (14.61%) SQL Server 2005
19 11 (12.36%) Retail
19 11 (12.36%) T-SQL
19 11 (12.36%) ASP.NET MVC 3
20 10 (11.24%) Microsoft
21 9 (10.11%) XHTML
21 9 (10.11%) SharePoint
21 9 (10.11%) .NET Framework
22 8 (8.989%) NHS
22 8 (8.989%) Scrum

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 26 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 89 (100.00%) .NET
2 67 (75.28%) ASP.NET
3 33 (37.08%) CSS
4 29 (32.58%) HTML
5 25 (28.09%) ASP.NET MVC
6 21 (23.60%) XML
7 20 (22.47%) Web Services
8 17 (19.10%) Ajax
8 17 (19.10%) jQuery
9 16 (17.98%) WCF
10 11 (12.36%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 9 (10.11%) .NET Framework
11 9 (10.11%) XHTML
12 6 (6.742%) LINQ
13 5 (5.618%) RESTful
14 3 (3.371%) HTML5
14 3 (3.371%) CSS3
14 3 (3.371%) DHTML
15 2 (2.247%) ASP
15 2 (2.247%) Lucene
Application Platforms
1 9 (10.11%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.742%) CMS
3 4 (4.494%) Umbraco
4 2 (2.247%) Apache
4 2 (2.247%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.124%) Confluence
5 1 (1.124%) Kentico
5 1 (1.124%) EPiServer CMS
5 1 (1.124%) Orchard CMS
5 1 (1.124%) IIS
5 1 (1.124%) MS Exchange
5 1 (1.124%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (1.124%) WordPress
5 1 (1.124%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (1.124%) DotNetNuke
5 1 (1.124%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (3.371%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.124%) Fireworks
2 1 (1.124%) Maya
2 1 (1.124%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.865%) Internet
2 4 (4.494%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (61.80%) SQL Server
2 24 (26.97%) SQL Server 2008
3 13 (14.61%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (6.742%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (5.618%) RavenDB
6 3 (3.371%) SQL Server 2012
6 3 (3.371%) SQL Server 2000
7 2 (2.247%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (1.124%) MySQL
8 1 (1.124%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (1.124%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 13 (14.61%) Visual Studio
2 4 (4.494%) Subversion
3 3 (3.371%) Git (software)
4 2 (2.247%) JIRA
4 2 (2.247%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.124%) ReSharper
5 1 (1.124%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.124%) Mercurial
5 1 (1.124%) Redmine
5 1 (1.124%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.124%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (1.124%) Dreamweaver
5 1 (1.124%) CruiseControl
General
1 11 (12.36%) Retail
2 2 (2.247%) Telecoms
2 2 (2.247%) Finance
3 1 (1.124%) Law
3 1 (1.124%) Legal
3 1 (1.124%) Banking
3 1 (1.124%) Marketing
3 1 (1.124%) German Language
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.989%) NHS
2 4 (4.494%) N-Tier
3 3 (3.371%) Digital Media
3 3 (3.371%) Computer Science
4 2 (2.247%) Open Source
4 2 (2.247%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.124%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.124%) W3C
5 1 (1.124%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.124%) Windows
1 1 (1.124%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (43.82%) MVC
2 21 (23.60%) TDD
3 15 (16.85%) E-Commerce
4 8 (8.989%) Scrum
5 7 (7.865%) OOP
6 5 (5.618%) OO
6 5 (5.618%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (4.494%) Web Application Development
8 2 (2.247%) CRM
8 2 (2.247%) BDD
8 2 (2.247%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (2.247%) Pair Programming
8 2 (2.247%) ITIL
8 2 (2.247%) PRINCE2
9 1 (1.124%) RAD
9 1 (1.124%) Project Management
9 1 (1.124%) Practice Management
9 1 (1.124%) Validation
9 1 (1.124%) Content Management
9 1 (1.124%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 72 (80.90%) C#
2 37 (41.57%) JavaScript
3 32 (35.96%) SQL
4 14 (15.73%) VB.NET
5 11 (12.36%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.371%) C
6 3 (3.371%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.247%) PHP
7 2 (2.247%) VBScript
7 2 (2.247%) VB
7 2 (2.247%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (7.865%) Degree
2 3 (3.371%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.124%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.247%) HL7
Systems Management
1 1 (1.124%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (11.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.494%) Sitecore
3 3 (3.371%) Oracle
4 2 (2.247%) EPiServer
4 2 (2.247%) Twitter
5 1 (1.124%) Ektron
5 1 (1.124%) Sage
5 1 (1.124%) Telerik
5 1 (1.124%) Atlassian
Manchester, North West
The individual will have technical knowledge of C#, .NET, SQL Server for web-based ASP.Net (MVC) application development with further experience of WCF etc seen as desirable.
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
The individual will have technical knowledge of C#, .NET, SQL Server for web-based ASP.Net (MVC) application development with further experience of WCF etc seen as desirable.
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Job Title: .Net Developer... The Kills required are: .Net, C#, ASP.Net, XML and Data Modelling and experience of working in an agile environment is essential as it...
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Rate: £300.00 - £330.00 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Manchester, North West
The Kills required are: .Net, C#, ASP.Net, XML and Data Modelling and experience of working in an agile environment is essential as it is a full agile...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £300.00 - £330.00 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Manchester, North West
My online retailing client are currently expanding and are looking for a VB.NET/ASP.NET developer to join their development and support team on a contract basis...
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Greater Manchester, North West
ASP.NET, C#, SQL SERVER, JAVASCRIPT, JQUERY, HTML, CSS, HTML5, CSS3, Upto £300 p/day Due to the continued growth & success for software house, there is a requirement...
Computer Futures
Posted: 20 May 2013
Manchester, North West
ASP.NET Developer, 3-6 Months, Manchester, £200 - £300 p/day ASP.NET, C#, HTML, JAVASCRIPT, JQUERY, CSS, SQL SERVER I now have a very exciting requirement for...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Manchester, North West
The key skills they are looking for are: Experience of .net up to and including .net 4.5 and C# .Net Web Application Development (ASP.NET/MVC) HTML,...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £230.00 - £290.00 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Essential Skills: - ASP.Net - C# - MVC 3 /4 - JQuery - HTML 4/5 - CSS - WCF - SQL Server, T-SQL Desirables: - JavaScript - Twitter Bootstrap - Less CSS - Knockout.js - Web Services,...
Computer Futures
Posted: 20 May 2013
Stockport, North West
Ideally you will have experience with Umbraco, however I'm keen to hear from and speak to anyone who is a solid .NET/CMS developer in all CMS'...
Computer Futures
Posted: 20 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Key Skills:*.Net*PHP*CMS - Drupal/Wordpress*HTML*SQL*JavaScript*CSS*OO Programming *Application security and standards You will be joining an extremely successful and growing team and...
Amoria Bond
Posted: 16 May 2013