The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills 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 Framework over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 45 46 58
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +12
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 28 39 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 3.063% 2.998% 1.254%
As % of the Application Development category 10.00% 9.949% 4.483%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 10
Average daily rate £288 £238 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.05% -18.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £229 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £321 £322 £301
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £24.16 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -12.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
280 392 290
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 30.63% 30.13% 27.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 234 158
Average daily rate £290 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 14
Average hourly rate £33.00 £16.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+106.25% -41.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £14.50 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET Framework
North West

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester .NET Framework Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester .NET Framework Daily Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Framework across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Manchester .NET Framework Daily Rate Histogram

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester .NET Framework Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 47 (100.00%) .NET
2 43 (91.49%) C#
3 34 (72.34%) ASP.NET
4 33 (70.21%) SQL Server
5 28 (59.57%) SharePoint
6 25 (53.19%) JavaScript
6 25 (53.19%) CSS
6 25 (53.19%) Web Services
7 22 (46.81%) Ajax
8 20 (42.55%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 19 (40.43%) SQL
9 19 (40.43%) MVC
10 17 (36.17%) XML
10 17 (36.17%) jQuery
11 16 (34.04%) LINQ
12 15 (31.91%) TDD
12 15 (31.91%) HTML
13 14 (29.79%) WCF
14 12 (25.53%) Telerik
14 12 (25.53%) NHibernate
15 10 (21.28%) NHS
16 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
16 9 (19.15%) Degree
16 9 (19.15%) SQL Server 2008
17 8 (17.02%) Data Warehouse
17 8 (17.02%) ASP.NET MVC
18 7 (14.89%) Visual Studio
18 7 (14.89%) Subversion
19 6 (12.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 6 (12.77%) Java

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 47 (100.00%) .NET
2 34 (72.34%) ASP.NET
3 25 (53.19%) Web Services
3 25 (53.19%) CSS
4 22 (46.81%) Ajax
5 20 (42.55%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 17 (36.17%) jQuery
6 17 (36.17%) XML
7 16 (34.04%) LINQ
8 15 (31.91%) HTML
9 14 (29.79%) WCF
10 12 (25.53%) NHibernate
11 8 (17.02%) ASP.NET MVC
12 5 (10.64%) HTML5
13 4 (8.511%) ASP
13 4 (8.511%) Hibernate
13 4 (8.511%) REST
13 4 (8.511%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 3 (6.383%) CSS3
14 3 (6.383%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 28 (59.57%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.511%) CMS
3 3 (6.383%) JCAPS
4 2 (4.255%) Apache Solr
4 2 (4.255%) IIS
4 2 (4.255%) Apache
4 2 (4.255%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (2.128%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (2.128%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (2.128%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 3 (6.383%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.128%) Maya
2 1 (2.128%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.255%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.128%) Visualfiles
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.255%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (70.21%) SQL Server
2 9 (19.15%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (17.02%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (12.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (10.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (8.511%) SQL Server 2005
6 4 (8.511%) MySQL
7 3 (6.383%) RavenDB
8 2 (4.255%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (2.128%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (2.128%) QlikView
9 1 (2.128%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (2.128%) SQL Server 2012
9 1 (2.128%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Visual Studio
1 7 (14.89%) Subversion
2 4 (8.511%) Git (software)
2 4 (8.511%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 3 (6.383%) NetBeans
4 2 (4.255%) JIRA
5 1 (2.128%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.128%) Redmine
5 1 (2.128%) MSBuild
5 1 (2.128%) NUnit
General
1 4 (8.511%) Retail
2 2 (4.255%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.128%) Law
3 1 (2.128%) Legal
3 1 (2.128%) Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (82.98%) Developer
2 15 (31.91%) C# Developer
3 13 (27.66%) .NET Developer
4 10 (21.28%) Agile C# Developer
5 5 (10.64%) MI Developer
6 4 (8.511%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (8.511%) Software Architect
6 4 (8.511%) Architect
6 4 (8.511%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (6.383%) ASP.NET Developer
7 3 (6.383%) Designer
7 3 (6.383%) Agile .NET Developer
7 3 (6.383%) UI Designer
8 2 (4.255%) Dynamics CRM Developer
8 2 (4.255%) CRM Developer
8 2 (4.255%) SharePoint Developer
8 2 (4.255%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 2 (4.255%) Software Developer
9 1 (2.128%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.128%) Interface Designer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.28%) NHS
2 4 (8.511%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.383%) Replication
3 3 (6.383%) W3C
3 3 (6.383%) Computer Science
3 3 (6.383%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.255%) Open Source
5 1 (2.128%) Social Media
5 1 (2.128%) N-Tier
5 1 (2.128%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.383%) Windows
1 3 (6.383%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (40.43%) MVC
2 15 (31.91%) TDD
3 5 (10.64%) Requirements Analysis
3 5 (10.64%) OOP
3 5 (10.64%) OO
4 4 (8.511%) Data Modelling
4 4 (8.511%) Service Management
4 4 (8.511%) Content Management
4 4 (8.511%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (8.511%) Analytics
5 3 (6.383%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (6.383%) Web Design
6 2 (4.255%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (4.255%) Practice Management
6 2 (4.255%) Scrum
6 2 (4.255%) ITIL
6 2 (4.255%) PRINCE2
6 2 (4.255%) RAD
6 2 (4.255%) CRM
6 2 (4.255%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (91.49%) C#
2 25 (53.19%) JavaScript
3 19 (40.43%) SQL
4 6 (12.77%) T-SQL
4 6 (12.77%) Java
5 5 (10.64%) Ruby
6 1 (2.128%) CoffeeScript
6 1 (2.128%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.128%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (19.15%) Degree
2 1 (2.128%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.383%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (6.383%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (6.383%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.128%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (25.53%) Telerik
2 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.511%) Oracle
4 2 (4.255%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.128%) Facebook
5 1 (2.128%) Twitter
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