Manchester C#/ASP.NET Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the C#/ASP.NET Developer role in IT contracts within the Manchester region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited C#/ASP.NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hertfordshire Home Counties Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Preston Reading Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Teddington Thame Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Wellingborough West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	48
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	28	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	2.269 %	1.919 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£215
Average daily rate	£320	£248
% change on same period last year	+29.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£280
UK excluding London average daily rate	£322	£311
% change on same period last year	+3.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.46	£30.80
% change on same period last year	-1.09 %
Job Titles Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	1234	1042
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.645 %	1.054 %
Daily rates quoted	230	212
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£313
Average daily rate	£333	£332
% change on same period last year	+0.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£352
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	182	116
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.04	£17.86
Average hourly rate	£20.90	£19.30
% change on same period last year	+8.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.77	£20.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
C#/ASP.NET Developer North West

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C#/ASP.NET Developer across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing C#/ASP.NET Developer across the Manchester region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C#/ASP.NET Developer across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C#/ASP.NET Developer across the Manchester region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C#/ASP.NET Developer within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Stockport	+1	5	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited C#/ASP.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 C#/ASP.NET Developer in their job title.

1 54 (100.00 %) C# 1 54 (100.00 %) .NET 1 54 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 2 34 (62.96 %) SQL Server 3 21 (38.89 %) SQL Server 2005 4 15 (27.78 %) XML 5 14 (25.93 %) SQL 6 13 (24.07 %) VB.NET 7 12 (22.22 %) JavaScript 8 11 (20.37 %) CSS 9 9 (16.67 %) AJAX 9 9 (16.67 %) WebServices 10 8 (14.81 %) Finance 10 8 (14.81 %) XSLT 10 8 (14.81 %) ASP.NET 2.0

11 7 (12.96 %) HTML 11 7 (12.96 %) Retail 12 6 (11.11 %) XHTML 12 6 (11.11 %) Web Development 13 5 (9.259 %) SQL Server 2000 14 4 (7.407 %) Visual Studio 14 4 (7.407 %) Windows 14 4 (7.407 %) SharePoint 14 4 (7.407 %) E-Commerce 14 4 (7.407 %) .NET Framework 14 4 (7.407 %) Banking 14 4 (7.407 %) Retail Banking 14 4 (7.407 %) Insurance 15 3 (5.556 %) jQuery 15 3 (5.556 %) UML

C#/ASP.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited C#/ASP.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 C#/ASP.NET Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 54 (100.00 %) .NET 1 54 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 2 15 (27.78 %) XML 3 11 (20.37 %) CSS 4 9 (16.67 %) WebServices 4 9 (16.67 %) AJAX 5 8 (14.81 %) XSLT 5 8 (14.81 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 7 (12.96 %) HTML 7 6 (11.11 %) XHTML 8 4 (7.407 %) .NET Framework 9 3 (5.556 %) WinForms 9 3 (5.556 %) jQuery 10 2 (3.704 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 10 2 (3.704 %) ADO.NET 11 1 (1.852 %) ASP 11 1 (1.852 %) SOAP 11 1 (1.852 %) XML Schema 11 1 (1.852 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 4 (7.407 %) SharePoint 2 2 (3.704 %) BizTalk Server 2 2 (3.704 %) CMS 2 2 (3.704 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 2 (3.704 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (1.852 %) Photoshop 1 1 (1.852 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.704 %) Internet 2 1 (1.852 %) Extranet 2 1 (1.852 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 34 (62.96 %) SQL Server 2 21 (38.89 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (9.259 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (1.852 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (1.852 %) Oracle Reports 4 1 (1.852 %) MS Access 4 1 (1.852 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 4 (7.407 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (3.704 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (1.852 %) Flash 3 1 (1.852 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 8 (14.81 %) Finance 2 7 (12.96 %) Retail 3 4 (7.407 %) Insurance 3 4 (7.407 %) Retail Banking 3 4 (7.407 %) Banking 4 1 (1.852 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (1.852 %) Education 4 1 (1.852 %) Advertising 4 1 (1.852 %) Marketing	Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.852 %) W3C 1 1 (1.852 %) Spread Betting 1 1 (1.852 %) Data Extraction
Operating Systems 1 4 (7.407 %) Windows 2 1 (1.852 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (11.11 %) Web Development 2 4 (7.407 %) E-Commerce 3 3 (5.556 %) B2B 3 3 (5.556 %) UML 3 3 (5.556 %) OO 4 2 (3.704 %) Migration 4 2 (3.704 %) Content Management 4 2 (3.704 %) Requirements Analysis 5 1 (1.852 %) Digital Marketing 5 1 (1.852 %) Time Management 5 1 (1.852 %) RAD 5 1 (1.852 %) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages 1 54 (100.00 %) C# 2 14 (25.93 %) SQL 3 13 (24.07 %) VB.NET 4 12 (22.22 %) JavaScript 5 3 (5.556 %) VB 6 2 (3.704 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (1.852 %) VB6 7 1 (1.852 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (1.852 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 1 (1.852 %) Degree
Vendors 1 3 (5.556 %) Microsoft 2 1 (1.852 %) Oracle