Merseyside .NET Framework Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET Framework skills within the Merseyside region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET Framework over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft .NET Framework
Location Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheshire City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Farnborough Fife Glasgow Gosport Hampshire Hastings Hertfordshire Ipswich Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool London Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Sale Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Telford Thame Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	48
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	7	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	5.512 %	1.099 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£475	£350
Average daily rate	£481	£400
% change on same period last year	+20.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£488	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£339
% change on same period last year	+2.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.50	-
Average hourly rate	£22.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.81	£35.64
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
Application Development Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	127	91
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.172 %	0.090 %
Daily rates quoted	42	28
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£308
Average daily rate	£323	£338
% change on same period last year	-4.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£336
% change on same period last year	+0.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.59	£30.21
Average hourly rate	£25.08	£32.18
% change on same period last year	-22.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.57	£34.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.38	£32.95
% change on same period last year	-1.71 %
.NET Framework 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.

.NET Framework
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing .NET Framework across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Trend

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

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Framework across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Trend

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

.NET Framework
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Liverpool	+6	6	£481	+20.31 %

.NET Framework North West

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 9 (100.00 %) .NET 2 5 (55.56 %) SharePoint 3 4 (44.44 %) SQL Server 3 4 (44.44 %) ASP.NET 3 4 (44.44 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 3 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (33.33 %) C# 5 2 (22.22 %) SQL 5 2 (22.22 %) VB 5 2 (22.22 %) VB.NET 5 2 (22.22 %) SOAP 5 2 (22.22 %) IIS 5 2 (22.22 %) Visual Studio 5 2 (22.22 %) Migration 5 2 (22.22 %) ASP

5 2 (22.22 %) Windows 5 2 (22.22 %) OO 5 2 (22.22 %) VB6 6 1 (11.11 %) Content Management 6 1 (11.11 %) Logistics 6 1 (11.11 %) XHTML 6 1 (11.11 %) UML 6 1 (11.11 %) OOP 6 1 (11.11 %) Pocket PC 6 1 (11.11 %) PDA 6 1 (11.11 %) Asset Management 6 1 (11.11 %) E-Commerce 6 1 (11.11 %) Client/Server 6 1 (11.11 %) GPRS 6 1 (11.11 %) Dreamweaver

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 9 (100.00 %) .NET 2 4 (44.44 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (22.22 %) ASP 3 2 (22.22 %) SOAP 4 1 (11.11 %) WebServices 4 1 (11.11 %) XML 4 1 (11.11 %) XHTML 4 1 (11.11 %) HTML 4 1 (11.11 %) ADO 4 1 (11.11 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 5 (55.56 %) SharePoint 2 4 (44.44 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 2 (22.22 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (11.11 %) Photoshop 1 1 (11.11 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (11.11 %) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (44.44 %) SQL Server 2 3 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 2 (22.22 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (11.11 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (11.11 %) Dreamweaver
Job Titles 1 8 (88.89 %) Developer 2 4 (44.44 %) SharePoint Developer 3 2 (22.22 %) Web Developer 3 2 (22.22 %) .NET Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) C# Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) VB.NET Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) SQL Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) Junior Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) SQL Server Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) .NET Web Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) Junior Web Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) C# Web Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) Software Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) Junior	Miscellaneous 1 1 (11.11 %) Client/Server 1 1 (11.11 %) NHS 1 1 (11.11 %) Pocket PC 1 1 (11.11 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 2 (22.22 %) Windows 2 1 (11.11 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (22.22 %) OO 1 2 (22.22 %) Migration 2 1 (11.11 %) Asset Management 2 1 (11.11 %) Content Management 2 1 (11.11 %) Logistics 2 1 (11.11 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (11.11 %) UML 2 1 (11.11 %) OOP
Programming Languages 1 3 (33.33 %) C# 2 2 (22.22 %) SQL 2 2 (22.22 %) VB 2 2 (22.22 %) VB.NET 2 2 (22.22 %) VB6 3 1 (11.11 %) VBA 3 1 (11.11 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (11.11 %) VBScript 3 1 (11.11 %) JavaScript	Vendors 1 1 (11.11 %) Microsoft