The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Middlesex 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 22 17 23
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +6
Contract jobs citing .NET 4 16 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 2.010% 5.536% 4.474%
As % of the Application Development category 13.33% 39.02% 21.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 6
Average daily rate £300 £338 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +18.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £357 £413 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £19.52 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -47.94%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
All Application Development
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
30 41 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 15.08% 14.19% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 36
Average daily rate £325 £350 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -22.22%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 6
Average hourly rate £37.50 £19.52 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+92.11% -32.68%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
.NET
South East

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex .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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex .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 Middlesex region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Middlesex .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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex .NET Hourly Rate Trend

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (75.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Retail
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 1 (25.00%) PaintShop Pro
4 1 (25.00%) Subversion
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (25.00%) Graphic Design
4 1 (25.00%) French Language
4 1 (25.00%) German Language
4 1 (25.00%) Italian Language
4 1 (25.00%) Spanish Language
4 1 (25.00%) WCF
4 1 (25.00%) jQuery
4 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (25.00%) Adobe
4 1 (25.00%) Internet

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) PaintShop Pro
1 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
1 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) French Language
2 1 (25.00%) German Language
2 1 (25.00%) Italian Language
2 1 (25.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (25.00%) C# Programmer
4 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Programmer
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Graphic Design
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe