The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Framework over the 3 months to 24 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 Milton Keynes 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 43 42 44
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +2
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 12 20 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 2.260% 2.865% 1.993%
As % of the Application Development category 10.34% 16.53% 10.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 8
Average daily rate £325 £313 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -10.71%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £304
% change year-on-year
- +6.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.45% -2.40%
All Application Development
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
116 121 113
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 21.85% 17.34% 18.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 52 52
Average daily rate £375 £300 £316
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -5.13%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £259 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £367 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 6
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +59.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET Framework
Buckinghamshire

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes .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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes .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 Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Milton Keynes .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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes .NET Framework Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 22 (100.00%) .NET
2 15 (68.18%) C#
3 11 (50.00%) MVC
3 11 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 10 (45.45%) WCF
4 10 (45.45%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 9 (40.91%) SQL
5 9 (40.91%) SQL Server
6 8 (36.36%) ASP.NET
7 7 (31.82%) NHibernate
7 7 (31.82%) TDD
8 6 (27.27%) XML
8 6 (27.27%) SQL Server 2008
9 5 (22.73%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (22.73%) Windows
9 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
10 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (13.64%) Scrum
11 3 (13.64%) Web Development
11 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (13.64%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
11 3 (13.64%) OO
11 3 (13.64%) Web Application Development
12 2 (9.091%) KnockoutJS
12 2 (9.091%) SaaS
12 2 (9.091%) Fluent NHibernate
12 2 (9.091%) Web Services
12 2 (9.091%) JavaScript
12 2 (9.091%) VB.NET

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 22 (100.00%) .NET
2 10 (45.45%) WCF
2 10 (45.45%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 8 (36.36%) ASP.NET
4 7 (31.82%) NHibernate
5 6 (27.27%) XML
6 5 (22.73%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (9.091%) KnockoutJS
7 2 (9.091%) Fluent NHibernate
7 2 (9.091%) Web Services
7 2 (9.091%) WPF
8 1 (4.545%) WinForms
8 1 (4.545%) Ajax
8 1 (4.545%) LINQ
8 1 (4.545%) jQuery
8 1 (4.545%) HTML
8 1 (4.545%) ADO.NET
8 1 (4.545%) ASP
8 1 (4.545%) CSS
8 1 (4.545%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 3 (13.64%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.545%) Umbraco
2 1 (4.545%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) SQL Server
2 6 (27.27%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (4.545%) NUnit
1 1 (4.545%) Visual Studio Team System
1 1 (4.545%) Visual Studio
1 1 (4.545%) NMock
1 1 (4.545%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (9.091%) Spanish Language
2 1 (4.545%) Finance
2 1 (4.545%) Retail
2 1 (4.545%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (81.82%) Developer
2 17 (77.27%) .NET Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Developer
3 4 (18.18%) ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior .NET Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Administrator
4 3 (13.64%) BizTalk Administrator
5 2 (9.091%) Agile .NET Developer
5 2 (9.091%) SQL Developer
6 1 (4.545%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.545%) VB.NET Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Release Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (4.545%) UI Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Senior UI Developer
6 1 (4.545%) .NET Applications Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Applications Developer
6 1 (4.545%) WPF Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.091%) SaaS
2 1 (4.545%) Statistics
2 1 (4.545%) NHS
2 1 (4.545%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.545%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Windows
2 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.545%) Windows NT
4 1 (4.545%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) MVC
1 11 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (31.82%) TDD
3 3 (13.64%) Scrum
3 3 (13.64%) Web Development
3 3 (13.64%) OO
3 3 (13.64%) Web Application Development
4 1 (4.545%) Business Continuity
4 1 (4.545%) CRM
4 1 (4.545%) Data Modelling
4 1 (4.545%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) C#
2 9 (40.91%) SQL
3 2 (9.091%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.091%) VB.NET
3 2 (9.091%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.545%) VB6
4 1 (4.545%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (4.545%) MCITP
1 1 (4.545%) MCPD
1 1 (4.545%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.545%) Security Cleared
1 1 (4.545%) MCP
1 1 (4.545%) MCAD
1 1 (4.545%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (9.091%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft