The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Newbury 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 Newbury 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 13 12 6
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -6
Contract jobs citing .NET 6 9 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newbury 5.455% 7.563% 8.491%
As % of the Application Development category 33.33% 50.00% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 4
Average daily rate £250 £365 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-31.50% -18.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £295 £345
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £369 £468
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £56.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
All Application Development
Newbury
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
18 18 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newbury 16.36% 15.13% 22.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 12
Average daily rate £275 £365 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.65% +21.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £288 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £425 £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £56.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
.NET
Berkshire

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newbury .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 Newbury region.

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

Newbury .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 Newbury region.

Newbury .NET Hourly Rate Trend

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 6 (60.00%) C#
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 5 (50.00%) CSS
3 4 (40.00%) HTML
3 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (40.00%) jQuery
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) MVC
4 3 (30.00%) TDD
4 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (30.00%) HTML5
5 2 (20.00%) SpecFlow
5 2 (20.00%) BDD
5 2 (20.00%) PHP
5 2 (20.00%) Automation Testing
5 2 (20.00%) SOA
5 2 (20.00%) Middleware
5 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (20.00%) Web Services
5 2 (20.00%) Banking
5 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (20.00%) WCF
5 2 (20.00%) JIRA
6 1 (10.00%) German Language
6 1 (10.00%) QA
6 1 (10.00%) QADirector
6 1 (10.00%) LINQ
6 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 5 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (50.00%) CSS
2 4 (40.00%) HTML
2 4 (40.00%) jQuery
3 3 (30.00%) HTML5
4 2 (20.00%) Middleware
4 2 (20.00%) Web Services
4 2 (20.00%) WCF
5 1 (10.00%) LINQ
5 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (10.00%) Ajax
5 1 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
5 1 (10.00%) XML
5 1 (10.00%) ASP
5 1 (10.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 1 (10.00%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) CMS
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (10.00%) ArcGIS
1 1 (10.00%) ColdFusion
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (10.00%) MS Access
2 1 (10.00%) SQLPlus
2 1 (10.00%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) SpecFlow
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) QADirector
2 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (20.00%) Banking
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) German Language
2 1 (10.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Web Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Tester
4 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) CSS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) CRM Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Developer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Tester
4 1 (10.00%) HTML Developer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Digital Media
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Scrum
1 3 (30.00%) MVC
1 3 (30.00%) TDD
2 2 (20.00%) BDD
2 2 (20.00%) Automation Testing
2 2 (20.00%) SOA
3 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Data Management
3 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (10.00%) CRM
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (10.00%) B2B
3 1 (10.00%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) C#
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) PHP
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Ruby
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (10.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) MCTS
1 1 (10.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) ESRI