North East .NET Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts within the North East 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 .NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Dunfermline East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Isle of Man Kendal Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wellingborough West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	24
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	43	42
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.057 %	0.042 %
As % of the category below	6.750 %	5.290 %
Daily rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£276
Average daily rate	£310	£276
% change on same period last year	+12.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£276
UK excluding London average daily rate	£308	£309
% change on same period last year	-0.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£32.14
Average hourly rate	£30.83	£34.29
% change on same period last year	-10.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.67	£36.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.05	£33.05
% change on same period last year	-3.01 %
Job Titles North East
Matching contract IT job ads	637	794
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.841 %	0.791 %
Daily rates quoted	130	154
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£335
Average daily rate	£341	£355
% change on same period last year	-4.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	93	75
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.74	£21.21
Average hourly rate	£23.63	£22.75
% change on same period last year	+3.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.52	£24.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
.NET Developer England

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 .NET Developer across the North East 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 .NET Developer across the North East region.

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the North East region over the 3 months to 20 August 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 .NET Developer across the North East region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the North East region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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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 .NET Developer within the North East region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Tyne and Wear	+16	25	£369	+33.60 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region that cited .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 .NET Developer in their job title.

1 80 (100.00 %) .NET 2 62 (77.50 %) C# 3 52 (65.00 %) SQL Server 4 50 (62.50 %) ASP.NET 5 39 (48.75 %) SQL 6 27 (33.75 %) SQL Server 2005 7 25 (31.25 %) VB.NET 8 19 (23.75 %) SQL Server 2000 9 18 (22.50 %) HTML 10 17 (21.25 %) Visual Studio 11 12 (15.00 %) CSS 12 11 (13.75 %) XML 12 11 (13.75 %) Microsoft 13 9 (11.25 %) .NET Framework 14 8 (10.00 %) Windows

15 7 (8.750 %) OO 15 7 (8.750 %) Insurance 15 7 (8.750 %) NUnit 16 6 (7.500 %) ASP.NET 2.0 16 6 (7.500 %) Agile Software Development 16 6 (7.500 %) Transact-SQL 16 6 (7.500 %) VB 17 5 (6.250 %) JavaScript 17 5 (6.250 %) Visual Studio Team System 17 5 (6.250 %) VB6 17 5 (6.250 %) AJAX 18 4 (5.000 %) WinForms 18 4 (5.000 %) Manufacturing 18 4 (5.000 %) C++ 18 4 (5.000 %) XHTML

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region that cited .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 .NET Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 80 (100.00 %) .NET 2 50 (62.50 %) ASP.NET 3 18 (22.50 %) HTML 4 12 (15.00 %) CSS 5 11 (13.75 %) XML 6 9 (11.25 %) .NET Framework 7 6 (7.500 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 5 (6.250 %) AJAX 9 4 (5.000 %) WinForms 9 4 (5.000 %) XHTML 9 4 (5.000 %) WebServices 10 3 (3.750 %) XSLT 11 2 (2.500 %) COM+ 12 1 (1.250 %) ASP 12 1 (1.250 %) SOAP 12 1 (1.250 %) XSD 12 1 (1.250 %) Spring 12 1 (1.250 %) Spring.NET 12 1 (1.250 %) CSLA 12 1 (1.250 %) Silverlight	Application Platforms 1 2 (2.500 %) IIS 2 1 (1.250 %) BizTalk Server
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.250 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 52 (65.00 %) SQL Server 2 27 (33.75 %) SQL Server 2005 3 19 (23.75 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (1.250 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (1.250 %) GIS 4 1 (1.250 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 4 1 (1.250 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (1.250 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 17 (21.25 %) Visual Studio 2 7 (8.750 %) NUnit 3 5 (6.250 %) Visual Studio Team System 4 1 (1.250 %) Selenium 4 1 (1.250 %) FitNesse 4 1 (1.250 %) Subversion	General 1 7 (8.750 %) Insurance 2 4 (5.000 %) Manufacturing 3 3 (3.750 %) Health 4 2 (2.500 %) Finance 4 2 (2.500 %) Automotive 5 1 (1.250 %) Advertising 5 1 (1.250 %) Publishing 5 1 (1.250 %) Education
Miscellaneous 1 3 (3.750 %) Blog 2 2 (2.500 %) N-Tier 3 1 (1.250 %) Spread Betting 3 1 (1.250 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 8 (10.00 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (8.750 %) OO 2 6 (7.500 %) Agile Software Development 3 3 (3.750 %) UML 3 3 (3.750 %) Migration 3 3 (3.750 %) Web Development 4 2 (2.500 %) Unit Testing 4 2 (2.500 %) Integration Testing 4 2 (2.500 %) Service Management 4 2 (2.500 %) Workflow 4 2 (2.500 %) Scrum 5 1 (1.250 %) Document Management 5 1 (1.250 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (1.250 %) Continuous Integration 5 1 (1.250 %) Time Management 5 1 (1.250 %) Software Testing	Programming Languages 1 62 (77.50 %) C# 2 39 (48.75 %) SQL 3 25 (31.25 %) VB.NET 4 6 (7.500 %) Transact-SQL 4 6 (7.500 %) VB 5 5 (6.250 %) JavaScript 5 5 (6.250 %) VB6 6 4 (5.000 %) C++ 7 2 (2.500 %) C 8 1 (1.250 %) PL/SQL 8 1 (1.250 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 1 (1.250 %) Degree	Vendors 1 11 (13.75 %) Microsoft 2 1 (1.250 %) Oracle