North East .NET Framework Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET Framework skills within the North East 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft .NET Framework
Location Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bath Batley Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Fife Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Hampshire Hastings Hertfordshire Hove Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Sale Salford Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thame Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	64
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching contract IT job ads	16	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	9.143 %	4.219 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£300
Average daily rate	£340	£307
% change on same period last year	+10.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£313
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£331
% change on same period last year	+1.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.33	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£35.83	£35.00
% change on same period last year	+2.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.33	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.56	£38.66
% change on same period last year	-13.18 %
Application Development North East
Matching contract IT job ads	175	237
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.233 %	0.240 %
Daily rates quoted	17	31
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£328
Average daily rate	£322	£339
% change on same period last year	-5.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.90	£30.59
Average hourly rate	£34.10	£32.58
% change on same period last year	+4.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.30	£34.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
.NET Framework 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.

.NET Framework
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing .NET Framework across the North East 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 North East region.

.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 North East region.

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Framework across the North East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

.NET Framework
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the North East region over the 3 months to 25 July 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	+14	11	£340	-2.85 %
Durham	-4	2	-	-

.NET Framework England

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 21 (100.00 %) .NET 1 21 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 16 (76.19 %) C# 3 14 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2005 4 13 (61.90 %) ASP.NET 5 12 (57.14 %) SQL 6 10 (47.62 %) SQL Server 2000 7 8 (38.10 %) Transact-SQL 8 6 (28.57 %) Visual Studio 8 6 (28.57 %) Microsoft 9 5 (23.81 %) ASP 10 4 (19.05 %) Games 11 3 (14.29 %) NUnit 11 3 (14.29 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 3 (14.29 %) Visual Studio Team System

11 3 (14.29 %) Project Management 11 3 (14.29 %) XHTML 11 3 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 11 3 (14.29 %) CSS 11 3 (14.29 %) WebServices 11 3 (14.29 %) XML 12 2 (9.524 %) Windows 12 2 (9.524 %) DTS 12 2 (9.524 %) SQL Server 7 12 2 (9.524 %) OO 12 2 (9.524 %) SQL Server Integration Services 12 2 (9.524 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 12 2 (9.524 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 13 1 (4.762 %) Time Management 13 1 (4.762 %) Health

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 21 (100.00 %) .NET 2 13 (61.90 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (23.81 %) ASP 4 3 (14.29 %) XHTML 4 3 (14.29 %) CSS 4 3 (14.29 %) WebServices 4 3 (14.29 %) XML 4 3 (14.29 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 1 (4.762 %) XSLT 5 1 (4.762 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.762 %) IIS 1 1 (4.762 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (4.762 %) MS Office 1 1 (4.762 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 21 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 14 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2005 3 10 (47.62 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (9.524 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 2 (9.524 %) DTS 4 2 (9.524 %) SQL Server 7 4 2 (9.524 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 2 (9.524 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 6 (28.57 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (14.29 %) NUnit 2 3 (14.29 %) Visual Studio Team System	General 1 4 (19.05 %) Games 2 1 (4.762 %) Health
Job Titles 1 21 (100.00 %) Developer 2 9 (42.86 %) .NET Developer 3 6 (28.57 %) C# Developer 4 4 (19.05 %) ASP Developer 5 3 (14.29 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 3 (14.29 %) Software Developer 6 2 (9.524 %) SQL Developer 6 2 (9.524 %) Web Developer 6 2 (9.524 %) Senior Developer 7 1 (4.762 %) Programmer 7 1 (4.762 %) SQL Server Developer 7 1 (4.762 %) Senior .NET Developer 7 1 (4.762 %) Senior ASP.NET Developer 7 1 (4.762 %) .NET Programmer 7 1 (4.762 %) VB.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.762 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 2 (9.524 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 1 3 (14.29 %) Project Management 2 2 (9.524 %) OO 3 1 (4.762 %) Time Management 3 1 (4.762 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 16 (76.19 %) C# 2 12 (57.14 %) SQL 3 8 (38.10 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (4.762 %) VB.NET	Vendors 1 6 (28.57 %) Microsoft