The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the North West 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
.NET Developer
Rank 39 36 35
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -1
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 97 134 121
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 4.161% 4.307% 3.967%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.464% 4.700% 4.295%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 77 90
Average daily rate £290 £275 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.45% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £237 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £325 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 3
Average hourly rate £35.00 £31.25 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% +13.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -8.39%
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2173 2851 2817
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.22% 91.64% 92.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1036 1402 1393
Average daily rate £338 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £225 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £468
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 171 189
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.25% +8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £33.32 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
.NET Developer
England

.NET Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing .NET Developer across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

North West .NET Developer Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing .NET Developer across the North West region.

North West .NET Developer Daily Rate Trend

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West .NET Developer Daily Rate Histogram

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing .NET Developer across the North West region.

North West .NET Developer Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West .NET Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

.NET Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Developer within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Manchester -12 45 £295 +7.27%
Cheshire +18 32 £295 +6.30%
Lancashire +1 8 £225 -29.68%
Merseyside -6 5 £281 -3.01%
Cumbria - 1 £350 -
.NET Developer
England

.NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

1 212 (100.00%) .NET
2 187 (88.21%) C#
3 163 (76.89%) ASP.NET
4 126 (59.43%) SQL Server
5 97 (45.75%) JavaScript
6 87 (41.04%) MVC
7 84 (39.62%) SQL
8 76 (35.85%) CSS
9 55 (25.94%) HTML
10 54 (25.47%) ASP.NET MVC
11 53 (25.00%) jQuery
11 53 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
11 53 (25.00%) XML
12 45 (21.23%) WCF
13 42 (19.81%) VB.NET
14 38 (17.92%) Web Services
15 34 (16.04%) .NET Framework
16 32 (15.09%) Visual Studio
16 32 (15.09%) E-Commerce
17 31 (14.62%) TDD
18 30 (14.15%) SQL Server 2005
19 27 (12.74%) Ajax
20 26 (12.26%) Microsoft
21 22 (10.38%) Windows
21 22 (10.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
22 21 (9.906%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
23 20 (9.434%) Web Development
23 20 (9.434%) Agile Software Development
23 20 (9.434%) CMS
24 19 (8.962%) XHTML

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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
1 212 (100.00%) .NET
2 163 (76.89%) ASP.NET
3 76 (35.85%) CSS
4 55 (25.94%) HTML
5 54 (25.47%) ASP.NET MVC
6 53 (25.00%) jQuery
6 53 (25.00%) XML
7 45 (21.23%) WCF
8 38 (17.92%) Web Services
9 34 (16.04%) .NET Framework
10 27 (12.74%) Ajax
11 21 (9.906%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 19 (8.962%) XHTML
13 18 (8.491%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 17 (8.019%) LINQ
15 12 (5.660%) LINQ to SQL
15 12 (5.660%) HTML5
15 12 (5.660%) Razor View Engine
16 11 (5.189%) JSON
17 10 (4.717%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 20 (9.434%) CMS
2 18 (8.491%) Umbraco
3 10 (4.717%) SharePoint
4 9 (4.245%) IIS
5 7 (3.302%) WordPress
6 3 (1.415%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (1.415%) Windows Azure
7 2 (0.943%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.943%) Apache
8 1 (0.472%) MSMQ
8 1 (0.472%) MS Exchange
8 1 (0.472%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.472%) ESB
8 1 (0.472%) DotNetNuke
8 1 (0.472%) Drupal
8 1 (0.472%) Orchard CMS
8 1 (0.472%) Confluence
8 1 (0.472%) Kentico
8 1 (0.472%) EPiServer CMS
Applications
1 4 (1.887%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.472%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.472%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.472%) Maya
2 1 (0.472%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.943%) Bond Adapt
2 1 (0.472%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.245%) Internet
2 5 (2.358%) Intranet
3 1 (0.472%) LDAP
3 1 (0.472%) HTTP
3 1 (0.472%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (59.43%) SQL Server
2 53 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 30 (14.15%) SQL Server 2005
4 22 (10.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (4.717%) SQL Server 2012
6 6 (2.830%) MySQL
7 5 (2.358%) SQL Server 2000
7 5 (2.358%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.358%) RavenDB
8 4 (1.887%) MS Access
9 3 (1.415%) SQLite
10 2 (0.943%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.943%) Oracle 8/8i
11 1 (0.472%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.472%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.472%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.472%) SQL Server 7
11 1 (0.472%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 32 (15.09%) Visual Studio
2 13 (6.132%) Team Foundation Server
3 11 (5.189%) Git (software)
4 8 (3.774%) Subversion
5 5 (2.358%) NetBeans
6 3 (1.415%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.943%) Redmine
7 2 (0.943%) Mercurial
7 2 (0.943%) JIRA
7 2 (0.943%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 1 (0.472%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.472%) CruiseControl
8 1 (0.472%) ReSharper
8 1 (0.472%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.472%) Rhino Mocks
8 1 (0.472%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 13 (6.132%) Retail
2 5 (2.358%) Telecoms
2 5 (2.358%) Finance
3 4 (1.887%) Banking
4 2 (0.943%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.472%) Billing
5 1 (0.472%) Law
5 1 (0.472%) Legal
5 1 (0.472%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (0.472%) Marketing
5 1 (0.472%) Local Government
5 1 (0.472%) German Language
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.660%) NHS
2 8 (3.774%) Mobile App
2 8 (3.774%) N-Tier
3 6 (2.830%) Computer Science
4 4 (1.887%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.887%) Digital Media
5 2 (0.943%) Open Source
5 2 (0.943%) SaaS
5 2 (0.943%) W3C
6 1 (0.472%) Mathematics
6 1 (0.472%) Data Extraction
6 1 (0.472%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.38%) Windows
2 5 (2.358%) Linux
3 3 (1.415%) Windows CE
4 2 (0.943%) Android
4 2 (0.943%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (41.04%) MVC
2 32 (15.09%) E-Commerce
3 31 (14.62%) TDD
4 20 (9.434%) Web Development
4 20 (9.434%) Agile Software Development
5 13 (6.132%) OO
6 11 (5.189%) Scrum
7 10 (4.717%) Dependency Injection
7 10 (4.717%) Web Application Development
8 9 (4.245%) MVVM
9 7 (3.302%) OOP
10 6 (2.830%) Business Development
10 6 (2.830%) SOA
11 5 (2.358%) OOD
11 5 (2.358%) SEO
11 5 (2.358%) Content Management
12 4 (1.887%) Requirements Analysis
12 4 (1.887%) UML
12 4 (1.887%) CRM
13 3 (1.415%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 187 (88.21%) C#
2 97 (45.75%) JavaScript
3 84 (39.62%) SQL
4 42 (19.81%) VB.NET
5 14 (6.604%) T-SQL
6 9 (4.245%) XPath
7 8 (3.774%) VB
8 7 (3.302%) PHP
8 7 (3.302%) C
9 5 (2.358%) Java
10 4 (1.887%) VBScript
10 4 (1.887%) VBA
11 3 (1.415%) C++
11 3 (1.415%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.415%) VB6
12 2 (0.943%) Ruby
13 1 (0.472%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (5.660%) Degree
2 3 (1.415%) PhD
2 3 (1.415%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.943%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.358%) HL7
2 1 (0.472%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.415%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.472%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 26 (12.26%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.717%) Twitter
3 9 (4.245%) Oracle
3 9 (4.245%) Sitecore
4 7 (3.302%) EPiServer
5 5 (2.358%) Google
5 5 (2.358%) Zend
5 5 (2.358%) Facebook
6 3 (1.415%) Telerik
7 2 (0.943%) Sage
8 1 (0.472%) SolidWorks
8 1 (0.472%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.472%) Ektron
8 1 (0.472%) Razor Risk
Manchester, North West
The individual will have technical knowledge of C#, .NET, SQL Server for web-based ASP.Net (MVC) application development with further experience of WCF etc seen as desirable.
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
The individual will have technical knowledge of C#, .NET, SQL Server for web-based ASP.Net (MVC) application development with further experience of WCF etc seen as desirable.
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Wilmslow, North West
Our client based in Wilmslow is currently looking for a .NET Developer for a 1-3 month rolling contract. This role will suit a motivated and pro-active...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Rate: £200 - £350 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Manchester, North West
The Kills required are: .Net, C#, ASP.Net, XML and Data Modelling and experience of working in an agile environment is essential as it is a full agile...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £300.00 - £330.00 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Job Title: .Net Developer... The Kills required are: .Net, C#, ASP.Net, XML and Data Modelling and experience of working in an agile environment is essential as it...
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Rate: £300.00 - £330.00 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Manchester, North West
My online retailing client are currently expanding and are looking for a VB.NET/ASP.NET developer to join their development and support team on a contract basis...
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cheshire
ASP.Net / VB.Net Developer. eCommerce ***External Facing Web Development Experience Essential*** My client is a leading eCommerce company in Cheshire I am looking for a contract .net...
Rullion IT Plus
Posted: 20 May 2013
Greater Manchester, North West
ASP.NET, C#, SQL SERVER, JAVASCRIPT, JQUERY, HTML, CSS, HTML5, CSS3, Upto £300 p/day Due to the continued growth & success for software house, there is a requirement...
Computer Futures
Posted: 20 May 2013
Manchester, North West
ASP.NET Developer, 3-6 Months, Manchester, £200 - £300 p/day ASP.NET, C#, HTML, JAVASCRIPT, JQUERY, CSS, SQL SERVER I now have a very exciting requirement for...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Seascale, North West
Project OverviewOur client, an organisation within the nuclear industry, are looking for a .NET Developer to add to their highly skilled team based in Workington, CumbriaObjective* Work closely...
Capita Resourcing
Rate: £40 - £50 per hour
Posted: 4 May 2013
Seascale, North West
Project OverviewOur client, a nuclear site, are looking for a .NET Developer to add to their highly skilled team based on site at Sellafield, Cumbria.Objective* Work closely...
Capita Resourcing
Rate: £42 - £47 per hour
Posted: 16 May 2013
Manchester, North West
The key skills they are looking for are: Experience of .net up to and including .net 4.5 and C# .Net Web Application Development (ASP.NET/MVC) HTML,...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £230.00 - £290.00 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Lancashire, North West
The core of this role is back-end web application development focussing on developing a new core system for the business.Essential Skills: - C# (.Net 3.5 and...
Computer Futures
Posted: 20 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Essential Skills: - ASP.Net - C# - MVC 3 /4 - JQuery - HTML 4/5 - CSS - WCF - SQL Server, T-SQL Desirables: - JavaScript - Twitter Bootstrap - Less CSS - Knockout.js - Web Services,...
Computer Futures
Posted: 20 May 2013
Stockport, North West
Ideally you will have experience with Umbraco, however I'm keen to hear from and speak to anyone who is a solid .NET/CMS developer in all CMS'...
Computer Futures
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cheshire, North West
ASP.Net / C# / SQL Server Developer required- Contract - Cheshire *** Type: 6 Month Contract Rate: Circa £200 per day Location:South Cheshire Start Date: ASAP C# / ASP.Net SQL...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Key Skills:*.Net*PHP*CMS - Drupal/Wordpress*HTML*SQL*JavaScript*CSS*OO Programming *Application security and standards You will be joining an extremely successful and growing team and...
Amoria Bond
Posted: 16 May 2013