North West .NET Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts within the North West region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited .NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Dunfermline East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Ringwood Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	15
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	203	223
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.268 %	0.233 %
As % of the category below	5.271 %	6.220 %
Daily rates quoted	19	17
Average minimum daily rate	£259	£234
Average daily rate	£278	£254
% change on same period last year	+9.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£297	£275
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£306
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.09	£26.55
Average hourly rate	£29.93	£27.68
% change on same period last year	+8.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.77	£28.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.25	£33.73
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3851	3585
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.077 %	3.749 %
Daily rates quoted	934	732
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£320
Average daily rate	£355	£335
% change on same period last year	+6.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	439	348
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.83	£21.77
Average hourly rate	£22.70	£23.35
% change on same period last year	-2.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.56	£24.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.39	£25.89
% change on same period last year	-9.63 %
.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 West 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 West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The 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 8 July 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 West 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 West region over the 3 months to 8 July 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 job ads citing .NET Developer within the North West region over the 3 months to 8 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
Manchester	+4	100	£263	+9.38 %
Lancashire	+2	27	-	-
Merseyside	-1	26	£288	-4.04 %
Cheshire	-41	24	-	-
Cumbria	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, 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.

1 411 (100.00 %) .NET 2 317 (77.13 %) ASP.NET 3 278 (67.64 %) C# 4 268 (65.21 %) SQL Server 5 152 (36.98 %) VB.NET 6 143 (34.79 %) SQL Server 2005 7 130 (31.63 %) SQL 8 107 (26.03 %) XML 9 86 (20.92 %) JavaScript 10 77 (18.73 %) WebServices 11 76 (18.49 %) CSS 12 71 (17.27 %) HTML 13 62 (15.09 %) SQL Server 2000 14 59 (14.36 %) AJAX 15 54 (13.14 %) Visual Studio

16 46 (11.19 %) ASP 17 43 (10.46 %) XSLT 18 42 (10.22 %) Microsoft 19 41 (9.976 %) Finance 19 41 (9.976 %) VB 20 40 (9.732 %) ASP.NET 2.0 21 39 (9.489 %) .NET Framework 22 38 (9.246 %) Windows 23 31 (7.543 %) SQL Server 7 24 30 (7.299 %) SharePoint 24 30 (7.299 %) E-Commerce 25 27 (6.569 %) UML 25 27 (6.569 %) OO 25 27 (6.569 %) WinForms 25 27 (6.569 %) VB6

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, 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 1 411 (100.00 %) .NET 2 317 (77.13 %) ASP.NET 3 107 (26.03 %) XML 4 77 (18.73 %) WebServices 5 76 (18.49 %) CSS 6 71 (17.27 %) HTML 7 59 (14.36 %) AJAX 8 46 (11.19 %) ASP 9 43 (10.46 %) XSLT 10 40 (9.732 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 39 (9.489 %) .NET Framework 12 27 (6.569 %) WinForms 13 16 (3.893 %) SOAP 14 14 (3.406 %) XHTML 15 12 (2.920 %) ADO.NET 16 11 (2.676 %) XSL 17 10 (2.433 %) jQuery 18 9 (2.190 %) WCF 19 7 (1.703 %) XSD 20 4 (0.973 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library	Application Platforms 1 30 (7.299 %) SharePoint 2 18 (4.380 %) IIS 3 12 (2.920 %) BizTalk Server 4 9 (2.190 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 7 (1.703 %) CMS 6 4 (0.973 %) ArcIMS 7 2 (0.487 %) ArcGIS 8 1 (0.243 %) Content Management Server 8 1 (0.243 %) Oracle BPEL 8 1 (0.243 %) ESB
Applications 1 9 (2.190 %) MS Excel 2 2 (0.487 %) Photoshop 3 1 (0.243 %) MS Visio 3 1 (0.243 %) InfoPath 3 1 (0.243 %) Doxygen	Business Applications 1 2 (0.487 %) Dynamics CRM 2 1 (0.243 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 11 (2.676 %) Intranet 2 9 (2.190 %) Internet 3 4 (0.973 %) SSL 4 1 (0.243 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 268 (65.21 %) SQL Server 2 143 (34.79 %) SQL Server 2005 3 62 (15.09 %) SQL Server 2000 4 31 (7.543 %) SQL Server 7 5 14 (3.406 %) Crystal Reports 6 12 (2.920 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 10 (2.433 %) DTS 8 9 (2.190 %) Oracle Reports 9 8 (1.946 %) RDBMS 10 2 (0.487 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 2 (0.487 %) MS Access 10 2 (0.487 %) Ingres 10 2 (0.487 %) Informix 10 2 (0.487 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 2 (0.487 %) GIS 11 1 (0.243 %) MySQL 11 1 (0.243 %) Oracle 9i 11 1 (0.243 %) ETL 11 1 (0.243 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 54 (13.14 %) Visual Studio 2 26 (6.326 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 11 (2.676 %) NUnit 4 9 (2.190 %) Flash 5 6 (1.460 %) InstallShield 6 2 (0.487 %) Dreamweaver 7 1 (0.243 %) Oracle Forms 7 1 (0.243 %) Selenium	General 1 41 (9.976 %) Finance 2 21 (5.109 %) Insurance 3 16 (3.893 %) Retail 4 7 (1.703 %) Manufacturing 4 7 (1.703 %) Health 5 5 (1.217 %) Education 5 5 (1.217 %) Marketing 5 5 (1.217 %) Banking 6 4 (0.973 %) Multimedia 6 4 (0.973 %) Retail Banking 6 4 (0.973 %) Government 6 4 (0.973 %) Legal 6 4 (0.973 %) Telecoms 7 3 (0.730 %) Construction 8 2 (0.487 %) Pharmaceutical 9 1 (0.243 %) Back Office 9 1 (0.243 %) Games 9 1 (0.243 %) Advertising 9 1 (0.243 %) Police
Miscellaneous 1 20 (4.866 %) N-Tier 2 5 (1.217 %) E-Learning 2 5 (1.217 %) Spread Betting 3 4 (0.973 %) NHS 3 4 (0.973 %) W3C 4 2 (0.487 %) CCTV 4 2 (0.487 %) Client/Server 4 2 (0.487 %) Replication 5 1 (0.243 %) Management Information System 5 1 (0.243 %) Social Network 5 1 (0.243 %) Tandem 5 1 (0.243 %) PDA 5 1 (0.243 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 38 (9.246 %) Windows 2 2 (0.487 %) Windows Mobile 3 1 (0.243 %) Windows CE 3 1 (0.243 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 30 (7.299 %) E-Commerce 2 27 (6.569 %) UML 2 27 (6.569 %) OO 3 21 (5.109 %) Web Development 4 17 (4.136 %) Agile Software Development 5 12 (2.920 %) OOP 6 11 (2.676 %) Security Cleared 7 10 (2.433 %) CRM 7 10 (2.433 %) OOD 7 10 (2.433 %) Migration 7 10 (2.433 %) Content Management 8 7 (1.703 %) Web Design 9 6 (1.460 %) B2B 9 6 (1.460 %) Project Management 10 5 (1.217 %) Workflow 10 5 (1.217 %) SOA 10 5 (1.217 %) Time Management 11 4 (0.973 %) SSADM 12 3 (0.730 %) SEO 12 3 (0.730 %) OOA/OOD	Programming Languages 1 278 (67.64 %) C# 2 152 (36.98 %) VB.NET 3 130 (31.63 %) SQL 4 86 (20.92 %) JavaScript 5 41 (9.976 %) VB 6 27 (6.569 %) VB6 7 21 (5.109 %) DHTML 8 20 (4.866 %) Transact-SQL 9 17 (4.136 %) VBScript 9 17 (4.136 %) PL/SQL 10 7 (1.703 %) C++ 11 5 (1.217 %) PHP 12 4 (0.973 %) Java 13 2 (0.487 %) XPath 13 2 (0.487 %) C 13 2 (0.487 %) ActionScript 14 1 (0.243 %) Delphi 14 1 (0.243 %) ABAP 14 1 (0.243 %) Ruby
Qualifications 1 2 (0.487 %) Degree 2 1 (0.243 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 3 (0.730 %) MSMQ 2 2 (0.487 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 42 (10.22 %) Microsoft 2 17 (4.136 %) Oracle 3 3 (0.730 %) Tridion 4 2 (0.487 %) Sybase 4 2 (0.487 %) Sage 5 1 (0.243 %) Adobe 5 1 (0.243 %) Infragistics 5 1 (0.243 %) SAP