North West .NET Framework Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET Framework skills within the North West 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft .NET Framework
Location Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Croydon Darlington Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dronfield Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horley Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Stockport Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wirral Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	81	121
Rank change on same period last year	+40
Matching contract IT job ads	46	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.074 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	5.793 %	2.316 %
Daily rates quoted	10	2
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£250
Average daily rate	£329	£288
% change on same period last year	+14.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£338	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£377
% change on same period last year	-13.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.00	-
Average hourly rate	£32.63	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.25	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.03	£33.98
% change on same period last year	-2.79 %
Application Development North West
Matching contract IT job ads	794	950
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.276 %	1.020 %
Daily rates quoted	124	129
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£306
Average daily rate	£303	£322
% change on same period last year	-5.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£323	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£334
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	100	83
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.29	£24.58
Average hourly rate	£24.89	£27.20
% change on same period last year	-8.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.49	£29.82
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.57	£31.61
% change on same period last year	-9.61 %
.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 West 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 West region.

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Framework across the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

.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 West 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 West region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

.NET Framework
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Cheshire	+11	16	£310	+23.99 %
Merseyside	+8	15	£413	+26.92 %
Manchester	+10	12	£263	-
Lancashire	-	2	-	-

.NET Framework England

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 86 (100.00 %) .NET 2 55 (63.95 %) SQL Server 3 51 (59.30 %) C# 4 41 (47.67 %) SQL Server 2005 5 39 (45.35 %) XML 6 36 (41.86 %) ASP.NET 7 30 (34.88 %) SQL 8 25 (29.07 %) Visual Studio 9 22 (25.58 %) JavaScript 10 20 (23.26 %) SQL Server 2000 11 19 (22.09 %) Microsoft 12 18 (20.93 %) Windows 12 18 (20.93 %) VB.NET 13 17 (19.77 %) ADO.NET 13 17 (19.77 %) WebServices

14 14 (16.28 %) HTML 15 13 (15.12 %) Oracle 15 13 (15.12 %) SharePoint 16 12 (13.95 %) OO 16 12 (13.95 %) Silverlight 17 11 (12.79 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 17 11 (12.79 %) SQL Server Integration Services 17 11 (12.79 %) XSLT 17 11 (12.79 %) C++ 18 9 (10.47 %) WCF 18 9 (10.47 %) WinForms 18 9 (10.47 %) DHTML 18 9 (10.47 %) Transact-SQL 19 8 (9.302 %) Migration 19 8 (9.302 %) Microsoft Analysis Services

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 86 (100.00 %) .NET 2 39 (45.35 %) XML 3 36 (41.86 %) ASP.NET 4 17 (19.77 %) ADO.NET 4 17 (19.77 %) WebServices 5 14 (16.28 %) HTML 6 12 (13.95 %) Silverlight 7 11 (12.79 %) XSLT 8 9 (10.47 %) WinForms 8 9 (10.47 %) WCF 9 7 (8.140 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 6 (6.977 %) CSS 10 6 (6.977 %) SOAP 11 5 (5.814 %) AJAX 11 5 (5.814 %) J2ME 12 4 (4.651 %) Windows SharePoint Services 12 4 (4.651 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 12 4 (4.651 %) LINQ 13 3 (3.488 %) Ext JS 13 3 (3.488 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 13 (15.12 %) SharePoint 2 7 (8.140 %) IIS 3 6 (6.977 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 3 (3.488 %) SharePoint Portal Server 5 2 (2.326 %) ColdFusion 5 2 (2.326 %) BizTalk Server 6 1 (1.163 %) Oracle 9iAS
Applications 1 5 (5.814 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.163 %) CA Clarity 2 1 (1.163 %) Photoshop 2 1 (1.163 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (1.163 %) Axapta 1 1 (1.163 %) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking 1 2 (2.326 %) LAN 1 2 (2.326 %) WAN 1 2 (2.326 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (2.326 %) SSL 1 2 (2.326 %) SAN 1 2 (2.326 %) Firewall 2 1 (1.163 %) Wireless 2 1 (1.163 %) UMTS 2 1 (1.163 %) Broadband 2 1 (1.163 %) GPRS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 55 (63.95 %) SQL Server 2 41 (47.67 %) SQL Server 2005 3 20 (23.26 %) SQL Server 2000 4 11 (12.79 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 11 (12.79 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 8 (9.302 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 6 (6.977 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 6 (6.977 %) Oracle 9i 7 4 (4.651 %) Datawarehouse 7 4 (4.651 %) DTS 8 3 (3.488 %) ETL 8 3 (3.488 %) OLAP 8 3 (3.488 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 2 (2.326 %) EDRMS 10 1 (1.163 %) GIS 10 1 (1.163 %) Informix 10 1 (1.163 %) MS Access 10 1 (1.163 %) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications 1 25 (29.07 %) Visual Studio 2 7 (8.140 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 4 (4.651 %) Flash 4 3 (3.488 %) Expression Blend 5 2 (2.326 %) FrontPage 6 1 (1.163 %) Dreamweaver 6 1 (1.163 %) NUnit	General 1 5 (5.814 %) Pharmaceutical 2 4 (4.651 %) Graphic Design 3 2 (2.326 %) Finance 3 2 (2.326 %) Health 4 1 (1.163 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (1.163 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 59 (68.60 %) Developer 2 26 (30.23 %) .NET Developer 3 15 (17.44 %) C# Developer 4 12 (13.95 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 10 (11.63 %) VB.NET Developer 5 10 (11.63 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 7 (8.140 %) Applications Developer 6 7 (8.140 %) Analyst 6 7 (8.140 %) Software Developer 7 6 (6.977 %) Web Developer 7 6 (6.977 %) SQL Developer 7 6 (6.977 %) SQL Server Developer 8 4 (4.651 %) Software Engineer 8 4 (4.651 %) Programmer 8 4 (4.651 %) .NET Web Developer 8 4 (4.651 %) SharePoint Developer 9 3 (3.488 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 9 3 (3.488 %) .NET Applications Developer 9 3 (3.488 %) Analyst Programmer 9 3 (3.488 %) Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 6 (6.977 %) N-Tier 2 4 (4.651 %) NHS 2 4 (4.651 %) Multithreading 3 2 (2.326 %) Data Extraction 3 2 (2.326 %) Clustering 3 2 (2.326 %) Pocket PC 4 1 (1.163 %) Informatics 4 1 (1.163 %) Chemistry 4 1 (1.163 %) Ergonomics 4 1 (1.163 %) E-Learning 4 1 (1.163 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 18 (20.93 %) Windows 2 4 (4.651 %) Windows CE 2 4 (4.651 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (2.326 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (1.163 %) UNIX 4 1 (1.163 %) Windows Mobile 4 1 (1.163 %) Linux 4 1 (1.163 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (13.95 %) OO 2 8 (9.302 %) Migration 3 7 (8.140 %) UML 4 4 (4.651 %) Unit Testing 5 3 (3.488 %) Business Intelligence 5 3 (3.488 %) Configuration Management 5 3 (3.488 %) ITIL 6 2 (2.326 %) Agile Software Development 6 2 (2.326 %) TDD 7 1 (1.163 %) Content Management 7 1 (1.163 %) Logistics 7 1 (1.163 %) Enterprise Architecture 7 1 (1.163 %) Requirements Analysis 7 1 (1.163 %) Web Development 7 1 (1.163 %) OOD 7 1 (1.163 %) Validation
Programming Languages 1 51 (59.30 %) C# 2 30 (34.88 %) SQL 3 22 (25.58 %) JavaScript 4 18 (20.93 %) VB.NET 5 11 (12.79 %) C++ 6 9 (10.47 %) DHTML 6 9 (10.47 %) Transact-SQL 7 6 (6.977 %) PL/SQL 7 6 (6.977 %) Java 8 5 (5.814 %) C 9 4 (4.651 %) VB 9 4 (4.651 %) XPath 10 3 (3.488 %) VB6 11 2 (2.326 %) PHP 12 1 (1.163 %) Perl 12 1 (1.163 %) X++ 12 1 (1.163 %) ActionScript 12 1 (1.163 %) VBA 12 1 (1.163 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 2 (2.326 %) MCTS 2 1 (1.163 %) Degree 2 1 (1.163 %) MCDBA 2 1 (1.163 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.326 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (1.163 %) Intellisync
Systems Management 1 3 (3.488 %) Tivoli 1 3 (3.488 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 2 (2.326 %) ServiceCenter	Vendors 1 19 (22.09 %) Microsoft 2 13 (15.12 %) Oracle 3 3 (3.488 %) IBM 4 2 (2.326 %) Adobe 4 2 (2.326 %) Peregrine 4 2 (2.326 %) Anite 4 2 (2.326 %) Zend 5 1 (1.163 %) Nokia