.NET Framework Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills 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 Framework over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Application Development category 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 55 62 95
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +33
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 65 77 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 2.753% 2.441% 1.163%
As % of the Application Development category 10.20% 8.388% 4.781%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 41 16
Average daily rate £300 £290 £278
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +4.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £238 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £427 £400 £306
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
Average hourly rate £29.96 £25.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.84% -9.09%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.45% -2.40%
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 637 918 732
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 26.98% 29.11% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 504 424
Average daily rate £300 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 32 22
Average hourly rate £29.96 £18.51 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+61.90% -32.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.37 £33.31 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET Framework
England

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West .NET Framework Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West .NET Framework Daily Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

This 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 21 May 2013.

North West .NET Framework Daily Rate Histogram

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West .NET Framework Hourly Rate Trend

.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 21 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 +5 28 £288 +21.05%
Cheshire +17 21 £325 +9.70%
Lancashire +10 6 £300 -7.69%
Merseyside -8 6 £281 -3.01%
.NET Framework
England

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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.

1 105 (100.00%) .NET
2 93 (88.57%) C#
3 85 (80.95%) SQL Server
4 71 (67.62%) ASP.NET
5 52 (49.52%) JavaScript
5 52 (49.52%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 45 (42.86%) MVC
7 42 (40.00%) WCF
7 42 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
8 41 (39.05%) SQL
9 39 (37.14%) Visual Studio
9 39 (37.14%) CSS
10 37 (35.24%) XML
10 37 (35.24%) SQL Server 2005
11 36 (34.29%) Web Services
11 36 (34.29%) Microsoft
12 33 (31.43%) HTML
13 32 (30.48%) jQuery
14 29 (27.62%) Ajax
15 28 (26.67%) LINQ
15 28 (26.67%) SharePoint
16 24 (22.86%) TDD
17 20 (19.05%) ASP.NET MVC
18 16 (15.24%) Agile Software Development
18 16 (15.24%) Windows
18 16 (15.24%) IIS
19 15 (14.29%) NHS
19 15 (14.29%) MS Excel
20 14 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
21 13 (12.38%) NHibernate

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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
1 105 (100.00%) .NET
2 71 (67.62%) ASP.NET
3 52 (49.52%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 42 (40.00%) WCF
5 39 (37.14%) CSS
6 37 (35.24%) XML
7 36 (34.29%) Web Services
8 33 (31.43%) HTML
9 32 (30.48%) jQuery
10 29 (27.62%) Ajax
11 28 (26.67%) LINQ
12 20 (19.05%) ASP.NET MVC
13 13 (12.38%) NHibernate
14 11 (10.48%) LINQ to SQL
15 10 (9.524%) ASP
16 9 (8.571%) JSON
16 9 (8.571%) WPF
17 8 (7.619%) ASP.NET MVC 4
18 7 (6.667%) SOAP
18 7 (6.667%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 28 (26.67%) SharePoint
2 16 (15.24%) IIS
3 5 (4.762%) CMS
4 3 (2.857%) JCAPS
4 3 (2.857%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (1.905%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.905%) Apache
6 1 (0.952%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.952%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.952%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 15 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 8 (7.619%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.905%) MS Office
4 1 (0.952%) Maya
4 1 (0.952%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.952%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.952%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (6.667%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.905%) Maximo
3 1 (0.952%) Visualfiles
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.810%) SMS
2 3 (2.857%) HTTP
3 2 (1.905%) Intranet
4 1 (0.952%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (80.95%) SQL Server
2 42 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 37 (35.24%) SQL Server 2005
4 14 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (12.38%) SQL Server 2012
6 10 (9.524%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (7.619%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.810%) MySQL
9 3 (2.857%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (2.857%) RavenDB
10 2 (1.905%) Oracle 8/8i
10 2 (1.905%) SQL Server 7
10 2 (1.905%) SQL Server 2000
11 1 (0.952%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.952%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.952%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.952%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 39 (37.14%) Visual Studio
2 10 (9.524%) Subversion
3 9 (8.571%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (5.714%) Git (software)
5 5 (4.762%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 5 (4.762%) Visual Studio Team System
6 4 (3.810%) Eclipse
7 3 (2.857%) NetBeans
8 2 (1.905%) JIRA
8 2 (1.905%) Redmine
8 2 (1.905%) NUnit
9 1 (0.952%) InstallShield
9 1 (0.952%) Rhino Mocks
9 1 (0.952%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.952%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (6.667%) Retail
2 4 (3.810%) Banking
2 4 (3.810%) Finance
3 2 (1.905%) Telecoms
4 1 (0.952%) Financial Institution
4 1 (0.952%) Law
4 1 (0.952%) Legal
4 1 (0.952%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 87 (82.86%) Developer
2 36 (34.29%) .NET Developer
3 19 (18.10%) C# Developer
4 13 (12.38%) Software Developer
5 9 (8.571%) Agile C# Developer
6 8 (7.619%) ASP.NET Developer
6 8 (7.619%) Software Engineer
7 7 (6.667%) Senior Developer
7 7 (6.667%) CRM Developer
7 7 (6.667%) C# .NET Developer
8 6 (5.714%) Dynamics CRM Developer
8 6 (5.714%) Senior .NET Developer
9 5 (4.762%) MI Developer
9 5 (4.762%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 4 (3.810%) Microsoft Developer
10 4 (3.810%) Enterprise Architect
10 4 (3.810%) C# Software Engineer
10 4 (3.810%) Software Architect
10 4 (3.810%) Architect
11 3 (2.857%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.29%) NHS
2 11 (10.48%) Management Information System
3 8 (7.619%) iPad
4 6 (5.714%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.762%) N-Tier
5 5 (4.762%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.810%) W3C
7 3 (2.857%) Replication
7 3 (2.857%) Computer Science
8 2 (1.905%) Open Source
9 1 (0.952%) Inversion of Control
9 1 (0.952%) Social Media
9 1 (0.952%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.952%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.24%) Windows
2 13 (12.38%) Android
3 5 (4.762%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.857%) Linux
5 1 (0.952%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (42.86%) MVC
2 24 (22.86%) TDD
3 16 (15.24%) Agile Software Development
4 12 (11.43%) OO
5 8 (7.619%) Requirements Analysis
5 8 (7.619%) MVVM
6 7 (6.667%) CRM
6 7 (6.667%) SOA
6 7 (6.667%) Dependency Injection
6 7 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (5.714%) Workflow
8 5 (4.762%) OOP
8 5 (4.762%) Mobile Application Development
8 5 (4.762%) Document Management
9 4 (3.810%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (3.810%) Analytics
9 4 (3.810%) Data Modelling
9 4 (3.810%) Content Management
9 4 (3.810%) Scrum
9 4 (3.810%) Contact Management
Programming Languages
1 93 (88.57%) C#
2 52 (49.52%) JavaScript
3 41 (39.05%) SQL
4 13 (12.38%) VB.NET
5 12 (11.43%) Java
6 11 (10.48%) T-SQL
7 8 (7.619%) VB
8 5 (4.762%) Ruby
9 4 (3.810%) VBScript
9 4 (3.810%) C++
10 3 (2.857%) VB6
11 1 (0.952%) VBA
11 1 (0.952%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.952%) CoffeeScript
11 1 (0.952%) XPath
Qualifications
1 12 (11.43%) Degree
2 8 (7.619%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (4.762%) MCAD
3 5 (4.762%) MCSD
3 5 (4.762%) MCPD
3 5 (4.762%) MCTS
4 2 (1.905%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.952%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.857%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (2.857%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.952%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.857%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.952%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 36 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.38%) Telerik
3 6 (5.714%) Oracle
4 3 (2.857%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.905%) Razor Risk
5 2 (1.905%) Twitter
5 2 (1.905%) IBM
5 2 (1.905%) SAP
6 1 (0.952%) VMware
6 1 (0.952%) Adobe
6 1 (0.952%) Facebook
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