The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Norwich region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Norwich 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 2 3 16
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +13
Contract jobs citing .NET 29 32 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norwich 20.14% 17.58% 9.132%
As % of the Application Development category 63.04% 54.24% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 27 3
Average daily rate £200 £288 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.43% -5.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £194 £200 £229
10% offered a daily rate of more than £302 £340 £401
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
All Application Development
Norwich
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
46 59 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norwich 31.94% 32.42% 22.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 44 4
Average daily rate £300 £288 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% -5.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £388 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Average hourly rate £16.50 £12.38 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -52.40%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
.NET
Norfolk

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norwich .NET Jobs Demand Trend

.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

Norwich .NET Daily Rate Trend

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Norwich region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Norwich .NET Daily Rate Histogram

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Norwich .NET Hourly Rate Trend

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norwich region citing .NET 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.

1 21 (56.76%) C#
2 18 (48.65%) MVC
3 12 (32.43%) ASP.NET
4 9 (24.32%) Microsoft
5 7 (18.92%) XML
5 7 (18.92%) E-Commerce
5 7 (18.92%) SQL
6 6 (16.22%) Finance
6 6 (16.22%) BDD
6 6 (16.22%) Git (software)
6 6 (16.22%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (16.22%) Unit Testing
7 5 (13.51%) TDD
7 5 (13.51%) WCF
7 5 (13.51%) Jenkins
8 4 (10.81%) WPF
8 4 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (10.81%) Test Automation
8 4 (10.81%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (10.81%) .NET Remoting
8 4 (10.81%) .NET Framework
8 4 (10.81%) QA
8 4 (10.81%) Selenium
8 4 (10.81%) Scrum
8 4 (10.81%) Web Services
8 4 (10.81%) C++
8 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
8 4 (10.81%) ADO.NET
8 4 (10.81%) Windows
9 3 (8.108%) OOP

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norwich region citing .NET 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (32.43%) ASP.NET
2 7 (18.92%) XML
3 5 (13.51%) WCF
4 4 (10.81%) WPF
4 4 (10.81%) ASP.NET MVC
4 4 (10.81%) .NET Remoting
4 4 (10.81%) .NET Framework
4 4 (10.81%) Web Services
4 4 (10.81%) ADO.NET
5 3 (8.108%) ASP
5 3 (8.108%) HTML
5 3 (8.108%) Ajax
5 3 (8.108%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 2 (5.405%) jQuery
6 2 (5.405%) XHTML
6 2 (5.405%) CSS
7 1 (2.703%) SOAP
7 1 (2.703%) XSL
7 1 (2.703%) XSLT
7 1 (2.703%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.405%) IIS
2 1 (2.703%) Apache
2 1 (2.703%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.703%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (8.108%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.703%) MS Project
2 1 (2.703%) XMetaL
Business Applications
1 2 (5.405%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.703%) HTTP
1 1 (2.703%) SSL
1 1 (2.703%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.405%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (5.405%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.703%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Git (software)
2 5 (13.51%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.81%) Selenium
4 3 (8.108%) WatiN
4 3 (8.108%) SpecFlow
5 2 (5.405%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (5.405%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.703%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.703%) QuickTest Pro
6 1 (2.703%) Bugzilla
6 1 (2.703%) JIRA
6 1 (2.703%) NUnit
6 1 (2.703%) CruiseControl
6 1 (2.703%) Subversion
6 1 (2.703%) Build Forge
6 1 (2.703%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 6 (16.22%) Finance
2 2 (5.405%) Marketing
2 2 (5.405%) Games
2 2 (5.405%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (72.97%) Developer
2 23 (62.16%) .NET Developer
3 8 (21.62%) C# Developer
3 8 (21.62%) C# .NET Developer
4 6 (16.22%) Lead Developer
5 4 (10.81%) ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (8.108%) Analyst
6 3 (8.108%) Test Analyst
6 3 (8.108%) Web Developer
6 3 (8.108%) Agile .NET Developer
6 3 (8.108%) Agile C# Developer
7 2 (5.405%) Automation Tester
7 2 (5.405%) Lead .NET Developer
7 2 (5.405%) Lead C# Developer
7 2 (5.405%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (5.405%) Team Leader
7 2 (5.405%) Development Team Leader
7 2 (5.405%) QA Tester
7 2 (5.405%) .NET Web Developer
7 2 (5.405%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.405%) Online Games
2 1 (2.703%) Ontologies
2 1 (2.703%) Semantic Web
2 1 (2.703%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Windows
2 1 (2.703%) UNIX
2 1 (2.703%) AIX
2 1 (2.703%) Linux
2 1 (2.703%) Debian
2 1 (2.703%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) MVC
2 7 (18.92%) E-Commerce
3 6 (16.22%) BDD
3 6 (16.22%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (16.22%) Unit Testing
4 5 (13.51%) TDD
5 4 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (10.81%) Test Automation
5 4 (10.81%) Scrum
6 3 (8.108%) OOP
6 3 (8.108%) OO
6 3 (8.108%) Integration Testing
6 3 (8.108%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (8.108%) Waterfall
7 2 (5.405%) Automated Testing
7 2 (5.405%) Service Delivery
7 2 (5.405%) Regression Testing
7 2 (5.405%) ERP
7 2 (5.405%) ITIL
8 1 (2.703%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (56.76%) C#
2 7 (18.92%) SQL
3 4 (10.81%) C++
4 2 (5.405%) Java
4 2 (5.405%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.703%) Python
5 1 (2.703%) C
5 1 (2.703%) VBA
5 1 (2.703%) Perl
5 1 (2.703%) PHP
5 1 (2.703%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.703%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (5.405%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.703%) ISEB
2 1 (2.703%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.703%) Tivoli
1 1 (2.703%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 9 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.405%) Oracle
2 2 (5.405%) SAP
3 1 (2.703%) Cognizant
3 1 (2.703%) Red Hat