Norwich .NET Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET (dotNet) skills within the Norwich 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 over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Altrincham Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Ceredigion Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dumbarton Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hastings Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kendal Kent Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Drayton West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	7
Rank change on same period last year	-23
Matching contract IT job ads	14	48
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.047 %
As % of the category below	18.92 %	40.68 %
Daily rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum daily rate	£370	£200
Average daily rate	£389	£246
% change on same period last year	+58.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£292
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£329
% change on same period last year	+2.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.25	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£33.00	£32.50
% change on same period last year	+1.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.75	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.53	£33.00
% change on same period last year	-1.43 %
Application Development Norwich
Matching contract IT job ads	74	118
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.100 %	0.116 %
Daily rates quoted	19	23
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£396
Average daily rate	£356	£414
% change on same period last year	-13.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£432
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£336
% change on same period last year	+0.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.36	£27.92
Average hourly rate	£31.32	£31.06
% change on same period last year	+0.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.27	£34.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.38	£32.95
% change on same period last year	-1.71 %
.NET Norfolk

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 across the Norwich region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development 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 across the Norwich region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Norwich region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 across the Norwich region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Norwich region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, 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 15 (51.72 %) ASP.NET 2 14 (48.28 %) SQL Server 2 14 (48.28 %) VB.NET 2 14 (48.28 %) C# 3 13 (44.83 %) SQL 4 9 (31.03 %) XML 5 8 (27.59 %) Transact-SQL 5 8 (27.59 %) HTML 5 8 (27.59 %) SQL Server 2005 6 7 (24.14 %) VB 6 7 (24.14 %) XSL 6 7 (24.14 %) CSS 7 5 (17.24 %) WebServices 7 5 (17.24 %) J2EE 7 5 (17.24 %) Java

8 4 (13.79 %) Microsoft 8 4 (13.79 %) VB6 8 4 (13.79 %) Web Development 9 3 (10.34 %) Marketing 9 3 (10.34 %) Technical Architecture 9 3 (10.34 %) SalesLogix 9 3 (10.34 %) TOGAF 9 3 (10.34 %) SOA 9 3 (10.34 %) ASP 9 3 (10.34 %) CRM 9 3 (10.34 %) Windows 9 3 (10.34 %) UML 10 2 (6.897 %) E-Commerce 10 2 (6.897 %) VBScript 10 2 (6.897 %) C++

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, 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 15 (51.72 %) ASP.NET 2 9 (31.03 %) XML 3 8 (27.59 %) HTML 4 7 (24.14 %) XSL 4 7 (24.14 %) CSS 5 5 (17.24 %) J2EE 5 5 (17.24 %) WebServices 6 3 (10.34 %) ASP 7 2 (6.897 %) WinForms 8 1 (3.448 %) AJAX 8 1 (3.448 %) .NET Framework 8 1 (3.448 %) Adobe Flex 8 1 (3.448 %) ATL 8 1 (3.448 %) SOAP 8 1 (3.448 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 2 (6.897 %) ESB 2 1 (3.448 %) IIS 2 1 (3.448 %) SharePoint 2 1 (3.448 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (3.448 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 3 (10.34 %) SalesLogix
Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.448 %) CTI	Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (48.28 %) SQL Server 2 8 (27.59 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (6.897 %) Crystal Reports 3 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server 2000
General 1 3 (10.34 %) Marketing 2 2 (6.897 %) Government 2 2 (6.897 %) Insurance 3 1 (3.448 %) Back Office 3 1 (3.448 %) Finance 3 1 (3.448 %) Construction	Job Titles 1 20 (68.97 %) Developer 2 11 (37.93 %) C# Developer 3 8 (27.59 %) .NET Developer 4 7 (24.14 %) VB.NET Developer 5 4 (13.79 %) Architect 6 3 (10.34 %) Technical Architect 6 3 (10.34 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 3 (10.34 %) SOA Architect 7 2 (6.897 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 2 (6.897 %) WinForms Developer 7 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server Developer 7 2 (6.897 %) SQL Developer 7 2 (6.897 %) VB Developer 7 2 (6.897 %) Software Developer 8 1 (3.448 %) Crystal Reports Developer 8 1 (3.448 %) Senior Software Developer 8 1 (3.448 %) Web Developer 8 1 (3.448 %) Senior Manager 8 1 (3.448 %) Senior Developer 8 1 (3.448 %) Senior Project Manager
Operating Systems 1 3 (10.34 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (13.79 %) Web Development 2 3 (10.34 %) UML 2 3 (10.34 %) CRM 2 3 (10.34 %) SOA 2 3 (10.34 %) TOGAF 2 3 (10.34 %) Technical Architecture 3 2 (6.897 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (6.897 %) Zachman Framework 3 2 (6.897 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (3.448 %) Unit Testing 4 1 (3.448 %) BPMN 4 1 (3.448 %) Data Modelling 4 1 (3.448 %) OOP 4 1 (3.448 %) Data Management
Programming Languages 1 14 (48.28 %) C# 1 14 (48.28 %) VB.NET 2 13 (44.83 %) SQL 3 8 (27.59 %) Transact-SQL 4 7 (24.14 %) VB 5 5 (17.24 %) Java 6 4 (13.79 %) VB6 7 2 (6.897 %) C++ 7 2 (6.897 %) VBScript 8 1 (3.448 %) VBA 8 1 (3.448 %) VC++ 8 1 (3.448 %) DHTML 8 1 (3.448 %) JavaScript 8 1 (3.448 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 2 (6.897 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (3.448 %) Degree
Vendors 1 4 (13.79 %) Microsoft 2 1 (3.448 %) Adobe