The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Framework over the 3 months to 18 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 Nottingham 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 33 22 22
Rank change year-on-year
-11 0
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 3 9 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 1.003% 4.036% 3.265%
As % of the Application Development category 4.545% 11.54% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £270 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £317 £320
% change year-on-year
+2.52% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £33.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+5.10% -4.85%
All Application Development
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
66 78 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 22.07% 34.98% 22.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 50 27
Average daily rate £290 £288 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.86% -4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £240 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £435 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
Average hourly rate £30.00 £8.50 £9.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+252.94% -10.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
.NET Framework
Nottinghamshire

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham .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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham .NET Framework Daily Rate Trend

.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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham .NET Framework Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 11 (100.00%) .NET
2 10 (90.91%) C#
3 7 (63.64%) OO
4 6 (54.55%) WPF
4 6 (54.55%) MVVM
4 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
4 6 (54.55%) ASP.NET
5 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
5 5 (45.45%) jQuery
5 5 (45.45%) WCF
5 5 (45.45%) Dependency Injection
6 4 (36.36%) Ajax
6 4 (36.36%) Visual Studio
6 4 (36.36%) OOD
7 3 (27.27%) SOA
7 3 (27.27%) IIS
7 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
7 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (27.27%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 3 (27.27%) LINQ
8 2 (18.18%) Business Analysis
8 2 (18.18%) MSMQ
8 2 (18.18%) Telerik
8 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (18.18%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 2 (18.18%) Managed Extensibility Framework
8 2 (18.18%) MSTest
8 2 (18.18%) Unity DI Container
8 2 (18.18%) TDD

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 11 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (54.55%) ASP.NET
2 6 (54.55%) WPF
3 5 (45.45%) WCF
3 5 (45.45%) jQuery
4 4 (36.36%) Ajax
5 3 (27.27%) LINQ
5 3 (27.27%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 2 (18.18%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 2 (18.18%) Unity DI Container
6 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (18.18%) SOAP
6 2 (18.18%) Web Services
6 2 (18.18%) MSMQ
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Intranet
2 1 (9.091%) SNMP
2 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) GIS
3 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Visual Studio
2 2 (18.18%) NUnit
2 2 (18.18%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (18.18%) MSTest
3 1 (9.091%) MbUnit
3 1 (9.091%) StyleCop
3 1 (9.091%) CruiseControl
3 1 (9.091%) Subversion
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.091%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (72.73%) .NET Developer
3 5 (45.45%) C# Developer
4 4 (36.36%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (18.18%) WPF Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Senior C# Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Senior .NET Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Front-End Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Java Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.091%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) OO
2 6 (54.55%) MVVM
3 5 (45.45%) Dependency Injection
4 4 (36.36%) OOD
5 3 (27.27%) SOA
5 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (18.18%) TDD
6 2 (18.18%) Business Analysis
6 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
6 2 (18.18%) MVC
7 1 (9.091%) Scrum
7 1 (9.091%) Multithreading
7 1 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.091%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Telerik
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle