Nottingham .NET Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET (dotNet) skills within the Nottingham 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Ceredigion Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dumbarton Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kendal Kent Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lyndhurst 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 Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	14
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	39	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.055 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	44.83 %	36.84 %
Daily rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum daily rate	£281	£269
Average daily rate	£338	£272
% change on same period last year	+24.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£395	£275
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£326
% change on same period last year	+0.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£32.50
% change on same period last year	+7.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.99	£32.56
% change on same period last year	-4.81 %
Application Development Nottingham
Matching contract IT job ads	87	57
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.122 %	0.058 %
Daily rates quoted	15	10
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£335
Average daily rate	£332	£339
% change on same period last year	-2.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.00	£27.50
Average hourly rate	£28.85	£29.00
% change on same period last year	-0.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.70	£30.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.10	£32.14
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
.NET Nottinghamshire

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 Nottingham 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 Nottingham 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 Nottingham region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing .NET across the Nottingham 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 Nottingham region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 54 (55.10 %) C# 2 39 (39.80 %) SQL 3 35 (35.71 %) XML 4 26 (26.53 %) SQL Server 5 24 (24.49 %) ASP.NET 5 24 (24.49 %) WebServices 6 22 (22.45 %) Java 7 19 (19.39 %) XSLT 8 18 (18.37 %) Oracle 8 18 (18.37 %) Finance 9 17 (17.35 %) Windows 10 15 (15.31 %) Uniface 11 14 (14.29 %) Agile Software Development 12 12 (12.24 %) HTML 13 11 (11.22 %) ASP

13 11 (11.22 %) Microsoft 13 11 (11.22 %) SQL Server 2005 14 10 (10.20 %) Unit Testing 14 10 (10.20 %) Government 14 10 (10.20 %) SQLPlus 14 10 (10.20 %) PL/SQL 15 9 (9.184 %) Configuration Management 16 8 (8.163 %) AJAX 16 8 (8.163 %) Scrum 16 8 (8.163 %) Visual Studio 16 8 (8.163 %) LAN 16 8 (8.163 %) WAN 17 7 (7.143 %) TCP/IP 17 7 (7.143 %) VB.NET 17 7 (7.143 %) Firewall

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 35 (35.71 %) XML 2 24 (24.49 %) WebServices 2 24 (24.49 %) ASP.NET 3 19 (19.39 %) XSLT 4 12 (12.24 %) HTML 5 11 (11.22 %) ASP 6 8 (8.163 %) AJAX 7 7 (7.143 %) WCF 8 6 (6.122 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 4 (4.082 %) .NET Framework 10 3 (3.061 %) Windows SharePoint Services 10 3 (3.061 %) CSS 10 3 (3.061 %) SOAP 10 3 (3.061 %) Swing 11 2 (2.041 %) XHTML 12 1 (1.020 %) CGI 12 1 (1.020 %) .NET Remoting 12 1 (1.020 %) XSL 12 1 (1.020 %) WF 12 1 (1.020 %) LINQ	Application Platforms 1 4 (4.082 %) SharePoint 2 3 (3.061 %) BizTalk Server 2 3 (3.061 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 2 (2.041 %) Commerce Server 4 1 (1.020 %) CMS 4 1 (1.020 %) IIS 4 1 (1.020 %) Tomcat 4 1 (1.020 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (1.020 %) ColdFusion 4 1 (1.020 %) CICS
Applications 1 2 (2.041 %) MS Visio 2 1 (1.020 %) Fireworks 2 1 (1.020 %) Photoshop 2 1 (1.020 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (1.020 %) Navision
Communications & Networking 1 8 (8.163 %) LAN 1 8 (8.163 %) WAN 2 7 (7.143 %) TCP/IP 2 7 (7.143 %) Firewall 3 6 (6.122 %) Intranet 3 6 (6.122 %) Internet 4 2 (2.041 %) HTTP 5 1 (1.020 %) SMS 5 1 (1.020 %) X.509 5 1 (1.020 %) VPN 5 1 (1.020 %) SSL 5 1 (1.020 %) Wireless 5 1 (1.020 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 26 (26.53 %) SQL Server 2 11 (11.22 %) SQL Server 2005 3 10 (10.20 %) SQLPlus 4 7 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2000 5 4 (4.082 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 3 (3.061 %) DTS 6 3 (3.061 %) ETL 6 3 (3.061 %) OLAP 6 3 (3.061 %) Crystal Reports 6 3 (3.061 %) Oracle OLAP 7 2 (2.041 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 1 (1.020 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 1 (1.020 %) Reference Data
Development Applications 1 8 (8.163 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (4.082 %) LoadRunner 3 3 (3.061 %) WinRunner 3 3 (3.061 %) TestDirector 4 1 (1.020 %) Dreamweaver 4 1 (1.020 %) Subversion	General 1 18 (18.37 %) Finance 2 10 (10.20 %) Government 3 5 (5.102 %) Banking 4 1 (1.020 %) Insurance 4 1 (1.020 %) Marketing 4 1 (1.020 %) Automotive 4 1 (1.020 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 49 (50.00 %) Developer 2 17 (17.35 %) .NET Developer 3 11 (11.22 %) C# Developer 3 11 (11.22 %) Analyst 4 9 (9.184 %) Uniface Developer 5 7 (7.143 %) Software Engineer 6 6 (6.122 %) Support Technician 6 6 (6.122 %) Test Engineer 6 6 (6.122 %) Software Test Engineer 6 6 (6.122 %) IT Support Technician 7 5 (5.102 %) Web Developer 8 4 (4.082 %) Architect 8 4 (4.082 %) Tester 8 4 (4.082 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 4 (4.082 %) Applications Support 8 4 (4.082 %) SQL Developer 8 4 (4.082 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 3 (3.061 %) SharePoint Developer 9 3 (3.061 %) Support Analyst 9 3 (3.061 %) Applications Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 5 (5.102 %) Mainframe 2 2 (2.041 %) PKI 2 2 (2.041 %) W3C 3 1 (1.020 %) Web 2.0 3 1 (1.020 %) Multithreading 3 1 (1.020 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 17 (17.35 %) Windows 2 6 (6.122 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 4 (4.082 %) UNIX 4 3 (3.061 %) Linux 5 2 (2.041 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (1.020 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (14.29 %) Agile Software Development 2 10 (10.20 %) Unit Testing 3 9 (9.184 %) Configuration Management 4 8 (8.163 %) Scrum 5 7 (7.143 %) Test Scripting 6 6 (6.122 %) Manual Testing 6 6 (6.122 %) CRM 6 6 (6.122 %) ERP 7 5 (5.102 %) UML 7 5 (5.102 %) OO 8 4 (4.082 %) Regression Testing 9 3 (3.061 %) SOA 9 3 (3.061 %) Automated Testing 10 2 (2.041 %) Web Development 10 2 (2.041 %) Use Case 10 2 (2.041 %) Release Management 10 2 (2.041 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 2 (2.041 %) Project Management 10 2 (2.041 %) Change Management 10 2 (2.041 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 54 (55.10 %) C# 2 39 (39.80 %) SQL 3 22 (22.45 %) Java 4 15 (15.31 %) Uniface 5 10 (10.20 %) PL/SQL 6 7 (7.143 %) VB.NET 7 5 (5.102 %) JavaScript 8 3 (3.061 %) Perl 8 3 (3.061 %) C++ 9 2 (2.041 %) COBOL 9 2 (2.041 %) C 9 2 (2.041 %) Transact-SQL 10 1 (1.020 %) VB 10 1 (1.020 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 1 (1.020 %) MCSE 1 1 (1.020 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.020 %) SLA 1 1 (1.020 %) QA	System Software 1 6 (6.122 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.020 %) MSMQ
Vendors 1 18 (18.37 %) Oracle 2 11 (11.22 %) Microsoft 3 2 (2.041 %) Cisco 3 2 (2.041 %) HP 3 2 (2.041 %) Citrix 4 1 (1.020 %) Sun