The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Framework over the 3 months to 17 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 Nottinghamshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 33 19 23
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +4
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 8 22 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 2.424% 7.746% 4.027%
As % of the Application Development category 7.767% 18.03% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 1
Average daily rate £293 £283 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.53% -13.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
All Application Development
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
103 122 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 31.21% 42.96% 26.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 72 32
Average daily rate £325 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £263 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 4
Average hourly rate £27.50 £8.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+223.52% -78.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET Framework
East Midlands

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire .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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire .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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire .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 Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Nottingham -9 6 £293 +7.33%
.NET Framework
East Midlands

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 16 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (87.50%) C#
3 10 (62.50%) SQL Server
3 10 (62.50%) ASP.NET
4 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
4 9 (56.25%) jQuery
5 7 (43.75%) WCF
5 7 (43.75%) OO
6 6 (37.50%) MVC
6 6 (37.50%) WPF
6 6 (37.50%) LINQ
6 6 (37.50%) Ajax
6 6 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
6 6 (37.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 5 (31.25%) MVVM
7 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
8 4 (25.00%) Intranet
8 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
8 4 (25.00%) OOD
8 4 (25.00%) Telerik
8 4 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 4 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
8 4 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
9 3 (18.75%) Windows
9 3 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (18.75%) SOA
9 3 (18.75%) SQL
9 3 (18.75%) Finance
9 3 (18.75%) IIS

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 16 (100.00%) .NET
2 10 (62.50%) ASP.NET
3 9 (56.25%) jQuery
4 7 (43.75%) WCF
5 6 (37.50%) WPF
5 6 (37.50%) LINQ
5 6 (37.50%) Ajax
5 6 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 6 (37.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 4 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 2 (12.50%) Managed Extensibility Framework
7 2 (12.50%) Unity DI Container
7 2 (12.50%) HTML
7 2 (12.50%) CSS
7 2 (12.50%) SOAP
7 2 (12.50%) Web Services
8 1 (6.250%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) IIS
2 2 (12.50%) MSMQ
2 2 (12.50%) Sitefinity
3 1 (6.250%) BizTalk Server
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Intranet
2 1 (6.250%) SNMP
2 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (12.50%) GIS
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (12.50%) NUnit
2 2 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (12.50%) MSTest
3 1 (6.250%) MbUnit
3 1 (6.250%) StyleCop
3 1 (6.250%) CruiseControl
3 1 (6.250%) Subversion
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 1 (6.250%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
2 12 (75.00%) .NET Developer
3 5 (31.25%) C# Developer
4 4 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
6 2 (12.50%) WPF Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Senior C# Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
7 1 (6.250%) Front-End Developer
7 1 (6.250%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) Client/Server
1 1 (6.250%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 1 (6.250%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) OO
2 6 (37.50%) MVC
3 5 (31.25%) MVVM
4 4 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
4 4 (25.00%) OOD
5 3 (18.75%) SOA
5 3 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (12.50%) TDD
6 2 (12.50%) Business Analysis
6 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 2 (12.50%) Web Application Development
6 2 (12.50%) Scrum
7 1 (6.250%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (6.250%) Unit Testing
7 1 (6.250%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) C#
2 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 1 (6.250%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Telerik
3 1 (6.250%) DevExpress
3 1 (6.250%) Oracle