Oxford .NET Designer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the .NET Designer role in IT contracts within the Oxford region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

.NET Designer
Location Alderley Edge Brighton Cheshire City of London East of England East Sussex England Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire London Manchester North West Oxford Sale South East UK West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£450	£425
% change on same period last year	+5.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles Oxford
Matching contract IT job ads	276	285
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.364 %	0.284 %
Daily rates quoted	81	53
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£344
Average daily rate	£318	£370
% change on same period last year	-14.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£339	£395
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	53	54
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.07	£22.18
Average hourly rate	£20.30	£24.06
% change on same period last year	-15.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.53	£25.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
.NET Designer Oxfordshire

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.

.NET Designer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing .NET Designer across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

.NET Designer
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region that cited .NET Designer in their job title 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 with .NET Designer in their job title.

1 3 (100.00 %) .NET 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 2 (66.67 %) C# 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (33.33 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) HTML 3 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 3 1 (33.33 %) IIS 3 1 (33.33 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) XML 3 1 (33.33 %) UML

3 1 (33.33 %) Middleware

.NET Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region that cited .NET Designer in their job title 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 with .NET Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (100.00 %) .NET 2 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 2 1 (33.33 %) HTML 2 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) XML 2 1 (33.33 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Visual Studio
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) UML	Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) C# 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) Transact-SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript