The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Framework over the 3 months to 23 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 Oxford 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 34 - 25
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 1 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 0.431% - 1.198%
As % of the Application Development category 2.778% - 2.817%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £325 - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.45% -2.40%
All Application Development
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
36 90 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 15.52% 26.79% 42.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 53 49
Average daily rate £325 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £220 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £12.28
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +144.39%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET Framework
Oxfordshire

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford .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 Oxford region.

Oxford .NET Framework Daily Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) MVC
2 3 (75.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (50.00%) OO
3 2 (50.00%) LINQ
3 2 (50.00%) jQuery
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) WPF
4 1 (25.00%) Windows
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (25.00%) Razor View Engine

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (50.00%) LINQ
3 2 (50.00%) jQuery
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
4 1 (25.00%) WPF
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Programmer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Programmer
3 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#