The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Job Titles advertised for the Oxfordshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
.NET Developer
Rank 46 28 20
Rank change year-on-year
-18 -8
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 5 24 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 1.131% 3.816% 7.556%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.202% 3.993% 7.852%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 24
Average daily rate £325 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -8.39%
All Job Titles
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
416 601 433
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 94.12% 95.55% 96.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 290 201
Average daily rate £340 £350 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% +18.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £488 £386
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 81 61
Average hourly rate £14.00 £16.50 £14.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.15% +11.86%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £11.00 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.90 £30.00 £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
.NET Developer
South East

.NET Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing .NET Developer across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Oxfordshire .NET Developer Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing .NET Developer across the Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire .NET Developer Daily Rate Trend

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing .NET Developer across the Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire .NET Developer Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Developer within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Oxford -4 2 £325 +23.80%
.NET Developer
South East

.NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited .NET Developer 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 Developer in their job title.

1 32 (100.00%) .NET
2 31 (96.88%) C#
3 23 (71.88%) ASP.NET
4 12 (37.50%) MVC
5 11 (34.38%) SQL Server
6 10 (31.25%) CSS
7 8 (25.00%) TDD
7 8 (25.00%) XML
8 7 (21.88%) Web Services
8 7 (21.88%) JavaScript
8 7 (21.88%) Sitecore
9 6 (18.75%) jQuery
9 6 (18.75%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (18.75%) HTML
9 6 (18.75%) Scrum
9 6 (18.75%) Ajax
10 5 (15.63%) WebSphere
10 5 (15.63%) .NET Framework
10 5 (15.63%) CMS
10 5 (15.63%) Agile Software Development
10 5 (15.63%) Internet
10 5 (15.63%) Windows
10 5 (15.63%) SQL
10 5 (15.63%) VB
11 4 (12.50%) XSLT
11 4 (12.50%) OO
11 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
11 4 (12.50%) Salesforce.com
11 4 (12.50%) WinForms
11 4 (12.50%) Visualforce

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited .NET Developer 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 32 (100.00%) .NET
2 23 (71.88%) ASP.NET
3 10 (31.25%) CSS
4 8 (25.00%) XML
5 7 (21.88%) Web Services
6 6 (18.75%) jQuery
6 6 (18.75%) ASP.NET MVC
6 6 (18.75%) HTML
6 6 (18.75%) Ajax
7 5 (15.63%) WebSphere
7 5 (15.63%) .NET Framework
8 4 (12.50%) XSLT
8 4 (12.50%) WinForms
8 4 (12.50%) Visualforce
8 4 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 3 (9.375%) WCF
9 3 (9.375%) XSL
10 2 (6.250%) ASP
10 2 (6.250%) Middleware
10 2 (6.250%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 5 (15.63%) CMS
2 3 (9.375%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (9.375%) Umbraco
3 2 (6.250%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.125%) EPiServer CMS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) Internet
2 2 (6.250%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (34.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (3.125%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
3 1 (3.125%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.125%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (6.250%) Visual Studio
2 2 (6.250%) MSBuild
2 2 (6.250%) SpecFlow
2 2 (6.250%) JIRA
2 2 (6.250%) Mercurial
General
1 2 (6.250%) Banking
1 2 (6.250%) Law
1 2 (6.250%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.125%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.375%) N-Tier
2 2 (6.250%) SaaS
3 1 (3.125%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) MVC
2 8 (25.00%) TDD
3 6 (18.75%) Scrum
4 5 (15.63%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (12.50%) OO
5 4 (12.50%) Unit Testing
6 3 (9.375%) Test Automation
6 3 (9.375%) Workflow
6 3 (9.375%) Workflow Management
6 3 (9.375%) E-Commerce
7 2 (6.250%) SOA
7 2 (6.250%) OOP
7 2 (6.250%) Data Management
7 2 (6.250%) BDD
7 2 (6.250%) Automation Testing
8 1 (3.125%) Multithreading
8 1 (3.125%) Requirements Analysis
8 1 (3.125%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 31 (96.88%) C#
2 7 (21.88%) JavaScript
3 5 (15.63%) SQL
3 5 (15.63%) VB
4 4 (12.50%) Apex Code
5 3 (9.375%) Python
5 3 (9.375%) VB.NET
6 1 (3.125%) VB6
6 1 (3.125%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.125%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (3.125%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Sitecore
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) Salesforce.com
3 3 (9.375%) IBM
4 1 (3.125%) EPiServer