Oxfordshire .NET Framework Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET Framework skills within the Oxfordshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited .NET Framework over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft .NET Framework
Location Basingstoke Bath Batley Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Fife Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hampshire Hastings Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool Livingston London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	41
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	12	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	6.122 %	4.494 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£367	-
Average daily rate	£403	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£440	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£346
% change on same period last year	-0.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.04	£39.39
% change on same period last year	-16.12 %
Application Development Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	196	178
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.258 %	0.189 %
Daily rates quoted	40	40
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£299
Average daily rate	£322	£323
% change on same period last year	-0.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.19	£23.10
Average hourly rate	£20.85	£25.60
% change on same period last year	-18.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.52	£28.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
.NET Framework South East

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 Framework
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing .NET Framework across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Trend

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

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Framework across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Trend

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

.NET Framework
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing .NET Framework within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Oxford	+9	6	£450	-

.NET Framework South East

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 12 (75.00 %) C# 3 9 (56.25 %) SQL Server 4 8 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 5 6 (37.50 %) Microsoft 6 5 (31.25 %) SQL Server 2005 6 5 (31.25 %) ASP 6 5 (31.25 %) HTML 7 4 (25.00 %) SQL 7 4 (25.00 %) SharePoint 8 3 (18.75 %) Windows 8 3 (18.75 %) JavaScript 8 3 (18.75 %) XML 8 3 (18.75 %) VB 8 3 (18.75 %) Visual Studio

8 3 (18.75 %) BizTalk Server 8 3 (18.75 %) Internet 8 3 (18.75 %) Marketing 9 2 (12.50 %) Digital Marketing 9 2 (12.50 %) WinForms 9 2 (12.50 %) X++ 9 2 (12.50 %) SharePoint Server 2007 9 2 (12.50 %) VB6 9 2 (12.50 %) Content Management 9 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 2 (12.50 %) Dynamics AX 9 2 (12.50 %) CMS 9 2 (12.50 %) Axapta 9 2 (12.50 %) Configuration Management 9 2 (12.50 %) VSS/SourceSafe

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 8 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (31.25 %) HTML 3 5 (31.25 %) ASP 4 3 (18.75 %) XML 5 2 (12.50 %) XSLT 5 2 (12.50 %) CSS 5 2 (12.50 %) WinForms 5 2 (12.50 %) XHTML 6 1 (6.250 %) OLE DB 6 1 (6.250 %) Windows SharePoint Services 6 1 (6.250 %) WCF 6 1 (6.250 %) Google Maps API 6 1 (6.250 %) ODBC 6 1 (6.250 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 4 (25.00 %) SharePoint 2 3 (18.75 %) BizTalk Server 3 2 (12.50 %) CMS 3 2 (12.50 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (6.250 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) Photoshop 1 1 (6.250 %) Fireworks 1 1 (6.250 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) Axapta 1 2 (12.50 %) Dynamics AX 2 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft CRM 2 1 (6.250 %) Great Plains
Communications & Networking 1 3 (18.75 %) Internet 2 1 (6.250 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (56.25 %) SQL Server 2 5 (31.25 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 3 (18.75 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (12.50 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (6.250 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 3 (18.75 %) Marketing 2 1 (6.250 %) Finance 2 1 (6.250 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 13 (81.25 %) Developer 2 6 (37.50 %) .NET Developer 2 6 (37.50 %) C# Developer 3 3 (18.75 %) Web Developer 3 3 (18.75 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 3 (18.75 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) .NET Web Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) VB6 Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Lead C# Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) C# Web Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) SharePoint Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Dynamics AX Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Lead Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Project Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) Trainer 5 1 (6.250 %) VB Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) ASP Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.250 %) Client/Server 1 1 (6.250 %) Mashup
Operating Systems 1 3 (18.75 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (12.50 %) OOA/OOD 1 2 (12.50 %) OO 1 2 (12.50 %) Configuration Management 1 2 (12.50 %) Content Management 1 2 (12.50 %) Digital Marketing 2 1 (6.250 %) UML 2 1 (6.250 %) Web Development 2 1 (6.250 %) Project Management 2 1 (6.250 %) Workflow 2 1 (6.250 %) RUP 2 1 (6.250 %) CRM 2 1 (6.250 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 12 (75.00 %) C# 2 4 (25.00 %) SQL 3 3 (18.75 %) JavaScript 3 3 (18.75 %) VB 4 2 (12.50 %) VB6 4 2 (12.50 %) X++ 4 2 (12.50 %) Transact-SQL 4 2 (12.50 %) VBScript 5 1 (6.250 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 2 (12.50 %) MCDBA 1 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (6.250 %) MCTS
Vendors 1 6 (37.50 %) Microsoft 2 1 (6.250 %) Intel 2 1 (6.250 %) Google