The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Programmer 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 Programmer 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 Programmer
Rank 49 50 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Programmer 2 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.452% 0.318% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.481% 0.333% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £325 £225 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+44.44% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £288 £275
% change year-on-year
+30.43% +4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £36.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
- +71.42%
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 Programmer
South East

.NET Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire .NET Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire .NET Programmer Daily Rate Trend

.NET Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire .NET Programmer Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Programmer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Programmer 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 +44.44%
.NET Programmer
South East

.NET Programmer
Top 22 Related IT Skills

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

1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (71.43%) VB.NET
2 5 (71.43%) VBA
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle
2 5 (71.43%) MS Office
2 5 (71.43%) Visual Studio
2 5 (71.43%) Web Services
2 5 (71.43%) XML
2 5 (71.43%) MS Excel
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Hyperion
2 5 (71.43%) HFM
2 5 (71.43%) XPath
2 5 (71.43%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
3 2 (28.57%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) CMS
4 1 (14.29%) Windows
4 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
4 1 (14.29%) EPiServer
4 1 (14.29%) EPiServer CMS
4 1 (14.29%) WPF
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework

.NET Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (71.43%) Web Services
2 5 (71.43%) XML
3 1 (14.29%) WPF
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) CMS
1 1 (14.29%) EPiServer CMS
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) MS Office
1 5 (71.43%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (71.43%) HFM
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Visual Studio
1 5 (71.43%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) VB.NET
1 5 (71.43%) VBA
1 5 (71.43%) XPath
2 2 (28.57%) C#
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
1 5 (71.43%) Hyperion
2 1 (14.29%) EPiServer