The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 20 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 Reading 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
.NET Developer
Rank 50 67 42
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -25
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 21 13 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 2.485% 1.220% 3.965%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.717% 1.329% 4.501%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 31
Average daily rate £368 £250 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+47.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £200 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £370 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
773 978 911
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.48% 91.74% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 327 407
Average daily rate £375 £350 £362
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -3.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £215 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 56 39
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.12% +10.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £11.25 £10.34
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £24.35 £33.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
.NET Developer
Berkshire

.NET Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading .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 Reading region.

Reading .NET Developer Daily Rate Trend

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the Reading region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Reading .NET Developer Daily Rate Histogram

.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 Reading region.

Reading .NET Developer Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 52 (100.00%) .NET
2 42 (80.77%) C#
3 32 (61.54%) ASP.NET
3 32 (61.54%) MVC
4 30 (57.69%) SQL Server
5 29 (55.77%) TDD
6 26 (50.00%) CSS
6 26 (50.00%) jQuery
7 21 (40.38%) WCF
8 20 (38.46%) JavaScript
8 20 (38.46%) Agile Software Development
9 18 (34.62%) Scrum
9 18 (34.62%) .NET Framework
9 18 (34.62%) ASP.NET MVC
10 17 (32.69%) Web Services
11 16 (30.77%) HTML5
12 15 (28.85%) BDD
13 14 (26.92%) SOA
14 13 (25.00%) Microsoft
14 13 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
15 12 (23.08%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
16 11 (21.15%) SpecFlow
16 11 (21.15%) Visual Studio
16 11 (21.15%) SQL
16 11 (21.15%) Telecoms
16 11 (21.15%) Banking
17 10 (19.23%) HTML
17 10 (19.23%) Team Foundation Server
18 8 (15.38%) XML
19 7 (13.46%) Ajax

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 52 (100.00%) .NET
2 32 (61.54%) ASP.NET
3 26 (50.00%) CSS
3 26 (50.00%) jQuery
4 21 (40.38%) WCF
5 18 (34.62%) .NET Framework
5 18 (34.62%) ASP.NET MVC
6 17 (32.69%) Web Services
7 16 (30.77%) HTML5
8 13 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 12 (23.08%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 10 (19.23%) HTML
11 8 (15.38%) XML
12 7 (13.46%) Ajax
12 7 (13.46%) LINQ
13 6 (11.54%) CSS3
13 6 (11.54%) Razor View Engine
13 6 (11.54%) ASP.NET MVC 4
13 6 (11.54%) Middleware
14 5 (9.615%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 4 (7.692%) MSMQ
2 3 (5.769%) CMS
2 3 (5.769%) ESB
2 3 (5.769%) Windows Azure
2 3 (5.769%) Amazon AWS
3 2 (3.846%) IIS
4 1 (1.923%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.923%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 3 (5.769%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.923%) GSM
1 1 (1.923%) Intranet
1 1 (1.923%) 3G
1 1 (1.923%) Wireless
1 1 (1.923%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (57.69%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.769%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (5.769%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (5.769%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (3.846%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.923%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (1.923%) MS Access
4 1 (1.923%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 11 (21.15%) Visual Studio
1 11 (21.15%) SpecFlow
2 10 (19.23%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (11.54%) JIRA
4 3 (5.769%) MSTest
4 3 (5.769%) Jasmine
4 3 (5.769%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.923%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (1.923%) Moq
5 1 (1.923%) Appcelerator Titanium
5 1 (1.923%) ReSharper
5 1 (1.923%) StarTeam
General
1 11 (21.15%) Telecoms
1 11 (21.15%) Banking
2 2 (3.846%) Finance
3 1 (1.923%) Billing
3 1 (1.923%) Polish Language
3 1 (1.923%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.846%) Inversion of Control
1 2 (3.846%) iPad
1 2 (3.846%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.923%) W3C
2 1 (1.923%) Digital Media
2 1 (1.923%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.54%) Windows
2 1 (1.923%) Android
2 1 (1.923%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (61.54%) MVC
2 29 (55.77%) TDD
3 20 (38.46%) Agile Software Development
4 18 (34.62%) Scrum
5 15 (28.85%) BDD
6 14 (26.92%) SOA
7 6 (11.54%) Automation Testing
8 4 (7.692%) Kanban
8 4 (7.692%) UML
8 4 (7.692%) OO
8 4 (7.692%) Web Development
9 3 (5.769%) Domain-Driven Design
9 3 (5.769%) Dependency Injection
10 2 (3.846%) ETL
11 1 (1.923%) Stakeholder Management
11 1 (1.923%) CRM
11 1 (1.923%) OOD
11 1 (1.923%) Unit Testing
11 1 (1.923%) Continuous Integration
11 1 (1.923%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 42 (80.77%) C#
2 20 (38.46%) JavaScript
3 11 (21.15%) SQL
4 5 (9.615%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.923%) VBA
5 1 (1.923%) VB
Vendors
1 13 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.615%) Oracle
3 1 (1.923%) HP
3 1 (1.923%) Cramer
3 1 (1.923%) Twitter
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