Reading .NET Framework Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET Framework skills within the Reading region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET Framework over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft .NET Framework
Location Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bath Batley Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham 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 England Essex Farnborough Fife Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Hampshire Hastings Hertfordshire Hove Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Sale Salford Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thame Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	65	67
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	7	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	2.881 %	2.521 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£325
Average daily rate	£300	£350
% change on same period last year	-14.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£331
% change on same period last year	+1.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	-
Average hourly rate	£35.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.56	£38.66
% change on same period last year	-13.18 %
Application Development Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	243	238
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.324 %	0.241 %
Daily rates quoted	73	77
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£334
Average daily rate	£316	£353
% change on same period last year	-10.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.29	£29.53
Average hourly rate	£34.03	£29.91
% change on same period last year	+13.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.76	£30.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
.NET Framework Berkshire

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 Reading 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 Reading region.

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Framework across the Reading region over the 3 months to 25 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 Reading region.

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 22 (100.00 %) .NET 2 16 (72.73 %) C# 3 15 (68.18 %) ASP.NET 4 13 (59.09 %) SQL Server 5 11 (50.00 %) XML 6 8 (36.36 %) Oracle 6 8 (36.36 %) SharePoint 6 8 (36.36 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 7 (31.82 %) Finance 7 7 (31.82 %) SQL Server 2000 7 7 (31.82 %) J2EE 7 7 (31.82 %) XSLT 8 6 (27.27 %) Windows 8 6 (27.27 %) JavaScript 8 6 (27.27 %) SQL Server 2005

9 5 (22.73 %) Content Management 9 5 (22.73 %) HTML 9 5 (22.73 %) OO 9 5 (22.73 %) Microsoft 9 5 (22.73 %) XHTML 9 5 (22.73 %) BizTalk Server 10 4 (18.18 %) N-Tier 10 4 (18.18 %) XSD 10 4 (18.18 %) WebServices 10 4 (18.18 %) Java 10 4 (18.18 %) SQL 10 4 (18.18 %) Workflow 10 4 (18.18 %) WF 10 4 (18.18 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 4 (18.18 %) CAML

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 22 (100.00 %) .NET 2 15 (68.18 %) ASP.NET 3 11 (50.00 %) XML 4 7 (31.82 %) J2EE 4 7 (31.82 %) XSLT 5 5 (22.73 %) XHTML 5 5 (22.73 %) HTML 6 4 (18.18 %) WebServices 6 4 (18.18 %) XSD 6 4 (18.18 %) WF 6 4 (18.18 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 4 (18.18 %) CAML 7 3 (13.64 %) JAAS 7 3 (13.64 %) MVC 7 3 (13.64 %) AJAX 7 3 (13.64 %) ASP 7 3 (13.64 %) CSS 7 3 (13.64 %) JSP 7 3 (13.64 %) Servlets 8 2 (9.091 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 8 (36.36 %) SharePoint 1 8 (36.36 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 5 (22.73 %) BizTalk Server 3 2 (9.091 %) WebLogic Portal 3 2 (9.091 %) Oracle Application Server 3 2 (9.091 %) ESB 3 2 (9.091 %) WebLogic 3 2 (9.091 %) IIS
Communications & Networking 1 2 (9.091 %) HTTP 2 1 (4.545 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (4.545 %) Intranet 2 1 (4.545 %) Internet 2 1 (4.545 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (59.09 %) SQL Server 2 7 (31.82 %) SQL Server 2000 3 6 (27.27 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (13.64 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (4.545 %) GIS 5 1 (4.545 %) Oracle 9i 5 1 (4.545 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 2 (9.091 %) Visual Studio	General 1 7 (31.82 %) Finance 2 1 (4.545 %) Aerospace 2 1 (4.545 %) Military 2 1 (4.545 %) Banking 2 1 (4.545 %) Retail 2 1 (4.545 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 13 (59.09 %) Developer 2 7 (31.82 %) Consultant 3 2 (9.091 %) C# Developer 3 2 (9.091 %) ASP Developer 3 2 (9.091 %) SharePoint Consultant 4 1 (4.545 %) SharePoint Developer 4 1 (4.545 %) Architect 4 1 (4.545 %) Tester 4 1 (4.545 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (4.545 %) .NET Consultant 4 1 (4.545 %) Solutions Architect 4 1 (4.545 %) Oracle Developer 4 1 (4.545 %) .NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (18.18 %) N-Tier 2 2 (9.091 %) Replication 2 2 (9.091 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 6 (27.27 %) Windows 2 1 (4.545 %) Windows XP 2 1 (4.545 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (4.545 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (22.73 %) OO 1 5 (22.73 %) Content Management 2 4 (18.18 %) Workflow 3 3 (13.64 %) SC Cleared 3 3 (13.64 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (9.091 %) Technical Architecture 4 2 (9.091 %) Load Balancing 4 2 (9.091 %) Integration Testing 4 2 (9.091 %) Migration 4 2 (9.091 %) SOA 4 2 (9.091 %) B2B 4 2 (9.091 %) Configuration Management 4 2 (9.091 %) Project Management 5 1 (4.545 %) CRM 5 1 (4.545 %) Continuous Integration 5 1 (4.545 %) DV Cleared
Programming Languages 1 16 (72.73 %) C# 2 6 (27.27 %) JavaScript 3 4 (18.18 %) SQL 3 4 (18.18 %) Java 4 1 (4.545 %) VC++ 4 1 (4.545 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (4.545 %) C++	Qualifications 1 2 (9.091 %) MCP 1 2 (9.091 %) MCAD 1 2 (9.091 %) MCSD 1 2 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (13.64 %) SLA	System Software 1 1 (4.545 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (4.545 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 8 (36.36 %) Oracle 2 5 (22.73 %) Microsoft 3 3 (13.64 %) FileNet 3 3 (13.64 %) Kofax