The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Framework 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 of the Application Development category for the Somerset 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
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 26 16 24
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +8
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 8 22 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 4.348% 12.94% 5.696%
As % of the Application Development category 17.78% 33.33% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 5
Average daily rate £373 £334 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.61% -1.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £298 £179
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £365 £356
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.45% -2.40%
All Application Development
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
45 66 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 24.46% 38.82% 44.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 40 36
Average daily rate £315 £335 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.97% +27.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £230 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £410 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £19.00 - £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET Framework
South West

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing .NET Framework across the Somerset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Somerset .NET Framework Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Trend

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

Somerset .NET Framework Daily Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Somerset .NET Framework Daily Rate Histogram

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Somerset .NET Framework Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 20 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
Taunton -8 5 £458 +28.11%
Bath +4 1 £200 -32.77%
.NET Framework
South West

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 41 (100.00%) .NET
2 39 (95.12%) C#
3 38 (92.68%) JavaScript
3 38 (92.68%) SQL Server
4 35 (85.37%) ASP.NET
5 34 (82.93%) HTML
6 32 (78.05%) SQL
6 32 (78.05%) ASP
7 30 (73.17%) XML
7 30 (73.17%) ITIL
7 30 (73.17%) VB
7 30 (73.17%) SharePoint
7 30 (73.17%) Microsoft
8 29 (70.73%) Oracle
8 29 (70.73%) UML
9 28 (68.29%) Java
10 27 (65.85%) VB.NET
11 26 (63.41%) IIS
12 25 (60.98%) C++
12 25 (60.98%) UNIX
13 24 (58.54%) Ingres
14 23 (56.10%) ISEB
14 23 (56.10%) OpenROAD
15 19 (46.34%) Unit Testing
16 18 (43.90%) Security Cleared
17 17 (41.46%) Continuous Integration
18 15 (36.59%) Service Delivery
19 14 (34.15%) Service Management
20 13 (31.71%) ITSM
20 13 (31.71%) Microsoft Certification

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 41 (100.00%) .NET
2 35 (85.37%) ASP.NET
3 34 (82.93%) HTML
4 32 (78.05%) ASP
5 30 (73.17%) XML
6 6 (14.63%) CSS
7 5 (12.20%) XSL
7 5 (12.20%) Ajax
7 5 (12.20%) HTML5
7 5 (12.20%) jQuery
7 5 (12.20%) Ext JS
8 4 (9.756%) LINQ
8 4 (9.756%) WCF
9 3 (7.317%) WPF
9 3 (7.317%) WF
10 2 (4.878%) XHTML
11 1 (2.439%) Web Services
11 1 (2.439%) ADO.NET
11 1 (2.439%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 1 (2.439%) Sass
Application Platforms
1 30 (73.17%) SharePoint
2 26 (63.41%) IIS
3 23 (56.10%) OpenROAD
4 4 (9.756%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (2.439%) Apache
5 1 (2.439%) WebLogic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (92.68%) SQL Server
2 24 (58.54%) Ingres
3 12 (29.27%) SQLPlus
4 6 (14.63%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (9.756%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (7.317%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (31.71%) NUnit
1 13 (31.71%) Subversion
1 13 (31.71%) MSTest
2 12 (29.27%) Visual Studio
3 10 (24.39%) Jenkins
3 10 (24.39%) TeamCity
3 10 (24.39%) Team Foundation Server
4 9 (21.95%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 9 (21.95%) CruiseControl
Job Titles
1 35 (85.37%) Developer
2 20 (48.78%) .NET Developer
3 16 (39.02%) Analyst
4 13 (31.71%) Analyst Developer
5 12 (29.27%) C# Developer
5 12 (29.27%) C# .NET Developer
6 10 (24.39%) Senior Developer
7 9 (21.95%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (17.07%) Senior Analyst Developer
9 6 (14.63%) Support Analyst
10 5 (12.20%) ASP.NET Developer
10 5 (12.20%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 3 (7.317%) Senior Support Analyst
11 3 (7.317%) Developer Analyst
12 1 (2.439%) Senior .NET Developer
12 1 (2.439%) Applications Support Analyst
12 1 (2.439%) SQL Developer
12 1 (2.439%) Applications Support
12 1 (2.439%) Analyst Programmer
12 1 (2.439%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.439%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.439%) iPhone
2 1 (2.439%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 25 (60.98%) UNIX
2 1 (2.439%) Android
2 1 (2.439%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (73.17%) ITIL
2 29 (70.73%) UML
3 19 (46.34%) Unit Testing
4 17 (41.46%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (36.59%) Service Delivery
6 14 (34.15%) Service Management
7 13 (31.71%) ITSM
8 7 (17.07%) MVC
9 5 (12.20%) RAD
9 5 (12.20%) Waterfall
10 4 (9.756%) Mobile Application Development
10 4 (9.756%) Performance Management
10 4 (9.756%) PRINCE2
11 3 (7.317%) SOA
11 3 (7.317%) Change Management
11 3 (7.317%) Pair Programming
11 3 (7.317%) TOGAF
12 1 (2.439%) Incident Management
12 1 (2.439%) Enterprise Architecture
12 1 (2.439%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 39 (95.12%) C#
2 38 (92.68%) JavaScript
3 32 (78.05%) SQL
4 30 (73.17%) VB
5 28 (68.29%) Java
6 27 (65.85%) VB.NET
7 25 (60.98%) C++
8 6 (14.63%) C
9 5 (12.20%) VBScript
9 5 (12.20%) VB6
10 1 (2.439%) PHP
Qualifications
1 23 (56.10%) ISEB
2 18 (43.90%) Security Cleared
3 13 (31.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (21.95%) MCP
4 9 (21.95%) MCTS
4 9 (21.95%) MCPD
5 8 (19.51%) SC Cleared
6 4 (9.756%) MCSD
6 4 (9.756%) ISEB Practitioner
6 4 (9.756%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (4.878%) Degree
8 1 (2.439%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) ISO 9000
2 4 (9.756%) TickIT
2 4 (9.756%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (7.317%) COBIT
Vendors
1 30 (73.17%) Microsoft
2 29 (70.73%) Oracle
3 1 (2.439%) ATG