Somerset .NET Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET (dotNet) skills within the Somerset 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 over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Aldershot Altrincham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Ceredigion Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dumbarton Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hastings Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kendal Kent Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	29
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	52	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.069 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	45.22 %	23.29 %
Daily rates quoted	16	3
Average minimum daily rate	£253	£250
Average daily rate	£282	£288
% change on same period last year	-2.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£311	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£329
% change on same period last year	+1.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.91	£25.33
Average hourly rate	£27.73	£27.67
% change on same period last year	+0.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.55	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.05	£33.24
% change on same period last year	-0.56 %
Application Development Somerset
Matching contract IT job ads	115	73
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.152 %	0.073 %
Daily rates quoted	27	8
Average minimum daily rate	£271	£267
Average daily rate	£296	£292
% change on same period last year	+1.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£318
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	42	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.64	£29.35
Average hourly rate	£30.69	£31.03
% change on same period last year	-1.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.73	£32.72
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.73	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-1.67 %
.NET South West

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
Demand Trend

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

.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Bath	+4	30	£271	-9.72 %
Street	-	5	£308	-
Taunton	+3	1	-	-

.NET South West

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing .NET 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.

1 46 (63.89 %) C# 2 36 (50.00 %) SQL Server 3 31 (43.06 %) ASP.NET 4 21 (29.17 %) HTML 5 17 (23.61 %) .NET Framework 6 16 (22.22 %) SQL 6 16 (22.22 %) CSS 7 15 (20.83 %) JavaScript 8 14 (19.44 %) Microsoft 9 13 (18.06 %) SQL Server 2005 10 12 (16.67 %) MS Excel 11 9 (12.50 %) C++ 11 9 (12.50 %) XML 11 9 (12.50 %) ADO.NET 11 9 (12.50 %) Windows

12 7 (9.722 %) XHTML 12 7 (9.722 %) WebServices 12 7 (9.722 %) VBScript 12 7 (9.722 %) DTS 12 7 (9.722 %) E-Commerce 13 6 (8.333 %) RDBMS 13 6 (8.333 %) Commerce Server 13 6 (8.333 %) Java 13 6 (8.333 %) CMS 14 5 (6.944 %) Finance 14 5 (6.944 %) C 14 5 (6.944 %) Oracle 14 5 (6.944 %) Internet 15 4 (5.556 %) Symbian 15 4 (5.556 %) GIS

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing .NET 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 31 (43.06 %) ASP.NET 2 21 (29.17 %) HTML 3 17 (23.61 %) .NET Framework 4 16 (22.22 %) CSS 5 9 (12.50 %) XML 5 9 (12.50 %) ADO.NET 6 7 (9.722 %) XHTML 6 7 (9.722 %) WebServices 7 4 (5.556 %) ASP 7 4 (5.556 %) J2ME 7 4 (5.556 %) MIDP 8 3 (4.167 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 3 (4.167 %) AJAX 9 2 (2.778 %) XSL 9 2 (2.778 %) WPF 9 2 (2.778 %) Silverlight 10 1 (1.389 %) WinForms 10 1 (1.389 %) ArcObjects 10 1 (1.389 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 6 (8.333 %) Commerce Server 1 6 (8.333 %) CMS 2 3 (4.167 %) ArcGIS 2 3 (4.167 %) ArcIMS 3 2 (2.778 %) BizTalk Server 3 2 (2.778 %) SharePoint 3 2 (2.778 %) IIS 4 1 (1.389 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (1.389 %) Commerce Server 2007
Applications 1 12 (16.67 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (1.389 %) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking 1 5 (6.944 %) Internet 2 1 (1.389 %) Extranet 2 1 (1.389 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 36 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 13 (18.06 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (9.722 %) DTS 4 6 (8.333 %) RDBMS 5 4 (5.556 %) GIS 5 4 (5.556 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (1.389 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 3 (4.167 %) Flash 2 1 (1.389 %) C++Builder 2 1 (1.389 %) NUnit 2 1 (1.389 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (1.389 %) TestDirector	General 1 5 (6.944 %) Finance 2 2 (2.778 %) Investment Banking 2 2 (2.778 %) Marketing 2 2 (2.778 %) Banking 2 2 (2.778 %) Education 3 1 (1.389 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (1.389 %) Publishing 3 1 (1.389 %) Telecoms 3 1 (1.389 %) Front Office
Job Titles 1 61 (84.72 %) Developer 2 30 (41.67 %) .NET Developer 3 13 (18.06 %) C# Developer 4 10 (13.89 %) Web Developer 5 9 (12.50 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 6 (8.333 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 5 (6.944 %) SQL Developer 8 4 (5.556 %) GIS Developer 9 3 (4.167 %) C++ Developer 9 3 (4.167 %) .NET Web Developer 9 3 (4.167 %) SQL Server Developer 9 3 (4.167 %) Web Designer 10 2 (2.778 %) Software Engineer 10 2 (2.778 %) VB.NET Developer 10 2 (2.778 %) C# Web Developer 10 2 (2.778 %) C++/C# Developer 11 1 (1.389 %) Systems Tester 11 1 (1.389 %) HTML Developer 11 1 (1.389 %) Systems Support Engineer 11 1 (1.389 %) Senior .NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (5.556 %) Handset 2 2 (2.778 %) Podcast 2 2 (2.778 %) Grid Computing 3 1 (1.389 %) E-Learning 3 1 (1.389 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems 1 9 (12.50 %) Windows 2 1 (1.389 %) Embedded Linux 2 1 (1.389 %) Linux 2 1 (1.389 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (9.722 %) E-Commerce 2 3 (4.167 %) Web Development 3 2 (2.778 %) ERP 3 2 (2.778 %) OOD 3 2 (2.778 %) UML 4 1 (1.389 %) Validation 4 1 (1.389 %) Stakeholder Management 4 1 (1.389 %) Web Design 4 1 (1.389 %) Content Management 4 1 (1.389 %) Information Management 4 1 (1.389 %) Usability Testing 4 1 (1.389 %) Manual Testing 4 1 (1.389 %) BC Cleared 4 1 (1.389 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 46 (63.89 %) C# 2 16 (22.22 %) SQL 3 15 (20.83 %) JavaScript 4 9 (12.50 %) C++ 5 7 (9.722 %) VBScript 6 6 (8.333 %) Java 7 5 (6.944 %) C 8 3 (4.167 %) VB.NET 8 3 (4.167 %) Transact-SQL 9 2 (2.778 %) PHP 9 2 (2.778 %) XAML 10 1 (1.389 %) VB6 10 1 (1.389 %) VC++ 10 1 (1.389 %) VBA 10 1 (1.389 %) VB	Qualifications 1 1 (1.389 %) Degree
Vendors 1 14 (19.44 %) Microsoft 2 5 (6.944 %) Oracle 3 4 (5.556 %) Symbian 4 3 (4.167 %) ESRI 5 2 (2.778 %) SAP 6 1 (1.389 %) Sybase 6 1 (1.389 %) Macromedia 6 1 (1.389 %) Borland