The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 South East 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 104 109 119
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +10
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 127 151 133
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 1.624% 1.493% 1.293%
As % of the Application Development category 6.570% 6.545% 4.893%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 71 58
Average daily rate £325 £365 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.95% +12.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £277 £288 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 4
Average hourly rate £30.00 £40.75 £41.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.38% -1.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.00 £37.95 £21.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £51.25 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.45% -2.40%
All Application Development
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1933 2307 2718
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 24.72% 22.81% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1011 1146 1231
Average daily rate £350 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 105 194
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £39.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -10.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £17.50 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £41.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET Framework
England

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East .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 South East region.

South East .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 South East region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

South East .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 South East region.

South East .NET Framework Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

South East .NET Framework Hourly Rate Histogram

.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 South East 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
Berkshire +20 33 £375 +2.73%
Hampshire +11 33 £310 -0.80%
Surrey +8 26 £328 -18.12%
Buckinghamshire +4 22 £325 +5.69%
West Sussex +8 4 £335 -10.66%
East Sussex -1 3 £400 -15.78%
Kent -3 2 - -
Thames Valley +8 1 - -
Oxfordshire -2 1 £325 -13.33%
Home Counties - 1 £400 -
.NET Framework
England

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 256 (100.00%) .NET
2 224 (87.50%) C#
3 173 (67.58%) SQL Server
4 115 (44.92%) ASP.NET
5 112 (43.75%) SQL
6 110 (42.97%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 106 (41.41%) MVC
8 103 (40.23%) Microsoft
9 100 (39.06%) HTML
10 85 (33.20%) WCF
11 84 (32.81%) XML
12 83 (32.42%) CSS
13 79 (30.86%) jQuery
14 78 (30.47%) JavaScript
15 74 (28.91%) Scrum
16 72 (28.13%) LINQ
17 64 (25.00%) Windows
17 64 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
18 61 (23.83%) Agile Software Development
19 59 (23.05%) Visual Studio
20 58 (22.66%) TDD
21 57 (22.27%) SQL Server 2008
22 48 (18.75%) MS Excel
22 48 (18.75%) SharePoint
23 47 (18.36%) Web Services
24 46 (17.97%) Ajax
25 43 (16.80%) SQL Server 2005
26 42 (16.41%) T-SQL
27 39 (15.23%) ASP.NET MVC 3
28 36 (14.06%) Web Development

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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
1 256 (100.00%) .NET
2 115 (44.92%) ASP.NET
3 110 (42.97%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 100 (39.06%) HTML
5 85 (33.20%) WCF
6 84 (32.81%) XML
7 83 (32.42%) CSS
8 79 (30.86%) jQuery
9 72 (28.13%) LINQ
10 64 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
11 47 (18.36%) Web Services
12 46 (17.97%) Ajax
13 39 (15.23%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 28 (10.94%) Razor View Engine
15 25 (9.766%) NHibernate
16 19 (7.422%) ASP
17 18 (7.031%) ASP.NET MVC 4
18 17 (6.641%) WPF
19 16 (6.250%) XSLT
20 15 (5.859%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 48 (18.75%) SharePoint
2 30 (11.72%) IIS
3 29 (11.33%) BizTalk Server
4 28 (10.94%) Windows Azure
5 21 (8.203%) SharePoint 2010
6 20 (7.813%) SharePoint Server
7 8 (3.125%) SharePoint 2013
8 5 (1.953%) ESB
9 4 (1.563%) MS Project Server
9 4 (1.563%) CM System
10 3 (1.172%) Lotus Notes
10 3 (1.172%) ActiveMQ
11 2 (0.781%) CMS
11 2 (0.781%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.781%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.391%) WebSphere Message Broker
12 1 (0.391%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.391%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.391%) WebSphere Process Server
12 1 (0.391%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 48 (18.75%) MS Excel
2 23 (8.984%) MS Office
3 11 (4.297%) InfoPath
4 4 (1.563%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 11 (4.297%) Pivotal CRM
2 7 (2.734%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.953%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.391%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.734%) LDAP
2 5 (1.953%) Intranet
3 4 (1.563%) Internet
4 2 (0.781%) Extranet
4 2 (0.781%) SMS
5 1 (0.391%) BSS
5 1 (0.391%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (67.58%) SQL Server
2 57 (22.27%) SQL Server 2008
3 43 (16.80%) SQL Server 2005
4 23 (8.984%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (5.859%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (4.688%) IDOL
7 11 (4.297%) Crystal Reports
8 9 (3.516%) OLAP
9 8 (3.125%) SQL Server 2012
10 7 (2.734%) DTS
11 6 (2.344%) MySQL
12 5 (1.953%) Oracle 10g
13 3 (1.172%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (0.781%) SQL Server 2000
14 2 (0.781%) GIS
14 2 (0.781%) Oracle 11g
14 2 (0.781%) RDBMS
15 1 (0.391%) Oracle Reports
15 1 (0.391%) MS Access
15 1 (0.391%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 59 (23.05%) Visual Studio
2 29 (11.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 13 (5.078%) Subversion
4 10 (3.906%) ReSharper
5 9 (3.516%) NUnit
6 8 (3.125%) TeamCity
7 7 (2.734%) Moq
8 6 (2.344%) SpecFlow
8 6 (2.344%) Git (software)
8 6 (2.344%) Selenium
9 5 (1.953%) MSI
10 4 (1.563%) PVCS
10 4 (1.563%) VSS/SourceSafe
11 3 (1.172%) NetAdvantage
11 3 (1.172%) MSTest
11 3 (1.172%) Rhino Mocks
12 2 (0.781%) QuickTest Pro
13 1 (0.391%) ClearCase
13 1 (0.391%) Visual Studio Team System
13 1 (0.391%) Oracle APEX
General
1 15 (5.859%) Finance
2 10 (3.906%) Telecoms
3 8 (3.125%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (1.172%) Manufacturing
4 3 (1.172%) Marketing
5 2 (0.781%) Spanish Language
5 2 (0.781%) Retail
6 1 (0.391%) Electronics
6 1 (0.391%) Publishing
6 1 (0.391%) Military
6 1 (0.391%) Banking
Job Titles
1 216 (84.38%) Developer
2 119 (46.48%) .NET Developer
3 76 (29.69%) C# Developer
4 47 (18.36%) C# .NET Developer
5 43 (16.80%) ASP.NET Developer
6 26 (10.16%) SharePoint Developer
7 22 (8.594%) Senior Developer
7 22 (8.594%) Web Developer
8 19 (7.422%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 18 (7.031%) .NET Web Developer
10 17 (6.641%) Senior .NET Developer
11 11 (4.297%) Software Developer
11 11 (4.297%) Agile .NET Developer
11 11 (4.297%) CRM Developer
12 9 (3.516%) Consultant
12 9 (3.516%) SQL Developer
12 9 (3.516%) Pivotal CRM Developer
13 8 (3.125%) Programmer
13 8 (3.125%) Architect
14 7 (2.734%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (2.734%) Inversion of Control
2 6 (2.344%) SaaS
2 6 (2.344%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (1.953%) N-Tier
4 4 (1.563%) Open Source
5 3 (1.172%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.172%) NHS
5 3 (1.172%) Computer Science
6 2 (0.781%) Social Media
6 2 (0.781%) iPad
6 2 (0.781%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.781%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.391%) Statistics
7 1 (0.391%) Informatics
7 1 (0.391%) Mathematics
7 1 (0.391%) Physics
7 1 (0.391%) W3C
7 1 (0.391%) DTV
7 1 (0.391%) Health Informatics
7 1 (0.391%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 64 (25.00%) Windows
2 16 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (2.344%) Windows 7
4 4 (1.563%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.781%) Windows 8
5 2 (0.781%) Windows Phone
6 1 (0.391%) UNIX
6 1 (0.391%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (0.391%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.391%) Android
6 1 (0.391%) Windows NT
6 1 (0.391%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (41.41%) MVC
2 74 (28.91%) Scrum
3 61 (23.83%) Agile Software Development
4 58 (22.66%) TDD
5 36 (14.06%) Web Development
6 28 (10.94%) OO
7 27 (10.55%) SOA
8 24 (9.375%) Migration
9 21 (8.203%) BDD
10 20 (7.813%) Continuous Integration
11 19 (7.422%) CRM
12 18 (7.031%) Workflow
13 14 (5.469%) UML
13 14 (5.469%) Unit Testing
14 9 (3.516%) Kanban
15 8 (3.125%) Project Management
15 8 (3.125%) Stakeholder Management
15 8 (3.125%) Pair Programming
16 7 (2.734%) PRINCE2
16 7 (2.734%) Scalability Testing
Programming Languages
1 224 (87.50%) C#
2 112 (43.75%) SQL
3 78 (30.47%) JavaScript
4 42 (16.41%) T-SQL
5 23 (8.984%) VB.NET
6 16 (6.250%) VB
7 7 (2.734%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.344%) C++
9 5 (1.953%) Python
10 4 (1.563%) Ruby
11 3 (1.172%) XAML
11 3 (1.172%) Java
11 3 (1.172%) PHP
12 2 (0.781%) XPath
12 2 (0.781%) PHP5
12 2 (0.781%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.781%) VB6
13 1 (0.391%) sed
13 1 (0.391%) AWK
13 1 (0.391%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (8.594%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.469%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.078%) Degree
4 7 (2.734%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.563%) MCSD
6 3 (1.172%) ISEB
7 2 (0.781%) BC Cleared
7 2 (0.781%) MCP
8 1 (0.391%) MCAD
8 1 (0.391%) HND
8 1 (0.391%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.391%) MCITP
8 1 (0.391%) MCPD
8 1 (0.391%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.734%) QA
2 1 (0.391%) HL7
System Software
1 6 (2.344%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.953%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 3 (1.172%) SCOM
3 2 (0.781%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.391%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.391%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 103 (40.23%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.250%) Oracle
3 13 (5.078%) Meridio
4 3 (1.172%) Facebook
4 3 (1.172%) Twitter
4 3 (1.172%) Lotus
4 3 (1.172%) Infragistics
5 2 (0.781%) Teradata
5 2 (0.781%) Telerik
5 2 (0.781%) DevExpress
5 2 (0.781%) Zend
6 1 (0.391%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.391%) Google
6 1 (0.391%) Fujitsu
6 1 (0.391%) WSO2
6 1 (0.391%) VMware
6 1 (0.391%) Borland
6 1 (0.391%) SAP
6 1 (0.391%) IBM
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