The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Programmer role 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 Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
.NET Programmer
Rank 199 223 244
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +21
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Programmer 21 22 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.265% 0.217% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.286% 0.234% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 2
Average daily rate £338 £363 £294
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +23.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £206 £289
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £299
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £288 £275
% change year-on-year
+30.43% +4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £36.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
- +71.42%
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7336 9394 9506
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.60% 92.47% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3629 4201 4116
Average daily rate £350 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £220 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 724 798
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.38 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
.NET Programmer
England

.NET Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East .NET Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East .NET Programmer Daily Rate Trend

.NET Programmer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Programmer across the South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South East .NET Programmer Daily Rate Histogram

.NET Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East .NET Programmer Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Programmer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Programmer within the South East region over the 3 months to 21 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 +15 7 £200 +23.07%
Hampshire -4 7 £413 -
Buckinghamshire +3 5 £338 +35.00%
Oxfordshire +1 2 £325 +44.44%
Middlesex - 1 £360 -
.NET Programmer
England

.NET Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited .NET Programmer 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 Programmer in their job title.

1 31 (100.00%) .NET
2 18 (58.06%) Web Services
3 17 (54.84%) C#
4 15 (48.39%) ASP.NET
5 14 (45.16%) VB.NET
6 13 (41.94%) MVC
7 12 (38.71%) SQL Server
8 11 (35.48%) SQL
8 11 (35.48%) ASP.NET MVC
9 10 (32.26%) WCF
10 9 (29.03%) jQuery
11 8 (25.81%) Visual Studio
11 8 (25.81%) N-Tier
11 8 (25.81%) Agile Software Development
12 7 (22.58%) TDD
12 7 (22.58%) Banking
12 7 (22.58%) XML
12 7 (22.58%) UML
12 7 (22.58%) SpecFlow
13 6 (19.35%) Team Foundation Server
13 6 (19.35%) SOA
13 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
13 6 (19.35%) Oracle
13 6 (19.35%) Telecoms
14 5 (16.13%) Finance
14 5 (16.13%) Scrum
14 5 (16.13%) HFM
14 5 (16.13%) VBA
14 5 (16.13%) JavaScript
14 5 (16.13%) MS Office

.NET Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited .NET Programmer 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 Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 31 (100.00%) .NET
2 18 (58.06%) Web Services
3 15 (48.39%) ASP.NET
4 11 (35.48%) ASP.NET MVC
5 10 (32.26%) WCF
6 9 (29.03%) jQuery
7 7 (22.58%) XML
8 4 (12.90%) .NET Framework
8 4 (12.90%) CSS
8 4 (12.90%) HTML
9 3 (9.677%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 3 (9.677%) Ext JS
9 3 (9.677%) NHibernate
10 2 (6.452%) WPF
10 2 (6.452%) Ajax
10 2 (6.452%) Unity DI Container
10 2 (6.452%) SOAP
11 1 (3.226%) Middleware
11 1 (3.226%) Highcharts JS
11 1 (3.226%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.677%) MSMQ
2 2 (6.452%) ESB
2 2 (6.452%) CMS
3 1 (3.226%) IIS
3 1 (3.226%) EPiServer CMS
Applications
1 5 (16.13%) MS Office
1 5 (16.13%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (16.13%) HFM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.452%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (38.71%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.13%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (3.226%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (3.226%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.226%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Visual Studio
2 7 (22.58%) SpecFlow
3 6 (19.35%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (16.13%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
5 4 (12.90%) Jenkins
6 2 (6.452%) Subversion
7 1 (3.226%) NUnit
7 1 (3.226%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (3.226%) MSBuild
7 1 (3.226%) JSUnit
7 1 (3.226%) JIRA
General
1 7 (22.58%) Banking
2 6 (19.35%) Telecoms
3 5 (16.13%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) N-Tier
2 1 (3.226%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.226%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.452%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) MVC
2 8 (25.81%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (22.58%) TDD
3 7 (22.58%) UML
4 6 (19.35%) SOA
5 5 (16.13%) Scrum
6 4 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (12.90%) BDD
6 4 (12.90%) OO
7 2 (6.452%) Multithreading
7 2 (6.452%) Domain-Driven Design
8 1 (3.226%) Data Security
8 1 (3.226%) Software Engineering
8 1 (3.226%) E-Commerce
8 1 (3.226%) OOD
8 1 (3.226%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (54.84%) C#
2 14 (45.16%) VB.NET
3 11 (35.48%) SQL
4 5 (16.13%) VBA
4 5 (16.13%) JavaScript
4 5 (16.13%) XPath
5 1 (3.226%) Java
5 1 (3.226%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.226%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) SLA
2 1 (3.226%) HL7
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
1 6 (19.35%) Oracle
2 5 (16.13%) Hyperion
3 1 (3.226%) Telerik
3 1 (3.226%) EPiServer
3 1 (3.226%) Aquila
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