South Wales .NET Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts within the South Wales region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

.NET Developer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Cleveland Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edenbridge Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnham Felixstowe Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Gwynedd Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Suffolk Surrey Sutton-in-Ashfield Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	26	26
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	12	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.039 %
As % of the category below	3.361 %	5.167 %
Daily rates quoted	4	12
Average minimum daily rate	£223	£308
Average daily rate	£254	£336
% change on same period last year	-24.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£285	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£271	£320
% change on same period last year	-15.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£28.33	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-5.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.67	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.73	£32.26
% change on same period last year	-10.94 %
Job Titles South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	357	600
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.713 %	0.751 %
Daily rates quoted	106	147
Average minimum daily rate	£353	£358
Average daily rate	£380	£386
% change on same period last year	-1.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£415
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£357
% change on same period last year	-2.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	53	54
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.90	£21.40
Average hourly rate	£24.19	£22.75
% change on same period last year	+6.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.48	£24.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.14	£23.50
% change on same period last year	-1.52 %
.NET Developer Wales

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing .NET Developer across the South Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009.

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Developer within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009. 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	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
Newport	-11	2	£245	-30.00 %
Cardiff	+7	2	-	-
Caerphilly	-	1	-	-
Glamorgan	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region that cited .NET Developer 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 Developer in their job title.

1 19 (100.00 %) .NET 2 12 (63.16 %) SQL Server 2 12 (63.16 %) C# 3 10 (52.63 %) ASP.NET 3 10 (52.63 %) XML 4 9 (47.37 %) VB.NET 4 9 (47.37 %) SQL Server 2005 5 7 (36.84 %) JavaScript 5 7 (36.84 %) CSS 6 6 (31.58 %) SQL 6 6 (31.58 %) XSLT 6 6 (31.58 %) Windows 6 6 (31.58 %) AJAX 7 4 (21.05 %) WPF 7 4 (21.05 %) Visual Studio

7 4 (21.05 %) XSL 8 3 (15.79 %) WebServices 8 3 (15.79 %) Transact-SQL 8 3 (15.79 %) VB 8 3 (15.79 %) HTML 8 3 (15.79 %) PHP 8 3 (15.79 %) Finance 8 3 (15.79 %) DTS 8 3 (15.79 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 3 (15.79 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 3 (15.79 %) Web Development 8 3 (15.79 %) .NET Framework 8 3 (15.79 %) SQL Server 2000 9 2 (10.53 %) Software Testing 9 2 (10.53 %) MCTS

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region that cited .NET Developer 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 19 (100.00 %) .NET 2 10 (52.63 %) ASP.NET 2 10 (52.63 %) XML 3 7 (36.84 %) CSS 4 6 (31.58 %) XSLT 4 6 (31.58 %) AJAX 5 4 (21.05 %) WPF 5 4 (21.05 %) XSL 6 3 (15.79 %) WebServices 6 3 (15.79 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 3 (15.79 %) .NET Framework 6 3 (15.79 %) HTML 7 2 (10.53 %) XHTML 8 1 (5.263 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 1 (5.263 %) CMS 1 1 (5.263 %) Immediacy CMS
Communications & Networking 1 1 (5.263 %) Intranet 1 1 (5.263 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (63.16 %) SQL Server 2 9 (47.37 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (15.79 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 3 (15.79 %) DTS 3 3 (15.79 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (10.53 %) OLAP 4 2 (10.53 %) Crystal Reports 5 1 (5.263 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 4 (21.05 %) Visual Studio	General 1 3 (15.79 %) Finance 2 2 (10.53 %) Government 3 1 (5.263 %) Health 3 1 (5.263 %) Games
Miscellaneous 1 2 (10.53 %) N-Tier 2 1 (5.263 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 6 (31.58 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (15.79 %) Web Development 2 2 (10.53 %) Software Testing 2 2 (10.53 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (5.263 %) Content Management 3 1 (5.263 %) UML 3 1 (5.263 %) OOP 3 1 (5.263 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 12 (63.16 %) C# 2 9 (47.37 %) VB.NET 3 7 (36.84 %) JavaScript 4 6 (31.58 %) SQL 5 3 (15.79 %) Transact-SQL 5 3 (15.79 %) VB 5 3 (15.79 %) PHP 6 2 (10.53 %) Delphi 6 2 (10.53 %) FoxPro (VFP)
Qualifications 1 2 (10.53 %) MCTS