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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the South Wales region.

 .NET Developer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank363316
Rank change year-on-year
Down-3Down-17
Matching contract IT job ads41450
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales1.180 %3.590 %7.310 %
As % of the Job Titles category1.320 %3.889 %7.924 %
Daily rates quoted136
Average daily rate£275£255£289
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.840 %-11.68 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£275£263£300
% change year-on-year
+4.760 %-12.50 %
Hourly rates quoted133
Average hourly rate£19.50£32.50£42.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.00 %-22.61 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£31.25£31.50
% change year-on-year
-8.800 %-0.790 %
South Wales IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
303360631
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales89.38 %92.31 %92.25 %
Daily rates quoted118100160
Average daily rate£334£350£360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.640 %-2.770 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£170£215£252
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£545£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£350
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %-3.570 %
Hourly rates quoted294588
Average hourly rate£17.50£16.00£35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.370 %-54.28 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.50£9.50£11.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£21.35£40.00£42.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %-9.090 %
.NET Developer Wales.NET Developer
Wales

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.

.NET Developer
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.

South Wales .NET Developer Demand Trend

.NET Developer
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.

South Wales .NET Developer Daily Rate Trend

.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.

South Wales .NET Developer Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Developer
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 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
CardiffUp+53£275+7.84 %
.NET Developer Wales.NET Developer
Wales

.NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

17 (100.00 %)C#
17 (100.00 %).NET
17 (100.00 %)SQL Server
25 (71.43 %)ASP.NET
33 (42.86 %).NET Framework
42 (28.57 %)SQL Server 2005
42 (28.57 %)TDD
42 (28.57 %)JavaScript
42 (28.57 %)SQL
42 (28.57 %)Microsoft
42 (28.57 %)SharePoint
51 (14.29 %)OOD
51 (14.29 %)MS Office
51 (14.29 %)BizTalk Server
51 (14.29 %)VB.NET
51 (14.29 %)HTML
51 (14.29 %)CSS
51 (14.29 %)XML
51 (14.29 %)OO
51 (14.29 %)XHTML
51 (14.29 %)MS Excel
51 (14.29 %)Finance
51 (14.29 %)CMS
51 (14.29 %)Scrum
51 (14.29 %)Umbraco
51 (14.29 %)Immediacy CMS
51 (14.29 %)Sitecore CMS
51 (14.29 %)Sitecore
51 (14.29 %)Technical Architecture
51 (14.29 %)SharePoint Server 2007

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

South Wales IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
17 (100.00 %).NET
25 (71.43 %)ASP.NET
33 (42.86 %).NET Framework
41 (14.29 %)HTML
41 (14.29 %)CSS
41 (14.29 %)XML
41 (14.29 %)XHTML
South Wales IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (28.57 %)SharePoint
21 (14.29 %)BizTalk Server
21 (14.29 %)CMS
21 (14.29 %)Umbraco
21 (14.29 %)Immediacy CMS
21 (14.29 %)Sitecore CMS
21 (14.29 %)SharePoint Server 2007
South Wales IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (14.29 %)MS Office
11 (14.29 %)MS Excel
South Wales IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
17 (100.00 %)SQL Server
22 (28.57 %)SQL Server 2005
South Wales IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11 (14.29 %)Finance
South Wales IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12 (28.57 %)TDD
21 (14.29 %)OOD
21 (14.29 %)OO
21 (14.29 %)Scrum
21 (14.29 %)Technical Architecture
South Wales IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
17 (100.00 %)C#
22 (28.57 %)JavaScript
22 (28.57 %)SQL
31 (14.29 %)VB.NET
South Wales IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12 (28.57 %)Microsoft
21 (14.29 %)Sitecore