The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 22 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 West 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
.NET Developer
Rank 43 52 42
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -10
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 84 99 98
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 4.076% 2.997% 3.548%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.332% 3.221% 3.762%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 59 41
Average daily rate £325 £320 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% +16.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £240 £140
10% offered a daily rate of more than £518 £401 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 10
Average hourly rate - £45.50 £32.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +41.08%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -9.09%
All Job Titles
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1939 3074 2605
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 94.08% 93.07% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1165 1846 1291
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 191 237
Average hourly rate £15.30 £22.50 £21.96
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.00% +2.45%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.50 £11.93
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.35 £38.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
.NET Developer
England

.NET Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West .NET Developer Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West .NET Developer Daily Rate Trend

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the South West region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South West .NET Developer Daily Rate Histogram

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West .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 West region over the 3 months to 22 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
Bristol -8 23 £325 +8.33%
Wiltshire +20 21 £306 +5.60%
Devon +9 15 £325 +4.00%
Somerset +6 9 £315 -0.39%
Gloucestershire +28 7 £350 -3.44%
Dorset +10 7 £335 -10.66%
.NET Developer
England

.NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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.

1 193 (100.00%) .NET
2 167 (86.53%) C#
3 132 (68.39%) ASP.NET
4 97 (50.26%) JavaScript
5 96 (49.74%) SQL Server
6 71 (36.79%) HTML
7 69 (35.75%) VB.NET
8 65 (33.68%) .NET Framework
9 64 (33.16%) SQL
9 64 (33.16%) XML
10 62 (32.12%) MVC
11 60 (31.09%) CSS
12 56 (29.02%) jQuery
13 47 (24.35%) Microsoft
14 44 (22.80%) Web Services
15 43 (22.28%) Oracle
16 40 (20.73%) Finance
16 40 (20.73%) Unit Testing
17 36 (18.65%) SQL Server 2008
18 35 (18.13%) WCF
18 35 (18.13%) ASP.NET MVC
19 34 (17.62%) Team Foundation Server
20 33 (17.10%) Visual Studio
21 32 (16.58%) VB
21 32 (16.58%) Agile Software Development
22 31 (16.06%) ASP
22 31 (16.06%) XSLT
23 29 (15.03%) SharePoint
24 28 (14.51%) SOA
24 28 (14.51%) IIS

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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
1 193 (100.00%) .NET
2 132 (68.39%) ASP.NET
3 71 (36.79%) HTML
4 65 (33.68%) .NET Framework
5 64 (33.16%) XML
6 60 (31.09%) CSS
7 56 (29.02%) jQuery
8 44 (22.80%) Web Services
9 35 (18.13%) WCF
9 35 (18.13%) ASP.NET MVC
10 31 (16.06%) ASP
10 31 (16.06%) XSLT
11 27 (13.99%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 25 (12.95%) Ajax
13 14 (7.254%) Silverlight
13 14 (7.254%) LINQ
13 14 (7.254%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 10 (5.181%) HTML5
14 10 (5.181%) Razor View Engine
15 9 (4.663%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 29 (15.03%) SharePoint
2 28 (14.51%) IIS
3 9 (4.663%) OpenROAD
4 6 (3.109%) ArcGIS
5 5 (2.591%) Windows Azure
6 2 (1.036%) CMS
6 2 (1.036%) WordPress
7 1 (0.518%) ESB
7 1 (0.518%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.518%) Kentico
7 1 (0.518%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 13 (6.736%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.518%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (5.699%) Oracle Applications
2 6 (3.109%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.073%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.518%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.554%) Intranet
2 2 (1.036%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (49.74%) SQL Server
2 36 (18.65%) SQL Server 2008
3 14 (7.254%) SQL Server 2005
4 13 (6.736%) Ingres
5 9 (4.663%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (4.145%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (3.109%) Oracle 10g
8 4 (2.073%) Oracle 8/8i
9 3 (1.554%) Oracle 11g
9 3 (1.554%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.036%) TOAD
11 1 (0.518%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.518%) SQL Server 2000
11 1 (0.518%) MS Access
11 1 (0.518%) MySQL
11 1 (0.518%) GIS
Development Applications
1 34 (17.62%) Team Foundation Server
2 33 (17.10%) Visual Studio
3 24 (12.44%) Subversion
4 20 (10.36%) MSTest
5 17 (8.808%) NUnit
6 14 (7.254%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 14 (7.254%) CruiseControl
6 14 (7.254%) TeamCity
6 14 (7.254%) Jenkins
7 10 (5.181%) Git (software)
8 5 (2.591%) Moq
9 3 (1.554%) Selenium
10 2 (1.036%) JUnit
10 2 (1.036%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.036%) JIRA
10 2 (1.036%) ReSharper
General
1 40 (20.73%) Finance
2 9 (4.663%) Banking
3 6 (3.109%) Retail
3 6 (3.109%) Back Office
4 4 (2.073%) Legal
5 3 (1.554%) Law
6 2 (1.036%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.518%) Marketing
7 1 (0.518%) Automotive
7 1 (0.518%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.518%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.627%) Mobile App
2 5 (2.591%) RIA
2 5 (2.591%) Client/Server
2 5 (2.591%) N-Tier
3 3 (1.554%) iPhone
3 3 (1.554%) iPad
4 2 (1.036%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (1.036%) Inversion of Control
4 2 (1.036%) Open Source
4 2 (1.036%) Social Media
4 2 (1.036%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.036%) Web 2.0
5 1 (0.518%) Social Network
5 1 (0.518%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.518%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.845%) Windows
2 13 (6.736%) UNIX
3 5 (2.591%) Windows 7
4 3 (1.554%) Android
4 3 (1.554%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.518%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.518%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.518%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (32.12%) MVC
2 40 (20.73%) Unit Testing
3 32 (16.58%) Agile Software Development
4 28 (14.51%) SOA
5 25 (12.95%) UML
6 22 (11.40%) Web Development
7 20 (10.36%) TDD
8 19 (9.845%) OO
9 18 (9.326%) Scrum
9 18 (9.326%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (5.181%) Service Delivery
10 10 (5.181%) Configuration Management
10 10 (5.181%) ITIL
11 8 (4.145%) Service Management
11 8 (4.145%) ITSM
12 6 (3.109%) CRM
12 6 (3.109%) B2B
12 6 (3.109%) B2C
13 5 (2.591%) Waterfall
13 5 (2.591%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 167 (86.53%) C#
2 97 (50.26%) JavaScript
3 69 (35.75%) VB.NET
4 64 (33.16%) SQL
5 32 (16.58%) VB
6 21 (10.88%) Java
7 20 (10.36%) C++
8 15 (7.772%) XQuery
9 14 (7.254%) XPath
10 8 (4.145%) VB6
11 6 (3.109%) Delphi
11 6 (3.109%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.554%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.036%) C
13 2 (1.036%) Ruby
14 1 (0.518%) Python
14 1 (0.518%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (9.845%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (6.218%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.699%) MCAD
3 11 (5.699%) MCSD
4 9 (4.663%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.663%) MCTS
4 9 (4.663%) Degree
4 9 (4.663%) MCP
5 8 (4.145%) ISEB
5 8 (4.145%) MCPD
6 6 (3.109%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.073%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.036%) Basel II
Systems Management
1 1 (0.518%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 47 (24.35%) Microsoft
2 43 (22.28%) Oracle
3 5 (2.591%) SAP
3 5 (2.591%) ESRI
4 3 (1.554%) Foundry
5 2 (1.036%) Facebook
5 2 (1.036%) Twitter
5 2 (1.036%) Google
Taunton, South West
C# ASP.Net Developer - 3 month contract - Immediate start A C# ASP.Net developer is immediately required for a client in the South West.
Computer Futures
Rate: £280 - £300 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Swindon, South West
ASP.NET Web Developer - Gloucester - 6 Months - £200 - £300 pd My client is looking for an experienced asp.net developer for an initial 6 month contract based in...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bristol, South West
ASP.NET Web Developer - Bristol - 6 Months - £200 - £300 pdMy client is looking for an experienced asp.net developer for an initial 6 month contract based in Bristol.
Computer Futures
Rate: £200 - £300 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
South West England
C# ASP.Net developer - 6 month contract - Immediate start A C# developer is immediately required for a client in the South West.The ideal candidate will have experience...
Computer Futures
Rate: £200 - £300 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bristol, South West
As a VB.NEt C# Developer you will be working alongside the development team updating a windows based application, working on technical specifications and meeting deadlines. Skills *VB...
Computer Futures
Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bristol, South West
As a VB.NET Developer you will be working on a number of projects, producing market leading software for financial and insurance markets. You will need a sound...
Computer Futures
Rate: £200 - £320 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Exeter, Devon
Essential skills: C# TDD WPF Ideally with Prism Silverlight WCF SQLServer LINQ to Entities N-Tier Entity Framework Dependency Injection Knowledge of connecting WPF to existing WCF services...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Rate: Marker Rates
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bristol, South West
They appreciate this is hard to find and therefore willing to flex if someone is more experienced in one as the team are mixed, however the opportunity to...
NFP Group Ltd
Rate: £250 - £280 per day + extension
Posted: 16 May 2013
Christchurch, Dorset, United Kingdom, South West
They're passionate about delivering excellent services to their customers and achieve this by investing in their staff, building and maintaining award-winning homes and putting residents at...
Easy Web Recruitment
Rate: £300 a day inclusive of VAT
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
c) ASP.net 2.0-4.0... e) HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Jquery, Web services, IIS... b) Advanced C# .Net development. c) MS SQL (2005, 2008) - Interfacing, Query writing,...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Posted: 16 May 2013
Christchurch, Dorset
c) ASP.net 2.0-4.0... e) HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Jquery, Web services, IIS... b) Advanced C# .Net development. c) MS SQL (2005, 2008) - Interfacing, Query writing,...
EasyWebRecruitment.com
Rate: £300 a day inclusive of VAT
Posted: 15 May 2013