South West .NET Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts within the South West region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited .NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

.NET Developer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Dunfermline East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Ringwood Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	44
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	122	160
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.161 %	0.170 %
As % of the category below	2.908 %	3.027 %
Daily rates quoted	27	20
Average minimum daily rate	£244	£322
Average daily rate	£268	£342
% change on same period last year	-21.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£291	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£310
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.31	£29.64
Average hourly rate	£32.85	£34.09
% change on same period last year	-3.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.38	£38.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.21	£33.60
% change on same period last year	-1.16 %
Job Titles South West
Matching contract IT job ads	4196	5285
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.533 %	5.606 %
Daily rates quoted	1420	1381
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£337
Average daily rate	£371	£356
% change on same period last year	+4.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	498	706
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.28	£25.23
Average hourly rate	£25.99	£27.00
% change on same period last year	-3.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.69	£28.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
.NET Developer England

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.

.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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

.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 West 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 West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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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 West 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 West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing .NET Developer within the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bristol	+13	36	£296	-7.13 %
Wiltshire	-9	20	£310	-20.85 %
Somerset	+4	15	£240	-23.80 %
Gloucestershire	+3	8	£255	-
Dorset	+7	8	£242	-24.47 %
Devon	+5	4	£300	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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.

1 304 (100.00 %) .NET 2 195 (64.14 %) C# 3 183 (60.20 %) ASP.NET 4 172 (56.58 %) SQL Server 5 100 (32.89 %) VB.NET 6 73 (24.01 %) SQL Server 2005 7 66 (21.71 %) SQL 8 61 (20.07 %) XML 9 49 (16.12 %) HTML 10 47 (15.46 %) WebServices 11 40 (13.16 %) .NET Framework 12 39 (12.83 %) CSS 13 38 (12.50 %) Windows 14 37 (12.17 %) JavaScript 15 34 (11.18 %) Visual Studio

16 33 (10.86 %) Microsoft 16 33 (10.86 %) AJAX 17 32 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2000 18 26 (8.553 %) ASP 19 25 (8.224 %) WinForms 20 22 (7.237 %) Oracle 20 22 (7.237 %) C++ 21 20 (6.579 %) ASP.NET 2.0 21 20 (6.579 %) Security Cleared 22 18 (5.921 %) VB 23 15 (4.934 %) XSLT 24 14 (4.605 %) UML 25 13 (4.276 %) Finance 25 13 (4.276 %) Web Development 26 12 (3.947 %) ADO.NET

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 1 304 (100.00 %) .NET 2 183 (60.20 %) ASP.NET 3 61 (20.07 %) XML 4 49 (16.12 %) HTML 5 47 (15.46 %) WebServices 6 40 (13.16 %) .NET Framework 7 39 (12.83 %) CSS 8 33 (10.86 %) AJAX 9 26 (8.553 %) ASP 10 25 (8.224 %) WinForms 11 20 (6.579 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 15 (4.934 %) XSLT 13 12 (3.947 %) ADO.NET 14 9 (2.961 %) XHTML 14 9 (2.961 %) WPF 15 8 (2.632 %) COM+ 16 6 (1.974 %) SOAP 16 6 (1.974 %) Silverlight 16 6 (1.974 %) .NET Remoting 17 5 (1.645 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 9 (2.961 %) IIS 2 8 (2.632 %) SharePoint 3 3 (0.987 %) CMS 3 3 (0.987 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (0.329 %) Oracle Spatial 4 1 (0.329 %) Content Management Server 4 1 (0.329 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 10 (3.289 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.329 %) InfoPath 2 1 (0.329 %) Photoshop 2 1 (0.329 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (0.329 %) Summit 1 1 (0.329 %) SyteLine
Communications & Networking 1 11 (3.618 %) Intranet 2 10 (3.289 %) Internet 3 4 (1.316 %) Extranet 4 1 (0.329 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 172 (56.58 %) SQL Server 2 73 (24.01 %) SQL Server 2005 3 32 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2000 4 9 (2.961 %) DTS 5 8 (2.632 %) RDBMS 6 7 (2.303 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 6 (1.974 %) SQL Server 7 8 5 (1.645 %) Crystal Reports 9 3 (0.987 %) MS Access 9 3 (0.987 %) GIS 10 1 (0.329 %) SQLPlus 10 1 (0.329 %) MySQL 10 1 (0.329 %) OLTP 10 1 (0.329 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 1 (0.329 %) Oracle 9i 10 1 (0.329 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 34 (11.18 %) Visual Studio 2 7 (2.303 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 7 (2.303 %) Flash 3 4 (1.316 %) Dreamweaver 4 1 (0.329 %) NUnit 4 1 (0.329 %) ClearCase 4 1 (0.329 %) Oracle Forms 4 1 (0.329 %) PVCS	General 1 13 (4.276 %) Finance 2 10 (3.289 %) Government 3 8 (2.632 %) Telecoms 3 8 (2.632 %) Insurance 4 4 (1.316 %) Multimedia 5 3 (0.987 %) Retail 5 3 (0.987 %) Advertising 6 2 (0.658 %) Games 6 2 (0.658 %) Pensions 6 2 (0.658 %) Marketing 6 2 (0.658 %) Manufacturing 6 2 (0.658 %) Back Office 7 1 (0.329 %) Financial Institution 7 1 (0.329 %) Construction 7 1 (0.329 %) Health 7 1 (0.329 %) Law 7 1 (0.329 %) Local Government 7 1 (0.329 %) Military
Miscellaneous 1 5 (1.645 %) NHS 1 5 (1.645 %) W3C 2 4 (1.316 %) Client/Server 2 4 (1.316 %) N-Tier 3 3 (0.987 %) Multithreading 4 2 (0.658 %) Management Information System 4 2 (0.658 %) Pocket PC 5 1 (0.329 %) PDA 5 1 (0.329 %) Spread Betting 5 1 (0.329 %) Human Factors 5 1 (0.329 %) E-Learning	Operating Systems 1 38 (12.50 %) Windows 2 8 (2.632 %) Windows CE 3 2 (0.658 %) Windows Mobile 4 1 (0.329 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (6.579 %) Security Cleared 2 14 (4.605 %) UML 3 13 (4.276 %) Web Development 4 11 (3.618 %) SC Cleared 5 8 (2.632 %) Requirements Analysis 6 7 (2.303 %) OO 6 7 (2.303 %) Content Management 7 6 (1.974 %) E-Commerce 8 5 (1.645 %) Migration 8 5 (1.645 %) Time Management 9 4 (1.316 %) Agile Software Development 9 4 (1.316 %) TDD 10 3 (0.987 %) Web Design 10 3 (0.987 %) CRM 10 3 (0.987 %) OOP 10 3 (0.987 %) DV Cleared 10 3 (0.987 %) Risk Management 10 3 (0.987 %) Unit Testing 11 2 (0.658 %) Service Delivery 11 2 (0.658 %) Software Engineering	Programming Languages 1 195 (64.14 %) C# 2 100 (32.89 %) VB.NET 3 66 (21.71 %) SQL 4 37 (12.17 %) JavaScript 5 22 (7.237 %) C++ 6 18 (5.921 %) VB 7 10 (3.289 %) VB6 8 9 (2.961 %) VBScript 9 7 (2.303 %) C 9 7 (2.303 %) VC++ 10 6 (1.974 %) VBA 11 5 (1.645 %) ActionScript 11 5 (1.645 %) DHTML 11 5 (1.645 %) PHP 12 4 (1.316 %) Transact-SQL 13 3 (0.987 %) Java 13 3 (0.987 %) XAML 14 1 (0.329 %) PL/SQL 14 1 (0.329 %) XPath
Qualifications 1 8 (2.632 %) Degree 2 6 (1.974 %) Microsoft Certification 3 3 (0.987 %) MCTS 3 3 (0.987 %) MCP 3 3 (0.987 %) MCAD 3 3 (0.987 %) MCSD 4 2 (0.658 %) MCSE	System Software 1 9 (2.961 %) MSMQ 2 2 (0.658 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 33 (10.86 %) Microsoft 2 22 (7.237 %) Oracle 3 2 (0.658 %) Infragistics 4 1 (0.329 %) ComponentOne 4 1 (0.329 %) Syncfusion 4 1 (0.329 %) Adobe 4 1 (0.329 %) Actuate