The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Software 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 Software 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 Software Developer
Rank 108 137 119
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -18
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Software Developer 3 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.146% 0.061% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.155% 0.065% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
Average daily rate £300 £303 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.82% +21.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £234 £285
% change year-on-year
+28.47% -18.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 - £18.25
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 Software Developer
England

.NET Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West .NET Software Developer Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Software Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West .NET Software Developer Daily Rate Trend

.NET Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

South West .NET Software Developer Daily Rate Histogram

.NET Software Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West .NET Software Developer Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Software 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 Software 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
Devon - 2 £238 -
Wiltshire - 1 £525 -
.NET Software Developer
England

.NET Software 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 Software 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 Software Developer in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) IIS
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (50.00%) jQuery
3 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (50.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (50.00%) MSTest
3 2 (50.00%) Moq
3 2 (50.00%) ESRI
3 2 (50.00%) ArcGIS
3 2 (50.00%) WCF
3 2 (50.00%) Silverlight
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (50.00%) RIA
3 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) UML
3 2 (50.00%) Client/Server

.NET Software 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 Software 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 Software Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) jQuery
3 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (50.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
3 2 (50.00%) WCF
3 2 (50.00%) Silverlight
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
4 1 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) LINQ
4 1 (25.00%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) IIS
2 2 (50.00%) ArcGIS
3 1 (25.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (50.00%) MSTest
1 2 (50.00%) Moq
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) RIA
1 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (25.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (25.00%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) SEO
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) ESRI
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Google