The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior .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 Senior .NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior .NET Developer
Rank 105 124 118
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior .NET Developer 3 12 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.149% 0.371% 0.141%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.158% 0.398% 0.150%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 3
Average daily rate £325 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -18.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £324 £360
10% offered a daily rate of more than £345 £405 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £323 £425
% change year-on-year
+0.77% -24.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Job Titles
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1895 3012 2668
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 93.95% 93.11% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1138 1803 1328
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 137 186 243
Average hourly rate £15.40 £22.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.55% +2.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.70 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £37.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior .NET Developer
England

Senior .NET Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Senior .NET Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior .NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Senior .NET Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior .NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Senior .NET Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior .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 Senior .NET Developer within the South West region over the 3 months to 24 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 0 2 £300 -7.69%
Dorset +1 1 £350 -6.66%
Senior .NET Developer
England

Senior .NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Senior .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 Senior .NET Developer in their job title.

1 17 (100.00%) .NET
2 16 (94.12%) C#
3 12 (70.59%) JavaScript
4 11 (64.71%) HTML
4 11 (64.71%) VB.NET
4 11 (64.71%) ASP.NET
5 10 (58.82%) XML
6 8 (47.06%) CSS
7 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
7 6 (35.29%) C++
7 6 (35.29%) VB
7 6 (35.29%) Subversion
7 6 (35.29%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (29.41%) MSTest
8 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
8 5 (29.41%) jQuery
8 5 (29.41%) TeamCity
8 5 (29.41%) NUnit
8 5 (29.41%) CruiseControl
8 5 (29.41%) SQL
8 5 (29.41%) Oracle
8 5 (29.41%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 5 (29.41%) XSLT
8 5 (29.41%) SharePoint
9 4 (23.53%) IIS
9 4 (23.53%) Finance
9 4 (23.53%) SOA
9 4 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2008
10 3 (17.65%) Unit Testing

Senior .NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Senior .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 Senior .NET Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (64.71%) HTML
2 11 (64.71%) ASP.NET
3 10 (58.82%) XML
4 8 (47.06%) CSS
5 5 (29.41%) jQuery
5 5 (29.41%) XSLT
6 3 (17.65%) ASP
6 3 (17.65%) Web Services
7 2 (11.76%) Ajax
7 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
7 2 (11.76%) WCF
8 1 (5.882%) WPF
8 1 (5.882%) LINQ
8 1 (5.882%) HTML5
8 1 (5.882%) RESTful
8 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC 2
8 1 (5.882%) ADO.NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) SharePoint
2 4 (23.53%) IIS
3 1 (5.882%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Google Analytics
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (17.65%) Ingres
4 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (5.882%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Subversion
1 6 (35.29%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (29.41%) MSTest
2 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 5 (29.41%) TeamCity
2 5 (29.41%) NUnit
2 5 (29.41%) CruiseControl
2 5 (29.41%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.882%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Back Office
3 1 (5.882%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) Social Network
1 1 (5.882%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (5.882%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) UNIX
2 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (5.882%) Windows
2 1 (5.882%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) SOA
1 4 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (17.65%) Unit Testing
2 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (17.65%) UML
3 2 (11.76%) OO
3 2 (11.76%) MVC
4 1 (5.882%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (5.882%) Analytics
4 1 (5.882%) SEO
4 1 (5.882%) Scrum
4 1 (5.882%) B2B
4 1 (5.882%) B2C
4 1 (5.882%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) C#
2 12 (70.59%) JavaScript
3 11 (64.71%) VB.NET
4 6 (35.29%) C++
4 6 (35.29%) VB
5 5 (29.41%) SQL
6 3 (17.65%) Java
7 1 (5.882%) XQuery
7 1 (5.882%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.882%) MCAD
1 1 (5.882%) MCSD
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle
2 1 (5.882%) Google