The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton 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 June 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 Southampton 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
.NET Developer
Rank 34 30 22
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -8
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 3 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 0.896% 1.167% 3.209%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.935% 1.240% 3.371%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £305 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.85% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £290
% change year-on-year
- +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £33.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £29.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year
+29.31% -11.45%
All Job Titles
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
321 242 178
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 95.82% 94.16% 95.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 123 75
Average daily rate £325 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £250 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £475 £521
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 58 24
Average hourly rate £14.00 £20.00 £12.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% +61.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.07 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.65 £41.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
.NET Developer
Hampshire

.NET Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton .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 Southampton region.

Southampton .NET Developer Daily Rate Trend

.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 Southampton region.

Southampton .NET Developer Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Developer
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) TIBCO
2 2 (40.00%) Middleware
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (20.00%) Ajax
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) WCF
3 1 (20.00%) WPF
3 1 (20.00%) LINQ
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) UML
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Automotive
3 1 (20.00%) MKS

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) Middleware
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) Ajax
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) WCF
3 1 (20.00%) WPF
3 1 (20.00%) LINQ
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (20.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) TIBCO
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) MKS