The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Framework over the 3 months to 20 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 of the Application Development category for the St Albans 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 8 11 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 1 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in St Albans 3.704% 5.405% -
As % of the Application Development category 20.00% 11.76% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £400 £250 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £315
% change year-on-year
+1.72% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.48% -2.42%
All Application Development
St Albans
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
5 17 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in St Albans 18.52% 45.95% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 7
Average daily rate £348 £285 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.92% -12.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £282 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
.NET Framework
Hertfordshire

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing .NET Framework across the St Albans region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

St Albans .NET Framework Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing .NET Framework across the St Albans region.

St Albans .NET Framework Daily Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the St Albans region citing .NET Framework also 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 that cited .NET Framework.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the St Albans region citing .NET Framework also 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 that cited .NET Framework. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Web Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB