The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Framework over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Application Development category for the Staffordshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 15 21 20
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -1
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 5 12 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 5.882% 5.530% 10.05%
As % of the Application Development category 19.23% 16.67% 19.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 13
Average daily rate £300 £306 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.04% -18.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £281 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £413 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.45% -2.40%
All Application Development
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
26 72 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 30.59% 33.18% 51.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 31 67
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £275 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £370 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £15.31 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.31% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET Framework
West Midlands

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire .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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire .NET Framework Daily Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Stoke-on-Trent +9 5 £300 +4.34%
.NET Framework
West Midlands

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 12 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (91.67%) ASP.NET
3 10 (83.33%) C#
3 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
4 9 (75.00%) SQL Server
4 9 (75.00%) VB.NET
4 9 (75.00%) XML
5 8 (66.67%) CSS
5 8 (66.67%) XSLT
5 8 (66.67%) Document Management
6 7 (58.33%) HTML
7 6 (50.00%) jQuery
8 5 (41.67%) Ajax
9 4 (33.33%) N-Tier
9 4 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 3 (25.00%) SOA
10 3 (25.00%) Visual Studio
10 3 (25.00%) SQL
10 3 (25.00%) HTML5
11 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
11 2 (16.67%) AccuRev
11 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
11 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (16.67%) LINQ
11 2 (16.67%) MVC
11 2 (16.67%) SEO
11 2 (16.67%) JIRA
11 2 (16.67%) WCF
11 2 (16.67%) XHTML
11 2 (16.67%) E-Commerce

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 12 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (91.67%) ASP.NET
3 9 (75.00%) XML
4 8 (66.67%) CSS
4 8 (66.67%) XSLT
5 7 (58.33%) HTML
6 6 (50.00%) jQuery
7 5 (41.67%) Ajax
8 4 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 3 (25.00%) HTML5
10 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (16.67%) LINQ
10 2 (16.67%) WCF
10 2 (16.67%) XHTML
10 2 (16.67%) CSS3
10 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 1 (8.333%) REST
11 1 (8.333%) XSD
11 1 (8.333%) ADO.NET
11 1 (8.333%) Web Services
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (75.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Applications Developer
4 2 (16.67%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (16.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Web Developer
4 2 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 2 (16.67%) VB.NET Developer
4 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Web Applications Developer
4 2 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Windows Mobile Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) N-Tier
2 1 (8.333%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.333%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) Windows 8
1 1 (8.333%) Windows
1 1 (8.333%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Document Management
2 3 (25.00%) SOA
3 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (16.67%) MVC
3 2 (16.67%) SEO
3 2 (16.67%) E-Commerce
3 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (8.333%) OOD
4 1 (8.333%) OOP
4 1 (8.333%) OO
4 1 (8.333%) Workflow
4 1 (8.333%) Migration
4 1 (8.333%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) C#
1 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 9 (75.00%) VB.NET
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (8.333%) T-SQL
4 1 (8.333%) C++
4 1 (8.333%) VBA
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) AccuRev
2 1 (8.333%) Telerik
2 1 (8.333%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.333%) DevExpress
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