The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stockport region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 20 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 Stockport 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 6 - 1
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing .NET 2 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stockport 18.18% - 31.25%
As % of the Application Development category 28.57% - 71.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
Average daily rate £310 - £250
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 £29.41 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+19.00% -12.20%
All Application Development
Stockport
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
7 4 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stockport 63.64% 23.53% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 4
Average daily rate £350 £320 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% +28.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET
Manchester

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stockport .NET Jobs Demand Trend

.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

Stockport .NET Daily Rate Trend

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Stockport .NET Hourly Rate Trend

.NET
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stockport region citing .NET 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.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (50.00%) jQuery
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (25.00%) WCF
4 1 (25.00%) Sage
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) WinForms
4 1 (25.00%) C++
4 1 (25.00%) Windows

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stockport region citing .NET 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) jQuery
4 1 (25.00%) WinForms
4 1 (25.00%) WCF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) C# Developer
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Developer
2 3 (75.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Software Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) C++
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Sage