The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Framework 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 of the Application Development category for the Stoke-on-Trent 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
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 9 21 18
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -3
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 6 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 19.35% 4.412% 5.455%
As % of the Application Development category 37.50% 8.333% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 0
Average daily rate £270 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £304
% change year-on-year
- +6.99%
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
Stoke-on-Trent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
16 36 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 51.61% 52.94% 50.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 11
Average daily rate £325 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +30.00%
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 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET Framework
Staffordshire

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stoke-on-Trent .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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent .NET Framework Daily Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 10 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (70.00%) Document Management
2 7 (70.00%) C#
2 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (70.00%) CSS
2 7 (70.00%) XML
2 7 (70.00%) XSLT
2 7 (70.00%) VB.NET
3 5 (50.00%) HTML
3 5 (50.00%) jQuery
4 3 (30.00%) Ajax
4 3 (30.00%) LINQ
4 3 (30.00%) Visual Studio
4 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 3 (30.00%) MVC
4 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (30.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (20.00%) CSS3
5 2 (20.00%) HTML5
5 2 (20.00%) SEO
5 2 (20.00%) XHTML
5 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
5 2 (20.00%) N-Tier
5 2 (20.00%) SOA
5 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (20.00%) TDD
5 2 (20.00%) JIRA

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 10 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (70.00%) CSS
2 7 (70.00%) XML
2 7 (70.00%) XSLT
3 5 (50.00%) HTML
3 5 (50.00%) jQuery
4 3 (30.00%) Ajax
4 3 (30.00%) LINQ
4 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (30.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (20.00%) CSS3
5 2 (20.00%) HTML5
5 2 (20.00%) XHTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (70.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Web Applications Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Web Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Applications Developer
4 2 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (20.00%) C# Developer
4 2 (20.00%) VB.NET Developer
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (20.00%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (20.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Document Management
2 3 (30.00%) MVC
3 2 (20.00%) SEO
3 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (20.00%) SOA
3 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
3 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) C#
1 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (70.00%) VB.NET
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) AccuRev
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