The first table below looks at the demand for .NET Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the Taunton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Framework over the 3 months to 23 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 Taunton 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET Framework
Rank 15 9 8
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -1
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 4 13 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Taunton 5.714% 22.03% 19.15%
As % of the Application Development category 44.44% 61.90% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 6
Average daily rate £458 £358 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.11% +3.62%
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
Taunton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
9 21 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Taunton 12.86% 35.59% 51.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 12
Average daily rate £458 £346 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.27% +5.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £320 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £365 £350
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
Somerset

.NET Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Taunton .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 Taunton region.

Taunton .NET Framework Daily Rate Trend

.NET Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Taunton 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 15 (100.00%) C#
1 15 (100.00%) HTML
1 15 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 15 (100.00%) SQL
1 15 (100.00%) VB
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
1 15 (100.00%) ASP
1 15 (100.00%) ITIL
1 15 (100.00%) XML
1 15 (100.00%) UML
1 15 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (93.33%) ISEB
2 14 (93.33%) Oracle
2 14 (93.33%) SQL Server
2 14 (93.33%) Java
3 13 (86.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (86.67%) Service Management
3 13 (86.67%) ITSM
4 12 (80.00%) Subversion
5 11 (73.33%) UNIX
5 11 (73.33%) OpenROAD
5 11 (73.33%) Ingres
5 11 (73.33%) C++
5 11 (73.33%) VB.NET
5 11 (73.33%) IIS
5 11 (73.33%) ASP.NET
6 10 (66.67%) Service Delivery
7 9 (60.00%) NUnit
7 9 (60.00%) MCTS

.NET Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Taunton 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 15 (100.00%) HTML
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
1 15 (100.00%) ASP
1 15 (100.00%) XML
2 11 (73.33%) ASP.NET
3 4 (26.67%) CSS
3 4 (26.67%) XSL
4 3 (20.00%) WCF
4 3 (20.00%) WPF
4 3 (20.00%) WF
Application Platforms
1 15 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 11 (73.33%) OpenROAD
2 11 (73.33%) IIS
3 4 (26.67%) SharePoint 2010
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (93.33%) SQL Server
2 11 (73.33%) Ingres
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (13.33%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 12 (80.00%) Subversion
2 9 (60.00%) NUnit
2 9 (60.00%) TeamCity
2 9 (60.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 9 (60.00%) MSTest
2 9 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (53.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 8 (53.33%) CruiseControl
4 4 (26.67%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Developer
2 9 (60.00%) .NET Developer
2 9 (60.00%) C# Developer
2 9 (60.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (13.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst Developer
3 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Development Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Analyst Programmer
4 1 (6.667%) Programmer
4 1 (6.667%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Support Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Analyst Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) ITIL
1 15 (100.00%) UML
2 13 (86.67%) Service Management
2 13 (86.67%) ITSM
3 10 (66.67%) Service Delivery
4 9 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (53.33%) Unit Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Performance Management
6 4 (26.67%) Waterfall
6 4 (26.67%) PRINCE2
6 4 (26.67%) RAD
7 3 (20.00%) SOA
7 3 (20.00%) Change Management
7 3 (20.00%) Pair Programming
7 3 (20.00%) TOGAF
8 1 (6.667%) Configuration Management
8 1 (6.667%) Integration Testing
8 1 (6.667%) Incident Management
8 1 (6.667%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) C#
1 15 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 15 (100.00%) SQL
1 15 (100.00%) VB
2 14 (93.33%) Java
3 11 (73.33%) C++
3 11 (73.33%) VB.NET
4 4 (26.67%) VB6
4 4 (26.67%) C
4 4 (26.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (93.33%) ISEB
2 13 (86.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (60.00%) MCTS
3 9 (60.00%) MCPD
3 9 (60.00%) MCP
4 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
5 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
6 4 (26.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 4 (26.67%) ISEB Practitioner
6 4 (26.67%) MCSD
7 1 (6.667%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (26.67%) TickIT
1 4 (26.67%) ISO 9000
2 3 (20.00%) COBIT
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (93.33%) Oracle