The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

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.

.NET Developer
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank545146
Rank change year-on-year
Down-3Down-5
Matching contract IT job ads175320411828
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK2.962 %3.326 %3.320 %
As % of the Job Titles category3.200 %3.588 %3.612 %
Number of daily rates quoted109113331063
Average daily rate£325£350£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£240£250£215
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£476£585£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£295
% change year-on-year
-+1.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted346478
Average hourly rate£31.00£33.25£28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.76 %+16.66 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£20.30£16.95
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£44.00£42.50£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.00£32.50£27.25
% change year-on-year
-7.69 %+19.26 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
547785688250613
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK92.55 %92.70 %91.92 %
Number of daily rates quoted302013092924313
Average daily rate£400£425£410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88 %+3.65 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£240£250£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£325
% change year-on-year
-+7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted259529252766
Average hourly rate£18.75£20.00£19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25 %+2.56 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£11.00£10.75
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£40.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£18.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %+11.11 %

.NET Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing .NET Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

.NET Developer Demand Trend

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing .NET Developer within the UK.

.NET Developer Daily Rate Trend

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

.NET Developer Daily Rate Histogram

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing .NET Developer within the UK.

.NET Developer Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

.NET Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

.NET Developer
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-31645£325-7.14 %
LondonDown-21639£375-18.91 %
South EastUp+4331£325+8.33 %
City of LondonDown-6169£375-25.00 %
East of EnglandUp+8152£288-4.16 %
North WestUp+2142£275-
South WestDown-1599£320+6.66 %
West MidlandsDown-193£300+7.14 %
SurreyUp+2587£330-17.50 %
East MidlandsUp+887£275-
ManchesterDown-287£275+5.76 %
YorkshireDown-1187£288+5.02 %
West YorkshireUp+369£281+8.17 %
CambridgeshireUp+2661£318+5.83 %
BerkshireDown-3158£320+6.66 %
ScotlandUp+657£303+0.83 %
BristolUp+1148£300+0.84 %
HampshireUp+346£325-
LeedsDown-643£289+5.00 %
BuckinghamshireUp+734£301+9.54 %
NottinghamshireUp+1333£275-8.33 %
CambridgeUp+1330£310+6.89 %
BirminghamDown-1130£325+16.07 %
HertfordshireUp+528£275-12.00 %
West SussexUp+1027£350+16.66 %
SuffolkUp+126£288+2.67 %
OxfordshireDown-1226£300-
Milton KeynesUp+623£300+9.09 %
EdinburghUp+1022£313+8.69 %
NorfolkDown-422£288-

.NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited .NET Developer in their job title 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 with .NET Developer in their job title.

13235 (100.00 %).NET
22654 (82.04 %)C#
32135 (66.00 %)ASP.NET
41938 (59.91 %)SQL Server
51014 (31.34 %)SQL
6965 (29.83 %)MVC
7863 (26.68 %)JavaScript
8743 (22.97 %)CSS
9717 (22.16 %).NET Framework
10707 (21.85 %)HTML
11665 (20.56 %)jQuery
12649 (20.06 %)SQL Server 2008
13648 (20.03 %)VB.NET
14626 (19.35 %)WCF
15621 (19.20 %)Microsoft
16584 (18.05 %)ASP.NET MVC
17569 (17.59 %)XML
18538 (16.63 %)Web Services
19530 (16.38 %)Visual Studio
20500 (15.46 %)TDD
21431 (13.32 %)Ajax
22427 (13.20 %)SQL Server 2005
23401 (12.40 %)E-Commerce
24398 (12.30 %)Finance
25364 (11.25 %)WPF
26352 (10.88 %)LINQ
27350 (10.82 %)Scrum
28341 (10.54 %)Agile Software Development
29300 (9.274 %)Windows
30291 (8.995 %)ADO.NET Entity Framework

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited .NET Developer in their job title 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 with .NET Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
13235 (100.00 %).NET
22135 (66.00 %)ASP.NET
3743 (22.97 %)CSS
4717 (22.16 %).NET Framework
5707 (21.85 %)HTML
6665 (20.56 %)jQuery
7626 (19.35 %)WCF
8584 (18.05 %)ASP.NET MVC
9569 (17.59 %)XML
10538 (16.63 %)Web Services
11431 (13.32 %)Ajax
12364 (11.25 %)WPF
13352 (10.88 %)LINQ
14291 (8.995 %)ADO.NET Entity Framework
15246 (7.604 %)ASP.NET MVC 3
16194 (5.997 %)WinForms
17179 (5.533 %)NHibernate
18170 (5.255 %)Silverlight
19168 (5.193 %)XSLT
20166 (5.131 %)ASP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1221 (6.832 %)SharePoint
2199 (6.151 %)CMS
3185 (5.719 %)IIS
477 (2.380 %)Umbraco
576 (2.349 %)BizTalk Server
661 (1.886 %)SharePoint 2010
738 (1.175 %)Sitecore CMS
834 (1.051 %)MSMQ
925 (0.773 %)Amazon EC2
925 (0.773 %)EPiServer CMS
1024 (0.742 %)SharePoint Server
1120 (0.618 %)ESB
1219 (0.587 %)Kentico
1315 (0.464 %)Amazon AWS
1315 (0.464 %)ArcGIS
1315 (0.464 %)DotNetNuke
1414 (0.433 %)Amazon S3
1414 (0.433 %)Sitefinity
1512 (0.371 %)Commerce Server
1512 (0.371 %)Google App Engine
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1176 (5.440 %)MS Excel
230 (0.927 %)Spreadsheet
324 (0.742 %)MS Office
419 (0.587 %)Photoshop
59 (0.278 %)InfoPath
68 (0.247 %)MATLAB
76 (0.185 %)MS Visio
85 (0.155 %)Mingle
85 (0.155 %)MS Project
94 (0.124 %)MS PowerPoint
101 (0.031 %)GIMP
101 (0.031 %)FrameMaker
101 (0.031 %)Fireworks
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
137 (1.144 %)Dynamics CRM
29 (0.278 %)Line 50
38 (0.247 %)Endur
45 (0.155 %)Summit
54 (0.124 %)Visualfiles
54 (0.124 %)TIBCO iProcess
62 (0.062 %)Tridion
62 (0.062 %)ZaiNet
71 (0.031 %)Aligne
71 (0.031 %)Loanet
71 (0.031 %)Eagle PACE
71 (0.031 %)SAP CRM
71 (0.031 %)Global One
71 (0.031 %)Dynamics NAV
71 (0.031 %)Dynamics AX
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
151 (1.577 %)Internet
237 (1.144 %)TCP/IP
329 (0.896 %)Intranet
420 (0.618 %)HTTP
519 (0.587 %)FTP
68 (0.247 %)DNS
75 (0.155 %)SMTP
83 (0.093 %)SSH
83 (0.093 %)SMS
83 (0.093 %)Kerberos
92 (0.062 %)LDAP
92 (0.062 %)SSL
92 (0.062 %)Extranet
92 (0.062 %)IMAP
101 (0.031 %)Network Security
101 (0.031 %)AMQP
101 (0.031 %)TELNET
101 (0.031 %)X.500
101 (0.031 %)RFID
101 (0.031 %)Broadband
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11938 (59.91 %)SQL Server
2649 (20.06 %)SQL Server 2008
3427 (13.20 %)SQL Server 2005
4150 (4.637 %)SQL Server Integration Services
5147 (4.544 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
655 (1.700 %)SQL Server 2000
748 (1.484 %)Crystal Reports
834 (1.051 %)Oracle 8/8i
929 (0.896 %)MySQL
929 (0.896 %)Firebird
1025 (0.773 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1025 (0.773 %)ETL
1123 (0.711 %)Oracle 10g
1222 (0.680 %)Oracle 11g
1321 (0.649 %)Data Warehouse
1420 (0.618 %)DTS
1420 (0.618 %)RDBMS
1519 (0.587 %)GIS
1618 (0.556 %)MS Access
1713 (0.402 %)Sybase ASE
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1530 (16.38 %)Visual Studio
2208 (6.430 %)Team Foundation Server
3167 (5.162 %)NUnit
4148 (4.575 %)Subversion
558 (1.793 %)TeamCity
654 (1.669 %)Rhino Mocks
742 (1.298 %)Hudson
830 (0.927 %)JIRA
830 (0.927 %)VSS/SourceSafe
927 (0.835 %)Moq
927 (0.835 %)MSBuild
1024 (0.742 %)Expression Blend
1122 (0.680 %)ReSharper
1219 (0.587 %)MSTest
1317 (0.526 %)WinDbg
1317 (0.526 %)StyleCop
1416 (0.495 %)Selenium
1416 (0.495 %)FxCop
1416 (0.495 %)StructureMap
1515 (0.464 %)Git (software)
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1398 (12.30 %)Finance
2218 (6.739 %)Banking
3136 (4.204 %)Investment Banking
4104 (3.215 %)Front Office
594 (2.906 %)Retail
662 (1.917 %)Back Office
743 (1.329 %)Telecoms
826 (0.804 %)Financial Institution
925 (0.773 %)Games
1023 (0.711 %)Marketing
1120 (0.618 %)Pharmaceutical
1219 (0.587 %)Publishing
1316 (0.495 %)Legal
1413 (0.402 %)Electronics
1512 (0.371 %)Advertising
1512 (0.371 %)Private Banking
1611 (0.340 %)Billing
1611 (0.340 %)Automotive
179 (0.278 %)Music
188 (0.247 %)Manufacturing
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1131 (4.049 %)N-Tier
255 (1.700 %)Inversion of Control
348 (1.484 %)Derivative
444 (1.360 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
538 (1.175 %)Fixed Income
538 (1.175 %)Computer Science
636 (1.113 %)Digital Media
734 (1.051 %)Mathematics
831 (0.958 %)Market Risk
930 (0.927 %)Client/Server
1026 (0.804 %)W3C
1125 (0.773 %)RIA
1125 (0.773 %)Credit Risk
1223 (0.711 %)Open Source
1322 (0.680 %)Credit Derivative
1322 (0.680 %)NHS
1420 (0.618 %)Exotic Derivative
1516 (0.495 %)Management Information System
1613 (0.402 %)PaaS
1712 (0.371 %)Heroku
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1300 (9.274 %)Windows
228 (0.866 %)Windows 7
326 (0.804 %)Windows Server 2008
422 (0.680 %)Windows Server 2003
521 (0.649 %)Android
620 (0.618 %)Windows Mobile
620 (0.618 %)UNIX
713 (0.402 %)Apple iOS
811 (0.340 %)BlackBerry OS
99 (0.278 %)Linux
108 (0.247 %)Windows XP
115 (0.155 %)Windows 2000
123 (0.093 %)Windows Vista
132 (0.062 %)Windows 2000 Server
141 (0.031 %)Windows Phone 7
141 (0.031 %)Oracle Linux
141 (0.031 %)Windows CE
141 (0.031 %)AIX
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1965 (29.83 %)MVC
2500 (15.46 %)TDD
3401 (12.40 %)E-Commerce
4350 (10.82 %)Scrum
5341 (10.54 %)Agile Software Development
6277 (8.563 %)OO
7214 (6.615 %)Web Development
8198 (6.121 %)Unit Testing
9109 (3.369 %)Continuous Integration
9109 (3.369 %)Multithreading
10107 (3.308 %)MVVM
1192 (2.844 %)OOP
1288 (2.720 %)SOA
1379 (2.442 %)OOD
1474 (2.287 %)CRM
1474 (2.287 %)UML
1566 (2.040 %)Content Management
1660 (1.855 %)Migration
1759 (1.824 %)Risk Management
1858 (1.793 %)Workflow
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12654 (82.04 %)C#
21014 (31.34 %)SQL
3863 (26.68 %)JavaScript
4648 (20.03 %)VB.NET
5255 (7.883 %)T-SQL
6212 (6.553 %)VB
7108 (3.338 %)VBA
8105 (3.246 %)Java
997 (2.998 %)VB6
1082 (2.535 %)PL/SQL
1174 (2.287 %)C++
1230 (0.927 %)C
1327 (0.835 %)XPath
1425 (0.773 %)PHP
1425 (0.773 %)VBScript
1519 (0.587 %)XAML
1617 (0.526 %)Ruby
1712 (0.371 %)Delphi
1712 (0.371 %)Perl
1810 (0.309 %)VC++
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1163 (5.039 %)Degree
2132 (4.080 %)Microsoft Certification
3101 (3.122 %)Security Cleared
477 (2.380 %)SC Cleared
516 (0.495 %)MCP
614 (0.433 %)DV Cleared
79 (0.278 %)MCSD
88 (0.247 %)PhD
88 (0.247 %)MCTS
97 (0.216 %)MCAD
104 (0.124 %)MCPD
112 (0.062 %)A+ Certification
112 (0.062 %)MBA
112 (0.062 %)CFA
121 (0.031 %)BC Cleared
121 (0.031 %)CTC Cleared
121 (0.031 %)ISEB
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
149 (1.515 %)QA
213 (0.402 %)ISO 9001
37 (0.216 %)Solvency II
45 (0.155 %)HL7
54 (0.124 %)PCI DSS
63 (0.093 %)WAI
63 (0.093 %)Basel II
72 (0.062 %)WCAG
81 (0.031 %)Basel III
81 (0.031 %)ISO/IEC 27001
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
138 (1.175 %)Active Directory
23 (0.093 %)VMware Infrastructure
32 (0.062 %)VMware ESX
32 (0.062 %)XenDesktop
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
15 (0.155 %)HP Quality Center
23 (0.093 %)BladeLogic
32 (0.062 %)MIIS
41 (0.031 %)Business Desktop Deployment
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1621 (19.20 %)Microsoft
2277 (8.563 %)Oracle
367 (2.071 %)EPiServer
456 (1.731 %)Sitecore
553 (1.638 %)Telerik
641 (1.267 %)Sybase
720 (0.618 %)Business Objects
818 (0.556 %)SAP
917 (0.526 %)Ektron
917 (0.526 %)Google
1015 (0.464 %)Syncfusion
1114 (0.433 %)AccuRev
1213 (0.402 %)Adobe
1312 (0.371 %)TIBCO
1411 (0.340 %)Facebook
1411 (0.340 %)RedDot
1411 (0.340 %)IBM
1510 (0.309 %)ESRI
1510 (0.309 %)Sage
1510 (0.309 %)Perforce