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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 9 February 2010 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.

 .NET Developer
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank544939
Rank change year-on-year
Down-5Down-10
Matching contract IT job ads127312152974
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK2.908 %2.642 %3.633 %
As % of the Job Titles category3.186 %2.911 %3.910 %
Daily rates quoted614446815
Average daily rate£320£309£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.640 %-11.78 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£213£215£240
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£527£450£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£275£263£310
% change year-on-year
+4.760 %-15.32 %
Hourly rates quoted4470206
Average hourly rate£30.00£32.50£32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.690 %-
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£18.75£17.50£23.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.12£40.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.00£32.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
-13.84 %-
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
399614174576056
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK91.29 %90.76 %92.92 %
Daily rates quoted178101304622755
Average daily rate£400£375£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£220£230
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£350
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %-
Hourly rates quoted245839516731
Average hourly rate£18.00£20.84£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.62 %-5.270 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.00£11.00£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.50£37.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£20.00£21.00
% change year-on-year
-12.50 %-4.760 %

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
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 9 February 2010.

.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 9 February 2010.

.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 9 February 2010. 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-41230£321-1.15 %
LondonDown-4664£371+6.07 %
City of LondonDown-17180£475+35.71 %
South EastUp+3177£281+2.27 %
North WestUp+9122£275-
East of EnglandUp+3471£294+12.98 %
ManchesterUp+1168£275-12.00 %
SurreyUp+950£299+8.63 %
South WestUp+1148£243+10.22 %
West MidlandsDown-1048£275-21.42 %
East MidlandsUp+141£213+7.59 %
YorkshireDown-1938£213-29.16 %
ScotlandUp+337£338+42.10 %
West YorkshireDown-431£200-27.27 %
BerkshireUp+1327£250-21.56 %
GlasgowUp+1123£320+42.22 %
CheshireUp+423£258-26.42 %
SuffolkUp+822£325+23.80 %
LeedsUp+722£200-33.33 %
BirminghamUp+519£220-32.30 %
BristolDown-1019£235+9.30 %
HampshireDown-1819£300+3.44 %
EssexUp+1818£300+20.00 %
West SussexUp+1515£388+34.78 %
East SussexUp+1315£200-13.04 %
OxfordshireUp+1215£225-6.25 %
BrightonUp+815£200-13.04 %
LeicestershireUp+313£213-
HertfordshireUp+1912£319+22.00 %
CambridgeshireUp+412£261-5.00 %

.NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, 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.

12386 (100.00 %).NET
21794 (75.19 %)C#
31367 (57.29 %)ASP.NET
41235 (51.76 %)SQL Server
5648 (27.16 %)SQL
6568 (23.81 %)SQL Server 2005
7472 (19.78 %)XML
8438 (18.36 %)CSS
9410 (17.18 %)HTML
10408 (17.10 %)Web Services
11404 (16.93 %)VB.NET
12395 (16.55 %)Banking
13393 (16.47 %)JavaScript
14336 (14.08 %)OO
15333 (13.96 %)WCF
16331 (13.87 %)Microsoft
17322 (13.50 %)AJAX
18314 (13.16 %)Visual Studio
19292 (12.24 %)Investment Banking
20282 (11.82 %)WinForms
21267 (11.19 %).NET Framework
21267 (11.19 %)Finance
22256 (10.73 %)Windows
23254 (10.65 %)Oracle
24250 (10.48 %)Agile Software Development
25233 (9.765 %)TDD
25233 (9.765 %)WPF
26197 (8.256 %)T-SQL
27170 (7.125 %)MVC
27170 (7.125 %)SQL Server 2008

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, 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
12386 (100.00 %).NET
21367 (57.29 %)ASP.NET
3472 (19.78 %)XML
4438 (18.36 %)CSS
5410 (17.18 %)HTML
6408 (17.10 %)Web Services
7333 (13.96 %)WCF
8322 (13.50 %)AJAX
9282 (11.82 %)WinForms
10267 (11.19 %).NET Framework
11233 (9.765 %)WPF
12170 (7.125 %)MVC
13139 (5.826 %)jQuery
14136 (5.700 %)XHTML
15124 (5.197 %)XSLT
16120 (5.029 %)NHibernate
17107 (4.484 %)LINQ
18106 (4.443 %)ASP
1992 (3.856 %)ASP.NET 2.0
2085 (3.562 %)Silverlight
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1168 (7.041 %)SharePoint
2134 (5.616 %)CMS
399 (4.149 %)SharePoint Server 2007
467 (2.808 %)IIS
539 (1.635 %)BizTalk Server
636 (1.509 %)EPiServer
729 (1.215 %)Sitecore CMS
824 (1.006 %)Umbraco
916 (0.671 %)MS Exchange
1010 (0.419 %)WebSphere MQ
1010 (0.419 %)Oracle Workflow
119 (0.377 %)Exchange Server 2007
119 (0.377 %)MQSeries
127 (0.293 %)Content Management Server
135 (0.210 %)DotNetNuke
135 (0.210 %)TIBCO EMS
135 (0.210 %)LiveLink
135 (0.210 %)ColdFusion
135 (0.210 %)Lotus Notes
135 (0.210 %)SonicMQ
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1108 (4.526 %)MS Excel
236 (1.509 %)MS Office
315 (0.629 %)Photoshop
412 (0.503 %)InfoPath
510 (0.419 %)MS PowerPoint
65 (0.210 %)Adobe Illustrator
74 (0.168 %)MS Project
83 (0.126 %)Spreadsheet
83 (0.126 %)CA Clarity
92 (0.084 %)MS Visio
92 (0.084 %)Fireworks
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
115 (0.629 %)Dynamics CRM
27 (0.293 %)Microsoft CRM
32 (0.084 %)Summit
32 (0.084 %)SAP Oil and Gas
32 (0.084 %)TIBCO iProcess
41 (0.042 %)ION MarketView
41 (0.042 %)Google Analytics
41 (0.042 %)SAP IS-U
41 (0.042 %)Dynamics NAV
41 (0.042 %)SalesLogix
41 (0.042 %)Dynamics AX
41 (0.042 %)AWD
41 (0.042 %)Pivotal CRM
41 (0.042 %)BusinessWorks
41 (0.042 %)Great Plains
41 (0.042 %)Axapta
41 (0.042 %)Navision
41 (0.042 %)Oracle 11i
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
146 (1.928 %)Intranet
237 (1.551 %)Internet
319 (0.796 %)HTTP
45 (0.210 %)Extranet
54 (0.168 %)TCP/IP
54 (0.168 %)LDAP
54 (0.168 %)FTP
54 (0.168 %)SSL
62 (0.084 %)GPRS
62 (0.084 %)PSTN
62 (0.084 %)Wireless
62 (0.084 %)X.500
71 (0.042 %)SSH
71 (0.042 %)SMTP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11235 (51.76 %)SQL Server
2568 (23.81 %)SQL Server 2005
3170 (7.125 %)SQL Server 2008
4147 (6.161 %)SQL Server 2000
587 (3.646 %)SQL Server Integration Services
682 (3.437 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
750 (2.096 %)Oracle 10g
839 (1.635 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
929 (1.215 %)Crystal Reports
929 (1.215 %)MySQL
1028 (1.174 %)RDBMS
1126 (1.090 %)Oracle 8/8i
1225 (1.048 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1318 (0.754 %)ETL
1414 (0.587 %)OLAP
1414 (0.587 %)MS Access
1513 (0.545 %)DTS
1611 (0.461 %)Datawarehouse
1710 (0.419 %)KDB
188 (0.335 %)DB2
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1314 (13.16 %)Visual Studio
2109 (4.568 %)NUnit
380 (3.353 %)Subversion
460 (2.515 %)Team Foundation Server
555 (2.305 %)TeamCity
647 (1.970 %)ReSharper
740 (1.676 %)VSS/SourceSafe
839 (1.635 %)FitNesse
938 (1.593 %)WatiN
1037 (1.551 %)Selenium
1135 (1.467 %)WATIR
1228 (1.174 %)ClearCase
1326 (1.090 %)NCover
1420 (0.838 %)CruiseControl
1420 (0.838 %)csUnit
1519 (0.796 %)NDepend
1618 (0.754 %)Oracle Forms
1618 (0.754 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
1713 (0.545 %)Log4Net
1811 (0.461 %)MSTest
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1395 (16.55 %)Banking
2292 (12.24 %)Investment Banking
3267 (11.19 %)Finance
4152 (6.370 %)Front Office
552 (2.179 %)Government
641 (1.718 %)Insurance
740 (1.676 %)Retail
836 (1.509 %)Marketing
929 (1.215 %)Health
1027 (1.132 %)Back Office
1125 (1.048 %)Publishing
1224 (1.006 %)Games
1321 (0.880 %)Education
1419 (0.796 %)Financial Institution
1512 (0.503 %)Telecoms
1610 (0.419 %)Retail Banking
179 (0.377 %)Legal
187 (0.293 %)Pensions
187 (0.293 %)Home Office
187 (0.293 %)Automotive
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1105 (4.401 %)Derivative
289 (3.730 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
376 (3.185 %)N-Tier
455 (2.305 %)Multithreading
549 (2.054 %)NHS
648 (2.012 %)Equities
743 (1.802 %)Fixed Income
827 (1.132 %)Credit Derivative
926 (1.090 %)Credit Risk
1025 (1.048 %)Computer Science
1123 (0.964 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1221 (0.880 %)Client/Server
1316 (0.671 %)Contract for Difference
1414 (0.587 %)Equity Derivative
1513 (0.545 %)Mathematics
1513 (0.545 %)Web 2.0
1513 (0.545 %)W3C
1611 (0.461 %)Market Risk
1611 (0.461 %)Social Network
1710 (0.419 %)Grid Computing
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1256 (10.73 %)Windows
229 (1.215 %)Windows Server 2003
322 (0.922 %)UNIX
412 (0.503 %)Windows Mobile
511 (0.461 %)Linux
68 (0.335 %)Windows Server 2008
75 (0.210 %)Windows 2000 Server
75 (0.210 %)Windows XP
83 (0.126 %)Windows CE
92 (0.084 %)Windows Vista
92 (0.084 %)Red Hat Linux
101 (0.042 %)Windows 7
101 (0.042 %)SUSE
101 (0.042 %)Solaris
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1336 (14.08 %)OO
2250 (10.48 %)Agile Software Development
3233 (9.765 %)TDD
4121 (5.071 %)Scrum
4121 (5.071 %)Continuous Integration
5118 (4.946 %)Web Development
6111 (4.652 %)OOD
7106 (4.443 %)Unit Testing
896 (4.023 %)E-Commerce
987 (3.646 %)UML
1067 (2.808 %)Workflow
1166 (2.766 %)SOA
1264 (2.682 %)Refactoring
1355 (2.305 %)Pair Programming
1451 (2.137 %)CRM
1548 (2.012 %)Content Management
1644 (1.844 %)Risk Management
1741 (1.718 %)Migration
1838 (1.593 %)OOP
1937 (1.551 %)Configuration Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11794 (75.19 %)C#
2648 (27.16 %)SQL
3404 (16.93 %)VB.NET
4393 (16.47 %)JavaScript
5197 (8.256 %)T-SQL
6133 (5.574 %)VB
7115 (4.820 %)Java
897 (4.065 %)C++
976 (3.185 %)PL/SQL
1067 (2.808 %)VB6
1157 (2.389 %)VBA
1157 (2.389 %)C
1228 (1.174 %)PHP
1321 (0.880 %)Python
1321 (0.880 %)XAML
1416 (0.671 %)VC++
1513 (0.545 %)Perl
1612 (0.503 %)VBScript
178 (0.335 %)Delphi
178 (0.335 %)PowerShell
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
173 (3.060 %)Security Cleared
267 (2.808 %)Degree
340 (1.676 %)Microsoft Certification
435 (1.467 %)SC Cleared
524 (1.006 %)MCAD
621 (0.880 %)MCSD
719 (0.796 %)MCP
815 (0.629 %)MCTS
911 (0.461 %)DV Cleared
104 (0.168 %)CTC Cleared
111 (0.042 %)ACCA
111 (0.042 %)OCP
111 (0.042 %)Oracle Certification
111 (0.042 %)CIMA
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
119 (0.796 %)QA
26 (0.251 %)WCAG
26 (0.251 %)Dublin Core
34 (0.168 %)WAI
42 (0.084 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
42 (0.084 %)SLA
51 (0.042 %)Basel II
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
118 (0.754 %)Active Directory
217 (0.712 %)MSMQ
310 (0.419 %)VMware Infrastructure
42 (0.084 %)VMware ESX
42 (0.084 %)Oracle RAC
42 (0.084 %)AquaLogic
42 (0.084 %)Hyper-V
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (0.084 %)MIIS
21 (0.042 %)SCOM
21 (0.042 %)SCVMM
21 (0.042 %)CONTROL-M
21 (0.042 %)Tivoli
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1331 (13.87 %)Microsoft
2254 (10.65 %)Oracle
350 (2.096 %)Sybase
439 (1.635 %)DevExpress
538 (1.593 %)Sitecore
637 (1.551 %)TIBCO
720 (0.838 %)Infragistics
811 (0.461 %)SAP
910 (0.419 %)Adobe
910 (0.419 %)VMware
910 (0.419 %)Perforce
109 (0.377 %)Open Text
109 (0.377 %)telerik
109 (0.377 %)IBM
118 (0.335 %)Bloomberg
118 (0.335 %)RedDot
118 (0.335 %)Google
127 (0.293 %)Singularity
127 (0.293 %)Tridion
136 (0.251 %)Business Objects