Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for .NET Remoting skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Remoting over the 3 months to 16 March 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 of the Application Development category.

Link.NET Remoting
Location
3 months to
16 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank474440543
Rank change year-on-year
Down-34Up+103
Matching contract IT job ads171246
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.036 %0.030 %0.056 %
As % of the Application Development category0.134 %0.136 %0.234 %
Daily rates quoted5613
Average daily rate£350£390£330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.25 %+18.18 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£280£350£304
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£545£525£440
UK excluding London average daily rate£280£350£330
% change year-on-year
-20.00 %+6.060 %
Hourly rates quoted009
Average hourly rate--£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate--£35.00
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12695882019681
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK26.75 %21.97 %24.11 %
Daily rates quoted642530596328
Average daily rate£375£350£360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.140 %-2.770 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£220£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted4234961244
Average hourly rate£30.00£30.00£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£17.00£14.70£19.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£42.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.00£30.00£32.50
% change year-on-year
-6.660 %-7.690 %

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 Remoting
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing .NET Remoting within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

.NET Remoting Demand Trend

.NET Remoting
Daily Rate Trend

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

.NET Remoting Daily Rate Trend

.NET Remoting
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Remoting within the UK over the 3 months to 16 March 2010.

.NET Remoting Daily Rate Histogram

.NET Remoting
Hourly Rate Trend

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

.NET Remoting Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Remoting
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Remoting within the UK over the 3 months to 16 March 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-3417£350-10.25 %
LondonDown-6413£500+17.64 %
City of LondonDown-528£500-
North WestNew entry-2£280-
CreweNew entry-2£280-
CheshireNew entry-2£280-
DevonNew entry-1--
West YorkshireNew entry-1--
YorkshireNew entry-1--
LeedsNew entry-1--
PlymouthNew entry-1--
South WestNew entry-1--

.NET Remoting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing .NET Remoting 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 Remoting.

132 (100.00 %).NET
231 (96.88 %)C#
316 (50.00 %)OO
414 (43.75 %)SQL Server
414 (43.75 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
513 (40.63 %)ASP.NET
513 (40.63 %)SQL
612 (37.50 %)WinForms
612 (37.50 %)Banking
711 (34.38 %)Investment Banking
89 (28.13 %)Front Office
89 (28.13 %)C++
89 (28.13 %)Visual Studio
89 (28.13 %)Web Services
98 (25.00 %)ADO.NET
98 (25.00 %)Microsoft
98 (25.00 %)Derivative
98 (25.00 %)Unit Testing
107 (21.88 %)WCF
107 (21.88 %)AJAX
107 (21.88 %)SQL Server 2005
107 (21.88 %)Finance
107 (21.88 %)Java
107 (21.88 %)VB
116 (18.75 %)JavaScript
116 (18.75 %)CSS
116 (18.75 %)TIBCO
116 (18.75 %)Rendezvous
116 (18.75 %)Credit Derivative
125 (15.63 %)NHibernate

.NET Remoting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing .NET Remoting 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 Remoting. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
132 (100.00 %).NET
213 (40.63 %)ASP.NET
312 (37.50 %)WinForms
49 (28.13 %)Web Services
58 (25.00 %)ADO.NET
67 (21.88 %)WCF
67 (21.88 %)AJAX
76 (18.75 %)CSS
85 (15.63 %)NHibernate
85 (15.63 %)jQuery
85 (15.63 %)ASP.NET 2.0
85 (15.63 %)HTML
94 (12.50 %)COM+
94 (12.50 %).NET Framework
103 (9.375 %)XML
103 (9.375 %)ASP
112 (6.250 %)ATL
112 (6.250 %)XSLT
112 (6.250 %)Spring
112 (6.250 %)AOM
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
16 (18.75 %)Rendezvous
21 (3.125 %)MQSeries
21 (3.125 %)IIS
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12 (6.250 %)TCP/IP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
114 (43.75 %)SQL Server
27 (21.88 %)SQL Server 2005
32 (6.250 %)RDBMS
41 (3.125 %)SQL Server 2008
41 (3.125 %)SQL Server Integration Services
41 (3.125 %)GIS
41 (3.125 %)VLDB
41 (3.125 %)ETL
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
19 (28.13 %)Visual Studio
24 (12.50 %)ClearCase
31 (3.125 %)ANTLR
31 (3.125 %)Log4Net
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
112 (37.50 %)Banking
211 (34.38 %)Investment Banking
39 (28.13 %)Front Office
47 (21.88 %)Finance
51 (3.125 %)Health
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
131 (96.88 %)Developer
220 (62.50 %)C# Developer
37 (21.88 %).NET Developer
45 (15.63 %)Applications Developer
53 (9.375 %)Senior Developer
53 (9.375 %)Web Applications Developer
53 (9.375 %)Senior C# Developer
53 (9.375 %)Web Developer
61 (3.125 %)Agile .NET Developer
61 (3.125 %)C++/C# Developer
61 (3.125 %)C++ Developer
61 (3.125 %)Analyst Developer
61 (3.125 %)Systems Developer
61 (3.125 %)Support Analyst
61 (3.125 %)Solutions Architect
61 (3.125 %)Front Office Developer
61 (3.125 %)Analyst
61 (3.125 %)Architect
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
114 (43.75 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
28 (25.00 %)Derivative
36 (18.75 %)Credit Derivative
45 (15.63 %)Interest Rate Derivative
45 (15.63 %)Equity Derivative
45 (15.63 %)Multithreading
45 (15.63 %)Client/Server
52 (6.250 %)N-Tier
52 (6.250 %)Computer Science
61 (3.125 %)Data Integration
61 (3.125 %)Visualisation
61 (3.125 %)Fixed Income
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (3.125 %)Windows 2000 Server
11 (3.125 %)Windows
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
116 (50.00 %)OO
28 (25.00 %)Unit Testing
35 (15.63 %)Web Development
44 (12.50 %)Project Management
44 (12.50 %)CMMI
44 (12.50 %)System Testing
44 (12.50 %)User Acceptance Testing
44 (12.50 %)Business Analysis
51 (3.125 %)Continuous Integration
51 (3.125 %)OOD
51 (3.125 %)E-Commerce
51 (3.125 %)UML
51 (3.125 %)OOA/OOD
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
131 (96.88 %)C#
213 (40.63 %)SQL
39 (28.13 %)C++
47 (21.88 %)Java
47 (21.88 %)VB
56 (18.75 %)JavaScript
63 (9.375 %)VB.NET
72 (6.250 %)VB6
81 (3.125 %)VBA
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
14 (12.50 %)Microsoft Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (3.125 %)WCAG
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (3.125 %)MSMQ
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (3.125 %)Tivoli
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
18 (25.00 %)Microsoft
26 (18.75 %)TIBCO
34 (12.50 %)Informatica
43 (9.375 %)Perforce
52 (6.250 %)Oracle
61 (3.125 %)IBM