The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Software 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 Software Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
.NET Software Developer
Rank 505 543 558
Rank change year-on-year
+38 +15
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Software Developer 25 35 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.054% 0.060% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.065% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 14 16
Average daily rate £305 £328 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.87% +9.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £225 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £412 £390 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £258 £305
% change year-on-year
+16.50% -15.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £17.00 - £18.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 - £18.25
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

.NET Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

.NET Software Developer Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Software Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

.NET Software Developer Daily Rate Trend

.NET Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Software Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

.NET Software Developer Daily Rate Histogram

.NET Software Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

.NET Software Developer Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Software 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 Software Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank 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
England +38 25 £305 -6.87%
South East +10 6 £295 +2.60%
London +19 5 £349 +2.50%
North West +19 5 £265 -
South West +25 3 £300 -0.82%
Manchester +13 3 £265 -
Hampshire -12 3 £270 -
Yorkshire - 3 £325 -
Surrey +23 2 £360 +60.00%
West Yorkshire - 2 £325 -
East Midlands - 2 - -
Leatherhead - 2 £360 -
Winchester - 2 £270 -
Devon - 2 £238 -
Berkshire +15 1 £400 +14.28%
East of England +13 1 £300 +3.44%
Reading +11 1 £400 -
West Midlands +6 1 £525 +156.09%
Wiltshire - 1 £525 -
Essex - 1 £300 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £275 -
Nottinghamshire - 1 - -
Northamptonshire - 1 - -
Lancashire - 1 £305 -
Torquay - 1 £300 -
Swindon - 1 £525 -
Southampton - 1 £250 -
Exeter - 1 £175 -
Chorley - 1 £305 -
Bradford - 1 £325 -

.NET Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited .NET Software 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 Software Developer in their job title.

1 40 (100.00%) .NET
2 39 (97.50%) C#
3 35 (87.50%) SQL Server
4 29 (72.50%) ASP.NET
5 19 (47.50%) JavaScript
6 18 (45.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 18 (45.00%) .NET Framework
7 17 (42.50%) CSS
8 16 (40.00%) HTML
8 16 (40.00%) MVC
9 15 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
10 14 (35.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 14 (35.00%) SQL
11 12 (30.00%) Visual Studio
11 12 (30.00%) Ajax
12 11 (27.50%) SQL Server 2005
12 11 (27.50%) Team Foundation Server
12 11 (27.50%) WCF
13 9 (22.50%) Web Services
13 9 (22.50%) Windows
13 9 (22.50%) jQuery
14 8 (20.00%) XML
14 8 (20.00%) TDD
15 7 (17.50%) Agile Software Development
15 7 (17.50%) LINQ
15 7 (17.50%) OO
15 7 (17.50%) VB.NET
16 6 (15.00%) IIS
16 6 (15.00%) UML
16 6 (15.00%) Microsoft

.NET Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited .NET Software 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 Software Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 40 (100.00%) .NET
2 29 (72.50%) ASP.NET
3 18 (45.00%) .NET Framework
4 17 (42.50%) CSS
5 16 (40.00%) HTML
6 15 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
7 14 (35.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 12 (30.00%) Ajax
9 11 (27.50%) WCF
10 9 (22.50%) Web Services
10 9 (22.50%) jQuery
11 8 (20.00%) XML
12 7 (17.50%) LINQ
13 3 (7.500%) XHTML
13 3 (7.500%) ADO.NET
13 3 (7.500%) LINQ to SQL
14 2 (5.000%) Managed Extensibility Framework
14 2 (5.000%) ASP.NET MVC 4
14 2 (5.000%) WinForms
14 2 (5.000%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 6 (15.00%) IIS
2 3 (7.500%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.000%) ArcGIS
3 2 (5.000%) CMS
4 1 (2.500%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.500%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.500%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.500%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (87.50%) SQL Server
2 18 (45.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (27.50%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.500%) MySQL
5 1 (2.500%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (2.500%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.500%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (30.00%) Visual Studio
2 11 (27.50%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (7.500%) Selenium
4 2 (5.000%) MSTest
4 2 (5.000%) Moq
4 2 (5.000%) Subversion
General
1 2 (5.000%) Telecoms
1 2 (5.000%) Finance
2 1 (2.500%) Legal
2 1 (2.500%) Banking
2 1 (2.500%) Billing
2 1 (2.500%) Investment Banking
2 1 (2.500%) Marketing
2 1 (2.500%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) N-Tier
2 3 (7.500%) NHS
3 2 (5.000%) RIA
3 2 (5.000%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.500%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.500%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (22.50%) Windows
2 2 (5.000%) Windows 7
3 1 (2.500%) Linux
3 1 (2.500%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (2.500%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) MVC
2 8 (20.00%) TDD
3 7 (17.50%) OO
3 7 (17.50%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (15.00%) UML
5 5 (12.50%) Web Development
6 4 (10.00%) Web Application Development
6 4 (10.00%) Scrum
7 3 (7.500%) Software Engineering
7 3 (7.500%) OOP
7 3 (7.500%) Unit Testing
8 2 (5.000%) Analytics
8 2 (5.000%) MVVM
8 2 (5.000%) SOA
8 2 (5.000%) Content Management
8 2 (5.000%) Network Planning
9 1 (2.500%) Supplier Management
9 1 (2.500%) Requirements Analysis
9 1 (2.500%) Business Continuity
9 1 (2.500%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 39 (97.50%) C#
2 19 (47.50%) JavaScript
3 14 (35.00%) SQL
4 7 (17.50%) VB.NET
5 3 (7.500%) PL/SQL
5 3 (7.500%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.500%) VB
6 1 (2.500%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (5.000%) Degree
1 2 (5.000%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.000%) DV Cleared
1 2 (5.000%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.500%) PRINCE2 Certification
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.500%) Oracle
3 2 (5.000%) ESRI
4 1 (2.500%) VMware
4 1 (2.500%) Google
City of London
Position: .NET Software Developer (Linux/Unix)Rate: Up to £600 / Day Location: Central London Duration: Initial 6 Months (Extension possible)Apply To: The Background:Due to an office...
JAM
Rate: £0.00 - £600 per day
Posted: 4 May 2013
Manchester, North West
The key skills they are looking for are: Experience of .net up to and including .net 4.5 and C# .Net Web Application Development (ASP.NET/MVC) HTML,...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £230.00 - £290.00 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
The key skills they are looking for are: Experience of .net up to and including .net 4.5 and C# .Net Web Application Development (ASP.NET/MVC) HTML,...
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Rate: £230.00 - £290.00 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013