Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for .NET 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 over the 3 months to 9 September 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.

LinkMicrosoft .NET (dotNet)
Location
3 months to
9 Sep 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank11148
Rank change year-on-year
Up+3Down-6
Matching contract IT job ads617232436885
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK10.25 %8.475 %9.462 %
As % of the Application Development category37.51 %34.62 %40.01 %
Daily rates quoted349514232485
Average daily rate£400£350£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28 %-6.660 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£240£225£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£313£280£325
% change year-on-year
+11.60 %-13.84 %
Hourly rates quoted221203423
Average hourly rate£32.50£29.00£32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.06 %-10.76 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£18.95£22.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£44.50£41.10£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+18.18 %-15.38 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
16455936817209
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK27.32 %24.48 %23.65 %
Daily rates quoted904038785905
Average daily rate£390£340£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.70 %-2.850 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£216£245
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£525£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£300£325
% change year-on-year
+8.330 %-7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted534593991
Average hourly rate£32.50£29.00£32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.06 %-10.76 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£15.00£19.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£41.50£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.50£28.00£33.00
% change year-on-year
+16.07 %-15.15 %

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
Demand Trend

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

.NET Demand Trend

.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

.NET Daily Rate Trend

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET within the UK over the 3 months to 9 September 2010.

.NET Daily Rate Histogram

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

.NET Hourly Rate Trend

.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET within the UK over the 3 months to 9 September 2010.

.NET Hourly Rate Histogram

.NET
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 within the UK over the 3 months to 9 September 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
EnglandUp+15983£400+11.11 %
LondonNo change03689£450+5.88 %
City of LondonDown-21076£500+11.11 %
South EastUp+9897£325+18.18 %
East of EnglandUp+3313£325+22.06 %
North WestDown-5250£300+0.75 %
South WestUp+2240£300-
BerkshireUp+11218£330+10.00 %
SurreyUp+3213£345+25.45 %
YorkshireUp+9210£298-4.34 %
West MidlandsUp+2172£293+20.00 %
HampshireUp+20148£325+30.00 %
ManchesterDown-5145£275-8.33 %
East MidlandsDown-2143£265-24.28 %
West YorkshireUp+10136£300-6.83 %
ReadingUp+18127£325+18.18 %
ScotlandDown-4110£320+16.36 %
LeedsUp+1497£300-3.53 %
SuffolkNo change089£275+19.56 %
HertfordshireUp+686£350+40.00 %
Canary WharfDown-274£588+30.55 %
BuckinghamshireUp+1567£300+9.09 %
CambridgeshireNo change064£300+7.14 %
CheshireDown-654£325+15.55 %
BristolUp+252£358+19.16 %
KentDown-349£250+1.52 %
OxfordshireUp+2148£308+36.66 %
BirminghamUp+248£325+18.18 %
EdinburghDown-445£313+21.35 %
WiltshireDown-1143£300-7.33 %

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing .NET 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.

18314 (68.92 %)C#
25505 (45.64 %)SQL Server
35030 (41.70 %)ASP.NET
43990 (33.08 %)SQL
52419 (20.05 %)Microsoft
62338 (19.38 %)XML
72271 (18.83 %)Banking
82119 (17.57 %)Finance
91922 (15.93 %)Oracle
101899 (15.74 %)Windows
111850 (15.34 %)JavaScript
121841 (15.26 %).NET Framework
131821 (15.10 %)SQL Server 2005
141621 (13.44 %)Investment Banking
151617 (13.40 %)CSS
161601 (13.27 %)HTML
171594 (13.21 %)Web Services
181555 (12.89 %)OO
191511 (12.53 %)WCF
201447 (12.00 %)Java
211381 (11.45 %)Visual Studio
221379 (11.43 %)VB.NET
231303 (10.80 %)WPF
241269 (10.52 %)WinForms
251262 (10.46 %)Agile Software Development
261247 (10.34 %)Front Office
271178 (9.765 %)SharePoint
281065 (8.829 %)AJAX
291040 (8.621 %)SQL Server 2008
301037 (8.597 %)TDD

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing .NET 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
15030 (41.70 %)ASP.NET
22338 (19.38 %)XML
31841 (15.26 %).NET Framework
41617 (13.40 %)CSS
51601 (13.27 %)HTML
61594 (13.21 %)Web Services
71511 (12.53 %)WCF
81303 (10.80 %)WPF
91269 (10.52 %)WinForms
101065 (8.829 %)AJAX
11740 (6.134 %)Silverlight
12710 (5.886 %)jQuery
13643 (5.330 %)ASP
14602 (4.990 %)XSLT
15550 (4.559 %)XHTML
16437 (3.623 %)Spring
17418 (3.465 %)LINQ
18340 (2.819 %)NHibernate
19306 (2.537 %)ASP.NET MVC
20277 (2.296 %)J2EE
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11178 (9.765 %)SharePoint
2729 (6.043 %)IIS
3497 (4.120 %)SharePoint Server 2007
4440 (3.648 %)CMS
5394 (3.266 %)BizTalk Server
6132 (1.094 %)SharePoint 2010
7118 (0.978 %)Rendezvous
893 (0.771 %)Apache
985 (0.705 %)MQSeries
1080 (0.663 %)Sitecore CMS
1171 (0.589 %)Tomcat
1265 (0.539 %)ESB
1359 (0.489 %)TIBCO EMS
1456 (0.464 %)Umbraco
1550 (0.414 %)WebLogic
1649 (0.406 %)MS Exchange
1745 (0.373 %)EPiServer CMS
1844 (0.365 %)WebSphere MQ
1942 (0.348 %)MTS
2036 (0.298 %)Oracle Workflow
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1843 (6.988 %)MS Excel
2290 (2.404 %)MS Office
3115 (0.953 %)InfoPath
4113 (0.937 %)MS Visio
5108 (0.895 %)Photoshop
670 (0.580 %)Spreadsheet
753 (0.439 %)MS Project
832 (0.265 %)MATLAB
926 (0.216 %)Fireworks
1024 (0.199 %)MS PowerPoint
1118 (0.149 %)Shockwave
1215 (0.124 %)Acrobat
1215 (0.124 %)Adobe Illustrator
1311 (0.091 %)SPSS
143 (0.025 %)QuarkXPress
152 (0.017 %)RoboHelp
152 (0.017 %)AutoCAD
161 (0.008 %)Paint Shop Pro
161 (0.008 %)Simulink
161 (0.008 %)Open Workbench
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1154 (1.277 %)Dynamics CRM
262 (0.514 %)Microsoft CRM
332 (0.265 %)Dynamics AX
422 (0.182 %)ION MarketView
519 (0.158 %)BusinessWorks
618 (0.149 %)RMDS
717 (0.141 %)Navision
816 (0.133 %)Summit
914 (0.116 %)Dynamics NAV
914 (0.116 %)Oracle EBS
1011 (0.091 %)Axapta
119 (0.075 %)FINCAD Analytics
128 (0.066 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
128 (0.066 %)Oracle Applications
137 (0.058 %)Visualfiles
146 (0.050 %)Advent Geneva
146 (0.050 %)Kondor+
146 (0.050 %)Endur
155 (0.041 %)Oracle 11i
164 (0.033 %)SunGard Stream Clearvision
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1288 (2.387 %)Internet
2178 (1.476 %)Intranet
3177 (1.467 %)TCP/IP
4106 (0.879 %)HTTP
595 (0.788 %)Firewall
661 (0.506 %)DNS
748 (0.398 %)LAN
748 (0.398 %)WAN
845 (0.373 %)SAN
943 (0.356 %)Extranet
1029 (0.240 %)SSH
1127 (0.224 %)LDAP
1226 (0.216 %)Kerberos
1322 (0.182 %)FTP
1420 (0.166 %)BIG-IP
1519 (0.158 %)SSL
1618 (0.149 %)CTI
1717 (0.141 %)DHCP
1816 (0.133 %)NAS
1914 (0.116 %)AMQP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
15505 (45.64 %)SQL Server
21821 (15.10 %)SQL Server 2005
31040 (8.621 %)SQL Server 2008
4815 (6.756 %)SQL Server Integration Services
5726 (6.018 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
6539 (4.468 %)SQL Server 2000
7333 (2.761 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
8319 (2.644 %)Data Warehouse (DWH)
9293 (2.429 %)ETL
10249 (2.064 %)Oracle 10g
11230 (1.907 %)RDBMS
12219 (1.815 %)DTS
13202 (1.675 %)Crystal Reports
14195 (1.617 %)MS Access
15193 (1.600 %)BusinessObjects
16148 (1.227 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
17141 (1.169 %)Oracle 8/8i
18140 (1.161 %)OLAP
19138 (1.144 %)MySQL
2084 (0.696 %)DB2
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11381 (11.45 %)Visual Studio
2716 (5.936 %)NUnit
3523 (4.336 %)Subversion
4510 (4.228 %)Team Foundation Server
5223 (1.849 %)TeamCity
6193 (1.600 %)VSS/SourceSafe
7182 (1.509 %)Rhino Mocks
8171 (1.418 %)CruiseControl
9113 (0.937 %)JUnit
10107 (0.887 %)Ant
10107 (0.887 %)Maven
11100 (0.829 %)QuickTest Pro
1295 (0.788 %)ClearCase
1388 (0.730 %)JIRA
1483 (0.688 %)Eclipse
1581 (0.671 %)Moq
1668 (0.564 %)Selenium
1767 (0.555 %)NCover
1767 (0.555 %)LoadRunner
1863 (0.522 %)Oracle Forms
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12271 (18.83 %)Banking
22119 (17.57 %)Finance
31621 (13.44 %)Investment Banking
41247 (10.34 %)Front Office
5286 (2.371 %)Insurance
6279 (2.313 %)Back Office
7232 (1.923 %)Government
8211 (1.749 %)Retail
9159 (1.318 %)Telecoms
10156 (1.293 %)Publishing
11151 (1.252 %)Marketing
12133 (1.103 %)Health
13117 (0.970 %)Education
1496 (0.796 %)Games
1588 (0.730 %)Legal
1674 (0.613 %)Advertising
1765 (0.539 %)Financial Institution
1842 (0.348 %)Construction
1939 (0.323 %)Pensions
1939 (0.323 %)Multimedia
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
18964 (74.31 %)Developer
23930 (32.58 %).NET Developer
33309 (27.43 %)C# Developer
41078 (8.936 %)ASP.NET Developer
5959 (7.950 %)Analyst
6777 (6.441 %)Senior Developer
7656 (5.438 %)Web Developer
8624 (5.173 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
9500 (4.145 %)SQL Developer
10414 (3.432 %)SharePoint Developer
11409 (3.391 %)Architect
12334 (2.769 %)Java Developer
13307 (2.545 %)Senior .NET Developer
14280 (2.321 %)VB.NET Developer
14280 (2.321 %)Applications Developer
15275 (2.280 %)Programmer
16258 (2.139 %)Senior C# Developer
17252 (2.089 %)SQL Server Developer
18250 (2.072 %)Consultant
19217 (1.799 %)WinForms Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1953 (7.900 %)Derivative
2658 (5.455 %)Fixed Income
3546 (4.526 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4354 (2.935 %)N-Tier
5351 (2.910 %)Multithreading
6332 (2.752 %)Client/Server
7290 (2.404 %)Equities
8251 (2.081 %)Equity Derivative
9239 (1.981 %)Credit Derivative
10192 (1.592 %)Hedge funds
11172 (1.426 %)Credit Risk
12152 (1.260 %)NHS
13140 (1.161 %)Computer Science
14139 (1.152 %)W3C
15127 (1.053 %)Interest Rate Derivative
16106 (0.879 %)Grid Computing
1796 (0.796 %)Dependency Injection
1885 (0.705 %)Open Source
1972 (0.597 %)Mathematics
2068 (0.564 %)Web 2.0
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11899 (15.74 %)Windows
2491 (4.070 %)UNIX
3348 (2.885 %)Linux
4286 (2.371 %)Windows Server 2003
5130 (1.078 %)Windows Server 2008
6120 (0.995 %)Solaris
767 (0.555 %)Windows XP
848 (0.398 %)AIX
848 (0.398 %)VMS
848 (0.398 %)Windows 7
943 (0.356 %)Red Hat Linux
1041 (0.340 %)Windows Mobile
1135 (0.290 %)Windows 2000
1233 (0.274 %)Windows CE
1320 (0.166 %)Windows Vista
1417 (0.141 %)HPUX
1417 (0.141 %)Windows 2000 Server
1514 (0.116 %)Android
169 (0.075 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
178 (0.066 %)Windows NT
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11555 (12.89 %)OO
21262 (10.46 %)Agile Software Development
31037 (8.597 %)TDD
4877 (7.270 %)MVC
5741 (6.143 %)Web Development
6728 (6.035 %)Scrum
7524 (4.344 %)Unit Testing
7524 (4.344 %)Continuous Integration
8523 (4.336 %)E-Commerce
9506 (4.195 %)UML
10504 (4.178 %)Workflow
11413 (3.424 %)OOD
12404 (3.349 %)CRM
13383 (3.175 %)Migration
14370 (3.067 %)SOA
15316 (2.620 %)Business Intelligence
16293 (2.429 %)Risk Management
17275 (2.280 %)Project Management
18270 (2.238 %)OOP
19224 (1.857 %)Content Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
18314 (68.92 %)C#
23990 (33.08 %)SQL
31850 (15.34 %)JavaScript
41447 (12.00 %)Java
51379 (11.43 %)VB.NET
6880 (7.295 %)VB
7865 (7.171 %)T-SQL
8851 (7.055 %)C++
9626 (5.189 %)VBA
10493 (4.087 %)C
11435 (3.606 %)PL/SQL
12367 (3.042 %)VB6
13222 (1.840 %)Perl
14186 (1.542 %)Python
15181 (1.500 %)PHP
16171 (1.418 %)VBScript
17103 (0.854 %)Shell Script
1899 (0.821 %)XPath
1991 (0.754 %)VC++
2070 (0.580 %)ActionScript
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1462 (3.830 %)Degree
2449 (3.722 %)Security Cleared
3302 (2.504 %)SC Cleared
4275 (2.280 %)Microsoft Certification
598 (0.812 %)ISEB
687 (0.721 %)MCSD
771 (0.589 %)MCP
861 (0.506 %)MCSE
958 (0.481 %)MCTS
1056 (0.464 %)MCAD
1129 (0.240 %)CTC Cleared
1129 (0.240 %)DV Cleared
1220 (0.166 %)MCPD
1315 (0.124 %)PMI Certification
1414 (0.116 %)MCDBA
1513 (0.108 %)ISTQB
1612 (0.099 %)BC Cleared
1612 (0.099 %)CISSP
1612 (0.099 %)Postgraduate
1711 (0.091 %)PRINCE2 Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1262 (2.172 %)QA
229 (0.240 %)HL7
328 (0.232 %)ISO/IEC 27001
425 (0.207 %)ISO 9001
522 (0.182 %)WCAG
619 (0.158 %)TickIT
718 (0.149 %)WAI
816 (0.133 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
914 (0.116 %)Basel II
1013 (0.108 %)BS7799
1112 (0.099 %)SLA
1210 (0.083 %)PCI DSS
135 (0.041 %)MiFID
143 (0.025 %)JTAG
151 (0.008 %)IAS 39
151 (0.008 %)COBIT
151 (0.008 %)DICOM
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1185 (1.534 %)Active Directory
2154 (1.277 %)MSMQ
352 (0.431 %)VMware Infrastructure
421 (0.174 %)ISA Server
517 (0.141 %)Hyper-V
616 (0.133 %)Citrix Presentation Server
713 (0.108 %)Oracle RAC
812 (0.099 %)VMware ESX
97 (0.058 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
106 (0.050 %)vSphere
113 (0.025 %)Terminal Server
113 (0.025 %)VMware Workstation
113 (0.025 %)LiteSpeed
113 (0.025 %)XenDesktop
113 (0.025 %)Shibboleth
122 (0.017 %)UAG
122 (0.017 %)Veritas Cluster Server
122 (0.017 %)XenApp
122 (0.017 %)Cronacle
122 (0.017 %)Squid
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
186 (0.713 %)HP Quality Center
256 (0.464 %)MSI
354 (0.448 %)AutoSys
421 (0.174 %)Dollar Universe
516 (0.133 %)Tivoli NetView
613 (0.108 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
712 (0.099 %)BladeLogic
811 (0.091 %)SCCM
910 (0.083 %)Tivoli
910 (0.083 %)OpenView Configuration Management
109 (0.075 %)MIIS
118 (0.066 %)Netcool
127 (0.058 %)Control-M
127 (0.058 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
136 (0.050 %)Data Guard
144 (0.033 %)SCOM
153 (0.025 %)MOM
162 (0.017 %)Puppet
162 (0.017 %)YUM
162 (0.017 %)Oracle Statspack
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12419 (20.05 %)Microsoft
21922 (15.93 %)Oracle
3413 (3.424 %)Sybase
4271 (2.247 %)TIBCO
5193 (1.600 %)Business Objects
6176 (1.459 %)IBM
7134 (1.111 %)EPiServer
8120 (0.995 %)Adobe
9119 (0.986 %)Sitecore
10106 (0.879 %)Bloomberg
11104 (0.862 %)DataSynapse
1296 (0.796 %)VMware
1391 (0.754 %)SAP
1486 (0.713 %)Salesforce.com
1486 (0.713 %)DevExpress
1583 (0.688 %)Perforce
1676 (0.630 %)Reuters
1775 (0.622 %)Citrix
1868 (0.564 %)Infragistics
1952 (0.431 %)Cognos