The first table below looks at the demand for ADO.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 ADO.NET over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft ADO.NET
Rank 477 454 475
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +21
Contract jobs citing ADO.NET 64 126 115
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.131% 0.220% 0.185%
As % of the Application Development category 0.471% 0.855% 0.664%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 67 57
Average daily rate £363 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £225 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £433 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £290
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +12.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 11
Average hourly rate £44.50 - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
13589 14731 17307
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.79% 25.77% 27.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8537 8800 10282
Average daily rate £375 £353 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% -11.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 379 533
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.50 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%

ADO.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

ADO.NET Jobs Demand Trend

ADO.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

ADO.NET Daily Rate Trend

ADO.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ADO.NET within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

ADO.NET Daily Rate Histogram

ADO.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ADO.NET Hourly Rate Trend

ADO.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 ADO.NET within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -32 55 £375 - 38
London +28 35 £400 - 12
Scotland -11 7 £300 +100.00%
East of England -18 7 £250 -23.07%
South East +10 6 £315 -21.25% 12
City of London -2 4 £550 +69.23% 5
Berkshire +11 2 - -
Surrey +10 2 £253 -40.58% 6
Essex - 2 £250 -
Northern Ireland - 2 £325 -
Bracknell - 2 - -
County Antrim - 2 £325 -
Belfast - 2 £325 -
Yorkshire +3 1 £300 - 2
West Yorkshire +2 1 £300 - 2
North West -1 1 - - 4
Kent -2 1 £350 -6.66% 2
Edinburgh -2 1 - -
Southampton -4 1 £400 -
Hampshire -8 1 £400 - 2
Woking - 1 £280 - 3
West Malling - 1 £350 - 2
Leeds - 1 £300 -
Manchester - 1 - - 2
Milton Keynes - - - - 1
Poole - - - -
Pudsey - - - - 2
Reigate - - - -
Liverpool - - - -
Birmingham - - - -

ADO.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ADO.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 ADO.NET.

1 125 (100.00%) .NET
2 94 (75.20%) C#
3 87 (69.60%) SQL Server
4 85 (68.00%) ASP.NET
4 85 (68.00%) SQL
5 67 (53.60%) JavaScript
6 66 (52.80%) HTML
7 59 (47.20%) .NET Framework
8 55 (44.00%) jQuery
9 53 (42.40%) XML
9 53 (42.40%) Windows
10 50 (40.00%) MVC
11 48 (38.40%) Ajax
12 46 (36.80%) Microsoft
13 43 (34.40%) T-SQL
14 42 (33.60%) Web Services
15 41 (32.80%) ASP.NET MVC
16 39 (31.20%) Visual Studio
16 39 (31.20%) VB.NET
17 38 (30.40%) WCF
18 35 (28.00%) CSS
19 34 (27.20%) SQL Server 2008
20 32 (25.60%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
20 32 (25.60%) Agile Software Development
21 28 (22.40%) OO
22 23 (18.40%) WinForms
23 20 (16.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
23 20 (16.00%) DHTML
24 19 (15.20%) WPF
25 18 (14.40%) ASP.NET MVC 3

ADO.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ADO.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 ADO.NET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 125 (100.00%) .NET
2 85 (68.00%) ASP.NET
3 66 (52.80%) HTML
4 59 (47.20%) .NET Framework
5 55 (44.00%) jQuery
6 53 (42.40%) XML
7 48 (38.40%) Ajax
8 42 (33.60%) Web Services
9 41 (32.80%) ASP.NET MVC
10 38 (30.40%) WCF
11 35 (28.00%) CSS
12 32 (25.60%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 23 (18.40%) WinForms
14 20 (16.00%) DHTML
15 19 (15.20%) WPF
16 18 (14.40%) ASP.NET MVC 3
17 17 (13.60%) ASP.NET MVC 2
18 15 (12.00%) LINQ
19 14 (11.20%) XSLT
19 14 (11.20%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 18 (14.40%) SharePoint
2 15 (12.00%) IIS
3 11 (8.800%) CMS
4 10 (8.000%) Sitecore CMS
4 10 (8.000%) Umbraco
4 10 (8.000%) DotNetNuke
5 6 (4.800%) Windows Azure
6 5 (4.000%) SharePoint 2010
7 2 (1.600%) ESB
7 2 (1.600%) EPiServer CMS
7 2 (1.600%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.800%) Lotus Domino
8 1 (0.800%) MS Exchange
8 1 (0.800%) Commerce Server
8 1 (0.800%) Amazon AWS
8 1 (0.800%) SharePoint Foundation
8 1 (0.800%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.800%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.800%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.800%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 13 (10.40%) MS Office
2 10 (8.000%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.600%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (2.400%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.600%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.600%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.40%) FTP
2 6 (4.800%) Ethernet
3 3 (2.400%) Intranet
3 3 (2.400%) SSL
4 2 (1.600%) Internet
4 2 (1.600%) Extranet
5 1 (0.800%) 3G
5 1 (0.800%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (69.60%) SQL Server
2 34 (27.20%) SQL Server 2008
3 20 (16.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 16 (12.80%) SQL Server 2005
5 13 (10.40%) DTS
6 12 (9.600%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (3.200%) Oracle 10g
7 4 (3.200%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (2.400%) SQL Server 2000
8 3 (2.400%) QlikView
8 3 (2.400%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.600%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.800%) MS Access
10 1 (0.800%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.800%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 39 (31.20%) Visual Studio
2 15 (12.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 9 (7.200%) MSTest
4 8 (6.400%) NUnit
5 6 (4.800%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 3 (2.400%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (2.400%) Rhino Mocks
6 3 (2.400%) Selenium
7 2 (1.600%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.800%) CruiseControl
8 1 (0.800%) Visual Studio Team System
8 1 (0.800%) Subversion
8 1 (0.800%) MorphX
General
1 12 (9.600%) Telecoms
2 5 (4.000%) Banking
3 4 (3.200%) Investment Banking
4 3 (2.400%) Finance
5 1 (0.800%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (0.800%) Retail
5 1 (0.800%) Back Office
5 1 (0.800%) Legal
Job Titles
1 106 (84.80%) Developer
2 53 (42.40%) .NET Developer
3 25 (20.00%) C# Developer
4 16 (12.80%) C# .NET Developer
4 16 (12.80%) Web Developer
5 13 (10.40%) Senior Developer
5 13 (10.40%) Software Developer
6 11 (8.800%) ASP.NET Developer
7 7 (5.600%) Senior .NET Developer
8 6 (4.800%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.000%) Senior Software Developer
9 5 (4.000%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 4 (3.200%) C# Software Developer
10 4 (3.200%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
10 4 (3.200%) .NET Software Developer
10 4 (3.200%) Programmer
10 4 (3.200%) Architect
11 3 (2.400%) Analyst
11 3 (2.400%) Agile .NET Developer
11 3 (2.400%) Agile C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.800%) N-Tier
2 3 (2.400%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.600%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.600%) Derivative
3 2 (1.600%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (1.600%) Social Media
3 2 (1.600%) W3C
4 1 (0.800%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.800%) Open Source
4 1 (0.800%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.800%) Web 2.0
4 1 (0.800%) Ergonomics
4 1 (0.800%) Computer Science
4 1 (0.800%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 53 (42.40%) Windows
2 13 (10.40%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (2.400%) Android
3 3 (2.400%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.600%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.600%) Linux
5 1 (0.800%) Windows 2000
5 1 (0.800%) Windows NT
5 1 (0.800%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.800%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.800%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (0.800%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (0.800%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (40.00%) MVC
2 32 (25.60%) Agile Software Development
3 28 (22.40%) OO
4 18 (14.40%) Scrum
5 17 (13.60%) UML
6 16 (12.80%) Software Engineering
7 15 (12.00%) SOA
8 14 (11.20%) TDD
9 11 (8.800%) Data Modelling
10 10 (8.000%) OOP
10 10 (8.000%) Multithreading
11 9 (7.200%) Web Development
12 6 (4.800%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (4.800%) Migration
12 6 (4.800%) Workflow
12 6 (4.800%) E-Commerce
13 5 (4.000%) Dependency Injection
13 5 (4.000%) Kanban
13 5 (4.000%) Continuous Integration
14 4 (3.200%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 94 (75.20%) C#
2 85 (68.00%) SQL
3 67 (53.60%) JavaScript
4 43 (34.40%) T-SQL
5 39 (31.20%) VB.NET
6 16 (12.80%) VBScript
7 12 (9.600%) VB
7 12 (9.600%) VB6
8 5 (4.000%) C
9 4 (3.200%) Java
9 4 (3.200%) VBA
10 3 (2.400%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.600%) Perl
11 2 (1.600%) Python
12 1 (0.800%) C++
12 1 (0.800%) XAML
12 1 (0.800%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.800%) X++
Qualifications
1 5 (4.000%) Degree
2 3 (2.400%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.600%) MCDBA
4 1 (0.800%) MCP
4 1 (0.800%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.800%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.800%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.600%) Dublin Core
2 1 (0.800%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.600%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.800%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 46 (36.80%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.800%) Sitecore
3 10 (8.000%) Oracle
3 10 (8.000%) EPiServer
4 3 (2.400%) Telerik
5 1 (0.800%) SAP
5 1 (0.800%) Actuate
5 1 (0.800%) Epicor
5 1 (0.800%) Lotus
5 1 (0.800%) JD Edwards
5 1 (0.800%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.800%) Facebook
5 1 (0.800%) Twitter
5 1 (0.800%) Google
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