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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. 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 19 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 Job Titles advertised for the Wales region.

 .NET Developer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank403519
Rank change year-on-year
Down-5Down-16
Matching contract IT job ads51668
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales0.949 %3.200 %6.308 %
As % of the Job Titles category1.066 %3.441 %6.780 %
Daily rates quoted1410
Average daily rate£275£255£338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.840 %-24.44 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£275£263£300
% change year-on-year
+4.760 %-12.50 %
Hourly rates quoted244
Average hourly rate£18.50£32.50£38.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.07 %-15.58 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£17.70£32.50£29.75
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£19.30£34.25£47.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£31.25£31.50
% change year-on-year
-8.800 %-0.790 %
Wales IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4694651003
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales88.99 %93.00 %93.04 %
Daily rates quoted184126301
Average daily rate£350£350£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
--6.660 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£188£212£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£525£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£350
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %-3.570 %
Hourly rates quoted3758115
Average hourly rate£15.50£17.50£27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.42 %-36.36 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.20£10.00£11.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£21.30£40.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %-9.090 %
.NET Developer UK.NET Developer
UK

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 a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing .NET Developer across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Wales .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 across the Wales region.

Wales .NET Developer Daily Rate Trend

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing .NET Developer across the Wales region.

Wales .NET Developer Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Developer
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 Wales region over the 3 months to 19 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
South WalesDown-34£275+7.84 %
West WalesDown-171--
.NET Developer UK.NET Developer
UK

.NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region 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.

110 (100.00 %)C#
110 (100.00 %).NET
110 (100.00 %)SQL Server
28 (80.00 %)ASP.NET
35 (50.00 %).NET Framework
44 (40.00 %)Microsoft
44 (40.00 %)JavaScript
53 (30.00 %)XML
53 (30.00 %)OO
53 (30.00 %)MS Office
53 (30.00 %)HTML
53 (30.00 %)OOD
62 (20.00 %)SQL Server 2005
62 (20.00 %)SharePoint
62 (20.00 %)TDD
62 (20.00 %)SQL
71 (10.00 %)VB.NET
71 (10.00 %)CSS
71 (10.00 %)XHTML
71 (10.00 %)MS Excel
71 (10.00 %)C
71 (10.00 %)C++
71 (10.00 %)ASP
71 (10.00 %)Finance
71 (10.00 %)CMS
71 (10.00 %)Scrum
71 (10.00 %)BizTalk Server
71 (10.00 %)Technical Architecture
71 (10.00 %)SharePoint Server 2007
71 (10.00 %)Umbraco

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region 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.

Wales IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
110 (100.00 %).NET
28 (80.00 %)ASP.NET
35 (50.00 %).NET Framework
43 (30.00 %)XML
43 (30.00 %)HTML
51 (10.00 %)CSS
51 (10.00 %)XHTML
51 (10.00 %)ASP
Wales IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (20.00 %)SharePoint
21 (10.00 %)CMS
21 (10.00 %)BizTalk Server
21 (10.00 %)SharePoint Server 2007
21 (10.00 %)Umbraco
21 (10.00 %)Immediacy CMS
21 (10.00 %)Sitecore CMS
Wales IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
13 (30.00 %)MS Office
21 (10.00 %)MS Excel
Wales IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
110 (100.00 %)SQL Server
22 (20.00 %)SQL Server 2005
Wales IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11 (10.00 %)Finance
Wales IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13 (30.00 %)OO
13 (30.00 %)OOD
22 (20.00 %)TDD
31 (10.00 %)Scrum
31 (10.00 %)Technical Architecture
Wales IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
110 (100.00 %)C#
24 (40.00 %)JavaScript
32 (20.00 %)SQL
41 (10.00 %)VB.NET
41 (10.00 %)C
41 (10.00 %)C++
Wales IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
14 (40.00 %)Microsoft
21 (10.00 %)Sitecore