Wales .NET Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET (dotNet) skills within the Wales region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abbots Langley Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Altrincham Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Ringwood Rochester Romford Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing Wycombe Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	19
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	81	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.107 %	0.046 %
As % of the category below	42.41 %	30.71 %
Daily rates quoted	22	3
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£233
Average daily rate	£352	£280
% change on same period last year	+25.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£329
% change on same period last year	+2.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.50	£25.83
Average hourly rate	£26.69	£26.92
% change on same period last year	-0.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.88	£28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.01	£32.92
% change on same period last year	+0.29 %
Application Development Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	191	140
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.252 %	0.149 %
Daily rates quoted	47	21
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£285
Average daily rate	£375	£307
% change on same period last year	+22.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.59	£28.39
Average hourly rate	£27.37	£29.50
% change on same period last year	-7.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.16	£30.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Wales region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Wales region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing .NET within the Wales region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
South Wales	+13	74	£355	+26.73 %
West Wales	0	1	£300	-
North Wales	-6	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region 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.

1 111 (54.15 %) ASP.NET 2 80 (39.02 %) XML 3 79 (38.54 %) VB.NET 4 72 (35.12 %) C# 5 62 (30.24 %) SQL Server 6 54 (26.34 %) SQL 7 49 (23.90 %) AJAX 8 47 (22.93 %) Microsoft 9 39 (19.02 %) Windows 10 38 (18.54 %) CSS 11 33 (16.10 %) JavaScript 12 32 (15.61 %) SharePoint Server 2007 12 32 (15.61 %) VB 13 30 (14.63 %) Visual Studio 14 29 (14.15 %) XSLT

15 26 (12.68 %) HTML 15 26 (12.68 %) WinForms 16 23 (11.22 %) SharePoint 17 22 (10.73 %) E-business 18 21 (10.24 %) WebServices 19 19 (9.268 %) MCTS 19 19 (9.268 %) SQL Server 2000 19 19 (9.268 %) BizTalk Server 20 18 (8.780 %) ASP 20 18 (8.780 %) MS Office 20 18 (8.780 %) Web Development 21 17 (8.293 %) Java 21 17 (8.293 %) Middleware 21 17 (8.293 %) Government 22 16 (7.805 %) SOAP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region 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.

Application Development 1 111 (54.15 %) ASP.NET 2 80 (39.02 %) XML 3 49 (23.90 %) AJAX 4 38 (18.54 %) CSS 5 29 (14.15 %) XSLT 6 26 (12.68 %) HTML 6 26 (12.68 %) WinForms 7 21 (10.24 %) WebServices 8 18 (8.780 %) ASP 9 17 (8.293 %) Middleware 10 16 (7.805 %) SOAP 11 7 (3.415 %) .NET Framework 12 6 (2.927 %) WF 12 6 (2.927 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 5 (2.439 %) ADO.NET 14 4 (1.951 %) XHTML 15 3 (1.463 %) WCF 16 2 (0.976 %) Silverlight 16 2 (0.976 %) ActiveX 17 1 (0.488 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 32 (15.61 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 23 (11.22 %) SharePoint 3 19 (9.268 %) BizTalk Server 4 15 (7.317 %) IIS 5 8 (3.902 %) ColdFusion 6 5 (2.439 %) Lotus Notes 7 2 (0.976 %) Apache 8 1 (0.488 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 18 (8.780 %) MS Office 2 6 (2.927 %) MS Project 3 1 (0.488 %) Photoshop 3 1 (0.488 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 9 (4.390 %) Internet 2 5 (2.439 %) Intranet 3 3 (1.463 %) Extranet 4 2 (0.976 %) Network Security 4 2 (0.976 %) GPRS 4 2 (0.976 %) WINS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 62 (30.24 %) SQL Server 2 19 (9.268 %) SQL Server 2000 3 15 (7.317 %) Crystal Reports 4 12 (5.854 %) SQL Server 2005 5 11 (5.366 %) MySQL 6 8 (3.902 %) Oracle 10g 7 7 (3.415 %) Oracle Reports 8 6 (2.927 %) BusinessObjects 9 4 (1.951 %) Oracle 9i 9 4 (1.951 %) Datawarehouse 10 3 (1.463 %) GIS 11 2 (0.976 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 1 (0.488 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 30 (14.63 %) Visual Studio 2 6 (2.927 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 5 (2.439 %) Visual Studio Team System 4 4 (1.951 %) Flash 5 3 (1.463 %) Rational Rose 6 1 (0.488 %) NUnit 6 1 (0.488 %) Subversion 6 1 (0.488 %) Ant
General 1 17 (8.293 %) Government 2 14 (6.829 %) Health 3 8 (3.902 %) Legal 4 5 (2.439 %) Finance 4 5 (2.439 %) Publishing 4 5 (2.439 %) Marketing 4 5 (2.439 %) Graphic Design 5 3 (1.463 %) Education 5 3 (1.463 %) Law 6 2 (0.976 %) Back Office 6 2 (0.976 %) Electronics 6 2 (0.976 %) Banking 6 2 (0.976 %) Retail 7 1 (0.488 %) Local Government 7 1 (0.488 %) Animation 7 1 (0.488 %) Pharmaceutical 7 1 (0.488 %) Advertising	Job Titles 1 142 (69.27 %) Developer 2 79 (38.54 %) .NET Developer 3 33 (16.10 %) VB.NET Developer 4 32 (15.61 %) Web Developer 5 25 (12.20 %) C# Developer 6 20 (9.756 %) Project Manager 6 20 (9.756 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 10 (4.878 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 9 (4.390 %) Software Developer 9 7 (3.415 %) Architect 9 7 (3.415 %) Consultant 9 7 (3.415 %) Crystal Reports Developer 9 7 (3.415 %) SharePoint Developer 9 7 (3.415 %) Report Developer 10 6 (2.927 %) .NET Web Developer 10 6 (2.927 %) Software Engineer 11 5 (2.439 %) Technical Architect 11 5 (2.439 %) ASP Developer 11 5 (2.439 %) Lotus Notes Consultant 12 4 (1.951 %) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous 1 6 (2.927 %) NHS 1 6 (2.927 %) Mainframe 2 3 (1.463 %) Streaming Video 2 3 (1.463 %) Welsh Language 2 3 (1.463 %) Client/Server 3 2 (0.976 %) Fat Client 3 2 (0.976 %) Data Integration 3 2 (0.976 %) Pocket PC 3 2 (0.976 %) Thin Client 4 1 (0.488 %) Blackberry 4 1 (0.488 %) W3C 4 1 (0.488 %) E-Learning 4 1 (0.488 %) Tandem 4 1 (0.488 %) AS400 4 1 (0.488 %) PDA 4 1 (0.488 %) Wiki	Operating Systems 1 39 (19.02 %) Windows 2 7 (3.415 %) Linux 2 7 (3.415 %) Windows XP 3 6 (2.927 %) Unix 4 2 (0.976 %) Windows Mobile 5 1 (0.488 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (0.488 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (10.73 %) E-business 2 18 (8.780 %) Web Development 3 13 (6.341 %) PRINCE2 4 12 (5.854 %) Workflow 4 12 (5.854 %) Agile Software Development 5 11 (5.366 %) UML 6 9 (4.390 %) Project Management 6 9 (4.390 %) SOA 7 8 (3.902 %) RAD 7 8 (3.902 %) DSDM 7 8 (3.902 %) Project Planning 8 7 (3.415 %) Unit Testing 8 7 (3.415 %) SEO 8 7 (3.415 %) Workflow Management 8 7 (3.415 %) Software Engineering 9 6 (2.927 %) Migration 9 6 (2.927 %) Security Cleared 10 5 (2.439 %) SC Cleared 10 5 (2.439 %) Requirements Analysis 10 5 (2.439 %) Integration Testing	Programming Languages 1 79 (38.54 %) VB.NET 2 72 (35.12 %) C# 3 54 (26.34 %) SQL 4 33 (16.10 %) JavaScript 5 32 (15.61 %) VB 6 17 (8.293 %) Java 7 11 (5.366 %) PHP 8 8 (3.902 %) VB6 9 6 (2.927 %) C 10 5 (2.439 %) COBOL 11 3 (1.463 %) C++ 11 3 (1.463 %) Transact-SQL 12 2 (0.976 %) Perl 12 2 (0.976 %) ActionScript 12 2 (0.976 %) Embedded C 13 1 (0.488 %) Delphi 13 1 (0.488 %) DHTML 13 1 (0.488 %) VBScript 13 1 (0.488 %) Clipper 13 1 (0.488 %) Ruby
Qualifications 1 19 (9.268 %) MCTS 2 5 (2.439 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 3 (1.463 %) ISEB 3 3 (1.463 %) Degree 4 2 (0.976 %) Cisco Certification 4 2 (0.976 %) CCNA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.488 %) QA
Vendors 1 47 (22.93 %) Microsoft 2 12 (5.854 %) Oracle 3 8 (3.902 %) Metastorm 4 6 (2.927 %) Business Objects 5 5 (2.439 %) telerik 5 5 (2.439 %) Lotus 6 2 (0.976 %) Dell 6 2 (0.976 %) Cisco 7 1 (0.488 %) IBM 7 1 (0.488 %) ICL