The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Walsall region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 20 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 of the Application Development category for the Walsall region.

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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing .NET 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Walsall 25.00% - -
As % of the Application Development category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.41 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+19.00% -12.20%
All Application Development
Walsall
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Walsall 25.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET
West Midlands

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Walsall .NET Jobs Demand Trend

.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

Walsall .NET Daily Rate Trend

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Walsall 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 3 (75.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) COM
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Walsall 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 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) COM
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Ajax
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle