West Midlands .NET Developer Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands 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 17 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 West Midlands region.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carshalton Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorset Dudley Dunstable East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Falmouth Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Folkestone Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harpenden Harrow Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Littlehampton Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Thatcham Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Witney Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 17 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	28	28	30
Rank change year-on-year	0 +2
Matching contract IT job ads	64	72	128
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands	4.258 %	4.150 %	3.891 %
As % of the Job Titles category	4.661 %	4.657 %	4.226 %
Daily rates quoted	32	20	19
Average daily rate	£263	£350	£306
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-25.00 % +14.28 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£200	£203	£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£375	£350	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£275	£263	£300
% change year-on-year	+4.760 % -12.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	11	12
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£27.50	£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	+18.18 % -8.330 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£17.55	£20.25	£22.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£111.00	£35.00	£34.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.00	£31.50	£32.00
% change year-on-year	-11.11 % -1.560 %
All Job Titles West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Job Titles category	1373	1546	3029
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands	91.35 %	89.11 %	92.07 %
Daily rates quoted	499	447	752
Average daily rate	£300	£301	£340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-0.330 % -11.47 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£179	£200	£188
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£450	£483	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£340	£350
% change year-on-year	-4.410 % -2.850 %
Hourly rates quoted	173	187	426
Average hourly rate	£17.63	£15.00	£17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	+17.50 % -14.28 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£10.50	£11.00	£10.10
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£35.00	£34.50	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.60	£20.00	£22.00
% change year-on-year	-12.00 % -9.090 %
.NET Developer England

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.

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Demand Trend

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

.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 West Midlands region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 March 2010.

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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 Developer across the West Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 March 2010.

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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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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.

Location	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
Birmingham	+4	23	£284	-12.69 %
Warwickshire	+2	9	£275	+22.22 %
Coventry	+5	7	£238	+18.75 %
Staffordshire	-1	6	£338	-3.57 %
Worcestershire	+2	5	£238	-
Herefordshire	-	5	£250	-
Dudley	-	2	-	-
Solihull	-	1	£241	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 98 (100.00 %) .NET 2 67 (68.37 %) ASP.NET 3 61 (62.24 %) SQL Server 4 58 (59.18 %) C# 5 33 (33.67 %) SQL Server 2005 6 30 (30.61 %) CSS 6 30 (30.61 %) Web Services 7 26 (26.53 %) JavaScript 7 26 (26.53 %) VB.NET 8 25 (25.51 %) SQL 9 21 (21.43 %) SQL Server 2008 10 20 (20.41 %) Visual Studio 11 19 (19.39 %) XML 12 18 (18.37 %) HTML 13 14 (14.29 %) WCF

14 13 (13.27 %) .NET Framework 14 13 (13.27 %) Oracle 15 12 (12.24 %) T-SQL 15 12 (12.24 %) XHTML 15 12 (12.24 %) Internet 16 11 (11.22 %) OO 16 11 (11.22 %) ASP.NET 2.0 17 10 (10.20 %) ADO.NET 17 10 (10.20 %) IIS 17 10 (10.20 %) E-Commerce 17 10 (10.20 %) SQL Server 2000 17 10 (10.20 %) Web Development 17 10 (10.20 %) WF 18 9 (9.184 %) SQL Server Integration Services 18 9 (9.184 %) AJAX

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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.

Application Development 1 98 (100.00 %) .NET 2 67 (68.37 %) ASP.NET 3 30 (30.61 %) CSS 3 30 (30.61 %) Web Services 4 19 (19.39 %) XML 5 18 (18.37 %) HTML 6 14 (14.29 %) WCF 7 13 (13.27 %) .NET Framework 8 12 (12.24 %) XHTML 9 11 (11.22 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 10 (10.20 %) ADO.NET 10 10 (10.20 %) WF 11 9 (9.184 %) AJAX 12 6 (6.122 %) XSLT 12 6 (6.122 %) WinForms 13 4 (4.082 %) Silverlight 13 4 (4.082 %) WPF 14 3 (3.061 %) ASP 15 2 (2.041 %) SOAP 15 2 (2.041 %) Flash	Application Platforms 1 10 (10.20 %) IIS 2 7 (7.143 %) SharePoint 3 3 (3.061 %) CMS 3 3 (3.061 %) Oracle Workflow 4 2 (2.041 %) BizTalk Server 4 2 (2.041 %) Content Management Server 4 2 (2.041 %) AquaLogic 4 2 (2.041 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 1 (1.020 %) SharePoint Portal Server 5 1 (1.020 %) Lotus Notes 5 1 (1.020 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 1 (1.020 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (1.020 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 12 (12.24 %) Internet 2 1 (1.020 %) Extranet 2 1 (1.020 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 61 (62.24 %) SQL Server 2 33 (33.67 %) SQL Server 2005 3 21 (21.43 %) SQL Server 2008 4 10 (10.20 %) SQL Server 2000 5 9 (9.184 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 2 (2.041 %) MySQL 6 2 (2.041 %) Datawarehouse 6 2 (2.041 %) DTS 6 2 (2.041 %) Oracle 10g 7 1 (1.020 %) BusinessObjects XI 7 1 (1.020 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 1 (1.020 %) RDBMS 7 1 (1.020 %) MS Access 7 1 (1.020 %) Ingres 7 1 (1.020 %) Crystal Reports 7 1 (1.020 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 20 (20.41 %) Visual Studio 2 8 (8.163 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 6 (6.122 %) Team Foundation Server 4 2 (2.041 %) Dreamweaver 4 2 (2.041 %) NUnit 5 1 (1.020 %) Visual Studio Team System 5 1 (1.020 %) Subversion	General 1 6 (6.122 %) Finance 2 4 (4.082 %) Government 2 4 (4.082 %) Telecoms 3 3 (3.061 %) Pensions 4 2 (2.041 %) Multimedia 5 1 (1.020 %) Education 5 1 (1.020 %) Games 5 1 (1.020 %) Advertising 5 1 (1.020 %) Banking
Miscellaneous 1 8 (8.163 %) N-Tier 2 5 (5.102 %) Multithreading 2 5 (5.102 %) W3C 3 1 (1.020 %) E-Learning 3 1 (1.020 %) Data Protection Act	Operating Systems 1 8 (8.163 %) Windows 2 1 (1.020 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (1.020 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (11.22 %) OO 2 10 (10.20 %) E-Commerce 2 10 (10.20 %) Web Development 3 6 (6.122 %) MVC 4 4 (4.082 %) SOA 4 4 (4.082 %) Content Management 4 4 (4.082 %) Workflow 5 2 (2.041 %) Requirements Analysis 5 2 (2.041 %) Unit Testing 5 2 (2.041 %) Scrum 5 2 (2.041 %) Agile Software Development 5 2 (2.041 %) TDD 5 2 (2.041 %) OOA/OOD 6 1 (1.020 %) Web Accessibility 6 1 (1.020 %) Data Migration 6 1 (1.020 %) Data Protection 6 1 (1.020 %) Migration 6 1 (1.020 %) Contact Management 6 1 (1.020 %) WFM 6 1 (1.020 %) Business Analysis	Programming Languages 1 58 (59.18 %) C# 2 26 (26.53 %) JavaScript 2 26 (26.53 %) VB.NET 3 25 (25.51 %) SQL 4 12 (12.24 %) T-SQL 5 7 (7.143 %) C 6 6 (6.122 %) VB 7 4 (4.082 %) PL/SQL 8 2 (2.041 %) VBA 9 1 (1.020 %) PHP 9 1 (1.020 %) C++
Qualifications 1 2 (2.041 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (1.020 %) SC Cleared	System Software 1 1 (1.020 %) Active Directory 1 1 (1.020 %) MSMQ
Vendors 1 13 (13.27 %) Oracle 2 6 (6.122 %) Microsoft 3 2 (2.041 %) Adobe 3 2 (2.041 %) BEA 3 2 (2.041 %) Plumtree 4 1 (1.020 %) Ektron 4 1 (1.020 %) Lotus 4 1 (1.020 %) Mercator 4 1 (1.020 %) Progress