The first 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the West Midlands 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
.NET Developer
Rank 25 31 25
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -6
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 95 89 98
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 5.754% 3.989% 5.172%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.225% 4.297% 5.581%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 62 60
Average daily rate £300 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £369 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £18.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1526 2071 1756
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 92.43% 92.83% 92.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 944 803
Average daily rate £325 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 171 147
Average hourly rate £18.48 £16.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% -8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £10.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £33.50 £36.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
.NET Developer
England

.NET Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands .NET Developer Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands .NET Developer Daily Rate Trend

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This 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 May 2013.

West Midlands .NET Developer Daily Rate Histogram

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands .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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Birmingham +7 27 £300 -7.69%
Staffordshire +9 11 £328 +0.76%
Worcestershire - 9 £300 -
Coventry 0 8 £275 -15.38%
Shropshire +11 7 £250 -20.00%
Warwickshire -1 7 £330 +32.00%
Solihull - 5 £263 -
Walsall - 2 - -
.NET Developer
England

.NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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.

1 210 (100.00%) .NET
2 185 (88.10%) C#
3 161 (76.67%) ASP.NET
4 147 (70.00%) SQL Server
5 96 (45.71%) JavaScript
6 91 (43.33%) SQL
7 72 (34.29%) VB.NET
8 71 (33.81%) CSS
9 68 (32.38%) jQuery
10 62 (29.52%) MVC
11 59 (28.10%) .NET Framework
12 53 (25.24%) ASP.NET MVC
13 50 (23.81%) Web Services
14 47 (22.38%) HTML
15 46 (21.90%) XML
16 42 (20.00%) E-Commerce
17 40 (19.05%) SQL Server 2008
18 39 (18.57%) N-Tier
18 39 (18.57%) Ajax
19 37 (17.62%) Microsoft
20 35 (16.67%) XSLT
21 33 (15.71%) WCF
22 31 (14.76%) XHTML
23 28 (13.33%) TDD
23 28 (13.33%) Unit Testing
23 28 (13.33%) HTML5
24 26 (12.38%) Agile Software Development
24 26 (12.38%) OO
25 24 (11.43%) SEO
26 23 (10.95%) CSS3

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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
1 210 (100.00%) .NET
2 161 (76.67%) ASP.NET
3 71 (33.81%) CSS
4 68 (32.38%) jQuery
5 59 (28.10%) .NET Framework
6 53 (25.24%) ASP.NET MVC
7 50 (23.81%) Web Services
8 47 (22.38%) HTML
9 46 (21.90%) XML
10 39 (18.57%) Ajax
11 35 (16.67%) XSLT
12 33 (15.71%) WCF
13 31 (14.76%) XHTML
14 28 (13.33%) HTML5
15 23 (10.95%) CSS3
16 20 (9.524%) ASP.NET MVC 3
17 15 (7.143%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
17 15 (7.143%) SOAP
18 11 (5.238%) WSDL
18 11 (5.238%) ASP.NET MVC 2
Application Platforms
1 10 (4.762%) CMS
2 4 (1.905%) IIS
3 3 (1.429%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.952%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.952%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.476%) EPiServer CMS
5 1 (0.476%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.476%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.333%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.952%) MS Office
3 1 (0.476%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (1.429%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.952%) FTP
1 2 (0.952%) Internet
2 1 (0.476%) HTTP
2 1 (0.476%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 40 (19.05%) SQL Server 2008
3 16 (7.619%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 16 (7.619%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (1.429%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.952%) SQL Server 2000
5 2 (0.952%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (0.476%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
6 1 (0.476%) MySQL
6 1 (0.476%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.476%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 21 (10.00%) Visual Studio
2 16 (7.619%) Team Foundation Server
3 9 (4.286%) Subversion
4 6 (2.857%) JIRA
5 3 (1.429%) MSBuild
6 2 (0.952%) NUnit
6 2 (0.952%) MSTest
6 2 (0.952%) Moq
7 1 (0.476%) Appcelerator Titanium
7 1 (0.476%) Git (software)
7 1 (0.476%) SpecFlow
General
1 11 (5.238%) Telecoms
2 8 (3.810%) Games
3 3 (1.429%) Manufacturing
4 2 (0.952%) Finance
4 2 (0.952%) Retail
5 1 (0.476%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 39 (18.57%) N-Tier
2 4 (1.905%) RIA
2 4 (1.905%) Digital Media
2 4 (1.905%) Mobile App
3 3 (1.429%) Client/Server
3 3 (1.429%) WURFL
3 3 (1.429%) Blackberry
4 2 (0.952%) Open Source
5 1 (0.476%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (0.476%) SaaS
5 1 (0.476%) Pocket PC
5 1 (0.476%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.00%) Windows
2 5 (2.381%) Windows Mobile
3 4 (1.905%) Android
3 4 (1.905%) Windows 7
3 4 (1.905%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.429%) BlackBerry OS
5 1 (0.476%) Windows 8
5 1 (0.476%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.476%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.476%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (29.52%) MVC
2 42 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 28 (13.33%) TDD
3 28 (13.33%) Unit Testing
4 26 (12.38%) Agile Software Development
4 26 (12.38%) OO
5 24 (11.43%) SEO
6 22 (10.48%) SOA
7 20 (9.524%) Web Development
8 18 (8.571%) Web Application Development
9 13 (6.190%) Document Management
9 13 (6.190%) Workflow
10 12 (5.714%) UML
11 6 (2.857%) PRINCE2
12 5 (2.381%) CRM
12 5 (2.381%) Scrum
12 5 (2.381%) Content Management
12 5 (2.381%) BDD
13 4 (1.905%) Continuous Improvement
13 4 (1.905%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 185 (88.10%) C#
2 96 (45.71%) JavaScript
3 91 (43.33%) SQL
4 72 (34.29%) VB.NET
5 7 (3.333%) T-SQL
6 6 (2.857%) VB
7 5 (2.381%) VBA
8 4 (1.905%) C++
8 4 (1.905%) VB6
9 3 (1.429%) Java
9 3 (1.429%) PHP
10 2 (0.952%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.952%) XAML
11 1 (0.476%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 19 (9.048%) Degree
2 2 (0.952%) SC Cleared
2 2 (0.952%) DV Cleared
2 2 (0.952%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.952%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.476%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 37 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.714%) Oracle
3 6 (2.857%) AccuRev
4 3 (1.429%) Sitecore
5 2 (0.952%) DevExpress
5 2 (0.952%) ESRI
5 2 (0.952%) Telerik
5 2 (0.952%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.476%) Appcelerator
6 1 (0.476%) SAP
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