The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Programmer 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 Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
.NET Programmer
Rank 95 108 93
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -15
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Programmer 4 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.239% 0.088% 0.325%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.258% 0.094% 0.352%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
Average daily rate £525 - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £368 £288 £275
% change year-on-year
+27.82% +4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £36.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
- +71.42%
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1548 2117 1704
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 92.31% 92.65% 92.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 702 962 776
Average daily rate £325 £325 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £218 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £457 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 165 145
Average hourly rate £19.50 £15.56 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.32% -14.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £33.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
.NET Programmer
England

.NET Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands .NET Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands .NET Programmer Daily Rate Trend

.NET Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands .NET Programmer Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Programmer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Programmer within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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 - 3 £525 -
Coventry - 1 - -
.NET Programmer
England

.NET Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited .NET Programmer 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 Programmer in their job title.

1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) C#
3 3 (60.00%) Web Services
3 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio
3 3 (60.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (40.00%) Moq
4 2 (40.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (40.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (40.00%) MSTest
4 2 (40.00%) RIA
4 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) CMS
4 2 (40.00%) ESRI
4 2 (40.00%) ArcGIS
4 2 (40.00%) MVC
4 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (40.00%) WCF
4 2 (40.00%) Silverlight
4 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
4 2 (40.00%) UML
4 2 (40.00%) IIS
5 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (20.00%) VB.NET

.NET Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited .NET Programmer 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 Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (40.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (40.00%) WCF
3 2 (40.00%) Silverlight
4 1 (20.00%) WSDL
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (20.00%) SOAP
4 1 (20.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) CMS
1 2 (40.00%) ArcGIS
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
2 1 (20.00%) EPiServer CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (60.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (40.00%) Moq
2 2 (40.00%) MSTest
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) RIA
1 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (40.00%) MVC
1 2 (40.00%) UML
2 1 (20.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) ESRI
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) EPiServer