West Sussex .NET Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET (dotNet) skills within the West Sussex region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Altrincham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle 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 Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Ceredigion Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleckheaton 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 Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hastings Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rochester Romford Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington 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 Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	12	5
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	39	102
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.052 %	0.103 %
As % of the category below	41.94 %	60.71 %
Daily rates quoted	7	48
Average minimum daily rate	£402	£321
Average daily rate	£420	£330
% change on same period last year	+27.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£438	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£327
% change on same period last year	+1.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.75	£28.33
Average hourly rate	£41.50	£28.33
% change on same period last year	+46.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£44.25	£28.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.43	£32.97
% change on same period last year	+1.37 %
Application Development West Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	93	168
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.124 %	0.170 %
Daily rates quoted	21	66
Average minimum daily rate	£401	£324
Average daily rate	£424	£335
% change on same period last year	+26.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£448	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.59	£30.37
Average hourly rate	£27.73	£31.39
% change on same period last year	-11.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.86	£32.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
.NET South East

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.

.NET
Demand Trend

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

.NET
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing .NET across the West Sussex 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 West Sussex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 25 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 jobs citing .NET within the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 25 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
Crawley	-7	15	£258	-27.23 %
Gatwick	-5	5	£425	+42.14 %
Worthing	-6	3	£550	+68.50 %
Horsham	-4	1	-	-
Burgess Hill	-	1	-	-

.NET South East

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 55 (45.83 %) C# 2 52 (43.33 %) SQL Server 2 52 (43.33 %) ASP.NET 3 47 (39.17 %) SQL 4 41 (34.17 %) VB.NET 5 25 (20.83 %) Windows 6 23 (19.17 %) SQL Server 2005 7 21 (17.50 %) Microsoft 7 21 (17.50 %) VB 8 18 (15.00 %) XML 9 17 (14.17 %) VB6 10 16 (13.33 %) SQL Server 2000 10 16 (13.33 %) DTS 10 16 (13.33 %) Transact-SQL 10 16 (13.33 %) Visual Studio

11 14 (11.67 %) JavaScript 11 14 (11.67 %) ASP 12 13 (10.83 %) WebServices 12 13 (10.83 %) XHTML 12 13 (10.83 %) VBScript 12 13 (10.83 %) CSS 12 13 (10.83 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 13 12 (10.00 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 13 12 (10.00 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 14 11 (9.167 %) C++ 14 11 (9.167 %) Security Cleared 14 11 (9.167 %) SQL Server Integration Services 15 10 (8.333 %) Release Management 15 10 (8.333 %) HTML 15 10 (8.333 %) Java

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 52 (43.33 %) ASP.NET 2 18 (15.00 %) XML 3 14 (11.67 %) ASP 4 13 (10.83 %) WebServices 4 13 (10.83 %) XHTML 4 13 (10.83 %) CSS 5 10 (8.333 %) HTML 5 10 (8.333 %) WSH 6 8 (6.667 %) .NET Framework 7 6 (5.000 %) WinForms 8 4 (3.333 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 3 (2.500 %) SOAP 9 3 (2.500 %) ADO.NET 10 2 (1.667 %) J2EE 10 2 (1.667 %) MFC 10 2 (1.667 %) JSP 10 2 (1.667 %) Servlets 10 2 (1.667 %) XSLT 10 2 (1.667 %) WCF 11 1 (0.833 %) DAO	Application Platforms 1 9 (7.500 %) BizTalk Server 2 6 (5.000 %) SharePoint 3 3 (2.500 %) Apache 4 2 (1.667 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 2 (1.667 %) WebLogic 4 2 (1.667 %) JBoss 5 1 (0.833 %) MS Exchange 5 1 (0.833 %) NetWeaver
Applications 1 2 (1.667 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.833 %) MS Visio 2 1 (0.833 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 10 (8.333 %) Intranet 2 7 (5.833 %) Internet 3 2 (1.667 %) Extranet 4 1 (0.833 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 52 (43.33 %) SQL Server 2 23 (19.17 %) SQL Server 2005 3 16 (13.33 %) SQL Server 2000 3 16 (13.33 %) DTS 4 13 (10.83 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 12 (10.00 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 12 (10.00 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 11 (9.167 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 7 (5.833 %) Crystal Reports 8 4 (3.333 %) ETL 9 2 (1.667 %) MS Access 9 2 (1.667 %) MySQL 9 2 (1.667 %) SQL Server 7 10 1 (0.833 %) GIS 10 1 (0.833 %) Datawarehouse 10 1 (0.833 %) BusinessObjects 10 1 (0.833 %) Data Mining	Development Applications 1 16 (13.33 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (3.333 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 3 (2.500 %) MSI 3 3 (2.500 %) InstallShield 4 2 (1.667 %) Oracle Forms 5 1 (0.833 %) LoadRunner 5 1 (0.833 %) PVCS 5 1 (0.833 %) CruiseControl 5 1 (0.833 %) Subversion
General 1 5 (4.167 %) Insurance 2 4 (3.333 %) Government 2 4 (3.333 %) Finance 2 4 (3.333 %) Military 3 3 (2.500 %) Health 4 2 (1.667 %) Education 5 1 (0.833 %) Banking 5 1 (0.833 %) Advertising 5 1 (0.833 %) Publishing 5 1 (0.833 %) 3D Graphics 5 1 (0.833 %) Pensions 5 1 (0.833 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 71 (59.17 %) Developer 2 39 (32.50 %) .NET Developer 3 21 (17.50 %) C# Developer 4 17 (14.17 %) Analyst 5 14 (11.67 %) Architect 6 13 (10.83 %) Senior Developer 6 13 (10.83 %) VB.NET Developer 7 12 (10.00 %) Support Analyst 8 11 (9.167 %) Applications Support 9 9 (7.500 %) DBA 9 9 (7.500 %) ASP.NET Developer 9 9 (7.500 %) SQL DBA 10 8 (6.667 %) SQL Developer 10 8 (6.667 %) Server Support 10 8 (6.667 %) Web Developer 11 7 (5.833 %) Applications Support Analyst 11 7 (5.833 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 12 6 (5.000 %) Server Analyst 12 6 (5.000 %) SQL Server DBA 12 6 (5.000 %) Server Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 6 (5.000 %) Management Information System 2 5 (4.167 %) W3C 3 3 (2.500 %) Data Extraction 4 1 (0.833 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.833 %) Replication 4 1 (0.833 %) PDA 4 1 (0.833 %) Multithreading	Operating Systems 1 25 (20.83 %) Windows 2 5 (4.167 %) Linux 2 5 (4.167 %) UNIX 3 4 (3.333 %) Windows Mobile 4 2 (1.667 %) Windows CE 5 1 (0.833 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (9.167 %) Security Cleared 2 10 (8.333 %) Release Management 3 9 (7.500 %) SC Cleared 4 8 (6.667 %) Migration 5 7 (5.833 %) OO 6 6 (5.000 %) BCP 7 5 (4.167 %) DV Cleared 7 5 (4.167 %) Data Migration 8 4 (3.333 %) Agile Software Development 8 4 (3.333 %) E-Commerce 8 4 (3.333 %) Data Analysis 9 3 (2.500 %) Software Engineering 9 3 (2.500 %) Systems Analysis 9 3 (2.500 %) Disaster Recovery 9 3 (2.500 %) Business Continuity 9 3 (2.500 %) ERP 9 3 (2.500 %) UML 10 2 (1.667 %) Configuration Management 10 2 (1.667 %) Content Management 10 2 (1.667 %) Load Balancing	Programming Languages 1 55 (45.83 %) C# 2 47 (39.17 %) SQL 3 41 (34.17 %) VB.NET 4 21 (17.50 %) VB 5 17 (14.17 %) VB6 6 16 (13.33 %) Transact-SQL 7 14 (11.67 %) JavaScript 8 13 (10.83 %) VBScript 9 11 (9.167 %) C++ 10 10 (8.333 %) Java 11 9 (7.500 %) PHP 12 5 (4.167 %) Perl 12 5 (4.167 %) ActionScript 13 4 (3.333 %) VC++ 14 2 (1.667 %) C 15 1 (0.833 %) DHTML 15 1 (0.833 %) PL/SQL 15 1 (0.833 %) Python 15 1 (0.833 %) Ruby
Qualifications 1 2 (1.667 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (0.833 %) Degree 2 1 (0.833 %) ISEB	System Software 1 3 (2.500 %) MSMQ 2 1 (0.833 %) Active Directory 2 1 (0.833 %) ISA Server
Vendors 1 21 (17.50 %) Microsoft 2 10 (8.333 %) SAP 3 7 (5.833 %) Oracle 4 2 (1.667 %) BEA 5 1 (0.833 %) Macrovision 5 1 (0.833 %) Business Objects