The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET over the 3 months to 21 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 West Wales 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 10 18 22
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +4
Contract jobs citing .NET 2 3 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Wales 4.348% 3.659% 6.250%
As % of the Application Development category 28.57% 8.108% 19.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £263 £375 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% +11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.32 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+19.37% -12.47%
All Application Development
West Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
7 37 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Wales 15.22% 45.12% 31.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 26
Average daily rate £322 £440 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.81% +3.52%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET
Wales

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Wales .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 West Wales region.

West Wales .NET Daily Rate Trend

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Wales .NET Hourly Rate Trend

.NET
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the West Wales region over the 3 months to 21 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
Swansea +9 1 £263 -30.00%
Pembrokeshire - 1 - -
.NET
Wales

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Wales 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 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (50.00%) CSS
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) Ajax
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) UNIX
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) CA
4 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Ruby
4 1 (16.67%) Blackberry
4 1 (16.67%) GIS
4 1 (16.67%) MVC
4 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) VBA
4 1 (16.67%) MySQL
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 1 (16.67%) ERP

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Wales 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 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) Ajax
4 1 (16.67%) Web Services
4 1 (16.67%) XML
4 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (16.67%) REST
4 1 (16.67%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (16.67%) JSON
4 1 (16.67%) WCF
4 1 (16.67%) WPF
4 1 (16.67%) Silverlight
4 1 (16.67%) Django
4 1 (16.67%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) GIS
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) COOL:Gen
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) VB.NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Junior C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Junior
3 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) UNIX
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Android
2 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (16.67%) TDD
1 1 (16.67%) MVC
1 1 (16.67%) Scrum
1 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
1 1 (16.67%) ERP
1 1 (16.67%) Web Development
1 1 (16.67%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Ruby
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) VBA
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) CA
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle