West Yorkshire .NET Framework Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET Framework skills within the West Yorkshire 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 Framework over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheshire City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Farnborough Fife Glasgow Gosport Hampshire Hastings Hertfordshire Ipswich Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool London Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Sale Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Telford Thame Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	56	65
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	37	34
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.050 %	0.034 %
As % of the category below	6.584 %	5.975 %
Daily rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum daily rate	£240	£325
Average daily rate	£253	£325
% change on same period last year	-22.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£265	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£339
% change on same period last year	+2.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.00	£29.29
Average hourly rate	£30.75	£29.29
% change on same period last year	+5.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.50	£29.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.81	£35.64
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
Application Development West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	562	569
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.760 %	0.561 %
Daily rates quoted	99	93
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£324
Average daily rate	£311	£347
% change on same period last year	-10.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£336
% change on same period last year	+0.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	46	49
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.77	£28.80
Average hourly rate	£30.78	£29.67
% change on same period last year	+3.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.80	£30.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.38	£32.95
% change on same period last year	-1.71 %
.NET Framework Yorkshire

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing .NET Framework across the West Yorkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Framework across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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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 Framework across the West Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Framework across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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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 Framework within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Leeds	-17	19	£257	-26.57 %
Bradford	+8	4	-	-
Batley	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing .NET Framework 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 Framework.

1 68 (100.00 %) .NET 2 49 (72.06 %) C# 3 44 (64.71 %) SQL Server 4 33 (48.53 %) ASP.NET 5 25 (36.76 %) XML 5 25 (36.76 %) Microsoft 6 18 (26.47 %) WebServices 6 18 (26.47 %) SQL 6 18 (26.47 %) VB 7 17 (25.00 %) Visual Studio 7 17 (25.00 %) Windows 7 17 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2005 8 16 (23.53 %) HTML 9 14 (20.59 %) ADO.NET 10 12 (17.65 %) VB.NET

11 11 (16.18 %) JavaScript 11 11 (16.18 %) Finance 12 10 (14.71 %) Internet 12 10 (14.71 %) MS Excel 13 9 (13.24 %) CSS 13 9 (13.24 %) VB6 14 8 (11.76 %) Health 14 8 (11.76 %) IIS 14 8 (11.76 %) SharePoint 14 8 (11.76 %) UML 14 8 (11.76 %) Active Directory 14 8 (11.76 %) WCF 14 8 (11.76 %) Unit Testing 14 8 (11.76 %) ERD 15 7 (10.29 %) ASP.NET 2.0

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing .NET Framework 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 Framework. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 68 (100.00 %) .NET 2 33 (48.53 %) ASP.NET 3 25 (36.76 %) XML 4 18 (26.47 %) WebServices 5 16 (23.53 %) HTML 6 14 (20.59 %) ADO.NET 7 9 (13.24 %) CSS 8 8 (11.76 %) WCF 9 7 (10.29 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 7 (10.29 %) ASP 9 7 (10.29 %) COM+ 9 7 (10.29 %) ADO 10 6 (8.824 %) XSLT 10 6 (8.824 %) WF 11 5 (7.353 %) MFC 11 5 (7.353 %) WinForms 11 5 (7.353 %) AJAX 12 4 (5.882 %) XHTML 13 1 (1.471 %) MVC 13 1 (1.471 %) MonoRail	Application Platforms 1 8 (11.76 %) IIS 1 8 (11.76 %) SharePoint 2 7 (10.29 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (1.471 %) ColdFusion 3 1 (1.471 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (1.471 %) Commerce Server 3 1 (1.471 %) CMS
Applications 1 10 (14.71 %) MS Excel 2 2 (2.941 %) MS Visio 3 1 (1.471 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (1.471 %) WebTrends
Communications & Networking 1 10 (14.71 %) Internet 2 7 (10.29 %) TCP/IP 3 5 (7.353 %) DNS 3 5 (7.353 %) DHCP 4 2 (2.941 %) Kerberos 4 2 (2.941 %) SSL 4 2 (2.941 %) X.509 4 2 (2.941 %) Firewall 4 2 (2.941 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 44 (64.71 %) SQL Server 2 17 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (10.29 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3 (4.412 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 2 (2.941 %) Oracle 9i 5 2 (2.941 %) TOAD 6 1 (1.471 %) Oracle Reports 6 1 (1.471 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 1 (1.471 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 17 (25.00 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (7.353 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 4 (5.882 %) NUnit 4 2 (2.941 %) InstallShield 5 1 (1.471 %) Subversion 5 1 (1.471 %) Oracle Forms 5 1 (1.471 %) Flash 5 1 (1.471 %) ProC	General 1 11 (16.18 %) Finance 2 8 (11.76 %) Health 3 5 (7.353 %) Pensions 4 2 (2.941 %) Publishing 4 2 (2.941 %) Banking 4 2 (2.941 %) Government 5 1 (1.471 %) Telecoms 5 1 (1.471 %) Education 5 1 (1.471 %) Legal 5 1 (1.471 %) Advertising
Job Titles 1 51 (75.00 %) Developer 2 31 (45.59 %) .NET Developer 3 18 (26.47 %) C# Developer 4 7 (10.29 %) Web Developer 5 5 (7.353 %) Software Developer 5 5 (7.353 %) CSharp Software Developer 6 4 (5.882 %) Analyst 6 4 (5.882 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 4 (5.882 %) VB Developer 6 4 (5.882 %) SharePoint Developer 7 3 (4.412 %) VB6 Developer 7 3 (4.412 %) .NET Web Developer 7 3 (4.412 %) Administrator 7 3 (4.412 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 2 (2.941 %) Windows Administrator 8 2 (2.941 %) Infrastructure Engineer 8 2 (2.941 %) VB.NET Developer 8 2 (2.941 %) Analyst Programmer 8 2 (2.941 %) Programmer 8 2 (2.941 %) 3rd Line Support	Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.412 %) NHS 1 3 (4.412 %) Thin Client 1 3 (4.412 %) Client/Server 1 3 (4.412 %) Fat Client 2 1 (1.471 %) RIA 2 1 (1.471 %) N-Tier 2 1 (1.471 %) Web 2.0 2 1 (1.471 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 17 (25.00 %) Windows 2 6 (8.824 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (5.882 %) Windows XP 4 3 (4.412 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 3 (4.412 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (1.471 %) Windows Vista 5 1 (1.471 %) Windows Server 2008	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (11.76 %) UML 1 8 (11.76 %) Unit Testing 1 8 (11.76 %) ERD 2 6 (8.824 %) Workflow 3 5 (7.353 %) OO 3 5 (7.353 %) Agile Software Development 4 4 (5.882 %) Web Development 5 3 (4.412 %) SOA 5 3 (4.412 %) Service Management 6 2 (2.941 %) Network Design 6 2 (2.941 %) Configuration Management 6 2 (2.941 %) Integration Testing 7 1 (1.471 %) TDD 7 1 (1.471 %) Content Management 7 1 (1.471 %) Project Management 7 1 (1.471 %) OOP 7 1 (1.471 %) RAD 7 1 (1.471 %) E-Commerce 7 1 (1.471 %) OOD 7 1 (1.471 %) Automated Testing
Programming Languages 1 49 (72.06 %) C# 2 18 (26.47 %) VB 2 18 (26.47 %) SQL 3 12 (17.65 %) VB.NET 4 11 (16.18 %) JavaScript 5 9 (13.24 %) VB6 6 7 (10.29 %) C++ 7 4 (5.882 %) DHTML 7 4 (5.882 %) PL/SQL 8 3 (4.412 %) Transact-SQL 9 2 (2.941 %) VBScript 9 2 (2.941 %) Embedded C 9 2 (2.941 %) Embedded C++ 9 2 (2.941 %) Assembly Language 9 2 (2.941 %) C 10 1 (1.471 %) PHP 10 1 (1.471 %) Java 10 1 (1.471 %) ActionScript 10 1 (1.471 %) VBA 10 1 (1.471 %) Progress 4GL	Qualifications 1 5 (7.353 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (2.941 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.471 %) SLA 1 1 (1.471 %) QA	System Software 1 8 (11.76 %) Active Directory 2 5 (7.353 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 4 (5.882 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (1.471 %) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management 1 2 (2.941 %) BMC Marimba	Vendors 1 25 (36.76 %) Microsoft 2 5 (7.353 %) VMware 3 4 (5.882 %) Oracle 4 3 (4.412 %) Hyperion 4 3 (4.412 %) Brio 5 1 (1.471 %) Google 5 1 (1.471 %) Progress