The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET 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 of the Application Development category for the West Yorkshire 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
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Rank 7 11 9
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -2
Contract jobs citing .NET 163 163 102
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 12.80% 10.07% 9.206%
As % of the Application Development category 44.66% 44.90% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 105 53
Average daily rate £303 £338 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.37% +22.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £428 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 0
Average hourly rate £38.00 £15.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+153.33% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.41 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+19.00% -12.20%
All Application Development
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
365 363 238
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 28.67% 22.44% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 214 126
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £213 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 5
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+94.11% -60.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET
Yorkshire

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire .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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire .NET Daily Rate Trend

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Yorkshire .NET Daily Rate Histogram

.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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire .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 Yorkshire 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
Leeds +1 115 £290 -14.07%
Bradford +15 17 £325 +116.66%
Huddersfield +5 6 £313 +108.33%
Halifax -1 4 £313 +64.47%
Cleckheaton - 1 £250 -
.NET
Yorkshire

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

1 226 (65.32%) C#
2 185 (53.47%) ASP.NET
3 165 (47.69%) SQL Server
4 121 (34.97%) SQL
5 113 (32.66%) JavaScript
6 89 (25.72%) CSS
7 83 (23.99%) HTML
8 81 (23.41%) .NET Framework
9 72 (20.81%) MVC
10 70 (20.23%) SQL Server 2008
11 68 (19.65%) Web Services
12 67 (19.36%) ASP.NET MVC
13 61 (17.63%) Visual Studio
14 60 (17.34%) XML
15 55 (15.90%) Microsoft
15 55 (15.90%) Agile Software Development
16 51 (14.74%) WCF
17 48 (13.87%) VB.NET
18 47 (13.58%) Oracle
19 44 (12.72%) jQuery
20 43 (12.43%) SharePoint
21 40 (11.56%) T-SQL
22 39 (11.27%) Scrum
22 39 (11.27%) Web Development
22 39 (11.27%) ASP.NET MVC 3
23 36 (10.40%) SOAP
24 32 (9.249%) Java
25 31 (8.960%) MS Excel
26 30 (8.671%) Windows
27 29 (8.382%) CMS

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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
1 185 (53.47%) ASP.NET
2 89 (25.72%) CSS
3 83 (23.99%) HTML
4 81 (23.41%) .NET Framework
5 68 (19.65%) Web Services
6 67 (19.36%) ASP.NET MVC
7 60 (17.34%) XML
8 51 (14.74%) WCF
9 44 (12.72%) jQuery
10 39 (11.27%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 36 (10.40%) SOAP
12 27 (7.803%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 27 (7.803%) WPF
13 24 (6.936%) Silverlight
13 24 (6.936%) Razor View Engine
14 20 (5.780%) REST
15 19 (5.491%) WinForms
15 19 (5.491%) NHibernate
16 13 (3.757%) Ajax
17 11 (3.179%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 43 (12.43%) SharePoint
2 29 (8.382%) CMS
3 15 (4.335%) SharePoint 2010
4 14 (4.046%) EPiServer CMS
5 11 (3.179%) BizTalk Server
6 7 (2.023%) StreamWeaver
6 7 (2.023%) IIS
7 6 (1.734%) Umbraco
7 6 (1.734%) ESB
8 4 (1.156%) FileNet
9 3 (0.867%) Apache
10 2 (0.578%) SAS
10 2 (0.578%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.578%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.578%) ActiveMQ
10 2 (0.578%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.578%) DotNetNuke
10 2 (0.578%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.578%) Windows Azure
11 1 (0.289%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 31 (8.960%) MS Excel
2 12 (3.468%) MS Office
3 4 (1.156%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.578%) MS Project
5 1 (0.289%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.289%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.289%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 7 (2.023%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.289%) Visualfiles
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.890%) HTTP
2 3 (0.867%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.289%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.289%) NAS
3 1 (0.289%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.289%) SSH
3 1 (0.289%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.289%) Firewall
3 1 (0.289%) SMTP
3 1 (0.289%) DHCP
3 1 (0.289%) FTP
3 1 (0.289%) SAN
3 1 (0.289%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (47.69%) SQL Server
2 70 (20.23%) SQL Server 2008
3 25 (7.225%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 22 (6.358%) SQL Server 2005
5 20 (5.780%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 12 (3.468%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (3.468%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (2.890%) RDBMS
7 10 (2.890%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 8 (2.312%) SQL Server 2012
9 6 (1.734%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.156%) Oracle 10g
10 4 (1.156%) SQL Server 2000
11 3 (0.867%) MS Access
12 2 (0.578%) GIS
12 2 (0.578%) TOAD
12 2 (0.578%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.578%) MySQL
12 2 (0.578%) RavenDB
12 2 (0.578%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 61 (17.63%) Visual Studio
2 13 (3.757%) NUnit
3 10 (2.890%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (2.312%) JIRA
5 6 (1.734%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
6 4 (1.156%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 4 (1.156%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.156%) Visual Studio Team System
7 3 (0.867%) WebDriver
7 3 (0.867%) MSTest
7 3 (0.867%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.867%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.867%) Selenium
7 3 (0.867%) ClearCase
7 3 (0.867%) MSI
8 2 (0.578%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.578%) Git (software)
9 1 (0.289%) LLBLGen Pro
9 1 (0.289%) PhoneGap
9 1 (0.289%) Subversion
General
1 27 (7.803%) Finance
2 6 (1.734%) Telecoms
2 6 (1.734%) Retail
3 4 (1.156%) Financial Institution
3 4 (1.156%) Banking
4 3 (0.867%) Publishing
5 2 (0.578%) Advertising
5 2 (0.578%) Law
6 1 (0.289%) Legal
6 1 (0.289%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 262 (75.72%) Developer
2 146 (42.20%) .NET Developer
3 65 (18.79%) C# Developer
4 38 (10.98%) C# .NET Developer
5 33 (9.538%) ASP.NET Developer
6 25 (7.225%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 25 (7.225%) VB.NET Developer
7 23 (6.647%) SharePoint Developer
7 23 (6.647%) Analyst
8 16 (4.624%) Architect
8 16 (4.624%) XML Developer
9 12 (3.468%) Java Developer
9 12 (3.468%) Software Developer
9 12 (3.468%) Web Developer
10 11 (3.179%) Test Analyst
10 11 (3.179%) Project Manager
11 9 (2.601%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 9 (2.601%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.312%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.312%) .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.624%) NHS
2 11 (3.179%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (2.312%) Computer Science
3 8 (2.312%) Open Source
4 6 (1.734%) N-Tier
5 4 (1.156%) W3C
5 4 (1.156%) Mathematics
6 3 (0.867%) Informatics
6 3 (0.867%) iPhone
6 3 (0.867%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.578%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.578%) Social Media
8 1 (0.289%) iPad
8 1 (0.289%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (0.289%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.289%) Handset
8 1 (0.289%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.671%) Windows
2 10 (2.890%) UNIX
3 5 (1.445%) Linux
4 4 (1.156%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.867%) Android
5 3 (0.867%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.578%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (0.578%) Windows XP
7 1 (0.289%) CentOS
7 1 (0.289%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.289%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (0.289%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (20.81%) MVC
2 55 (15.90%) Agile Software Development
3 39 (11.27%) Scrum
3 39 (11.27%) Web Development
4 25 (7.225%) E-Commerce
5 24 (6.936%) TDD
6 21 (6.069%) Workflow
7 20 (5.780%) PRINCE2
7 20 (5.780%) Unit Testing
8 17 (4.913%) OO
9 16 (4.624%) Project Management
9 16 (4.624%) Migration
10 15 (4.335%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (4.335%) ITIL
11 13 (3.757%) Document Management
12 12 (3.468%) Automated Testing
12 12 (3.468%) Kanban
13 11 (3.179%) Test Scripting
13 11 (3.179%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (3.179%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 226 (65.32%) C#
2 121 (34.97%) SQL
3 113 (32.66%) JavaScript
4 48 (13.87%) VB.NET
5 40 (11.56%) T-SQL
6 32 (9.249%) Java
7 18 (5.202%) PL/SQL
7 18 (5.202%) VB
8 14 (4.046%) XAML
9 9 (2.601%) VB6
10 8 (2.312%) VBA
11 5 (1.445%) PHP
12 4 (1.156%) Ruby
13 3 (0.867%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.867%) C++
13 3 (0.867%) VBScript
14 2 (0.578%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.578%) OCaml
15 1 (0.289%) Scala
15 1 (0.289%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 27 (7.803%) Degree
2 19 (5.491%) Security Cleared
3 13 (3.757%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.312%) ISEB
5 7 (2.023%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 4 (1.156%) BC Cleared
7 2 (0.578%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.578%) MCSE
7 2 (0.578%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.289%) MCITP
8 1 (0.289%) MCTS
8 1 (0.289%) MCP
8 1 (0.289%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.335%) QA
2 2 (0.578%) WAI
System Software
1 6 (1.734%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.578%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.578%) VMware Server
3 1 (0.289%) vSphere
3 1 (0.289%) XenApp
3 1 (0.289%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 5 (1.445%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (1.156%) Opalis
3 2 (0.578%) OpenView
3 2 (0.578%) CA Wily
4 1 (0.289%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 55 (15.90%) Microsoft
2 47 (13.58%) Oracle
3 25 (7.225%) EPiServer
4 7 (2.023%) VMware
4 7 (2.023%) RedDot
4 7 (2.023%) HP
5 5 (1.445%) Perforce
5 5 (1.445%) IBM
6 4 (1.156%) Sitecore
7 3 (0.867%) Sybase
8 2 (0.578%) Cisco
8 2 (0.578%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.578%) Citrix
8 2 (0.578%) Endeca
8 2 (0.578%) Twitter
8 2 (0.578%) hybris
9 1 (0.289%) RedPrairie
9 1 (0.289%) F5
9 1 (0.289%) Sculptor
9 1 (0.289%) SolarWinds
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