The first table below looks at the demand for .NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Windsor 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 Windsor 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 13 16 14
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -2
Contract jobs citing .NET 1 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Windsor 2.778% 2.500% 4.688%
As % of the Application Development category 5.882% 6.897% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
Average daily rate - £285 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.52%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.32 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+19.37% -12.47%
All Application Development
Windsor
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
17 29 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Windsor 47.22% 36.25% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 24 8
Average daily rate £400 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.45% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £359 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 2
Average hourly rate £35.00 - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
.NET
Berkshire

.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Windsor .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 Windsor region.

Windsor .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 Windsor region.

Windsor .NET Hourly Rate Trend

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Windsor 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 5 (83.33%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 4 (66.67%) MVC
2 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 3 (50.00%) Finance
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Graceful Degradation
4 2 (33.33%) LINQ
4 2 (33.33%) jQuery
4 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (33.33%) Ajax
4 2 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (33.33%) Web Development
4 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
4 2 (33.33%) WCF
4 2 (33.33%) CSS
4 2 (33.33%) OO
4 2 (33.33%) CRM
4 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (33.33%) ASP
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (33.33%) HTML
5 1 (16.67%) VB

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Windsor 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%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) LINQ
2 2 (33.33%) jQuery
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (33.33%) Ajax
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (33.33%) WCF
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) ASP
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) WPF
3 1 (16.67%) WF
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 2 (33.33%) ASP Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
1 2 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Graceful Degradation
2 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (33.33%) Web Development
2 2 (33.33%) OO
2 2 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) VB
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle