York .NET Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET (dotNet) skills within the York 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 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Aylesbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carrickfergus Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleveland Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dalkeith Darlington Dartford Darwen Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dronfield Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edenbridge Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwynedd Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horley Hounslow Hove Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton-in-Ashfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	10
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	13	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	100.00 %	41.54 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£373
Average daily rate	£400	£373
% change on same period last year	+7.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£313	£340
% change on same period last year	-7.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.00	£31.50
Average hourly rate	£24.25	£32.25
% change on same period last year	-24.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.50	£33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.97	£31.97
% change on same period last year	-12.50 %
Application Development York
Matching contract IT job ads	13	65
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.071 %
Daily rates quoted	1	16
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£354
Average daily rate	£400	£362
% change on same period last year	+10.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£334
% change on same period last year	-3.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.86	£31.33
Average hourly rate	£24.36	£32.00
% change on same period last year	-23.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.86	£32.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.63	£31.54
% change on same period last year	-9.21 %
.NET North 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.

.NET
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing .NET across the York 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 York region.

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the York region over the 3 months to 3 December 2008.

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the York 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 18 (75.00 %) ASP.NET 2 17 (70.83 %) C# 3 12 (50.00 %) SQL Server 4 11 (45.83 %) VB.NET 5 8 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 6 7 (29.17 %) SQL 7 6 (25.00 %) HTML 7 6 (25.00 %) XML 8 5 (20.83 %) Web Development 8 5 (20.83 %) Microsoft 8 5 (20.83 %) JavaScript 8 5 (20.83 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 4 (16.67 %) CSS 9 4 (16.67 %) Visual Studio 9 4 (16.67 %) UML

9 4 (16.67 %) Migration 9 4 (16.67 %) Finance 9 4 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2000 10 3 (12.50 %) VB6 10 3 (12.50 %) VB 10 3 (12.50 %) Pensions 11 2 (8.333 %) SOAP 11 2 (8.333 %) VBA 11 2 (8.333 %) OO 11 2 (8.333 %) ADO.NET 11 2 (8.333 %) XSLT 11 2 (8.333 %) ColdFusion 11 2 (8.333 %) SharePoint 11 2 (8.333 %) AJAX 11 2 (8.333 %) .NET Framework

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the York 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 18 (75.00 %) ASP.NET 2 6 (25.00 %) XML 2 6 (25.00 %) HTML 3 5 (20.83 %) ASP.NET 2.0 4 4 (16.67 %) CSS 5 2 (8.333 %) SOAP 5 2 (8.333 %) XSLT 5 2 (8.333 %) ADO.NET 5 2 (8.333 %) .NET Framework 5 2 (8.333 %) AJAX 6 1 (4.167 %) NHibernate 6 1 (4.167 %) MFC 6 1 (4.167 %) WCF 6 1 (4.167 %) LINQ 6 1 (4.167 %) XHTML 6 1 (4.167 %) WinForms 6 1 (4.167 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 2 (8.333 %) SharePoint 1 2 (8.333 %) ColdFusion 1 2 (8.333 %) BizTalk Server 1 2 (8.333 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (4.167 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) MS Office 1 1 (4.167 %) InfoPath	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 8 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (4.167 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 4 (16.67 %) Visual Studio	General 1 4 (16.67 %) Finance 2 3 (12.50 %) Pensions 3 2 (8.333 %) Health 4 1 (4.167 %) Law 4 1 (4.167 %) Graphic Design
Job Titles 1 23 (95.83 %) Developer 2 11 (45.83 %) .NET Developer 3 6 (25.00 %) C# Developer 4 3 (12.50 %) VB.NET Developer 4 3 (12.50 %) Web Developer 5 2 (8.333 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 2 (8.333 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Junior Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Developer Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) Junior Web Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) WinForms Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) SharePoint Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) CSharp Software Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Senior Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) Software Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Tester 6 1 (4.167 %) Junior	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (20.83 %) Web Development 2 4 (16.67 %) UML 2 4 (16.67 %) Migration 3 2 (8.333 %) OO 4 1 (4.167 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (4.167 %) OOD 4 1 (4.167 %) B2B 4 1 (4.167 %) B2C 4 1 (4.167 %) SEO 4 1 (4.167 %) Content Management 4 1 (4.167 %) Document Management 4 1 (4.167 %) OOP 4 1 (4.167 %) Unit Testing 4 1 (4.167 %) Test Scripting 4 1 (4.167 %) System Testing 4 1 (4.167 %) Time Management
Programming Languages 1 17 (70.83 %) C# 2 11 (45.83 %) VB.NET 3 7 (29.17 %) SQL 4 5 (20.83 %) JavaScript 5 3 (12.50 %) VB 5 3 (12.50 %) VB6 6 2 (8.333 %) VBA 7 1 (4.167 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (4.167 %) C++ 7 1 (4.167 %) Java	Qualifications 1 2 (8.333 %) Degree 2 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft Certification
Vendors 1 5 (20.83 %) Microsoft 2 2 (8.333 %) Tridion 3 1 (4.167 %) Business Objects