Yorkshire .NET Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts within the Yorkshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited .NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Dunfermline East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kendal Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	24
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	206	180
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.275 %	0.182 %
As % of the category below	7.024 %	5.231 %
Daily rates quoted	34	9
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£256
Average daily rate	£297	£287
% change on same period last year	+3.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£306	£319
UK excluding London average daily rate	£307	£305
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	35	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.94	£25.60
Average hourly rate	£30.53	£28.38
% change on same period last year	+7.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.11	£31.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.79	£33.45
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
Job Titles Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	2933	3441
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.909 %	3.481 %
Daily rates quoted	625	633
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£314
Average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	288	298
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.52	£23.17
Average hourly rate	£23.29	£24.50
% change on same period last year	-4.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.06	£25.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
.NET Developer England

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 Developer across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Developer across the Yorkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Developer across the Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Developer within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
West Yorkshire	+2	151	£297	-0.14 %
North Yorkshire	-2	27	£325	+21.87 %
South Yorkshire	+5	17	£288	-1.70 %
East Yorkshire	0	4	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited .NET Developer in their job title 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 with .NET Developer in their job title.

1 408 (100.00 %) .NET 2 314 (76.96 %) C# 3 281 (68.87 %) ASP.NET 4 253 (62.01 %) SQL Server 5 133 (32.60 %) SQL Server 2005 6 106 (25.98 %) XML 7 99 (24.26 %) HTML 8 86 (21.08 %) VB.NET 8 86 (21.08 %) CSS 9 79 (19.36 %) SQL 10 75 (18.38 %) WebServices 11 69 (16.91 %) JavaScript 12 62 (15.20 %) Visual Studio 12 62 (15.20 %) Microsoft 13 55 (13.48 %) SQL Server 2000

14 50 (12.25 %) OO 15 45 (11.03 %) ASP 16 42 (10.29 %) VB 17 41 (10.05 %) .NET Framework 18 40 (9.804 %) Finance 19 36 (8.824 %) SQL Server 7 20 35 (8.578 %) XSLT 21 34 (8.333 %) Windows 21 34 (8.333 %) SharePoint 21 34 (8.333 %) IIS 22 33 (8.088 %) Unit Testing 23 32 (7.843 %) ASP.NET 2.0 23 32 (7.843 %) AJAX 24 26 (6.373 %) Oracle 24 26 (6.373 %) XHTML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited .NET Developer in their job title 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 with .NET Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 408 (100.00 %) .NET 2 281 (68.87 %) ASP.NET 3 106 (25.98 %) XML 4 99 (24.26 %) HTML 5 86 (21.08 %) CSS 6 75 (18.38 %) WebServices 7 45 (11.03 %) ASP 8 41 (10.05 %) .NET Framework 9 35 (8.578 %) XSLT 10 32 (7.843 %) AJAX 10 32 (7.843 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 26 (6.373 %) XHTML 12 25 (6.127 %) ADO.NET 13 21 (5.147 %) WinForms 14 14 (3.431 %) ADO 15 12 (2.941 %) WCF 16 11 (2.696 %) COM+ 17 10 (2.451 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 18 8 (1.961 %) XSL 18 8 (1.961 %) XSD	Application Platforms 1 34 (8.333 %) IIS 1 34 (8.333 %) SharePoint 2 20 (4.902 %) CMS 3 10 (2.451 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 7 (1.716 %) Content Management Server 5 5 (1.225 %) BizTalk Server 6 4 (0.980 %) Lotus Notes 6 4 (0.980 %) Lotus Domino 7 2 (0.490 %) Commerce Server 7 2 (0.490 %) EPiServer 8 1 (0.245 %) ArcGIS 8 1 (0.245 %) Commerce Server 2007 8 1 (0.245 %) TeamSite 8 1 (0.245 %) Apache
Applications 1 21 (5.147 %) MS Excel 2 7 (1.716 %) Photoshop 3 5 (1.225 %) MS Office 4 3 (0.735 %) InfoPath 5 2 (0.490 %) Spreadsheet 6 1 (0.245 %) ArcView	Business Applications 1 2 (0.490 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 20 (4.902 %) Intranet 2 19 (4.657 %) Internet 3 3 (0.735 %) Extranet 4 1 (0.245 %) SSH 4 1 (0.245 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 253 (62.01 %) SQL Server 2 133 (32.60 %) SQL Server 2005 3 55 (13.48 %) SQL Server 2000 4 36 (8.824 %) SQL Server 7 5 8 (1.961 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 7 (1.716 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 7 (1.716 %) Crystal Reports 7 6 (1.471 %) GIS 8 3 (0.735 %) BusinessObjects 8 3 (0.735 %) Oracle Reports 8 3 (0.735 %) MS Access 9 2 (0.490 %) Oracle 10g 10 1 (0.245 %) MySQL 10 1 (0.245 %) Crystal Enterprise 10 1 (0.245 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 1 (0.245 %) dBASE
Development Applications 1 62 (15.20 %) Visual Studio 2 14 (3.431 %) NUnit 3 9 (2.206 %) Visual Studio Team System 4 6 (1.471 %) Dreamweaver 5 4 (0.980 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 2 (0.490 %) Oracle Forms 6 2 (0.490 %) Flash 6 2 (0.490 %) Eclipse 6 2 (0.490 %) Subversion 7 1 (0.245 %) JBuilder 7 1 (0.245 %) InstallShield 7 1 (0.245 %) CruiseControl	General 1 40 (9.804 %) Finance 2 19 (4.657 %) Health 3 10 (2.451 %) Insurance 4 8 (1.961 %) Banking 5 6 (1.471 %) Retail 6 5 (1.225 %) Pensions 7 3 (0.735 %) Marketing 7 3 (0.735 %) Manufacturing 7 3 (0.735 %) Advertising 7 3 (0.735 %) Government 7 3 (0.735 %) Back Office 8 2 (0.490 %) Electronics 8 2 (0.490 %) Telecoms 8 2 (0.490 %) Legal 8 2 (0.490 %) Graphic Design 8 2 (0.490 %) Investment Banking 9 1 (0.245 %) Publishing 9 1 (0.245 %) Multimedia 9 1 (0.245 %) Law 9 1 (0.245 %) Construction
Miscellaneous 1 12 (2.941 %) PDA 2 11 (2.696 %) N-Tier 3 9 (2.206 %) W3C 4 4 (0.980 %) Client/Server 5 2 (0.490 %) Computer Science 5 2 (0.490 %) NHS 5 2 (0.490 %) Web 2.0 5 2 (0.490 %) Smartphone 6 1 (0.245 %) Thin Client 6 1 (0.245 %) Management Information System 6 1 (0.245 %) E-Learning 6 1 (0.245 %) Streaming Media 6 1 (0.245 %) Fat Client 6 1 (0.245 %) RIA 6 1 (0.245 %) SCADA	Operating Systems 1 34 (8.333 %) Windows 2 1 (0.245 %) Linux 2 1 (0.245 %) Windows NT 2 1 (0.245 %) Windows CE 2 1 (0.245 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 50 (12.25 %) OO 2 33 (8.088 %) Unit Testing 3 25 (6.127 %) UML 4 24 (5.882 %) E-Commerce 4 24 (5.882 %) Web Development 5 13 (3.186 %) Content Management 6 12 (2.941 %) ERD 7 10 (2.451 %) Time Management 8 7 (1.716 %) CRM 8 7 (1.716 %) Workflow 8 7 (1.716 %) Agile Software Development 8 7 (1.716 %) Configuration Management 8 7 (1.716 %) OOD 9 6 (1.471 %) SOA 10 5 (1.225 %) Regression Testing 10 5 (1.225 %) ITIL 10 5 (1.225 %) Software Testing 11 4 (0.980 %) Migration 11 4 (0.980 %) OOP 11 4 (0.980 %) RUP	Programming Languages 1 314 (76.96 %) C# 2 86 (21.08 %) VB.NET 3 79 (19.36 %) SQL 4 69 (16.91 %) JavaScript 5 42 (10.29 %) VB 6 19 (4.657 %) VB6 7 15 (3.676 %) Transact-SQL 8 11 (2.696 %) DHTML 9 10 (2.451 %) VBScript 10 8 (1.961 %) C++ 11 5 (1.225 %) PHP 11 5 (1.225 %) PL/SQL 12 4 (0.980 %) Java 12 4 (0.980 %) VBA 12 4 (0.980 %) XAML 13 2 (0.490 %) Ruby 13 2 (0.490 %) C 14 1 (0.245 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 5 (1.225 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (0.490 %) Degree 3 1 (0.245 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (0.245 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (1.225 %) QA 2 2 (0.490 %) WAI 3 1 (0.245 %) HL7
System Software 1 4 (0.980 %) Active Directory 2 1 (0.245 %) MSMQ	Vendors 1 62 (15.20 %) Microsoft 2 26 (6.373 %) Oracle 3 4 (0.980 %) Lotus 4 3 (0.735 %) Google 4 3 (0.735 %) Business Objects 5 2 (0.490 %) PeopleSoft 5 2 (0.490 %) Adobe 6 1 (0.245 %) Borland 6 1 (0.245 %) Mercator