Yorkshire .NET Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft .NET (dotNet) skills within the 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 over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Altrincham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Ceredigion Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hastings Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rochester Romford Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	9
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	438	308
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.583 %	0.312 %
As % of the category below	56.66 %	40.58 %
Daily rates quoted	72	26
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£239
Average daily rate	£319	£265
% change on same period last year	+20.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£337	£292
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£327
% change on same period last year	+1.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	60	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.32	£26.48
Average hourly rate	£31.12	£28.96
% change on same period last year	+7.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.92	£31.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.24	£32.99
% change on same period last year	+0.75 %
Application Development Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	773	759
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.029 %	0.769 %
Daily rates quoted	137	94
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£302
Average daily rate	£328	£319
% change on same period last year	+2.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£335
% change on same period last year	+1.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	84	37
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.87	£23.60
Average hourly rate	£30.62	£25.12
% change on same period last year	+21.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.37	£26.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.66	£33.10
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
.NET 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.

.NET
Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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 within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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	+3	304	£317	+18.22 %
North Yorkshire	+2	52	£358	+35.22 %
South Yorkshire	+11	32	£300	+18.44 %
East Yorkshire	-1	7	-	-

.NET England

.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 579 (64.55 %) C# 2 515 (57.41 %) ASP.NET 3 497 (55.41 %) SQL Server 4 246 (27.42 %) SQL Server 2005 5 221 (24.64 %) SQL 6 215 (23.97 %) XML 7 171 (19.06 %) HTML 8 156 (17.39 %) VB.NET 9 150 (16.72 %) Microsoft 10 136 (15.16 %) WebServices 11 129 (14.38 %) CSS 11 129 (14.38 %) SharePoint 12 127 (14.16 %) Visual Studio 13 126 (14.05 %) JavaScript 14 118 (13.15 %) SQL Server 2000

15 100 (11.15 %) Windows 16 90 (10.03 %) VB 17 87 (9.699 %) Finance 18 85 (9.476 %) ASP 19 83 (9.253 %) .NET Framework 19 83 (9.253 %) ASP.NET 2.0 20 82 (9.142 %) SQL Server 7 21 72 (8.027 %) IIS 22 68 (7.581 %) Oracle 23 67 (7.469 %) OO 24 58 (6.466 %) AJAX 25 54 (6.020 %) Web Development 25 54 (6.020 %) SharePoint Server 2007 26 53 (5.909 %) E-Commerce 27 52 (5.797 %) XSLT

.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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 1 515 (57.41 %) ASP.NET 2 215 (23.97 %) XML 3 171 (19.06 %) HTML 4 136 (15.16 %) WebServices 5 129 (14.38 %) CSS 6 85 (9.476 %) ASP 7 83 (9.253 %) .NET Framework 7 83 (9.253 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 58 (6.466 %) AJAX 9 52 (5.797 %) XSLT 10 48 (5.351 %) XHTML 11 36 (4.013 %) ADO.NET 12 35 (3.902 %) WinForms 13 28 (3.122 %) WCF 14 25 (2.787 %) XSL 15 21 (2.341 %) COM+ 16 19 (2.118 %) J2EE 17 17 (1.895 %) ADO 18 15 (1.672 %) SOAP 19 14 (1.561 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library	Application Platforms 1 129 (14.38 %) SharePoint 2 72 (8.027 %) IIS 3 54 (6.020 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 38 (4.236 %) CMS 5 32 (3.567 %) BizTalk Server 6 10 (1.115 %) Content Management Server 7 9 (1.003 %) Lotus Notes 8 8 (0.892 %) Commerce Server 9 7 (0.780 %) Lotus Domino 10 6 (0.669 %) TeamSite 11 5 (0.557 %) Commerce Server 2007 12 4 (0.446 %) ColdFusion 13 3 (0.334 %) ColdFusion MX 13 3 (0.334 %) WebLogic 14 2 (0.223 %) MS Exchange 14 2 (0.223 %) EPiServer 14 2 (0.223 %) SharePoint Portal Server 15 1 (0.111 %) ESB 15 1 (0.111 %) Oracle Application Server 15 1 (0.111 %) OpenEdge
Applications 1 39 (4.348 %) MS Excel 2 12 (1.338 %) Photoshop 2 12 (1.338 %) MS Office 2 12 (1.338 %) InfoPath 3 10 (1.115 %) MS Visio 4 6 (0.669 %) MS Project 5 3 (0.334 %) MS PowerPoint 5 3 (0.334 %) Fireworks 6 2 (0.223 %) ArcView 6 2 (0.223 %) Spreadsheet 7 1 (0.111 %) Adobe Illustrator 7 1 (0.111 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 3 (0.334 %) Dynamics CRM 2 1 (0.111 %) Microsoft CRM 2 1 (0.111 %) Great Plains 2 1 (0.111 %) LabWindows
Communications & Networking 1 40 (4.459 %) Internet 2 27 (3.010 %) Intranet 3 9 (1.003 %) Extranet 4 5 (0.557 %) Firewall 5 4 (0.446 %) TCP/IP 6 3 (0.334 %) DNS 6 3 (0.334 %) TETRA 7 2 (0.223 %) SSH 7 2 (0.223 %) X.509 7 2 (0.223 %) Kerberos 7 2 (0.223 %) SSL 7 2 (0.223 %) CTI 7 2 (0.223 %) LDAP 7 2 (0.223 %) VoIP 7 2 (0.223 %) WAN 8 1 (0.111 %) Ethernet 8 1 (0.111 %) GSM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 497 (55.41 %) SQL Server 2 246 (27.42 %) SQL Server 2005 3 118 (13.15 %) SQL Server 2000 4 82 (9.142 %) SQL Server 7 5 35 (3.902 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 21 (2.341 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 16 (1.784 %) Datawarehouse 8 11 (1.226 %) MS Access 8 11 (1.226 %) Crystal Reports 8 11 (1.226 %) GIS 9 10 (1.115 %) MySQL 10 7 (0.780 %) Oracle Reports 10 7 (0.780 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 7 (0.780 %) BusinessObjects 11 6 (0.669 %) DTS 12 5 (0.557 %) TOAD 12 5 (0.557 %) Oracle 9i 13 4 (0.446 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 14 3 (0.334 %) OLAP 14 3 (0.334 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 127 (14.16 %) Visual Studio 2 24 (2.676 %) NUnit 3 22 (2.453 %) Flash 4 14 (1.561 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 13 (1.449 %) Visual Studio Team System 6 12 (1.338 %) Dreamweaver 7 6 (0.669 %) Oracle Forms 8 4 (0.446 %) TestDirector 9 3 (0.334 %) Subversion 9 3 (0.334 %) InstallShield 10 2 (0.223 %) Eclipse 11 1 (0.111 %) WebSpeed 11 1 (0.111 %) CruiseControl 11 1 (0.111 %) ProC 11 1 (0.111 %) ClearQuest 11 1 (0.111 %) JBuilder	General 1 87 (9.699 %) Finance 2 35 (3.902 %) Health 3 19 (2.118 %) Banking 4 18 (2.007 %) Insurance 5 15 (1.672 %) Government 6 14 (1.561 %) Retail 7 9 (1.003 %) Telecoms 8 8 (0.892 %) Marketing 9 7 (0.780 %) Pensions 10 5 (0.557 %) Manufacturing 11 4 (0.446 %) Legal 11 4 (0.446 %) Graphic Design 12 3 (0.334 %) Advertising 12 3 (0.334 %) Publishing 12 3 (0.334 %) Education 12 3 (0.334 %) Financial Institution 12 3 (0.334 %) Back Office 12 3 (0.334 %) Electronics 13 2 (0.223 %) Construction 13 2 (0.223 %) Games
Job Titles 1 707 (78.82 %) Developer 2 403 (44.93 %) .NET Developer 3 231 (25.75 %) C# Developer 4 155 (17.28 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 97 (10.81 %) Web Developer 6 91 (10.14 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 46 (5.128 %) Analyst 7 46 (5.128 %) SQL Developer 7 46 (5.128 %) VB.NET Developer 8 40 (4.459 %) SQL Server Developer 9 38 (4.236 %) Senior Developer 10 37 (4.125 %) .NET Web Developer 11 36 (4.013 %) Applications Developer 11 36 (4.013 %) SharePoint Developer 12 28 (3.122 %) Architect 13 24 (2.676 %) VB Developer 14 22 (2.453 %) Project Manager 15 21 (2.341 %) C# Web Developer 16 20 (2.230 %) Technical Architect 16 20 (2.230 %) Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 19 (2.118 %) W3C 2 17 (1.895 %) N-Tier 3 16 (1.784 %) NHS 4 14 (1.561 %) Client/Server 5 13 (1.449 %) PDA 6 11 (1.226 %) Web 2.0 7 10 (1.115 %) Computer Science 8 4 (0.446 %) E-Learning 9 3 (0.334 %) Thin Client 9 3 (0.334 %) Fat Client 10 2 (0.223 %) Data Integration 10 2 (0.223 %) Smartphone 11 1 (0.111 %) Taxonomies 11 1 (0.111 %) SCADA 11 1 (0.111 %) Copywriting 11 1 (0.111 %) Wiki 11 1 (0.111 %) Blog 11 1 (0.111 %) Management Information System 11 1 (0.111 %) AS400 11 1 (0.111 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 100 (11.15 %) Windows 2 9 (1.003 %) Windows 2000 3 7 (0.780 %) Windows Server 2003 4 6 (0.669 %) Windows XP 5 5 (0.557 %) Linux 6 4 (0.446 %) Windows NT 7 2 (0.223 %) Ubuntu 7 2 (0.223 %) UNIX 8 1 (0.111 %) Windows Mobile 8 1 (0.111 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 67 (7.469 %) OO 2 54 (6.020 %) Web Development 3 53 (5.909 %) E-Commerce 4 50 (5.574 %) UML 5 49 (5.463 %) Unit Testing 6 28 (3.122 %) Agile Software Development 7 23 (2.564 %) Content Management 8 22 (2.453 %) PRINCE2 9 21 (2.341 %) SOA 10 19 (2.118 %) Migration 11 17 (1.895 %) Workflow 11 17 (1.895 %) ERD 12 15 (1.672 %) Time Management 12 15 (1.672 %) ITIL 13 14 (1.561 %) Configuration Management 13 14 (1.561 %) Project Management 14 13 (1.449 %) OOP 15 11 (1.226 %) OOD 16 10 (1.115 %) CRM 16 10 (1.115 %) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages 1 579 (64.55 %) C# 2 221 (24.64 %) SQL 3 156 (17.39 %) VB.NET 4 126 (14.05 %) JavaScript 5 90 (10.03 %) VB 6 47 (5.240 %) Transact-SQL 7 46 (5.128 %) VB6 8 32 (3.567 %) Java 9 25 (2.787 %) C++ 10 23 (2.564 %) VBScript 11 17 (1.895 %) C 12 14 (1.561 %) DHTML 12 14 (1.561 %) PHP 13 13 (1.449 %) PL/SQL 14 10 (1.115 %) VBA 15 7 (0.780 %) Perl 16 5 (0.557 %) XAML 17 3 (0.334 %) LotusScript 17 3 (0.334 %) Embedded C 17 3 (0.334 %) Embedded C++	Qualifications 1 20 (2.230 %) Degree 2 10 (1.115 %) Microsoft Certification 3 5 (0.557 %) MCSE 4 4 (0.446 %) ISEB 4 4 (0.446 %) ITIL Certification 5 3 (0.334 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 1 (0.111 %) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 12 (1.338 %) QA 2 2 (0.223 %) HL7 2 2 (0.223 %) WAI 3 1 (0.111 %) SLA	System Software 1 17 (1.895 %) Active Directory 2 3 (0.334 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 3 2 (0.223 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 1 (0.111 %) MSMQ
Systems Management 1 2 (0.223 %) BMC Marimba	Vendors 1 150 (16.72 %) Microsoft 2 68 (7.581 %) Oracle 3 9 (1.003 %) Adobe 3 9 (1.003 %) Lotus 4 7 (0.780 %) Business Objects 5 6 (0.669 %) VMware 5 6 (0.669 %) Google 6 4 (0.446 %) Brio 6 4 (0.446 %) Hyperion 7 3 (0.334 %) Macromedia 7 3 (0.334 %) ESRI 7 3 (0.334 %) Stellent 7 3 (0.334 %) RedDot 8 2 (0.223 %) HP 8 2 (0.223 %) PeopleSoft 8 2 (0.223 %) Motorola 8 2 (0.223 %) Progress 8 2 (0.223 %) Cisco 8 2 (0.223 %) IBM 8 2 (0.223 %) Mercator