The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Programming Languages category for the Basingstoke 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 1 7 11
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +4
Contract jobs citing C# 53 25 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 26.63% 13.23% 7.116%
As % of the Programming Languages category 52.48% 32.05% 17.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 9 5
Average daily rate £375 £320 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.18% +0.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £275 £307
10% offered a daily rate of more than £402 £325 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+14.75% -6.15%
All Programming Languages
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
101 78 110
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 50.75% 41.27% 41.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 25 41
Average daily rate £375 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £263 £249
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 16
Average hourly rate £23.13 £36.50 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.64% +5.79%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C#
Hampshire

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing C# across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Basingstoke C# Jobs Demand Trend

C#
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing C# across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke C# Daily Rate Trend

C#
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Basingstoke C# Daily Rate Histogram

C#
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C# across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing C# 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 C#.

1 65 (72.22%) .NET
2 60 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 47 (52.22%) Scrum
4 44 (48.89%) WCF
5 43 (47.78%) SQL
6 41 (45.56%) BizTalk Server
7 33 (36.67%) TDD
8 29 (32.22%) MVC
8 29 (32.22%) BDD
9 28 (31.11%) Web Services
10 27 (30.00%) Selenium
10 27 (30.00%) Java EE
10 27 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
11 26 (28.89%) Git (software)
11 26 (28.89%) ASP.NET
12 25 (27.78%) JavaScript
12 25 (27.78%) Microsoft
13 24 (26.67%) jQuery
14 22 (24.44%) SpecFlow
14 22 (24.44%) .NET Framework
14 22 (24.44%) Java
15 21 (23.33%) SOA
15 21 (23.33%) Agile Software Development
15 21 (23.33%) ASP.NET MVC
16 20 (22.22%) OO
17 19 (21.11%) SOAP
17 19 (21.11%) Continuous Integration
18 18 (20.00%) soapUI
19 17 (18.89%) C++
20 16 (17.78%) XML

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing C# 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 C#. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 65 (72.22%) .NET
2 44 (48.89%) WCF
3 28 (31.11%) Web Services
4 27 (30.00%) Java EE
5 26 (28.89%) ASP.NET
6 24 (26.67%) jQuery
7 22 (24.44%) .NET Framework
8 21 (23.33%) ASP.NET MVC
9 19 (21.11%) SOAP
10 18 (20.00%) soapUI
11 16 (17.78%) XML
11 16 (17.78%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 15 (16.67%) LINQ
13 13 (14.44%) HTML
14 10 (11.11%) CSS
15 9 (10.00%) WSDL
16 7 (7.778%) Ajax
16 7 (7.778%) Spring MVC
16 7 (7.778%) JSON
16 7 (7.778%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 41 (45.56%) BizTalk Server
2 12 (13.33%) IIS
3 9 (10.00%) ESB
4 4 (4.444%) Windows Azure
4 4 (4.444%) Confluence
5 2 (2.222%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.222%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (1.111%) Umbraco
6 1 (1.111%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (1.111%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (8.889%) MS Visio
1 8 (8.889%) MS PowerPoint
2 5 (5.556%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.222%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.222%) LAN
1 2 (2.222%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 27 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 14 (15.56%) MySQL
4 7 (7.778%) SQL Server 2005
4 7 (7.778%) SQL Server 2000
5 5 (5.556%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (4.444%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.111%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (30.00%) Selenium
2 26 (28.89%) Git (software)
3 22 (24.44%) SpecFlow
4 14 (15.56%) Subversion
4 14 (15.56%) ReSharper
5 10 (11.11%) MSBuild
5 10 (11.11%) Maven
6 9 (10.00%) TeamCity
7 6 (6.667%) WebDriver
8 5 (5.556%) NUnit
8 5 (5.556%) WATIR
8 5 (5.556%) FitNesse
9 4 (4.444%) Visual Studio
10 3 (3.333%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (2.222%) JIRA
11 2 (2.222%) Moq
12 1 (1.111%) Firebug
12 1 (1.111%) Fiddler
12 1 (1.111%) Hudson
12 1 (1.111%) GitHub
General
1 7 (7.778%) Finance
2 5 (5.556%) Telecoms
3 3 (3.333%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.222%) Electronics
4 2 (2.222%) Marketing
4 2 (2.222%) Banking
4 2 (2.222%) Retail
4 2 (2.222%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (51.11%) Developer
2 24 (26.67%) C# Developer
3 20 (22.22%) .NET Developer
4 17 (18.89%) Analyst
5 13 (14.44%) Agile C# Developer
6 12 (13.33%) C# .NET Developer
7 11 (12.22%) Test Analyst
8 9 (10.00%) ASP.NET Developer
8 9 (10.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 8 (8.889%) Agile .NET Developer
9 8 (8.889%) Author
9 8 (8.889%) Technical Author
10 7 (7.778%) Build Manager
10 7 (7.778%) Release Manager
10 7 (7.778%) Software Architect
10 7 (7.778%) Architect
11 6 (6.667%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (6.667%) Team Leader
12 5 (5.556%) Test Team Leader
12 5 (5.556%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
2 9 (10.00%) SaaS
3 8 (8.889%) Wiki
4 2 (2.222%) DTV
5 1 (1.111%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (1.111%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.111%) Smartcard
5 1 (1.111%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.67%) Windows
2 11 (12.22%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (4.444%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (2.222%) Windows XP
4 2 (2.222%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.111%) SUSE
5 1 (1.111%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (52.22%) Scrum
2 33 (36.67%) TDD
3 29 (32.22%) MVC
3 29 (32.22%) BDD
4 21 (23.33%) SOA
4 21 (23.33%) Agile Software Development
5 20 (22.22%) OO
6 19 (21.11%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (16.67%) Kanban
8 11 (12.22%) Test Scripting
9 10 (11.11%) Test Automation
9 10 (11.11%) UML
10 9 (10.00%) Pair Programming
11 8 (8.889%) User Acceptance Testing
12 7 (7.778%) Technical Architecture
12 7 (7.778%) Web Development
12 7 (7.778%) Software Engineering
12 7 (7.778%) OOP
12 7 (7.778%) Release Management
12 7 (7.778%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (47.78%) SQL
2 25 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 22 (24.44%) Java
4 17 (18.89%) C++
5 12 (13.33%) Python
6 10 (11.11%) T-SQL
7 9 (10.00%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.556%) C
8 5 (5.556%) Perl
9 4 (4.444%) VBScript
10 3 (3.333%) Groovy
10 3 (3.333%) VB
11 1 (1.111%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (2.222%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.111%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.778%) QA
Vendors
1 25 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.222%) SAP
3 1 (1.111%) Sitecore
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