The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# over the 3 months to 22 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 Programming Languages category for the Bedford 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 5 4 1
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -3
Contract jobs citing C# 2 2 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 9.524% 9.524% 48.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.18% 25.00% 91.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 11
Average daily rate £413 - £185
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
All Programming Languages
Bedford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
11 8 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 52.38% 38.10% 53.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 11
Average daily rate £406 £325 £185
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +75.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £325 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £325 £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £16.00 £42.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-62.35% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
C#
Bedfordshire

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford 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 Bedford region.

Bedford C# Daily Rate Trend

C#
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bedford C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) Document Management
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 1 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Architect
2 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Document Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Security
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft