The first table below looks at the demand for the C# Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Bedfordshire 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# Developer
Rank 26 34 29
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -5
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 3 2 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.571% 0.717% 4.795%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.648% 0.772% 5.185%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 11
Average daily rate £325 £300 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -1.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+20.68% -10.76%
All Job Titles
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
182 259 270
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 95.29% 92.83% 92.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 126 129
Average daily rate £350 £363 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +11.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £225 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £503 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 12
Average hourly rate £20.70 £29.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.63% +114.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.96 £12.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
C# Developer
East of England

C# Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing C# Developer across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Bedfordshire C# Developer Jobs Demand Trend

C# Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire C# Developer Daily Rate Trend

C# Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire C# Developer Hourly Rate Trend

C# Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# Developer within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton -4 2 £325 -
Bedford -1 1 - -
C# Developer
East of England

C# Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited C# 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 C# Developer in their job title.

1 8 (100.00%) C#
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (62.50%) SQL
4 4 (50.00%) Windows
4 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (50.00%) .NET Framework
5 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (37.50%) TDD
5 3 (37.50%) Internet
5 3 (37.50%) MVC
5 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
5 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
5 3 (37.50%) Web Services
5 3 (37.50%) XML
6 2 (25.00%) CSS
6 2 (25.00%) HTML
6 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
6 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
6 2 (25.00%) HP
6 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
6 2 (25.00%) SOA
6 2 (25.00%) DOC1
6 2 (25.00%) PrintSoft PReS
6 2 (25.00%) Exstream
6 2 (25.00%) QA
7 1 (12.50%) LINQ

C# Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited C# 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 C# Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
3 3 (37.50%) Web Services
3 3 (37.50%) XML
4 2 (25.00%) CSS
4 2 (25.00%) HTML
5 1 (12.50%) LINQ
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (12.50%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Azure
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (12.50%) CMS
2 1 (12.50%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) DOC1
1 2 (25.00%) PrintSoft PReS
2 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Exstream
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (12.50%) GIS
5 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
2 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (12.50%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) TDD
1 3 (37.50%) MVC
2 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (12.50%) Refactoring
3 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) BDD
3 1 (12.50%) Content Management
3 1 (12.50%) AOP
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) Data Security
3 1 (12.50%) OO
3 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) EPiServer
3 1 (12.50%) Sitecore