The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton 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 Brighton 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 24 19 4
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -15
Contract jobs citing C# 8 19 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 4.301% 6.552% 20.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.843% 18.27% 43.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 24
Average daily rate £350 £320 £381
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% -16.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £323 £217 £333
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £338 £475
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
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
102 104 73
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 54.84% 35.86% 45.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 42 46
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £208 £210 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £465 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C#
East Sussex

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 21 (91.30%) .NET
2 12 (52.17%) ASP.NET
3 8 (34.78%) TDD
3 8 (34.78%) SQL Server
4 7 (30.43%) SQL
4 7 (30.43%) Windows
4 7 (30.43%) MVC
5 6 (26.09%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (21.74%) LINQ
6 5 (21.74%) HTTP
6 5 (21.74%) SQL Server 2008
7 4 (17.39%) Windows Azure
7 4 (17.39%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
7 4 (17.39%) Web Services
7 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
7 4 (17.39%) Visual Studio
7 4 (17.39%) Scrum
8 3 (13.04%) NUnit
8 3 (13.04%) .NET Framework
8 3 (13.04%) HTML
8 3 (13.04%) XML
8 3 (13.04%) OO
8 3 (13.04%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 2 (8.696%) Razor View Engine
9 2 (8.696%) HTML5
9 2 (8.696%) Rhino Mocks
9 2 (8.696%) SharePoint 2010
9 2 (8.696%) BDD
9 2 (8.696%) Multithreading

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 21 (91.30%) .NET
2 12 (52.17%) ASP.NET
3 6 (26.09%) ASP.NET MVC
4 5 (21.74%) LINQ
5 4 (17.39%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 4 (17.39%) Web Services
6 3 (13.04%) .NET Framework
6 3 (13.04%) HTML
6 3 (13.04%) XML
6 3 (13.04%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 2 (8.696%) Razor View Engine
7 2 (8.696%) HTML5
7 2 (8.696%) RESTful
7 2 (8.696%) jQuery
7 2 (8.696%) REST
7 2 (8.696%) XSLT
7 2 (8.696%) CSS
7 2 (8.696%) WCF
7 2 (8.696%) WPF
7 2 (8.696%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 4 (17.39%) Windows Azure
2 2 (8.696%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (8.696%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (8.696%) SharePoint 2013
2 2 (8.696%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.696%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) HTTP
2 1 (4.348%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) SQL Server
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (8.696%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (4.348%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Visual Studio
2 3 (13.04%) NUnit
3 2 (8.696%) Rhino Mocks
3 2 (8.696%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (4.348%) Subversion
4 1 (4.348%) Selenium
4 1 (4.348%) FitNesse
4 1 (4.348%) JIRA
4 1 (4.348%) Fiddler
4 1 (4.348%) TeamCity
4 1 (4.348%) WebDriver
4 1 (4.348%) StyleCop
4 1 (4.348%) MSTest
4 1 (4.348%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (8.696%) Banking
1 2 (8.696%) Finance
2 1 (4.348%) Billing
2 1 (4.348%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.348%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (82.61%) Developer
2 9 (39.13%) C# Developer
3 7 (30.43%) C# .NET Developer
4 6 (26.09%) .NET Developer
5 4 (17.39%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (8.696%) Agile C# Developer
6 2 (8.696%) Software Developer
6 2 (8.696%) .NET Software Engineer
6 2 (8.696%) SharePoint Developer
6 2 (8.696%) Software Engineer
6 2 (8.696%) C# Software Engineer
7 1 (4.348%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (4.348%) SQL Developer
7 1 (4.348%) VBA Developer
7 1 (4.348%) .NET Architect
7 1 (4.348%) Excel VBA Developer
7 1 (4.348%) Excel Developer
7 1 (4.348%) Architect
7 1 (4.348%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.348%) C# Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.696%) Open Source
2 1 (4.348%) Informatics
2 1 (4.348%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.348%) NHS
2 1 (4.348%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.348%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (4.348%) Health Informatics
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) TDD
2 7 (30.43%) MVC
3 4 (17.39%) Scrum
4 3 (13.04%) OO
5 2 (8.696%) BDD
5 2 (8.696%) Multithreading
5 2 (8.696%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (8.696%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (8.696%) Pair Programming
6 1 (4.348%) Data Analysis
6 1 (4.348%) Use Case
6 1 (4.348%) Refactoring
6 1 (4.348%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (4.348%) E-Commerce
6 1 (4.348%) SOA
6 1 (4.348%) Project Management
6 1 (4.348%) UML
6 1 (4.348%) OOA/OOD
6 1 (4.348%) High Availability
6 1 (4.348%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.696%) VB.NET
3 2 (8.696%) VBA
3 2 (8.696%) Lua
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.696%) DevExpress
2 2 (8.696%) Sitecore