The first table below looks at the demand for the C# Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge 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 24 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 Cambridge 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C# Developer
Rank 30 30 27
Rank change year-on-year
0 -3
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 6 18 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.824% 4.245% 2.734%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.034% 4.500% 2.800%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 7
Average daily rate £400 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £43.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
All Job Titles
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
295 400 250
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 89.67% 94.34% 97.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 199 132
Average daily rate £350 £313 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £200 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 56 45
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +159.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £10.33 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.50 £52.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
C# Developer
Cambridgeshire

C# Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge C# Developer Daily Rate Trend

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# Developer across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cambridge C# Developer Daily Rate Histogram

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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge C# Developer Hourly Rate Trend

C# Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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#
2 6 (75.00%) .NET
3 4 (50.00%) Oracle
3 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
5 2 (25.00%) CSS
5 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
5 2 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
5 2 (25.00%) HTML
5 2 (25.00%) OO
5 2 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (25.00%) jQuery
5 2 (25.00%) NHibernate
5 2 (25.00%) WCF
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
6 1 (12.50%) Banking
6 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
6 1 (12.50%) Telerik
6 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Ruby
6 1 (12.50%) Ajax
6 1 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (12.50%) WPF
6 1 (12.50%) LINQ
6 1 (12.50%) Degree
6 1 (12.50%) WCAG
6 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing

C# Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 6 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
3 2 (25.00%) CSS
3 2 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (25.00%) jQuery
3 2 (25.00%) NHibernate
3 2 (25.00%) WCF
4 1 (12.50%) Ajax
4 1 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (12.50%) WPF
4 1 (12.50%) LINQ
4 1 (12.50%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) WinForms
4 1 (12.50%) DHTML
4 1 (12.50%) Web Services
4 1 (12.50%) XML
4 1 (12.50%) XSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (12.50%) QUnit
General
1 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Advertising
2 1 (12.50%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
1 1 (12.50%) N-Tier
1 1 (12.50%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) OO
1 2 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (12.50%) MVVM
2 1 (12.50%) BDD
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (12.50%) Scrum
2 1 (12.50%) OOD
2 1 (12.50%) CAD
2 1 (12.50%) MVC
2 1 (12.50%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) C
3 1 (12.50%) VC++
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) PHP
3 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 1 (12.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) WCAG
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Telerik
2 1 (12.50%) DevExpress
2 1 (12.50%) Facebook
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft