Cambridgeshire C# Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the C# Developer role in IT contracts within the Cambridgeshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited C# Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

C# Developer
Location Abingdon Banbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Farnham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Huntingdon Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Margate Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Preston Reading Reigate Rotherham Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Teddington Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwickshire Wellingborough West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	24
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	25	46
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.047 %
As % of the category below	3.329 %	4.873 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£230
Average daily rate	£315	£234
% change on same period last year	+34.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£238
UK excluding London average daily rate	£318	£319
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£20.00
% change on same period last year	+62.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.58	£32.70
% change on same period last year	+2.69 %
Job Titles Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	751	944
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.001 %	0.955 %
Daily rates quoted	129	201
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£300
Average daily rate	£331	£314
% change on same period last year	+5.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£328
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	137	156
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.87	£24.87
Average hourly rate	£20.63	£26.39
% change on same period last year	-21.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.39	£27.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
C# Developer East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

C# Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C# Developer across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

C# Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

C# Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# Developer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridge	+2	17	£315	+8.62 %
Peterborough	-6	4	-	-
Huntingdon	+2	1	-	-

C# Developer East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 99 (100.00 %) C# 2 96 (96.97 %) .NET 3 57 (57.58 %) ASP.NET 4 56 (56.57 %) SQL Server 5 30 (30.30 %) Windows 6 25 (25.25 %) SQL Server 2005 7 24 (24.24 %) WinForms 8 23 (23.23 %) WebServices 8 23 (23.23 %) XML 9 20 (20.20 %) SQL 10 17 (17.17 %) JavaScript 11 15 (15.15 %) OO 12 14 (14.14 %) CSS 12 14 (14.14 %) Visual Studio 12 14 (14.14 %) Agile Software Development

12 14 (14.14 %) WPF 13 12 (12.12 %) WCF 13 12 (12.12 %) VB.NET 14 11 (11.11 %) ADO.NET 14 11 (11.11 %) MySQL 14 11 (11.11 %) OOA/OOD 14 11 (11.11 %) Banking 15 10 (10.10 %) Degree 15 10 (10.10 %) OOD 15 10 (10.10 %) Transact-SQL 16 9 (9.091 %) Java 16 9 (9.091 %) .NET Remoting 17 8 (8.081 %) .NET Framework 17 8 (8.081 %) Microsoft 17 8 (8.081 %) N-Tier

C# Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 96 (96.97 %) .NET 2 57 (57.58 %) ASP.NET 3 24 (24.24 %) WinForms 4 23 (23.23 %) WebServices 4 23 (23.23 %) XML 5 14 (14.14 %) CSS 5 14 (14.14 %) WPF 6 12 (12.12 %) WCF 7 11 (11.11 %) ADO.NET 8 9 (9.091 %) .NET Remoting 9 8 (8.081 %) .NET Framework 9 8 (8.081 %) ASP 10 7 (7.071 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 6 (6.061 %) AJAX 12 5 (5.051 %) J2ME 13 4 (4.040 %) HTML 13 4 (4.040 %) XSLT 14 3 (3.030 %) Middleware 15 1 (1.010 %) XSL 15 1 (1.010 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 3 (3.030 %) IIS 1 3 (3.030 %) SharePoint 2 1 (1.010 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (1.010 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 1 (1.010 %) MS Office 1 1 (1.010 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 5 (5.051 %) 3GPP 2 4 (4.040 %) TELNET 3 3 (3.030 %) SMS 4 2 (2.020 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 56 (56.57 %) SQL Server 2 25 (25.25 %) SQL Server 2005 3 11 (11.11 %) MySQL 4 7 (7.071 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (1.010 %) GIS 5 1 (1.010 %) Crystal Reports 5 1 (1.010 %) DTS 5 1 (1.010 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 14 (14.14 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (4.040 %) NUnit 3 1 (1.010 %) Bugzilla
General 1 11 (11.11 %) Banking 2 7 (7.071 %) Finance 3 5 (5.051 %) Telecoms 4 2 (2.020 %) Government 5 1 (1.010 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (1.010 %) Back Office 5 1 (1.010 %) Music	Miscellaneous 1 8 (8.081 %) Client/Server 1 8 (8.081 %) N-Tier 2 6 (6.061 %) Computer Science 3 5 (5.051 %) Mathematics 3 5 (5.051 %) Java Card 3 5 (5.051 %) Cryptography 4 2 (2.020 %) CCTV 4 2 (2.020 %) Arabic Language 5 1 (1.010 %) Robotics 5 1 (1.010 %) Speech Recognition 5 1 (1.010 %) Device Driver 5 1 (1.010 %) Clustering 5 1 (1.010 %) E-Learning 5 1 (1.010 %) Tandem
Operating Systems 1 30 (30.30 %) Windows 2 3 (3.030 %) Windows CE 2 3 (3.030 %) Symbian OS 3 1 (1.010 %) Windows Mobile 3 1 (1.010 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (15.15 %) OO 2 14 (14.14 %) Agile Software Development 3 11 (11.11 %) OOA/OOD 4 10 (10.10 %) OOD 5 8 (8.081 %) UML 6 6 (6.061 %) CRM 7 4 (4.040 %) Unit Testing 8 3 (3.030 %) E-Commerce 9 2 (2.020 %) ERP 9 2 (2.020 %) Identity Management 9 2 (2.020 %) Web Development 9 2 (2.020 %) Data Protection 10 1 (1.010 %) Performance Management 10 1 (1.010 %) Load Balancing 10 1 (1.010 %) Data Management 10 1 (1.010 %) Business Analysis 10 1 (1.010 %) Requirements Analysis 10 1 (1.010 %) Workflow 10 1 (1.010 %) Scrum
Programming Languages 1 99 (100.00 %) C# 2 20 (20.20 %) SQL 3 17 (17.17 %) JavaScript 4 12 (12.12 %) VB.NET 5 10 (10.10 %) Transact-SQL 6 9 (9.091 %) Java 7 8 (8.081 %) VB 8 7 (7.071 %) VB6 9 6 (6.061 %) C 10 5 (5.051 %) C++ 11 2 (2.020 %) VBScript 11 2 (2.020 %) Python 12 1 (1.010 %) XAML 12 1 (1.010 %) PowerShell 12 1 (1.010 %) Delphi 12 1 (1.010 %) DHTML 12 1 (1.010 %) PHP 12 1 (1.010 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 10 (10.10 %) Degree 2 1 (1.010 %) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.020 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 6 (6.061 %) MSMQ 2 1 (1.010 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 5 (5.051 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 8 (8.081 %) Microsoft 2 4 (4.040 %) Oracle 3 3 (3.030 %) Symbian