The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# over the 3 months to 21 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 Cambridgeshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 12 3 4
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +1
Contract jobs citing C# 48 120 87
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 8.807% 17.60% 17.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.90% 32.35% 32.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 63 47
Average daily rate £350 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £275 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £404
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 3
Average hourly rate £48.25 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.85% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.65 £35.00 £17.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.85 £58.85 £43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+20.96% -11.42%
All Programming Languages
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
254 371 266
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 46.61% 54.40% 52.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 191 121
Average daily rate £306 £311 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.60% +3.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 37 35
Average hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +15.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.35 £32.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £60.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C#
East of England

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire C# Daily Rate Trend

C#
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire C# Daily Rate Histogram

C#
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Cambridge -5 31 £290 -13.43%
Peterborough -5 5 £350 +21.73%
C#
East of England

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 86 (63.24%) .NET
2 54 (39.71%) ASP.NET
3 36 (26.47%) SQL
4 34 (25.00%) SQL Server
5 33 (24.26%) CSS
6 30 (22.06%) MVC
6 30 (22.06%) JavaScript
6 30 (22.06%) WCF
7 29 (21.32%) HTML
8 28 (20.59%) Visual Studio
9 20 (14.71%) Windows
9 20 (14.71%) Python
9 20 (14.71%) jQuery
9 20 (14.71%) TDD
9 20 (14.71%) HTML5
10 19 (13.97%) Oracle
10 19 (13.97%) Java
11 17 (12.50%) Degree
12 16 (11.76%) Computer Science
12 16 (11.76%) C++
12 16 (11.76%) Web Services
13 15 (11.03%) Finance
13 15 (11.03%) XML
13 15 (11.03%) C
13 15 (11.03%) Microsoft
13 15 (11.03%) WPF
13 15 (11.03%) Agile Software Development
13 15 (11.03%) CSS3
13 15 (11.03%) ASP.NET MVC
14 13 (9.559%) E-Commerce

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 86 (63.24%) .NET
2 54 (39.71%) ASP.NET
3 33 (24.26%) CSS
4 30 (22.06%) WCF
5 29 (21.32%) HTML
6 20 (14.71%) jQuery
6 20 (14.71%) HTML5
7 16 (11.76%) Web Services
8 15 (11.03%) XML
8 15 (11.03%) WPF
8 15 (11.03%) CSS3
8 15 (11.03%) ASP.NET MVC
9 12 (8.824%) .NET Framework
10 11 (8.088%) NHibernate
11 10 (7.353%) DHTML
11 10 (7.353%) ASP
11 10 (7.353%) LINQ
12 8 (5.882%) Hibernate
12 8 (5.882%) Spring
13 7 (5.147%) COM+
Application Platforms
1 9 (6.618%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.147%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (3.676%) CMS
4 4 (2.941%) Apache
4 4 (2.941%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.941%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.206%) Confluence
6 2 (1.471%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.735%) Magento
7 1 (0.735%) IIS
7 1 (0.735%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 7 (5.147%) MS Excel
2 4 (2.941%) Photoshop
3 3 (2.206%) GIMP
4 1 (0.735%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.735%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.147%) Internet
2 6 (4.412%) SNMP
3 4 (2.941%) Extranet
3 4 (2.941%) VLAN
4 3 (2.206%) HTTP
4 3 (2.206%) Intranet
5 1 (0.735%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.618%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (4.412%) Oracle 8/8i
4 5 (3.676%) MySQL
5 4 (2.941%) Oracle OWB
5 4 (2.941%) Oracle BI EE
5 4 (2.941%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.206%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.206%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.471%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.471%) SQL Server 2005
8 1 (0.735%) Oracle 10g
8 1 (0.735%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 28 (20.59%) Visual Studio
2 8 (5.882%) Subversion
3 6 (4.412%) Git (software)
4 5 (3.676%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (2.941%) Maven
6 3 (2.206%) JIRA
6 3 (2.206%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (2.206%) JSUnit
6 3 (2.206%) PhoneGap
6 3 (2.206%) Appcelerator Titanium
7 1 (0.735%) QUnit
General
1 15 (11.03%) Finance
2 12 (8.824%) Games
3 5 (3.676%) Banking
4 3 (2.206%) Advertising
5 2 (1.471%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.471%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.735%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.735%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 94 (69.12%) Developer
2 39 (28.68%) .NET Developer
3 33 (24.26%) C# Developer
4 18 (13.24%) C# .NET Developer
5 16 (11.76%) ASP.NET Developer
6 15 (11.03%) Software Engineer
7 14 (10.29%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 10 (7.353%) Test Engineer
9 8 (5.882%) Software Developer
10 7 (5.147%) SharePoint Developer
11 6 (4.412%) UI Developer
11 6 (4.412%) UI Programmer
12 5 (3.676%) User Experience Developer
12 5 (3.676%) Analyst
12 5 (3.676%) Senior Developer
12 5 (3.676%) Java Developer
13 4 (2.941%) Software Test Engineer
13 4 (2.941%) Software Development Engineer
13 4 (2.941%) Development Manager
13 4 (2.941%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.76%) Computer Science
2 9 (6.618%) Machine Learning
3 6 (4.412%) Cryptography
4 5 (3.676%) Human Factors
5 4 (2.941%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.941%) Informatics
6 3 (2.206%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.471%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.471%) LIMS
7 2 (1.471%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.471%) Biology
8 1 (0.735%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1 (0.735%) iPhone
8 1 (0.735%) Social Media
8 1 (0.735%) Inversion of Control
8 1 (0.735%) W3C
8 1 (0.735%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.71%) Windows
2 10 (7.353%) UNIX
3 9 (6.618%) Linux
4 6 (4.412%) Android
5 3 (2.206%) Windows Mobile
5 3 (2.206%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.206%) Windows 7
5 3 (2.206%) Windows XP
5 3 (2.206%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.471%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (22.06%) MVC
2 20 (14.71%) TDD
3 15 (11.03%) Agile Software Development
4 13 (9.559%) E-Commerce
4 13 (9.559%) Scrum
5 11 (8.088%) OO
6 10 (7.353%) Unit Testing
7 7 (5.147%) Information Management
7 7 (5.147%) MVVM
7 7 (5.147%) OOD
7 7 (5.147%) OOA/OOD
8 6 (4.412%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (3.676%) Embedded Software Development
9 5 (3.676%) CQRS
9 5 (3.676%) Investment Management
9 5 (3.676%) Validation
10 4 (2.941%) Risk Management
10 4 (2.941%) Data Modelling
10 4 (2.941%) Waterfall
10 4 (2.941%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 36 (26.47%) SQL
2 30 (22.06%) JavaScript
3 20 (14.71%) Python
4 19 (13.97%) Java
5 16 (11.76%) C++
6 15 (11.03%) C
7 10 (7.353%) Shell Script
8 9 (6.618%) VB6
8 9 (6.618%) VB
9 8 (5.882%) T-SQL
9 8 (5.882%) Ruby
10 7 (5.147%) PHP
11 6 (4.412%) F#
12 5 (3.676%) PL/SQL
12 5 (3.676%) Lisp
13 4 (2.941%) Perl
14 3 (2.206%) VC++
14 3 (2.206%) VB.NET
14 3 (2.206%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.735%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 17 (12.50%) Degree
2 5 (3.676%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.941%) PhD
4 2 (1.471%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.735%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.735%) ISEB
5 1 (0.735%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.941%) QA
2 1 (0.735%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.941%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 19 (13.97%) Oracle
2 15 (11.03%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.147%) Facebook
4 4 (2.941%) VMware
5 3 (2.206%) Telerik
5 3 (2.206%) Sencha
6 2 (1.471%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.735%) Google
7 1 (0.735%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.735%) Twitter
7 1 (0.735%) Business Objects
7 1 (0.735%) Sybase
7 1 (0.735%) Perforce
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