The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# over the 3 months to 23 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 Cardiff 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 25 18 25
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +7
Contract jobs citing C# 4 15 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 2.162% 6.608% 4.527%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.00% 24.19% 14.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 7
Average daily rate £281 £295 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.66% +7.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £246 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £316 £349 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £36.25 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
All Programming Languages
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
40 62 75
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 21.62% 27.31% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 41 41
Average daily rate £375 £275 £337
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -18.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £428 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £36.25 - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C#
South Wales

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 11 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (72.73%) SQL Server
3 5 (45.45%) Web Services
3 5 (45.45%) .NET Framework
3 5 (45.45%) WPF
4 4 (36.36%) jQuery
4 4 (36.36%) Ajax
4 4 (36.36%) WCF
4 4 (36.36%) Windows
4 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET
4 4 (36.36%) HTML
4 4 (36.36%) VB.NET
5 3 (27.27%) MVC
5 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
5 3 (27.27%) SQL
5 3 (27.27%) XML
5 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
5 3 (27.27%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 3 (27.27%) MVVM
6 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
6 2 (18.18%) XSL
6 2 (18.18%) COM
6 2 (18.18%) CSS
6 2 (18.18%) WinForms
7 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (9.091%) Business Analysis
7 1 (9.091%) XAML
7 1 (9.091%) CMS
7 1 (9.091%) IIS

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 11 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (45.45%) Web Services
2 5 (45.45%) .NET Framework
2 5 (45.45%) WPF
3 4 (36.36%) jQuery
3 4 (36.36%) Ajax
3 4 (36.36%) WCF
3 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET
3 4 (36.36%) HTML
4 3 (27.27%) XML
4 3 (27.27%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
5 2 (18.18%) XSL
5 2 (18.18%) COM
5 2 (18.18%) CSS
5 2 (18.18%) WinForms
6 1 (9.091%) Middleware
6 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 1 (9.091%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) CMS
1 1 (9.091%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio
1 1 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (72.73%) .NET Developer
3 6 (54.55%) C# Developer
4 4 (36.36%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (18.18%) VB.NET Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Systems Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Database Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Web Applications Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (9.091%) C# Web Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Web Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Applications Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Senior Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Lead Developer
6 1 (9.091%) C# Application Developer
6 1 (9.091%) WPF Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) MVC
1 3 (27.27%) MVVM
2 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (9.091%) Business Analysis
2 1 (9.091%) Configuration Management
2 1 (9.091%) OO
2 1 (9.091%) OOD
2 1 (9.091%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) VB.NET
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 1 (9.091%) XAML
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle