The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester 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 Chester 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 20 19 20
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +1
Contract jobs citing C# 5 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 3.521% 2.564% 1.863%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.29% 20.00% 6.122%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
Average daily rate £319 £288 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.86% -4.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+20.96% -11.42%
All Programming Languages
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
35 15 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 24.65% 12.82% 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 22
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £296
10% offered a daily rate of more than £399 £375 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
Average hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +81.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £50.00 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.39 £50.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C#
Cheshire

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 19 (90.48%) .NET
2 17 (80.95%) ASP.NET
3 14 (66.67%) SQL Server
4 13 (61.90%) JavaScript
5 10 (47.62%) MVC
5 10 (47.62%) SQL
6 9 (42.86%) HTML
6 9 (42.86%) CSS
7 8 (38.10%) WCF
7 8 (38.10%) SQL Server 2008
8 7 (33.33%) XML
9 6 (28.57%) jQuery
10 5 (23.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (23.81%) SQL Server 2005
10 5 (23.81%) LINQ
10 5 (23.81%) .NET Framework
10 5 (23.81%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (23.81%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 5 (23.81%) LINQ to SQL
10 5 (23.81%) WinForms
10 5 (23.81%) Web Services
10 5 (23.81%) IIS
11 4 (19.05%) Windows
11 4 (19.05%) E-Commerce
11 4 (19.05%) CMS
12 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 3 (14.29%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (14.29%) Sitecore
13 2 (9.524%) Node.js
13 2 (9.524%) SQL Server 2012

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 19 (90.48%) .NET
2 17 (80.95%) ASP.NET
3 9 (42.86%) HTML
3 9 (42.86%) CSS
4 8 (38.10%) WCF
5 7 (33.33%) XML
6 6 (28.57%) jQuery
7 5 (23.81%) LINQ
7 5 (23.81%) .NET Framework
7 5 (23.81%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (23.81%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 5 (23.81%) LINQ to SQL
7 5 (23.81%) WinForms
7 5 (23.81%) Web Services
8 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 2 (9.524%) Node.js
9 2 (9.524%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 2 (9.524%) HTML5
9 2 (9.524%) Ajax
10 1 (4.762%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 5 (23.81%) IIS
2 4 (19.05%) CMS
3 3 (14.29%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (4.762%) ArcGIS
4 1 (4.762%) ArcSDE
4 1 (4.762%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 8 (38.10%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (23.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (23.81%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (9.524%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (4.762%) GIS
General
1 2 (9.524%) Local Government
2 1 (4.762%) Publishing
2 1 (4.762%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (95.24%) Developer
2 11 (52.38%) .NET Developer
3 6 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 6 (28.57%) Senior .NET Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Web Developer
5 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (9.524%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.762%) C# Developer
7 1 (4.762%) C# Web Developer
7 1 (4.762%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (4.762%) CRM Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.762%) N-Tier
1 1 (4.762%) LLPG
1 1 (4.762%) Data Conversion
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) MVC
2 4 (19.05%) E-Commerce
3 1 (4.762%) B2B
3 1 (4.762%) B2C
3 1 (4.762%) CRM
3 1 (4.762%) ITIL
3 1 (4.762%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) JavaScript
2 10 (47.62%) SQL
3 1 (4.762%) C++
3 1 (4.762%) Python
3 1 (4.762%) Java
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Sitecore
2 2 (9.524%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.762%) ESRI