The first table below looks at the demand for the C# Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the City of London 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# Developer
Rank 48 47 25
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -22
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 222 251 554
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 3.455% 3.193% 5.723%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.735% 3.488% 6.232%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 203 496
Average daily rate £514 £534 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.79% -7.13%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £350 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £618 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £48.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+20.68% -10.76%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5943 7197 8889
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.48% 91.54% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4362 5164 6490
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 183 186
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.50 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
C# Developer
London

C# Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London C# Developer Hourly Rate Trend

C# Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

1 465 (100.00%) C#
2 351 (75.48%) .NET
3 205 (44.09%) SQL Server
4 175 (37.63%) SQL
5 155 (33.33%) WCF
6 151 (32.47%) Banking
7 140 (30.11%) Finance
8 139 (29.89%) ASP.NET
9 134 (28.82%) TDD
10 126 (27.10%) WPF
11 120 (25.81%) Front Office
12 111 (23.87%) Multithreading
13 96 (20.65%) Investment Banking
14 90 (19.35%) MVC
15 84 (18.06%) OO
16 77 (16.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 75 (16.13%) Agile Software Development
18 72 (15.48%) Oracle
19 71 (15.27%) Derivative
19 71 (15.27%) ASP.NET MVC
20 65 (13.98%) WinForms
21 59 (12.69%) Web Services
22 55 (11.83%) Microsoft
23 54 (11.61%) XML
24 53 (11.40%) Scrum
25 47 (10.11%) .NET Framework
26 43 (9.247%) VBA
26 43 (9.247%) JavaScript
27 41 (8.817%) Fixed Income
27 41 (8.817%) Degree

C# Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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
1 351 (75.48%) .NET
2 155 (33.33%) WCF
3 139 (29.89%) ASP.NET
4 126 (27.10%) WPF
5 71 (15.27%) ASP.NET MVC
6 65 (13.98%) WinForms
7 59 (12.69%) Web Services
8 54 (11.61%) XML
9 47 (10.11%) .NET Framework
10 36 (7.742%) HTML
11 32 (6.882%) jQuery
12 31 (6.667%) CSS
13 28 (6.022%) LINQ
14 18 (3.871%) ASP.NET MVC 3
15 15 (3.226%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
15 15 (3.226%) NHibernate
16 12 (2.581%) WF
16 12 (2.581%) Silverlight
16 12 (2.581%) HTML5
17 11 (2.366%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 12 (2.581%) Oracle Coherence
2 8 (1.720%) Windows Azure
3 6 (1.290%) IIS
3 6 (1.290%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.075%) Umbraco
4 5 (1.075%) SharePoint 2010
4 5 (1.075%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (1.075%) Rendezvous
4 5 (1.075%) CMS
5 3 (0.645%) Sitefinity
5 3 (0.645%) Kentico
5 3 (0.645%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.430%) WebSphere MQ
6 2 (0.430%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.430%) TIBCO EMS
6 2 (0.430%) Google App Engine
6 2 (0.430%) Amazon AWS
6 2 (0.430%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.215%) Facebook Platform
7 1 (0.215%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 22 (4.731%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.215%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.215%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.430%) Summit
2 1 (0.215%) SiteCatalyst
2 1 (0.215%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.215%) RMDS
2 1 (0.215%) Global One
2 1 (0.215%) Endur
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.796%) HTTP
2 5 (1.075%) Intranet
2 5 (1.075%) Internet
3 4 (0.860%) AMQP
4 3 (0.645%) RFID
5 1 (0.215%) BSS
5 1 (0.215%) LDAP
5 1 (0.215%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.215%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (44.09%) SQL Server
2 32 (6.882%) SQL Server 2008
3 23 (4.946%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 16 (3.441%) SQL Server 2005
5 13 (2.796%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (2.151%) Oracle 10g
7 7 (1.505%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (1.075%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.075%) Oracle 11g
8 5 (1.075%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.645%) SQL Server 2012
9 3 (0.645%) SQL Server 2000
10 2 (0.430%) MS Access
10 2 (0.430%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (0.430%) Sybase ASE
10 2 (0.430%) QlikView
11 1 (0.215%) MarkLogic
11 1 (0.215%) Big Data
11 1 (0.215%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.215%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 37 (7.957%) Visual Studio
2 21 (4.516%) Subversion
3 18 (3.871%) Team Foundation Server
4 11 (2.366%) Rhino Mocks
5 10 (2.151%) NUnit
6 9 (1.935%) MSTest
7 8 (1.720%) Selenium
8 5 (1.075%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.075%) JIRA
9 4 (0.860%) Git (software)
10 3 (0.645%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.645%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.645%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
10 3 (0.645%) CruiseControl
10 3 (0.645%) Maven
11 2 (0.430%) ClearCase
11 2 (0.430%) TortoiseSVN
11 2 (0.430%) Visual Studio Team System
11 2 (0.430%) Expression Blend
11 2 (0.430%) MSBuild
General
1 151 (32.47%) Banking
2 140 (30.11%) Finance
3 120 (25.81%) Front Office
4 96 (20.65%) Investment Banking
5 20 (4.301%) Telecoms
6 19 (4.086%) Back Office
7 10 (2.151%) Financial Institution
8 8 (1.720%) Retail
9 3 (0.645%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.430%) Advertising
10 2 (0.430%) Publishing
10 2 (0.430%) Games
10 2 (0.430%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.215%) Marketing
11 1 (0.215%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.215%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 77 (16.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 71 (15.27%) Derivative
3 41 (8.817%) Fixed Income
4 32 (6.882%) Grid Computing
5 31 (6.667%) Computer Science
6 19 (4.086%) N-Tier
7 17 (3.656%) Market Risk
8 14 (3.011%) Credit Risk
9 13 (2.796%) Equities
10 10 (2.151%) Mathematics
10 10 (2.151%) Hedge funds
11 6 (1.290%) Credit Derivative
12 5 (1.075%) Physics
12 5 (1.075%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 5 (1.075%) PKI
13 4 (0.860%) Client/Server
14 2 (0.430%) Economics
14 2 (0.430%) RIA
14 2 (0.430%) Inversion of Control
14 2 (0.430%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 40 (8.602%) Windows
2 6 (1.290%) Linux
2 6 (1.290%) UNIX
3 1 (0.215%) Windows 7
3 1 (0.215%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (28.82%) TDD
2 111 (23.87%) Multithreading
3 90 (19.35%) MVC
4 84 (18.06%) OO
5 75 (16.13%) Agile Software Development
6 53 (11.40%) Scrum
7 31 (6.667%) BDD
8 30 (6.452%) Risk Management
8 30 (6.452%) Unit Testing
9 29 (6.237%) MVVM
10 21 (4.516%) E-Commerce
11 18 (3.871%) RAD
11 18 (3.871%) Memory Management
12 17 (3.656%) Analytics
13 16 (3.441%) CQRS
13 16 (3.441%) Continuous Integration
14 15 (3.226%) Asset Management
15 12 (2.581%) Investment Management
16 11 (2.366%) Stakeholder Management
16 11 (2.366%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 465 (100.00%) C#
2 175 (37.63%) SQL
3 43 (9.247%) VBA
3 43 (9.247%) JavaScript
4 34 (7.312%) PL/SQL
5 31 (6.667%) C++
6 29 (6.237%) Java
7 15 (3.226%) VB
8 11 (2.366%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.290%) Python
9 6 (1.290%) MATLAB
10 5 (1.075%) Ruby
11 4 (0.860%) C
11 4 (0.860%) Scala
12 3 (0.645%) F#
12 3 (0.645%) VB6
12 3 (0.645%) XAML
13 2 (0.430%) C++/CLI
13 2 (0.430%) Lua
14 1 (0.215%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 41 (8.817%) Degree
2 3 (0.645%) DV Cleared
2 3 (0.645%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.430%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (0.430%) MCP
3 2 (0.430%) MCAD
3 2 (0.430%) MCSD
3 2 (0.430%) MCTS
4 1 (0.215%) MCPD
System Software
1 1 (0.215%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (1.720%) Control-M
2 1 (0.215%) Puppet
Vendors
1 72 (15.48%) Oracle
2 55 (11.83%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.806%) DevExpress
4 23 (4.946%) Syncfusion
5 11 (2.366%) DataSynapse
5 11 (2.366%) TIBCO
6 9 (1.935%) Infragistics
7 8 (1.720%) Sybase
7 8 (1.720%) thinkFolio
7 8 (1.720%) Cadis
8 7 (1.505%) Reuters
8 7 (1.505%) Fidessa
9 5 (1.075%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.645%) Perforce
10 3 (0.645%) Murex
11 2 (0.430%) VMware
11 2 (0.430%) Telerik
11 2 (0.430%) ION Trading
11 2 (0.430%) Google
11 2 (0.430%) Sitecore
City, London
C# Developer - Risk - Investment Banking A C# developer with excellent skills in server side C# development is required by my client who is a leading Investment Bank.
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
Main Responsibilities: To create robust software, cutting edge prototyping and specification validation Testing and maintenance of systems Essential: C# .NET 4.0 Visual Studio 2012 XML ASP.NET...
Progressive Recruitment
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
They are looking for a C# Developer with strong commercial experience of WPF to join their RWA team... Key Requirements for C# Developer: Strong core C# skills Commercial...
Real Staffing
Rate: £500 - £550 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
The C# Developer will develop using the latest technologies such as WPF, WCF and SQL Server... Key Experience: Agile/Scrum/TDD C#/.NET/WPF/WCF/Visual Studio/SQL...
Real Staffing
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
The role will see you in a position responsible for full lifeycyle development using TDD and agile methodologies... Key Requirements:- C#.net, Visual Studio- Expert Server Side programming (...
Real Staffing
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
C# Developer required immediately who has CRM experience for a client based in the financial industry and be working on the CRM Dynamics middleware. The ideal candidate will...
Marcus Donald People
Rate: £320 to £330 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
The C# Developer will develop using .NET components, employ OO-principles, develop in SQL Server Stored procedures and other responsibilities that ensure the C# Developer has an impact...
Real Staffing
Rate: £400 - £500 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
The role has come about due to project-driven expansion and an increasing requirement for mobile application development.The successful developer will have proven experience developing web based...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Posted: 9 May 2013
City, London
The right candidate will have strong experience in: C# .NET... Data Modelling and Database Modelling (Entity-Relationship Model) Entity Framework. OData / Open Data Protocol Microsoft SQL Server, WCF,...
ReThink Recruitment
Rate: £450.00 - £500.00 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
This accomplished Oracle Developer will have excellent database development skill and also feel comfortable working with C#... The successful developer will have excellent Oracle skills with strong experience...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
KEY SKILLS REQUIRED *Strong demonstrated knowledge of C#.Net 2.0 - 4.0 *Solid C# server side Multithreading *Database: Solid RDMS Skills - SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2012 *Cube...
Aston Carter
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
City, London
C# Developer - Investment Banking - FX Options A C# Developer is required by a leading investment Bank to work within a development team within FX Options IT Responsibilities: You...
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
City, London
Key Skills: Experienced using Microsoft Visual Studio C# .net (3.5 .NET or above desirable)... Oracle 9i, 10g or 11g database with strong experience coding PL/SQL procedures...
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £450 - £550 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
C# Developer with strong VBA skills required by a top-tier Investment Bank They require a C# Developer with strong VBA skills who has commercial experience of FX...
Real Staffing
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Our client is looking for an experienced C# developer, with extensive knowledge of SQL server and the associated BI technologies (SSRS SSIS etc) to join a well regarded...
Aston Carter
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Strong C# .NET experience particularly on the UI including WPF and WCF - Prism4 and MVVM exposure - SQL Server 2005, 2008 - Excellent understanding of Object Orientated Analysis - Good understanding...
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £400 to £550 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
The position will take responsibility for the integration of new front office models programmed in C#... Any applicants will have: - Expert level C# - Understanding of Market Data and...
Incisive Ltd
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Montash our currently retained by a leading Investment Bank to source and secure a Senior C# Developer. Role Overview: The Senior C# Developer will be responsible for designing...
Montash
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City of London
C#, Multi-threading, WCF, SQL Server, Stored Procedures, WPF, Infragistics, DevExpress, Distributed Systems, Grid Computing, Risk, Fixed Income, FX... Any experience working with Infragistics, Component One, DevExpress, UML,...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £550 - £650 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
Location: London Essential Skills: Java (server), C# (client), XML, XSLT Nice to have skills: WebSphere or similar application server, Agile, Test Driven Development (TDD) Middle Office, client/server.
Huxley Associates
Rate: £450 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
A senior C# WPF developer is required by a leading investment bank to develop and deliver a new suite of front office FX trading UIs, using the cutting...
iKas International
Rate: £500 - £650 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Main technologies used will be C++ and C# with grid computing technologies such as DataSynapse and middleware technologies such as Solace and Oracle Coherence... *XML technologies... Oracle Coherence).
Aston Carter
Rate: £575 - £625 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013