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The first part of the 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 12 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

 C# Developer
Location
3 months to
12 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank262227
Rank change year-on-year
Down-4Up+5
Matching contract IT job ads534228394
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London6.449 %5.576 %5.153 %
As % of the Job Titles category7.030 %5.959 %5.497 %
Daily rates quoted388162211
Average daily rate£525£475£525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.52 %-9.520 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£394£327£350
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£600£650
UK excluding London average daily rate£275£270£300
% change year-on-year
+1.850 %-10.00 %
Hourly rates quoted002
Average hourly rate--£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£31.75£35.00
% change year-on-year
-10.23 %-9.280 %
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
759638267167
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London91.74 %93.57 %93.74 %
Daily rates quoted483820323310
Average daily rate£500£450£475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11 %-5.260 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£300£275£295
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£600£625
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£340£350
% change year-on-year
-4.410 %-2.850 %
Hourly rates quoted128119279
Average hourly rate£22.25£19.00£21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.10 %-11.62 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.00£12.00£14.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£48.75£35.00£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.60£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-12.00 %-9.090 %
C# Developer LondonC# Developer
London

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.

C# Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 Demand Trend

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 City of London region.

City of London C# Developer Daily Rate Trend

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The 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 12 March 2010.

City of London C# Developer Daily Rate Histogram

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 City of London region.

City of London C# Developer Hourly Rate Trend

C# Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, 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.

11038 (100.00 %)C#
2639 (61.56 %).NET
3498 (47.98 %)Banking
4437 (42.10 %)Front Office
5422 (40.66 %)Investment Banking
6327 (31.50 %)SQL Server
7312 (30.06 %)Derivative
8273 (26.30 %)OO
9251 (24.18 %)SQL
10249 (23.99 %)WinForms
11219 (21.10 %)Finance
12217 (20.91 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
13188 (18.11 %)ASP.NET
14181 (17.44 %)Java
15176 (16.96 %)C++
16155 (14.93 %)Agile Software Development
17154 (14.84 %)Oracle
18142 (13.68 %)Microsoft
19133 (12.81 %)XML
19133 (12.81 %)WCF
20129 (12.43 %)Windows
21127 (12.24 %)Fixed Income
22125 (12.04 %)WPF
22125 (12.04 %)Multithreading
23115 (11.08 %)Web Services
24105 (10.12 %)Unit Testing
2597 (9.345 %)TDD
2695 (9.152 %)SQL Server 2005
2782 (7.900 %).NET Framework
2782 (7.900 %)Subversion

C# Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, 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.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1639 (61.56 %).NET
2249 (23.99 %)WinForms
3188 (18.11 %)ASP.NET
4133 (12.81 %)XML
4133 (12.81 %)WCF
5125 (12.04 %)WPF
6115 (11.08 %)Web Services
782 (7.900 %).NET Framework
848 (4.624 %)WF
943 (4.143 %)Silverlight
1040 (3.854 %)HTML
1137 (3.565 %)AJAX
1231 (2.987 %)NHibernate
1231 (2.987 %)MVC
1327 (2.601 %)CSS
1425 (2.408 %)XSLT
1519 (1.830 %)ASP
1618 (1.734 %)CORBA
1618 (1.734 %)Oracle Coherence
1715 (1.445 %)jQuery
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
135 (3.372 %)SharePoint
228 (2.697 %)Rendezvous
323 (2.216 %)TIBCO EMS
416 (1.541 %)MQSeries
511 (1.060 %)SharePoint Server 2007
68 (0.771 %)BizTalk Server
77 (0.674 %)MTS
86 (0.578 %)IIS
86 (0.578 %)Progress Apama
94 (0.385 %)ESB
94 (0.385 %)Confluence
103 (0.289 %)SonicMQ
103 (0.289 %)Tomcat
103 (0.289 %)CMS
112 (0.193 %)Oracle Workflow
112 (0.193 %)SmartSockets
121 (0.096 %)Sitecore CMS
121 (0.096 %)EPiServer
121 (0.096 %)Immediacy CMS
121 (0.096 %)Umbraco
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
136 (3.468 %)MS Excel
232 (3.083 %)Spreadsheet
328 (2.697 %)MS Office
44 (0.385 %)MS Visio
51 (0.096 %)MS PowerPoint
51 (0.096 %)InfoPath
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
17 (0.674 %)Endur
26 (0.578 %)ION MarketView
31 (0.096 %)TIBCO iProcess
31 (0.096 %)BusinessWorks
31 (0.096 %)RMDS
31 (0.096 %)Summit
31 (0.096 %)Global One
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
114 (1.349 %)Intranet
29 (0.867 %)Internet
37 (0.674 %)LDAP
46 (0.578 %)HTTP
53 (0.289 %)TCP/IP
62 (0.193 %)DHCP
62 (0.193 %)DNS
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1327 (31.50 %)SQL Server
295 (9.152 %)SQL Server 2005
341 (3.950 %)SQL Server 2008
431 (2.987 %)SQL Server Integration Services
431 (2.987 %)Oracle 10g
529 (2.794 %)SQL Server 2000
626 (2.505 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
721 (2.023 %)Crystal Reports
820 (1.927 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
919 (1.830 %)OLAP
1018 (1.734 %)RDBMS
1115 (1.445 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1213 (1.252 %)Datawarehouse
1310 (0.963 %)Sybase ASE
148 (0.771 %)Oracle 8/8i
157 (0.674 %)Oracle 11g
166 (0.578 %)Oracle Reports
175 (0.482 %)MS Access
175 (0.482 %)Oracle 9i
184 (0.385 %)Sybase IQ
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
182 (7.900 %)Subversion
273 (7.033 %)NUnit
362 (5.973 %)Visual Studio
443 (4.143 %)JIRA
533 (3.179 %)ClearCase
625 (2.408 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
719 (1.830 %)TeamCity
814 (1.349 %)Oracle Forms
814 (1.349 %)Team Foundation Server
912 (1.156 %)FitNesse
1011 (1.060 %)NCover
1110 (0.963 %)ClearQuest
129 (0.867 %)ReSharper
129 (0.867 %)VSS/SourceSafe
129 (0.867 %)CruiseControl
138 (0.771 %)Selenium
147 (0.674 %)csUnit
147 (0.674 %)OpenSTA
147 (0.674 %)JUnit
154 (0.385 %)Log4Net
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1498 (47.98 %)Banking
2437 (42.10 %)Front Office
3422 (40.66 %)Investment Banking
4219 (21.10 %)Finance
520 (1.927 %)Back Office
614 (1.349 %)Publishing
712 (1.156 %)Government
88 (0.771 %)Education
97 (0.674 %)Retail
106 (0.578 %)Insurance
115 (0.482 %)Corporate Banking
115 (0.482 %)Telecoms
115 (0.482 %)Games
123 (0.289 %)Financial Institution
132 (0.193 %)Music
132 (0.193 %)Music Industry
132 (0.193 %)Retail Banking
141 (0.096 %)Private Banking
141 (0.096 %)Wholesale Banking
141 (0.096 %)Pensions
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1312 (30.06 %)Derivative
2217 (20.91 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3127 (12.24 %)Fixed Income
4125 (12.04 %)Multithreading
578 (7.514 %)Equities
669 (6.647 %)Interest Rate Derivative
764 (6.166 %)Equity Derivative
858 (5.588 %)Credit Derivative
952 (5.010 %)Client/Server
1043 (4.143 %)N-Tier
1134 (3.276 %)Grid Computing
1223 (2.216 %)Mathematics
1314 (1.349 %)Credit Risk
1314 (1.349 %)Contract for Difference
1411 (1.060 %)Computer Science
1510 (0.963 %)Market Risk
167 (0.674 %)Open Source
167 (0.674 %)Dependency Injection
175 (0.482 %)Exotic Derivative
184 (0.385 %)Replication
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1129 (12.43 %)Windows
219 (1.830 %)Linux
312 (1.156 %)UNIX
44 (0.385 %)Windows Server 2003
53 (0.289 %)Windows Server 2008
53 (0.289 %)Windows XP
61 (0.096 %)Windows 7
61 (0.096 %)Windows 2000 Server
61 (0.096 %)Windows Vista
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1273 (26.30 %)OO
2155 (14.93 %)Agile Software Development
3105 (10.12 %)Unit Testing
497 (9.345 %)TDD
579 (7.611 %)Risk Management
648 (4.624 %)RAD
746 (4.432 %)OOD
843 (4.143 %)Continuous Integration
942 (4.046 %)Scrum
1036 (3.468 %)Workflow
1135 (3.372 %)E-Commerce
1224 (2.312 %)Electronic Trading
1322 (2.119 %)Data Modelling
1322 (2.119 %)Algorithmic Trading
1421 (2.023 %)UML
1519 (1.830 %)Automated Testing
1618 (1.734 %)OOP
1618 (1.734 %)CRM
1618 (1.734 %)Configuration Management
1717 (1.638 %)OOA/OOD
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11038 (100.00 %)C#
2251 (24.18 %)SQL
3181 (17.44 %)Java
4176 (16.96 %)C++
582 (7.900 %)PL/SQL
675 (7.225 %)VBA
748 (4.624 %)JavaScript
844 (4.239 %)VB
939 (3.757 %)T-SQL
1020 (1.927 %)VB6
1118 (1.734 %)XAML
1214 (1.349 %)Python
1313 (1.252 %)C
1411 (1.060 %)VC++
1510 (0.963 %)Perl
168 (0.771 %)VB.NET
177 (0.674 %)Shell Script
184 (0.385 %)XPath
192 (0.193 %)FoxPro (VFP)
192 (0.193 %)F#
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
158 (5.588 %)Degree
25 (0.482 %)Security Cleared
32 (0.193 %)DV Cleared
41 (0.096 %)SC Cleared
41 (0.096 %)Microsoft Certification
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
129 (2.794 %)QA
22 (0.193 %)WCAG
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (0.193 %)Active Directory
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (0.096 %)MSI
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1154 (14.84 %)Oracle
2142 (13.68 %)Microsoft
369 (6.647 %)TIBCO
450 (4.817 %)DataSynapse
544 (4.239 %)Sybase
623 (2.216 %)Bloomberg
717 (1.638 %)IBM
816 (1.541 %)Reuters
915 (1.445 %)Syncfusion
1014 (1.349 %)DevExpress
1113 (1.252 %)Infragistics
1212 (1.156 %)Tradeweb
139 (0.867 %)Perforce
146 (0.578 %)ION Trading
146 (0.578 %)eSpeed
155 (0.482 %)Agresso
163 (0.289 %)MarketAxess
172 (0.193 %)Business Objects
172 (0.193 %)Murex
172 (0.193 %)Charles River