The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Croydon 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 Croydon 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 19 27
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +8
Contract jobs citing C# 2 5 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 4.000% 3.731% 5.102%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.67% 21.74% 11.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
Average daily rate £320 £325 £240
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +35.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £276 £275 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £364 £345 £285
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
Croydon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
12 23 87
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 24.00% 17.16% 44.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 53
Average daily rate £325 £375 £348
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £321 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £482 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C#
London

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Cognos
3 2 (33.33%) IIS
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (33.33%) UNIX
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (16.67%) VB
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (16.67%) VB6
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (16.67%) Web Development
4 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
4 1 (16.67%) System Testing
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Azure
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (16.67%) BDD
4 1 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) CMS
4 1 (16.67%) WinForms

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (16.67%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) IIS
1 2 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Azure
2 1 (16.67%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Tridion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Server Support
1 2 (33.33%) Support Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Applications Support
1 2 (33.33%) C# Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Applications Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Server Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Server Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (16.67%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) Web Development
2 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
2 1 (16.67%) System Testing
2 1 (16.67%) BDD
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) VB
2 1 (16.67%) VB6
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cognos