The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# over the 3 months to 20 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 Docklands, 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 17 11 14
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +3
Contract jobs citing C# 12 20 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 7.018% 9.132% 11.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.46% 29.41% 22.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 25
Average daily rate £413 £500 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.50% -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £450 £388
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £575 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £30.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+21.95% -12.14%
All Programming Languages
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
65 68 285
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 38.01% 31.05% 48.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 39 129
Average daily rate £450 £488 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £360 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £503 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +6.66%
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 Docklands, London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London C# Daily Rate Trend

C#
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# across the Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Docklands, London C# Daily Rate Histogram

C#
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C# across the Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 12 (63.16%) SQL Server
2 11 (57.89%) .NET
2 11 (57.89%) SQL
2 11 (57.89%) Banking
3 6 (31.58%) Oracle
3 6 (31.58%) OO
3 6 (31.58%) Investment Banking
4 5 (26.32%) TDD
4 5 (26.32%) Web Services
4 5 (26.32%) ASP.NET
4 5 (26.32%) Java
4 5 (26.32%) Finance
5 4 (21.05%) Scrum
5 4 (21.05%) VBA
5 4 (21.05%) Windows
5 4 (21.05%) WCF
6 3 (15.79%) Bash shell
6 3 (15.79%) Retail Banking
6 3 (15.79%) REST
6 3 (15.79%) Linux
6 3 (15.79%) Cognos
6 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (15.79%) IBM
6 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
6 3 (15.79%) Perl
6 3 (15.79%) C++
6 3 (15.79%) UNIX
6 3 (15.79%) Retail
6 3 (15.79%) Change Management
6 3 (15.79%) Front Office

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 (57.89%) .NET
2 5 (26.32%) ASP.NET
2 5 (26.32%) Web Services
3 4 (21.05%) WCF
4 3 (15.79%) REST
5 2 (10.53%) HTML
5 2 (10.53%) WPF
5 2 (10.53%) jQuery
5 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (5.263%) HTML5
6 1 (5.263%) WF
6 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 1 (5.263%) XML
6 1 (5.263%) XSLT
6 1 (5.263%) Ajax
6 1 (5.263%) WebSphere
6 1 (5.263%) JSON
6 1 (5.263%) CSS
6 1 (5.263%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.263%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.263%) Oracle Coherence
1 1 (5.263%) GemFire
Applications
1 1 (5.263%) MS Excel
1 1 (5.263%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) RMDS
1 2 (10.53%) 3000 Xtra
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.263%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (5.263%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
1 2 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (5.263%) Subversion
General
1 11 (57.89%) Banking
2 6 (31.58%) Investment Banking
3 5 (26.32%) Finance
4 3 (15.79%) Front Office
4 3 (15.79%) Retail
4 3 (15.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) C# Developer
3 4 (21.05%) .NET Developer
4 3 (15.79%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (15.79%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Business Support Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Senior .NET Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Development Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Support Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) Software Tester
6 1 (5.263%) Tester
6 1 (5.263%) Front Office Developer
6 1 (5.263%) UAT Tester
6 1 (5.263%) SharePoint Developer
6 1 (5.263%) SQL Developer
6 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.263%) Grid Computing
2 1 (5.263%) Derivative
2 1 (5.263%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.263%) SaaS
2 1 (5.263%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) UNIX
3 1 (5.263%) Android
3 1 (5.263%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) OO
2 5 (26.32%) TDD
3 4 (21.05%) Scrum
4 3 (15.79%) Change Management
4 3 (15.79%) MVC
5 2 (10.53%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (10.53%) OOD
5 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
5 2 (10.53%) Automated Testing
5 2 (10.53%) Refactoring
5 2 (10.53%) BDD
5 2 (10.53%) ITIL
6 1 (5.263%) User Stories
6 1 (5.263%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (5.263%) Test Scripting
6 1 (5.263%) Time Management
6 1 (5.263%) Monte Carlo Method
6 1 (5.263%) Project Management
6 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce
6 1 (5.263%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) Java
3 4 (21.05%) VBA
4 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.79%) Perl
4 3 (15.79%) C++
4 3 (15.79%) Bash shell
5 2 (10.53%) VB6
5 2 (10.53%) VBScript
5 2 (10.53%) VB
6 1 (5.263%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.263%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (5.263%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Cognos
2 3 (15.79%) IBM
3 2 (10.53%) Reuters
3 2 (10.53%) Cadis
4 1 (5.263%) TOWER Software
4 1 (5.263%) DataSynapse