Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# over the 3 months to 19 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 of the Programming Languages category for the East of England region.

 C#
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank102014
Rank change year-on-year
Up+10Down-6
Matching contract IT job ads157130321
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England9.441 %6.019 %7.317 %
As % of the Programming Languages category23.86 %18.65 %20.71 %
Daily rates quoted6956121
Average daily rate£290£275£355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.450 %-22.53 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£196£224£263
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£350£375£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£290£275£325
% change year-on-year
+5.450 %-15.38 %
Hourly rates quoted191519
Average hourly rate£30.00£27.50£37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.090 %-26.66 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.70£23.50£30.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£35.90£44.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£31.50£35.00
% change year-on-year
-12.69 %-10.00 %
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
6586971550
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England39.57 %32.27 %35.33 %
Daily rates quoted245221427
Average daily rate£275£290£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.170 %-17.14 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£185£217£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£400£450£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted13990212
Average hourly rate£30.00£33.40£35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.17 %-4.570 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.25£22.50£22.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£36.20£45.00£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£30.25£35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.780 %-13.57 %
C# EnglandC#
England

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#
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C# across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

East of England C# Demand Trend

C#
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing C# across the East of England region.

East of England C# Daily Rate Trend

C#
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# across the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

East of England C# Daily Rate Histogram

C#
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C# across the East of England region.

East of England C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# across the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

East of England C# Hourly Rate Histogram

C#
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
CambridgeshireDown-250£275-3.93 %
SuffolkUp+636£338+22.72 %
HertfordshireUp+1729£301+14.76 %
EssexUp+724£250-9.09 %
BedfordshireUp+67£373-9.69 %
NorfolkDown-27£325+8.33 %
East AngliaUp+46--
C# EnglandC#
England

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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#.

1226 (87.26 %).NET
2123 (47.49 %)ASP.NET
3111 (42.86 %)SQL Server
478 (30.12 %)SQL
548 (18.53 %)Visual Studio
642 (16.22 %)JavaScript
642 (16.22 %)Microsoft
741 (15.83 %)HTML
840 (15.44 %)Windows
938 (14.67 %)CSS
938 (14.67 %)XML
938 (14.67 %)SQL Server 2005
1037 (14.29 %)Oracle
1136 (13.90 %).NET Framework
1235 (13.51 %)WCF
1235 (13.51 %)Java
1333 (12.74 %)C++
1431 (11.97 %)VB.NET
1529 (11.20 %)Web Services
1529 (11.20 %)AJAX
1625 (9.653 %)C
1724 (9.266 %)UML
1724 (9.266 %)SharePoint
1822 (8.494 %)T-SQL
1822 (8.494 %)VB
1919 (7.336 %)WPF
2017 (6.564 %)Agile Software Development
2115 (5.792 %)Games
2115 (5.792 %)Silverlight
2115 (5.792 %)Degree

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1226 (87.26 %).NET
2123 (47.49 %)ASP.NET
341 (15.83 %)HTML
438 (14.67 %)CSS
438 (14.67 %)XML
536 (13.90 %).NET Framework
635 (13.51 %)WCF
729 (11.20 %)Web Services
729 (11.20 %)AJAX
819 (7.336 %)WPF
915 (5.792 %)Silverlight
915 (5.792 %)jQuery
1014 (5.405 %)ADO.NET
1014 (5.405 %)ASP
1113 (5.019 %)WinForms
1113 (5.019 %)OpenGL
1113 (5.019 %)DirectX
1211 (4.247 %)ASP.NET 2.0
1310 (3.861 %)XHTML
148 (3.089 %)Flash
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
124 (9.266 %)SharePoint
215 (5.792 %)SharePoint Server 2007
313 (5.019 %)IIS
411 (4.247 %)BizTalk Server
510 (3.861 %)EPiServer
66 (2.317 %)CMS
72 (0.772 %)ESB
81 (0.386 %)MS Exchange
81 (0.386 %)Apache
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
113 (5.019 %)MS Excel
25 (1.931 %)MS Visio
34 (1.544 %)MS Project
34 (1.544 %)MS Office
41 (0.386 %)Photoshop
41 (0.386 %)Fireworks
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (0.386 %)Oracle BPM
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
15 (1.931 %)VoIP
15 (1.931 %)Wireless
15 (1.931 %)Internet
15 (1.931 %)X.400
22 (0.772 %)Intranet
31 (0.386 %)UPnP
31 (0.386 %)VPN
31 (0.386 %)Extranet
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1111 (42.86 %)SQL Server
238 (14.67 %)SQL Server 2005
314 (5.405 %)MySQL
412 (4.633 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
412 (4.633 %)SQL Server 2008
511 (4.247 %)SQL Server 2000
68 (3.089 %)SQL Server Integration Services
75 (1.931 %)RDBMS
84 (1.544 %)DTS
93 (1.158 %)Datawarehouse
93 (1.158 %)Oracle Reports
93 (1.158 %)SQL Server 7
102 (0.772 %)ETL
102 (0.772 %)Oracle 10g
102 (0.772 %)Oracle 8/8i
102 (0.772 %)Crystal Reports
111 (0.386 %)Oracle 11g
111 (0.386 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
111 (0.386 %)PostgreSQL
111 (0.386 %)MS Access
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
148 (18.53 %)Visual Studio
25 (1.931 %)Team Foundation Server
25 (1.931 %)Subversion
25 (1.931 %)LabVIEW
34 (1.544 %)Expression Blend
43 (1.158 %)Rational Functional Tester
52 (0.772 %)NUnit
52 (0.772 %)WatiN
61 (0.386 %)Expression Web
61 (0.386 %)FrontPage
61 (0.386 %)VSS/SourceSafe
61 (0.386 %)Dreamweaver
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
115 (5.792 %)Games
214 (5.405 %)Finance
311 (4.247 %)Military
49 (3.475 %)Insurance
57 (2.703 %)Electronics
65 (1.931 %)Manufacturing
74 (1.544 %)3D Graphics
74 (1.544 %)Retail
74 (1.544 %)Marketing
83 (1.158 %)Education
83 (1.158 %)Electric
92 (0.772 %)Aerospace
92 (0.772 %)Banking
92 (0.772 %)Music
101 (0.386 %)Graphic Design
101 (0.386 %)Local Government
101 (0.386 %)Automotive
101 (0.386 %)Telecoms
101 (0.386 %)Government
101 (0.386 %)Publishing
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1192 (74.13 %)Developer
289 (34.36 %).NET Developer
378 (30.12 %)C# Developer
431 (11.97 %)Web Developer
526 (10.04 %)ASP.NET Developer
620 (7.722 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
715 (5.792 %)Software Developer
814 (5.405 %)Software Engineer
814 (5.405 %)Senior Developer
913 (5.019 %)SharePoint Developer
913 (5.019 %).NET Web Developer
1010 (3.861 %)SQL Developer
119 (3.475 %)Programmer
119 (3.475 %)Consultant
128 (3.089 %)C# Web Developer
137 (2.703 %)Front-End Developer
137 (2.703 %)Senior .NET Developer
146 (2.317 %)Author
146 (2.317 %)Technical Author
146 (2.317 %)Analyst
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
113 (5.019 %)Visualisation
211 (4.247 %)N-Tier
35 (1.931 %)Computer Science
44 (1.544 %)Multithreading
44 (1.544 %)Data Protection Act
44 (1.544 %)Windows Azure
52 (0.772 %)W3C
52 (0.772 %)Mathematics
52 (0.772 %)CUDA
61 (0.386 %)Dependency Injection
61 (0.386 %)Blog
61 (0.386 %)Social Network
61 (0.386 %)Streaming Media
61 (0.386 %)Data Extraction
61 (0.386 %)Client/Server
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
140 (15.44 %)Windows
28 (3.089 %)Windows Mobile
37 (2.703 %)UNIX
44 (1.544 %)Windows CE
53 (1.158 %)Mac OS
53 (1.158 %)Windows XP
62 (0.772 %)Windows Server 2003
62 (0.772 %)Linux
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
124 (9.266 %)UML
217 (6.564 %)Agile Software Development
314 (5.405 %)Software Engineering
412 (4.633 %)OO
511 (4.247 %)Programme Management
610 (3.861 %)MVC
79 (3.475 %)OOA/OOD
88 (3.089 %)Workflow
97 (2.703 %)TDD
97 (2.703 %)OOD
106 (2.317 %)SOA
106 (2.317 %)Business Intelligence
106 (2.317 %)Automated Testing
106 (2.317 %)Unit Testing
106 (2.317 %)Test Automation
115 (1.931 %)Reverse Engineering
115 (1.931 %)Web Development
115 (1.931 %)CRM
124 (1.544 %)Migration
124 (1.544 %)E-Commerce
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
178 (30.12 %)SQL
242 (16.22 %)JavaScript
335 (13.51 %)Java
433 (12.74 %)C++
531 (11.97 %)VB.NET
625 (9.653 %)C
722 (8.494 %)T-SQL
722 (8.494 %)VB
811 (4.247 %)VB6
910 (3.861 %)PL/SQL
106 (2.317 %)ActionScript
115 (1.931 %)Delphi
124 (1.544 %)PowerShell
133 (1.158 %)Perl
142 (0.772 %)Embedded C
142 (0.772 %)XAML
142 (0.772 %)VBA
142 (0.772 %)ActionScript 3.0
151 (0.386 %)Apex Code
151 (0.386 %)C++/CLI
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
115 (5.792 %)Degree
25 (1.931 %)Security Cleared
33 (1.158 %)CTC Cleared
42 (0.772 %)SC Cleared
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
17 (2.703 %)QA
25 (1.931 %)JTAG
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (0.386 %)MSMQ
11 (0.386 %)Active Directory
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
142 (16.22 %)Microsoft
237 (14.29 %)Oracle
32 (0.772 %)Salesforce.com
32 (0.772 %)Endeca
41 (0.386 %)Sybase
41 (0.386 %)Cisco