The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Edinburgh 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 21 26 22
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -4
Contract jobs citing C# 49 40 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 5.396% 3.752% 4.354%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.42% 19.32% 19.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 14
Average daily rate £275 £336 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.21% +3.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £306 £209
10% offered a daily rate of more than £329 £463 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £24.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+14.75% -6.15%
All Programming Languages
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
240 207 301
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 26.43% 19.42% 22.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 72 111
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £441 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 3
Average hourly rate £24.00 £32.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +1.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.25 £16.00 £18.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £37.60 £32.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C#
Scotland

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 73 (82.02%) .NET
2 48 (53.93%) SQL Server
3 40 (44.94%) ASP.NET
4 29 (32.58%) JavaScript
4 29 (32.58%) MVC
5 28 (31.46%) HTML
6 24 (26.97%) CSS
7 20 (22.47%) SQL
8 19 (21.35%) Microsoft
9 18 (20.22%) Visual Studio
10 17 (19.10%) jQuery
11 16 (17.98%) Windows
12 14 (15.73%) HTML5
13 13 (14.61%) SQL Server 2008
13 13 (14.61%) Agile Software Development
13 13 (14.61%) .NET Framework
14 11 (12.36%) NHibernate
15 10 (11.24%) Degree
15 10 (11.24%) XML
15 10 (11.24%) SharePoint
15 10 (11.24%) ASP.NET MVC
16 9 (10.11%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (8.989%) SQL Server 2005
17 8 (8.989%) Telerik
17 8 (8.989%) Java
17 8 (8.989%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
17 8 (8.989%) SharePoint 2013
18 7 (7.865%) CSS3
18 7 (7.865%) SharePoint 2010
18 7 (7.865%) Mercurial

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 73 (82.02%) .NET
2 40 (44.94%) ASP.NET
3 28 (31.46%) HTML
4 24 (26.97%) CSS
5 17 (19.10%) jQuery
6 14 (15.73%) HTML5
7 13 (14.61%) .NET Framework
8 11 (12.36%) NHibernate
9 10 (11.24%) XML
9 10 (11.24%) ASP.NET MVC
10 8 (8.989%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 7 (7.865%) CSS3
11 7 (7.865%) Ajax
11 7 (7.865%) WPF
12 6 (6.742%) WinForms
13 5 (5.618%) Web Services
14 4 (4.494%) ASP.NET MVC 3
15 3 (3.371%) ASP
15 3 (3.371%) LINQ
15 3 (3.371%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 10 (11.24%) SharePoint
2 8 (8.989%) SharePoint 2013
3 7 (7.865%) SharePoint 2010
4 5 (5.618%) CMS
5 4 (4.494%) Sitefinity
6 2 (2.247%) Jadu
6 2 (2.247%) Drupal
7 1 (1.124%) MTS
7 1 (1.124%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (1.124%) Umbraco
7 1 (1.124%) Lync
Applications
1 4 (4.494%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.371%) Intranet
2 1 (1.124%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (53.93%) SQL Server
2 13 (14.61%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (8.989%) SQL Server 2005
4 7 (7.865%) MySQL
5 5 (5.618%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (5.618%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (5.618%) SQL Server 2012
6 4 (4.494%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (2.247%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.124%) DB2
8 1 (1.124%) OLAP
8 1 (1.124%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.124%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (1.124%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 18 (20.22%) Visual Studio
2 7 (7.865%) Mercurial
3 5 (5.618%) Git (software)
4 3 (3.371%) Subversion
5 2 (2.247%) MSTest
5 2 (2.247%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (2.247%) NUnit
6 1 (1.124%) Ant
6 1 (1.124%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.124%) Xcode
6 1 (1.124%) Bugzilla
6 1 (1.124%) Maven
6 1 (1.124%) CruiseControl
6 1 (1.124%) JIRA
6 1 (1.124%) Selenium
6 1 (1.124%) FogBugz
6 1 (1.124%) Robotium
General
1 7 (7.865%) Finance
2 5 (5.618%) Banking
3 4 (4.494%) Games
4 2 (2.247%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.124%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.124%) Front Office
5 1 (1.124%) Back Office
5 1 (1.124%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.124%) Retail
5 1 (1.124%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (94.38%) Developer
2 40 (44.94%) .NET Developer
3 24 (26.97%) C# Developer
4 15 (16.85%) C# .NET Developer
5 10 (11.24%) Software Developer
6 9 (10.11%) Web Developer
6 9 (10.11%) SharePoint Developer
7 5 (5.618%) Programmer
8 4 (4.494%) ASP.NET Developer
9 3 (3.371%) C++ Programmer
9 3 (3.371%) .NET Web Developer
9 3 (3.371%) Agile C# Developer
9 3 (3.371%) WPF Developer
10 2 (2.247%) Drupal Developer
10 2 (2.247%) PHP Drupal Developer
10 2 (2.247%) WinForms Developer
10 2 (2.247%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 2 (2.247%) C++/C# Developer
10 2 (2.247%) Software Programmer
10 2 (2.247%) Oracle Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.494%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (4.494%) Mathematics
1 4 (4.494%) NHS
2 3 (3.371%) Computer Science
2 3 (3.371%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (2.247%) W3C
4 1 (1.124%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.124%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.124%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.124%) SaaS
4 1 (1.124%) iPhone
4 1 (1.124%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.98%) Windows
2 2 (2.247%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.247%) Android
2 2 (2.247%) UNIX
3 1 (1.124%) Linux
3 1 (1.124%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.124%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.124%) Windows Phone
3 1 (1.124%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (32.58%) MVC
2 13 (14.61%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (6.742%) TDD
4 4 (4.494%) Software Engineering
4 4 (4.494%) OO
4 4 (4.494%) PRINCE2
5 3 (3.371%) Web Development
5 3 (3.371%) Content Management
5 3 (3.371%) Unit Testing
5 3 (3.371%) Web Application Development
6 2 (2.247%) Information Architecture
6 2 (2.247%) Scrum
6 2 (2.247%) SEO
6 2 (2.247%) OOP
6 2 (2.247%) ERP
7 1 (1.124%) UML
7 1 (1.124%) SOA
7 1 (1.124%) ETL
7 1 (1.124%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (1.124%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 29 (32.58%) JavaScript
2 20 (22.47%) SQL
3 8 (8.989%) Java
4 7 (7.865%) PHP
4 7 (7.865%) T-SQL
5 6 (6.742%) C++
6 4 (4.494%) VB
7 3 (3.371%) Python
7 3 (3.371%) VB6
7 3 (3.371%) Ruby
8 2 (2.247%) PHP5
8 2 (2.247%) Delphi
8 2 (2.247%) Perl
9 1 (1.124%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.124%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.124%) C
9 1 (1.124%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 10 (11.24%) Degree
2 9 (10.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.247%) WAI
Systems Management
1 1 (1.124%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 19 (21.35%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.989%) Telerik
3 4 (4.494%) Oracle
4 2 (2.247%) Twitter
4 2 (2.247%) Google
4 2 (2.247%) Zend
5 1 (1.124%) JBoss
5 1 (1.124%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (1.124%) Cadis
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