The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the 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 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 England 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 14 15 13
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -2
Contract jobs citing C# 3895 4529 5770
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 9.001% 8.552% 10.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.67% 23.82% 26.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2639 3041 3771
Average daily rate £400 £375 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £575 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 101 128
Average hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.29% +4.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.80 £17.51 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+14.75% -6.15%
All Programming Languages
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
16458 19011 22124
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 38.03% 35.90% 38.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10343 11552 13265
Average daily rate £400 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 550 699 800
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £18.00 £19.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C#
UK

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

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

England 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 England region.

England C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

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 England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +2 2209 £461 -2.89% 760
South East 0 636 £350 +7.69% 415
East of England +1 239 £325 - 224
North West -1 201 £300 +9.09% 299
South West +2 171 £306 -6.00% 146
West Midlands +5 166 £300 -4.76% 172
Yorkshire -1 149 £300 - 115
East Midlands -8 98 £305 +7.01% 71
North East -1 25 £285 -18.57% 39
Midlands 0 6 £450 +20.00% 1
South Coast - - - -
C#
UK

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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#.

1 5896 (75.73%) .NET
2 3505 (45.02%) SQL Server
3 3012 (38.68%) ASP.NET
4 2874 (36.91%) SQL
5 1800 (23.12%) Microsoft
6 1770 (22.73%) JavaScript
7 1715 (22.03%) MVC
8 1637 (21.02%) WCF
9 1382 (17.75%) TDD
10 1348 (17.31%) CSS
11 1345 (17.27%) Finance
12 1344 (17.26%) HTML
13 1284 (16.49%) Agile Software Development
14 1211 (15.55%) Banking
15 1203 (15.45%) XML
16 1190 (15.28%) .NET Framework
17 1185 (15.22%) Windows
18 1179 (15.14%) jQuery
19 1125 (14.45%) Visual Studio
20 1124 (14.44%) WPF
21 1077 (13.83%) Web Services
22 1046 (13.43%) SQL Server 2008
23 1011 (12.98%) ASP.NET MVC
24 983 (12.63%) OO
25 971 (12.47%) Java
26 929 (11.93%) Scrum
27 917 (11.78%) Oracle
28 850 (10.92%) SharePoint
29 796 (10.22%) C++
30 745 (9.568%) Front Office

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

Application Development
1 5896 (75.73%) .NET
2 3012 (38.68%) ASP.NET
3 1637 (21.02%) WCF
4 1348 (17.31%) CSS
5 1344 (17.26%) HTML
6 1203 (15.45%) XML
7 1190 (15.28%) .NET Framework
8 1179 (15.14%) jQuery
9 1124 (14.44%) WPF
10 1077 (13.83%) Web Services
11 1011 (12.98%) ASP.NET MVC
12 626 (8.040%) Ajax
13 467 (5.998%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 426 (5.471%) HTML5
15 422 (5.420%) Silverlight
16 417 (5.356%) WinForms
17 409 (5.253%) LINQ
18 349 (4.482%) XSLT
19 335 (4.303%) ASP.NET MVC 3
20 265 (3.404%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 850 (10.92%) SharePoint
2 372 (4.778%) SharePoint 2010
3 320 (4.110%) IIS
3 320 (4.110%) CMS
4 230 (2.954%) BizTalk Server
5 223 (2.864%) Windows Azure
6 127 (1.631%) SharePoint Server
7 103 (1.323%) Umbraco
8 93 (1.194%) Sitecore CMS
9 85 (1.092%) SharePoint 2013
10 82 (1.053%) Oracle Coherence
11 61 (0.783%) ESB
12 54 (0.694%) Apache
13 45 (0.578%) Tomcat
14 40 (0.514%) Kentico
15 36 (0.462%) EPiServer CMS
16 27 (0.347%) MQSeries
17 25 (0.321%) ArcGIS
18 24 (0.308%) Sitefinity
19 23 (0.295%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 649 (8.335%) MS Excel
2 163 (2.094%) MS Office
3 115 (1.477%) InfoPath
4 70 (0.899%) Spreadsheet
5 41 (0.527%) Photoshop
6 36 (0.462%) MS Visio
7 26 (0.334%) MS Project
8 24 (0.308%) MS PowerPoint
9 11 (0.141%) Acrobat
10 8 (0.103%) Adobe Illustrator
11 6 (0.077%) Office 365
12 4 (0.051%) GIMP
12 4 (0.051%) Maya
12 4 (0.051%) 3ds Max
12 4 (0.051%) XMetaL
13 3 (0.039%) PowerPivot
14 2 (0.026%) DOC1
14 2 (0.026%) PrintSoft PReS
15 1 (0.013%) FrameMaker
15 1 (0.013%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 233 (2.993%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.347%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (0.283%) RMDS
4 17 (0.218%) Summit
5 12 (0.154%) Adaptiv
6 11 (0.141%) Visualfiles
6 11 (0.141%) SunGard Panorama
7 10 (0.128%) 3000 Xtra
7 10 (0.128%) Endur
8 9 (0.116%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.116%) ZaiNet
8 9 (0.116%) Dynamics NAV
9 8 (0.103%) Aligne
9 8 (0.103%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 7 (0.090%) Front Arena
11 6 (0.077%) Google Analytics
11 6 (0.077%) Pivotal CRM
11 6 (0.077%) Tridion
11 6 (0.077%) Oracle Applications
12 5 (0.064%) Murex MxG2000
Communications & Networking
1 174 (2.235%) HTTP
2 170 (2.183%) Internet
3 86 (1.105%) Intranet
4 74 (0.950%) TCP/IP
5 34 (0.437%) Kerberos
6 23 (0.295%) Extranet
7 21 (0.270%) LDAP
8 18 (0.231%) DNS
9 17 (0.218%) FTP
10 15 (0.193%) SNMP
10 15 (0.193%) SSL
11 13 (0.167%) Radio Access Network
12 12 (0.154%) NAS
12 12 (0.154%) TELNET
12 12 (0.154%) 3G
12 12 (0.154%) 2G
12 12 (0.154%) Wireless
13 10 (0.128%) HTTPS
14 9 (0.116%) Firewall
15 8 (0.103%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3505 (45.02%) SQL Server
2 1046 (13.43%) SQL Server 2008
3 519 (6.666%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 487 (6.255%) SQL Server 2005
5 486 (6.242%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 272 (3.493%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 202 (2.594%) SQL Server 2012
8 142 (1.824%) Data Warehouse
9 112 (1.438%) OLAP
10 107 (1.374%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 100 (1.284%) MySQL
12 89 (1.143%) Oracle 8/8i
13 81 (1.040%) Oracle 11g
14 69 (0.886%) SQL Server 2000
15 67 (0.861%) RDBMS
16 48 (0.616%) QlikView
17 45 (0.578%) DTS
17 45 (0.578%) SQLPlus
18 44 (0.565%) Crystal Reports
19 39 (0.501%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1125 (14.45%) Visual Studio
2 571 (7.334%) Team Foundation Server
3 342 (4.392%) Subversion
4 240 (3.082%) NUnit
5 198 (2.543%) Selenium
6 168 (2.158%) JIRA
7 159 (2.042%) SpecFlow
8 148 (1.901%) TeamCity
9 145 (1.862%) Git (software)
10 103 (1.323%) MSBuild
11 91 (1.169%) MSTest
12 88 (1.130%) CruiseControl
13 76 (0.976%) WebDriver
14 67 (0.861%) Rhino Mocks
15 62 (0.796%) VSS/SourceSafe
16 54 (0.694%) Moq
17 52 (0.668%) Jenkins
18 48 (0.616%) Maven
19 42 (0.539%) Cucumber
20 40 (0.514%) Eclipse
General
1 1345 (17.27%) Finance
2 1211 (15.55%) Banking
3 745 (9.568%) Front Office
4 707 (9.080%) Investment Banking
5 202 (2.594%) Retail
6 182 (2.338%) Telecoms
7 144 (1.849%) Games
8 120 (1.541%) Back Office
9 88 (1.130%) Publishing
10 80 (1.027%) Financial Institution
11 74 (0.950%) Marketing
12 47 (0.604%) Advertising
13 33 (0.424%) Legal
13 33 (0.424%) Manufacturing
14 26 (0.334%) Law
15 24 (0.308%) French Language
16 23 (0.295%) Aerospace
17 18 (0.231%) Pharmaceutical
18 15 (0.193%) Electronics
19 14 (0.180%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5993 (76.97%) Developer
2 2377 (30.53%) C# Developer
3 2195 (28.19%) .NET Developer
4 1059 (13.60%) C# .NET Developer
5 612 (7.860%) ASP.NET Developer
6 560 (7.192%) Senior Developer
7 502 (6.447%) Analyst
8 463 (5.947%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 356 (4.572%) SharePoint Developer
10 343 (4.405%) Web Developer
11 279 (3.583%) SQL Developer
12 278 (3.571%) Software Engineer
13 264 (3.391%) Software Developer
14 247 (3.172%) WPF Developer
15 229 (2.941%) Architect
16 225 (2.890%) Senior C# Developer
16 225 (2.890%) Programmer
17 207 (2.659%) Senior .NET Developer
18 157 (2.016%) Agile C# Developer
18 157 (2.016%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 479 (6.152%) Derivative
2 434 (5.574%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 433 (5.561%) Fixed Income
4 262 (3.365%) Computer Science
5 247 (3.172%) N-Tier
6 134 (1.721%) Market Risk
7 121 (1.554%) Enterprise Software
8 118 (1.516%) Credit Risk
9 114 (1.464%) Equities
10 109 (1.400%) Open Source
11 101 (1.297%) Mathematics
12 90 (1.156%) Credit Derivative
13 86 (1.105%) Mobile App
14 70 (0.899%) Inversion of Control
14 70 (0.899%) Hedge funds
15 68 (0.873%) Interest Rate Derivative
16 67 (0.861%) Management Information System
17 62 (0.796%) Grid Computing
18 53 (0.681%) NHS
19 51 (0.655%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 1185 (15.22%) Windows
2 261 (3.352%) UNIX
3 228 (2.928%) Linux
4 118 (1.516%) Windows Server 2008
5 116 (1.490%) Windows Server 2003
6 113 (1.451%) Windows 7
7 110 (1.413%) Android
8 86 (1.105%) Apple iOS
9 55 (0.706%) Windows XP
10 50 (0.642%) Windows 8
11 36 (0.462%) Windows Phone
12 31 (0.398%) Windows Mobile
13 18 (0.231%) Windows Phone 8
14 14 (0.180%) Windows 2000
15 13 (0.167%) Windows Phone 7
15 13 (0.167%) Windows Server 2012
16 12 (0.154%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 11 (0.141%) Windows NT
18 10 (0.128%) Windows CE
19 9 (0.116%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1715 (22.03%) MVC
2 1382 (17.75%) TDD
3 1284 (16.49%) Agile Software Development
4 983 (12.63%) OO
5 929 (11.93%) Scrum
6 672 (8.631%) Multithreading
7 494 (6.345%) E-Commerce
8 490 (6.293%) BDD
9 431 (5.536%) Unit Testing
10 419 (5.381%) Web Development
11 345 (4.431%) Continuous Integration
12 336 (4.315%) CRM
13 335 (4.303%) SOA
14 309 (3.969%) MVVM
15 305 (3.917%) UML
16 291 (3.737%) Workflow
17 224 (2.877%) OOP
18 217 (2.787%) Risk Management
19 216 (2.774%) Business Intelligence
20 194 (2.492%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2874 (36.91%) SQL
2 1770 (22.73%) JavaScript
3 971 (12.47%) Java
4 796 (10.22%) C++
5 587 (7.539%) T-SQL
6 475 (6.101%) VB.NET
7 413 (5.304%) VB
8 337 (4.328%) VBA
9 296 (3.802%) Python
10 214 (2.749%) C
11 208 (2.671%) PL/SQL
12 150 (1.927%) Perl
13 142 (1.824%) VB6
14 131 (1.683%) PowerShell
15 126 (1.618%) Ruby
16 114 (1.464%) PHP
17 95 (1.220%) VBScript
18 75 (0.963%) XAML
19 40 (0.514%) XPath
20 37 (0.475%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 500 (6.422%) Degree
2 285 (3.660%) Security Cleared
3 173 (2.222%) SC Cleared
4 119 (1.528%) Microsoft Certification
5 67 (0.861%) ISEB
6 62 (0.796%) DV Cleared
7 57 (0.732%) MCSD
8 47 (0.604%) MCTS
9 38 (0.488%) MCAD
10 37 (0.475%) MCP
11 27 (0.347%) MCPD
12 26 (0.334%) PhD
13 23 (0.295%) ISTQB
14 16 (0.205%) BC Cleared
15 12 (0.154%) ITIL Certification
16 11 (0.141%) MCSE
17 7 (0.090%) MCITP
17 7 (0.090%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 6 (0.077%) ISEB Practitioner
19 5 (0.064%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (2.928%) QA
2 29 (0.372%) ISO 9001
3 17 (0.218%) TickIT
4 15 (0.193%) Basel III
5 14 (0.180%) WCAG
5 14 (0.180%) SLA
6 13 (0.167%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (0.141%) HL7
8 8 (0.103%) Basel II
9 5 (0.064%) ISO 9000
9 5 (0.064%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.039%) COBIT
10 3 (0.039%) DO-178B
10 3 (0.039%) Section 508
11 2 (0.026%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.026%) Dublin Core
11 2 (0.026%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.026%) WAI
System Software
1 104 (1.336%) Active Directory
2 43 (0.552%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (0.218%) Hyper-V
4 9 (0.116%) VMware ESX
5 7 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.051%) vSphere
7 3 (0.039%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (0.039%) UAG
8 2 (0.026%) Xen
8 2 (0.026%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.013%) Samba
9 1 (0.013%) NDS
9 1 (0.013%) Snort
9 1 (0.013%) XenApp
9 1 (0.013%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 32 (0.411%) HP Quality Center
2 29 (0.372%) CA SiteMinder
3 24 (0.308%) SCCM
4 15 (0.193%) SCOM
5 14 (0.180%) WSUS
5 14 (0.180%) Control-M
6 12 (0.154%) WMI
7 10 (0.128%) BMC Performance Manager
7 10 (0.128%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 10 (0.128%) BMC PATROL
8 6 (0.077%) Splunk
9 5 (0.064%) Tivoli
10 4 (0.051%) Puppet
10 4 (0.051%) SCVMM
11 3 (0.039%) OpenView
11 3 (0.039%) CA Wily
12 2 (0.026%) Ionix
12 2 (0.026%) HP Operations Orchestration
12 2 (0.026%) BladeLogic
12 2 (0.026%) MOM
Vendors
1 1800 (23.12%) Microsoft
2 917 (11.78%) Oracle
3 159 (2.042%) Sybase
4 122 (1.567%) Sitecore
5 105 (1.349%) TIBCO
6 93 (1.194%) DevExpress
7 91 (1.169%) Reuters
8 85 (1.092%) EPiServer
9 81 (1.040%) Bloomberg
10 72 (0.925%) VMware
11 71 (0.912%) Business Objects
12 66 (0.848%) Telerik
13 61 (0.783%) HP
14 53 (0.681%) Google
15 51 (0.655%) Syncfusion
16 49 (0.629%) SAP
17 47 (0.604%) Perforce
18 45 (0.578%) Twitter
19 38 (0.488%) DataSynapse
19 38 (0.488%) Adobe
London
Location: Central London Day rate: £300 - £400 per day DOE Start date: ASAP Duration: 3 - 6 Months + future extensions Developer - C# / .NET - CONTRACT - London .NET (C#) Software developer...
Verticality Ltd
Rate: £300 to £400 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Billingham, North East
Computer Futures are currently looking for a .Net developer for a 6 month period in the North East of England... The successful candidate will be working on developing...
Computer Futures
Posted: 5 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
They require a Web Developer with Umbraco experience for an initial 3 month contract. This is an Umbraco development role across all layers, strong experience with SQL Server,...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Posted: 13 June 2013
Manchester, North West
They require a Web Developer with Umbraco experience for an initial 3 month contract. This is an Umbraco development role across all layers, strong experience with SQL Server,...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Posted: 13 June 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
An experienced .Net Developer with strong C#, SQL Server skills is required to work for a large organisation on the support and maintenance of the existing systems... As...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 13 June 2013
Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire
Stratford-on-Avon District Council
Rate: From £22,959 to £25,473 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Wiltshire
Sanderson
Rate: £300 - £330 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Witham, South East
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £150.00 - £250 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Rate: £200 - £250 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Leicester, East Midlands
Computer Futures
Posted: 31 May 2013
Greater Manchester, North West
Computer Futures
Posted: 3 June 2013
Portsmouth, South East
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
City of London
Real Staffing
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 2 June 2013
West London
Mint
Rate: £300 - £325 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
West London
MINT Recruitment
Rate: £300 - £325 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Newcastle upon Tyne, North East
Computer Futures
Posted: 12 June 2013
North West England
Amoria Bond
Posted: 4 June 2013
Manchester, North West
Amoria Bond
Posted: 13 June 2013
Slough, Thames Valley
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £240 - £280 per day
Posted: 28 May 2013
Sheffield, Yorkshire
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
Manchester, North West
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £300.00 - £330.00 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Witham, South East
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £180 - £250 per day
Posted: 30 May 2013
West Midlands
Rullion IT Plus
Posted: 17 June 2013
Luton, Bedfordshire
Understanding Recruitment
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
North West England
Real Staffing
Posted: 28 May 2013