Essex C# Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the C# Developer role in IT contracts within the Essex region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited C# Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

C# Developer
Location Abingdon Banbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Farnham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Huntingdon Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Margate Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Preston Reading Reigate Rotherham Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Teddington Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwickshire Wellingborough West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	36
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	8	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	1.262 %	3.780 %
Daily rates quoted	6	11
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£311
Average daily rate	£329	£337
% change on same period last year	-2.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£318	£319
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.58	£32.70
% change on same period last year	+2.69 %
Job Titles Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	634	635
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.845 %	0.642 %
Daily rates quoted	244	199
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£327
Average daily rate	£299	£351
% change on same period last year	-14.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£314	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	95	131
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.21	£26.48
Average hourly rate	£29.05	£27.12
% change on same period last year	+7.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.89	£27.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
C# Developer East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

C# Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C# Developer across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

C# Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# Developer across the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

C# Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

C# Developer
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# Developer within the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Chelmsford	-3	1	£350	-1.17 %

C# Developer East of England

C# Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited C# Developer in their job title 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 with C# Developer in their job title.

1 33 (100.00 %) C# 2 31 (93.94 %) .NET 3 27 (81.82 %) ASP.NET 4 25 (75.76 %) SQL Server 5 15 (45.45 %) AJAX 6 14 (42.42 %) SQL 7 13 (39.39 %) Transact-SQL 7 13 (39.39 %) SQL Server 2005 8 9 (27.27 %) WebServices 9 7 (21.21 %) UML 10 6 (18.18 %) Visual Studio 10 6 (18.18 %) ADO.NET 11 5 (15.15 %) XML 11 5 (15.15 %) SQL Server 2000 11 5 (15.15 %) Finance

12 4 (12.12 %) Web Development 12 4 (12.12 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 3 (9.091 %) SQL Server 7 13 3 (9.091 %) OO 13 3 (9.091 %) HTML 14 2 (6.061 %) JavaScript 14 2 (6.061 %) C++ 14 2 (6.061 %) Delphi 14 2 (6.061 %) VB.NET 14 2 (6.061 %) VBA 14 2 (6.061 %) CSS 14 2 (6.061 %) SharePoint 14 2 (6.061 %) C 14 2 (6.061 %) Microsoft 14 2 (6.061 %) Scrum

C# Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited C# Developer in their job title 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 with C# Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 31 (93.94 %) .NET 2 27 (81.82 %) ASP.NET 3 15 (45.45 %) AJAX 4 9 (27.27 %) WebServices 5 6 (18.18 %) ADO.NET 6 5 (15.15 %) XML 7 4 (12.12 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 3 (9.091 %) HTML 9 2 (6.061 %) CSS 9 2 (6.061 %) .NET Framework 10 1 (3.030 %) WCF 10 1 (3.030 %) Silverlight 10 1 (3.030 %) SOAP 10 1 (3.030 %) XSLT 10 1 (3.030 %) WinForms 10 1 (3.030 %) ATL	Application Platforms 1 2 (6.061 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (3.030 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 25 (75.76 %) SQL Server 2 13 (39.39 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (15.15 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3 (9.091 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (3.030 %) MySQL 5 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 6 (18.18 %) Visual Studio	General 1 5 (15.15 %) Finance 2 1 (3.030 %) Insurance
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.030 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 1 (3.030 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (21.21 %) UML 2 4 (12.12 %) Web Development 3 3 (9.091 %) OO 4 2 (6.061 %) Use Case 4 2 (6.061 %) Scrum 5 1 (3.030 %) Performance Management 5 1 (3.030 %) OOD 5 1 (3.030 %) Service Management 5 1 (3.030 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 33 (100.00 %) C# 2 14 (42.42 %) SQL 3 13 (39.39 %) Transact-SQL 4 2 (6.061 %) JavaScript 4 2 (6.061 %) C++ 4 2 (6.061 %) Delphi 4 2 (6.061 %) VB.NET 4 2 (6.061 %) VBA 4 2 (6.061 %) C 5 1 (3.030 %) VB6 5 1 (3.030 %) DHTML 5 1 (3.030 %) PHP 5 1 (3.030 %) VB
Vendors 1 2 (6.061 %) Microsoft 2 1 (3.030 %) Oracle