The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Farnborough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# over the 3 months to 24 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 Farnborough 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 8 12 11
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -1
Contract jobs citing C# 5 2 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Farnborough 12.82% 3.509% 13.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.78% 15.38% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 9
Average daily rate £331 £253 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.18% -22.30%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
All Programming Languages
Farnborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
18 13 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Farnborough 46.15% 22.81% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 37
Average daily rate £325 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £224 £295 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £345 £403 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £26.25 - £41.25
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 - £40.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C#
Hampshire

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Farnborough 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 Farnborough region.

Farnborough C# Daily Rate Trend

C#
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Farnborough C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Farnborough 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 7 (77.78%) .NET
2 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 3 (33.33%) Windows
4 3 (33.33%) SQL
5 2 (22.22%) C
5 2 (22.22%) C++
5 2 (22.22%) Java
5 2 (22.22%) Python
5 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
5 2 (22.22%) Wireless
5 2 (22.22%) Workflow
5 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (22.22%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (22.22%) WF
5 2 (22.22%) NFC
5 2 (22.22%) SharePoint 2013
5 2 (22.22%) Perl
6 1 (11.11%) Unity DI Container
6 1 (11.11%) Dependency Injection
6 1 (11.11%) WCF
6 1 (11.11%) WPF
6 1 (11.11%) WinForms
6 1 (11.11%) Legal
6 1 (11.11%) N-Tier
6 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
6 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (11.11%) JavaScript

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Farnborough 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 7 (77.78%) .NET
2 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (22.22%) WF
4 1 (11.11%) Unity DI Container
4 1 (11.11%) WCF
4 1 (11.11%) WPF
4 1 (11.11%) WinForms
4 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint 2010
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint 2013
2 1 (11.11%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Wireless
1 2 (22.22%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 1 (11.11%) Legal
1 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) SharePoint Developer
2 2 (22.22%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Workflow
1 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (11.11%) UML
2 1 (11.11%) OOP
2 1 (11.11%) OO
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) C
2 2 (22.22%) C++
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Perl
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
3 1 (11.11%) VB
3 1 (11.11%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft