Fife C# Contracts

This section looks at the demand for C# skills within the Fife region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited C# over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Altrincham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Rugby Sale Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	3
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	66.67 %	20.00 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£350	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£400	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£334
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
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	£34.02	£33.71
% change on same period last year	+0.90 %
Programming Languages Fife
Matching contract IT job ads	3	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.005 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£350	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£400	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.79 %
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	£33.25	£32.93
% change on same period last year	+0.99 %
C# Scotland

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the Fife region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Dunfermline	-	1	£350	-

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Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Fife 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 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 2 (100.00 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (50.00 %) .NET Framework 2 1 (50.00 %) .NET 2 1 (50.00 %) Finance 2 1 (50.00 %) N-Tier 2 1 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2000

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Fife 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 2 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (50.00 %) .NET Framework 2 1 (50.00 %) .NET	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 2 (100.00 %) Visual Studio	General 1 1 (50.00 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Developer 1 2 (100.00 %) C# Developer 2 1 (50.00 %) SQL Developer 2 1 (50.00 %) SQL Server Developer 2 1 (50.00 %) .NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (50.00 %) N-Tier