The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford 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 Guildford 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 4 10 12
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +2
Contract jobs citing C# 37 12 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 16.97% 9.917% 6.767%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.54% 26.67% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 4
Average daily rate £363 £388 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.45% +31.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £425 £318
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £37.25 - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
All Programming Languages
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
96 45 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 44.04% 37.19% 36.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 20 25
Average daily rate £320 £335 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.47% +19.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £229
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £425 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 5
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -11.76%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C#
Surrey

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford 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 Guildford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford 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 Guildford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Guildford C# Hourly Rate Histogram

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 32 (78.05%) .NET
2 23 (56.10%) Microsoft
3 18 (43.90%) Games
4 15 (36.59%) SQL
5 14 (34.15%) SQL Server
6 13 (31.71%) Windows
7 12 (29.27%) IIS
7 12 (29.27%) JavaScript
8 11 (26.83%) ASP.NET
8 11 (26.83%) MS Excel
8 11 (26.83%) Scrum
9 8 (19.51%) PHP
9 8 (19.51%) C++
9 8 (19.51%) Game Development
10 7 (17.07%) WCF
10 7 (17.07%) C
10 7 (17.07%) VB.NET
10 7 (17.07%) Python
11 6 (14.63%) Code Coverage
11 6 (14.63%) HTML
11 6 (14.63%) MS Visio
11 6 (14.63%) Data Mining
11 6 (14.63%) WPF
11 6 (14.63%) Degree
11 6 (14.63%) TDD
11 6 (14.63%) Automated Testing
11 6 (14.63%) Computer Science
11 6 (14.63%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (14.63%) Windows Azure
11 6 (14.63%) Software Architecture

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 32 (78.05%) .NET
2 11 (26.83%) ASP.NET
3 7 (17.07%) WCF
4 6 (14.63%) HTML
4 6 (14.63%) WPF
5 5 (12.20%) .NET Framework
6 4 (9.756%) LINQ
6 4 (9.756%) NHibernate
6 4 (9.756%) WinForms
7 3 (7.317%) CSS
7 3 (7.317%) Web Services
7 3 (7.317%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (7.317%) jQuery
8 2 (4.878%) Ajax
8 2 (4.878%) HTML5
8 2 (4.878%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 2 (4.878%) XML
8 2 (4.878%) ASP
8 2 (4.878%) Middleware
8 2 (4.878%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 12 (29.27%) IIS
2 6 (14.63%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (14.63%) Windows Azure
3 4 (9.756%) ESB
4 2 (4.878%) Mule
4 2 (4.878%) Apache
4 2 (4.878%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 11 (26.83%) MS Excel
2 6 (14.63%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.439%) FrameMaker
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.439%) Firewall
1 1 (2.439%) SSL
1 1 (2.439%) FTP
1 1 (2.439%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (34.15%) SQL Server
2 6 (14.63%) Data Mining
3 4 (9.756%) Oracle 11g
3 4 (9.756%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (9.756%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (4.878%) MySQL
5 1 (2.439%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.439%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (2.439%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (9.756%) Visual Studio
2 2 (4.878%) ReSharper
2 2 (4.878%) Subversion
2 2 (4.878%) Moq
2 2 (4.878%) TeamCity
2 2 (4.878%) MSI
3 1 (2.439%) NUnit
General
1 18 (43.90%) Games
2 1 (2.439%) Financial Institution
2 1 (2.439%) Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (58.54%) Developer
2 10 (24.39%) .NET Developer
3 7 (17.07%) C# Developer
4 6 (14.63%) PHP Developer
4 6 (14.63%) Development Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (9.756%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 4 (9.756%) ASP.NET Developer
6 4 (9.756%) Oracle Developer
7 3 (7.317%) WPF Developer
7 3 (7.317%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.878%) BizTalk Consultant
8 2 (4.878%) Software Development Engineer
8 2 (4.878%) SQL Developer
8 2 (4.878%) Consultant
9 1 (2.439%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
9 1 (2.439%) Applications Developer
9 1 (2.439%) Support Analyst
9 1 (2.439%) Applications Support
9 1 (2.439%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Computer Science
1 6 (14.63%) Kinect
2 5 (12.20%) Online Games
3 4 (9.756%) Inversion of Control
3 4 (9.756%) Visualisation
3 4 (9.756%) Streaming Video
3 4 (9.756%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.878%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.439%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.439%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 13 (31.71%) Windows
2 4 (9.756%) Windows 8
3 1 (2.439%) Linux
3 1 (2.439%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) Scrum
2 8 (19.51%) Game Development
3 6 (14.63%) Code Coverage
3 6 (14.63%) TDD
3 6 (14.63%) Automated Testing
3 6 (14.63%) Software Architecture
3 6 (14.63%) Process Architecture
3 6 (14.63%) Test Automation
3 6 (14.63%) Test Strategy
4 5 (12.20%) Data Analysis
4 5 (12.20%) Release Management
5 4 (9.756%) Software Engineering
5 4 (9.756%) BDD
5 4 (9.756%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (9.756%) Regression Testing
5 4 (9.756%) Analytics
6 3 (7.317%) MVC
6 3 (7.317%) OO
6 3 (7.317%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (7.317%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (36.59%) SQL
2 12 (29.27%) JavaScript
3 8 (19.51%) PHP
3 8 (19.51%) C++
4 7 (17.07%) C
4 7 (17.07%) VB.NET
4 7 (17.07%) Python
5 4 (9.756%) Java
6 3 (7.317%) Ruby
7 1 (2.439%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.439%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.439%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) Degree
2 4 (9.756%) SC Cleared
2 4 (9.756%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.878%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.439%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (2.439%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) SCOM
2 1 (2.439%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (56.10%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.756%) Oracle
3 1 (2.439%) Adobe
3 1 (2.439%) Business Objects
3 1 (2.439%) SAP
Guildford, Surrey
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Posted: 23 May 2013