C# Contracts in Halifax
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# over the 3 months to 22 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 Halifax 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 17 18 22
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +4
Contract jobs citing C# 4 13 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 3.448% 5.652% 0.847%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.57% 28.89% 4.167%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 1
Average daily rate £313 £275 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% +5.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £15.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
All Programming Languages
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 14 45 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 12.07% 19.57% 20.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 35 17
Average daily rate £313 £369 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.25% +1.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £190 £237
10% offered a daily rate of more than £331 £441 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £15.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -16.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
C#
West Yorkshire

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 14 (87.50%) .NET
1 14 (87.50%) SQL Server
1 14 (87.50%) XML
2 13 (81.25%) SQL
3 12 (75.00%) T-SQL
3 12 (75.00%) SOAP
3 12 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (75.00%) .NET Framework
3 12 (75.00%) WCF
3 12 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 9 (56.25%) ASP.NET MVC
4 9 (56.25%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 9 (56.25%) Razor View Engine
5 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (6.250%) Unit Testing
6 1 (6.250%) Microsoft
6 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (6.250%) VB
6 1 (6.250%) VB.NET
6 1 (6.250%) VBA

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 14 (87.50%) .NET
1 14 (87.50%) XML
2 12 (75.00%) SOAP
2 12 (75.00%) .NET Framework
2 12 (75.00%) WCF
3 9 (56.25%) ASP.NET MVC
3 9 (56.25%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 9 (56.25%) Razor View Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (87.50%) SQL Server
2 12 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2000
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
2 14 (87.50%) XML Developer
2 14 (87.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (6.250%) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (6.250%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) SQL
2 12 (75.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (6.250%) VB
3 1 (6.250%) VB.NET
3 1 (6.250%) VBA
Vendors
1 1 (6.250%) Microsoft
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