C# Contracts in Hertfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# over the 3 months to 21 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 Hertfordshire 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 16 30 23
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -7
Contract jobs citing C# 52 49 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 7.951% 5.088% 5.889%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.91% 12.04% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 25 27
Average daily rate £500 £310 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+61.29% +3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £275 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £610 £350 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
Average hourly rate - £33.75 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +3.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+20.96% -11.42%
All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 275 407 299
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 42.05% 42.26% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 163 109
Average daily rate £375 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 37 56
Average hourly rate £20.00 £36.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.44% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £15.55 £31.31
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.80 £42.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C#
East of England

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Letchworth -1 10 £610 -
Stevenage 0 4 £275 -11.29%
Hertford - 4 - -
Welwyn Garden City -1 2 - -
Watford +1 1 - -
St Albans -8 1 £400 +25.98%
C#
East of England

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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#.

1 103 (81.75%) .NET
2 67 (53.17%) TDD
3 52 (41.27%) Retail
4 51 (40.48%) OO
5 49 (38.89%) Scrum
6 46 (36.51%) Windows
7 44 (34.92%) Agile Software Development
8 39 (30.95%) SQL
9 35 (27.78%) ASP.NET
9 35 (27.78%) Microsoft
10 30 (23.81%) SOA
11 25 (19.84%) JavaScript
11 25 (19.84%) BDD
12 24 (19.05%) SQL Server
13 22 (17.46%) CSS
14 21 (16.67%) MVC
15 19 (15.08%) WCF
16 18 (14.29%) XML
17 17 (13.49%) HTML
18 16 (12.70%) Oracle
19 15 (11.90%) .NET Framework
20 13 (10.32%) Domain-Driven Design
20 13 (10.32%) ASP.NET MVC
20 13 (10.32%) SharePoint
20 13 (10.32%) Finance
20 13 (10.32%) AOP
21 12 (9.524%) VB
21 12 (9.524%) Team Foundation Server
21 12 (9.524%) jQuery
22 11 (8.730%) Unit Testing

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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
1 103 (81.75%) .NET
2 35 (27.78%) ASP.NET
3 22 (17.46%) CSS
4 19 (15.08%) WCF
5 18 (14.29%) XML
6 17 (13.49%) HTML
7 15 (11.90%) .NET Framework
8 13 (10.32%) ASP.NET MVC
9 12 (9.524%) jQuery
10 11 (8.730%) Web Services
11 10 (7.937%) KnockoutJS
12 7 (5.556%) Ajax
12 7 (5.556%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 6 (4.762%) JSON
13 6 (4.762%) XSLT
14 5 (3.968%) ASP
15 4 (3.175%) ASP.NET MVC 3
15 4 (3.175%) Unity DI Container
16 3 (2.381%) XHTML
16 3 (2.381%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 13 (10.32%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.349%) IIS
3 3 (2.381%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.587%) CMS
4 2 (1.587%) Apache
5 1 (0.794%) MS Exchange
5 1 (0.794%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.794%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.794%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.794%) Kentico
5 1 (0.794%) DotNetNuke
Applications
1 11 (8.730%) MS Excel
2 8 (6.349%) MS Office
3 2 (1.587%) MS Project
3 2 (1.587%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (3.175%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.381%) Internet
2 1 (0.794%) FTP
2 1 (0.794%) DNS
2 1 (0.794%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.556%) MS Access
2 7 (5.556%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (3.968%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (3.175%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.175%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.587%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (1.587%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.587%) DTS
6 1 (0.794%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (0.794%) GIS
6 1 (0.794%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (0.794%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (9.524%) Team Foundation Server
2 10 (7.937%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.381%) Selenium
4 2 (1.587%) JIRA
5 1 (0.794%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.794%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.794%) WebDriver
General
1 52 (41.27%) Retail
2 13 (10.32%) Finance
3 6 (4.762%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.587%) Marketing
4 2 (1.587%) Banking
5 1 (0.794%) Games
5 1 (0.794%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 109 (86.51%) Developer
2 67 (53.17%) .NET Developer
3 62 (49.21%) C# Developer
4 47 (37.30%) C# .NET Developer
5 24 (19.05%) Architect
6 21 (16.67%) .NET Architect
6 21 (16.67%) C# Architect
7 17 (13.49%) Senior Developer
8 15 (11.90%) Agile .NET Developer
9 14 (11.11%) ScrumMaster
10 13 (10.32%) ASP.NET Developer
11 12 (9.524%) Agile C# Developer
12 11 (8.730%) C# ASP.NET Developer
13 7 (5.556%) Senior C# Developer
14 6 (4.762%) Senior .NET Developer
14 6 (4.762%) Java Developer
14 6 (4.762%) Web Developer
15 3 (2.381%) Analyst
15 3 (2.381%) Navision Developer
15 3 (2.381%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.730%) N-Tier
2 3 (2.381%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.794%) Client/Server
3 1 (0.794%) E-Learning
3 1 (0.794%) Animation
3 1 (0.794%) Mathematics
3 1 (0.794%) Computer Science
3 1 (0.794%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 46 (36.51%) Windows
2 3 (2.381%) Android
3 2 (1.587%) Windows Mobile
3 2 (1.587%) Linux
4 1 (0.794%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (53.17%) TDD
2 51 (40.48%) OO
3 49 (38.89%) Scrum
4 44 (34.92%) Agile Software Development
5 30 (23.81%) SOA
6 25 (19.84%) BDD
7 21 (16.67%) MVC
8 13 (10.32%) Domain-Driven Design
8 13 (10.32%) AOP
9 11 (8.730%) Unit Testing
10 8 (6.349%) E-Commerce
11 5 (3.968%) Automated Testing
11 5 (3.968%) Content Management
11 5 (3.968%) Business Analysis
11 5 (3.968%) Enterprise Architecture
11 5 (3.968%) Enterprise Modelling
11 5 (3.968%) Time Management
12 4 (3.175%) User Stories
12 4 (3.175%) Stakeholder Management
12 4 (3.175%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 39 (30.95%) SQL
2 25 (19.84%) JavaScript
3 12 (9.524%) VB
4 10 (7.937%) Java
5 8 (6.349%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.175%) C
7 3 (2.381%) C++
7 3 (2.381%) VBScript
7 3 (2.381%) VBA
8 2 (1.587%) XPath
9 1 (0.794%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.794%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.794%) VB6
9 1 (0.794%) CoffeeScript
9 1 (0.794%) F#
Qualifications
1 2 (1.587%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (1.587%) PMP
2 1 (0.794%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.794%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.587%) QA
Vendors
1 35 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.70%) Oracle
3 4 (3.175%) Cognos
4 2 (1.587%) Retalix
4 2 (1.587%) Xamarin
4 2 (1.587%) Adobe
5 1 (0.794%) Lagan
5 1 (0.794%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.794%) Ektron
5 1 (0.794%) EPiServer
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