The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Hounslow 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 14 11 11
Rank change year-on-year
-3 0
Contract jobs citing C# 4 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 7.143% 4.494% 2.667%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.90% 14.29% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £450 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+14.75% -6.15%
All Programming Languages
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
31 28 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 55.36% 31.46% 22.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 11
Average daily rate £400 £350 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £300 £118
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C#
London

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Hounslow C# Daily Rate Histogram

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) XML
2 4 (80.00%) XNA
2 4 (80.00%) WPF
2 4 (80.00%) Silverlight
2 4 (80.00%) Release Management
2 4 (80.00%) Open Source
2 4 (80.00%) MVVM
2 4 (80.00%) Kinect
2 4 (80.00%) REST
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (80.00%) Windows 8
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Phone
2 4 (80.00%) Internet
2 4 (80.00%) XAML
2 4 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (80.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (20.00%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) NDS
3 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) ISEB
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 5 (100.00%) XML
2 4 (80.00%) XNA
2 4 (80.00%) WPF
2 4 (80.00%) Silverlight
2 4 (80.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Silverlight Developer
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Broadcast Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Open Source
1 4 (80.00%) Kinect
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows 8
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Phone
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Release Management
1 4 (80.00%) MVVM
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (80.00%) TDD
1 4 (80.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) XAML
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ISEB Practitioner
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (20.00%) ISEB
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) NDS
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) HP
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
Hounslow, Middlesex
At least Foundation-level ISTQB/ISEB Software Testing Certification... Familiarity with Unix and Windows OS. SQL experience with Oracle RDBMS. Understanding of XML. Communication skills (Written and oral)...
Experis IT
Rate: £325 - £350 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013