Kent C# Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the C# Developer role in IT contracts within the Kent region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited C# Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

C# Developer
Location Aberdeen Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Falkirk Farnborough Farnham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Huddersfield Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead 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 Peterborough Poole Preston Reading Rotherham Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	41
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	10	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	2.625 %	2.574 %
Daily rates quoted	4	10
Average minimum daily rate	£258	£258
Average daily rate	£273	£262
% change on same period last year	+4.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£289	£266
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£324
% change on same period last year	-2.14 %
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	£33.38	£33.76
% change on same period last year	-1.13 %
Job Titles Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	381	544
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.508 %	0.543 %
Daily rates quoted	136	117
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£313
Average daily rate	£300	£327
% change on same period last year	-8.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	60	111
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.49	£22.11
Average hourly rate	£21.07	£24.44
% change on same period last year	-13.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.65	£26.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
C# Developer South East

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.

C# Developer
Demand Trend

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

C# Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# Developer across the Kent region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

C# Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C# Developer across the Kent region.

C# Developer
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# Developer within the Kent 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
Chatham	-	1	£300	-
Tonbridge	-	1	-	-
Margate	-	1	£280	-
Sevenoaks	-	1	-	-

C# Developer South East

C# Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region that cited C# Developer in their job title 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 with C# Developer in their job title.

1 13 (100.00 %) C# 2 12 (92.31 %) .NET 3 9 (69.23 %) SQL Server 4 7 (53.85 %) ASP.NET 5 4 (30.77 %) SQL Server 2005 5 4 (30.77 %) WebServices 5 4 (30.77 %) SQL 6 3 (23.08 %) Transact-SQL 6 3 (23.08 %) VB 6 3 (23.08 %) VB.NET 6 3 (23.08 %) Microsoft 7 2 (15.38 %) SQL Server 2000 7 2 (15.38 %) VB6 7 2 (15.38 %) Insurance 7 2 (15.38 %) SOAP

7 2 (15.38 %) Windows 7 2 (15.38 %) SharePoint 7 2 (15.38 %) XML 7 2 (15.38 %) Migration 7 2 (15.38 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 1 (7.692 %) C 8 1 (7.692 %) Oracle 8 1 (7.692 %) IIS 8 1 (7.692 %) MS Office 8 1 (7.692 %) Visual Studio 8 1 (7.692 %) HTML 8 1 (7.692 %) JavaScript 8 1 (7.692 %) Perl 8 1 (7.692 %) PL/SQL 8 1 (7.692 %) XML Messaging

C# Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region that cited C# Developer in their job title 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 with C# Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 12 (92.31 %) .NET 2 7 (53.85 %) ASP.NET 3 4 (30.77 %) WebServices 4 2 (15.38 %) XML 4 2 (15.38 %) SOAP 5 1 (7.692 %) HTML 5 1 (7.692 %) CSS 5 1 (7.692 %) XML Messaging 5 1 (7.692 %) .NET Framework 5 1 (7.692 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 2 (15.38 %) SharePoint 2 1 (7.692 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (7.692 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (7.692 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (7.692 %) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (69.23 %) SQL Server 2 4 (30.77 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (15.38 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (7.692 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 1 (7.692 %) SQL Server 2008	Development Applications 1 2 (15.38 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (7.692 %) ProC 2 1 (7.692 %) Visual Studio
General 1 2 (15.38 %) Insurance 2 1 (7.692 %) Marketing 2 1 (7.692 %) Advertising	Operating Systems 1 2 (15.38 %) Windows 2 1 (7.692 %) Windows 2000 Server 2 1 (7.692 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (15.38 %) Migration 2 1 (7.692 %) Release Management 2 1 (7.692 %) Performance Management 2 1 (7.692 %) Data Migration 2 1 (7.692 %) Service Management	Programming Languages 1 13 (100.00 %) C# 2 4 (30.77 %) SQL 3 3 (23.08 %) Transact-SQL 3 3 (23.08 %) VB 3 3 (23.08 %) VB.NET 4 2 (15.38 %) VB6 5 1 (7.692 %) Korn 5 1 (7.692 %) JavaScript 5 1 (7.692 %) Perl 5 1 (7.692 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (7.692 %) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.692 %) ISO9001	Vendors 1 3 (23.08 %) Microsoft 2 1 (7.692 %) VMware 2 1 (7.692 %) Oracle