Lancashire C# Contracts

This section looks at the demand for C# skills within the Lancashire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited C# over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Altrincham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Sale Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	9	21
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	33	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	25.38 %	14.36 %
Daily rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum daily rate	-	£285
Average daily rate	-	£340
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£395
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£335
% change on same period last year	-0.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.71	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£34.29	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+37.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.86	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.61	£33.74
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Programming Languages Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	130	181
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.173 %	0.183 %
Daily rates quoted	15	27
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£312
Average daily rate	£328	£342
% change on same period last year	-4.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	29	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.50	£23.38
Average hourly rate	£27.47	£27.33
% change on same period last year	+0.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.45	£31.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
C# North West

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Preston	+11	11	-	-
Blackpool	-	5	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 58 (98.31 %) .NET 2 43 (72.88 %) ASP.NET 3 41 (69.49 %) SQL Server 4 28 (47.46 %) SQL Server 2005 5 22 (37.29 %) JavaScript 6 17 (28.81 %) SQL 6 17 (28.81 %) CSS 7 16 (27.12 %) HTML 7 16 (27.12 %) AJAX 8 15 (25.42 %) WebServices 8 15 (25.42 %) Microsoft 9 14 (23.73 %) XML 10 13 (22.03 %) Visual Studio 11 11 (18.64 %) ASP 11 11 (18.64 %) .NET Framework

12 10 (16.95 %) E-Commerce 13 8 (13.56 %) SQL Server 2000 14 7 (11.86 %) VB.NET 14 7 (11.86 %) XSLT 14 7 (11.86 %) ASP.NET 2.0 15 6 (10.17 %) JSON 15 6 (10.17 %) jQuery 15 6 (10.17 %) LDAP 15 6 (10.17 %) MS Excel 15 6 (10.17 %) MVC 15 6 (10.17 %) SOA 15 6 (10.17 %) SharePoint 16 5 (8.475 %) XHTML 17 4 (6.780 %) Finance 17 4 (6.780 %) Crystal Reports

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 58 (98.31 %) .NET 2 43 (72.88 %) ASP.NET 3 17 (28.81 %) CSS 4 16 (27.12 %) AJAX 4 16 (27.12 %) HTML 5 15 (25.42 %) WebServices 6 14 (23.73 %) XML 7 11 (18.64 %) ASP 7 11 (18.64 %) .NET Framework 8 7 (11.86 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 7 (11.86 %) XSLT 9 6 (10.17 %) MVC 9 6 (10.17 %) jQuery 9 6 (10.17 %) JSON 10 5 (8.475 %) XHTML 11 2 (3.390 %) Zend Framework 12 1 (1.695 %) Silverlight 12 1 (1.695 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 6 (10.17 %) SharePoint 2 2 (3.390 %) ColdFusion 3 1 (1.695 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (1.695 %) CMS 3 1 (1.695 %) IIS 3 1 (1.695 %) Apache
Applications 1 6 (10.17 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 6 (10.17 %) LDAP 2 1 (1.695 %) SSL 2 1 (1.695 %) Intranet 2 1 (1.695 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 41 (69.49 %) SQL Server 2 28 (47.46 %) SQL Server 2005 3 8 (13.56 %) SQL Server 2000 4 4 (6.780 %) Crystal Reports 5 2 (3.390 %) DTS 6 1 (1.695 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 1 (1.695 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 1 (1.695 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 1 (1.695 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 13 (22.03 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (1.695 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 4 (6.780 %) Finance 2 3 (5.085 %) Government 2 3 (5.085 %) Retail 3 2 (3.390 %) Multimedia 4 1 (1.695 %) Telecoms 4 1 (1.695 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (1.695 %) Construction	Job Titles 1 56 (94.92 %) Developer 2 35 (59.32 %) .NET Developer 3 23 (38.98 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 13 (22.03 %) C# Developer 5 9 (15.25 %) SQL Developer 6 7 (11.86 %) SQL Server Developer 6 7 (11.86 %) Software Developer 6 7 (11.86 %) Web Developer 7 6 (10.17 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 4 (6.780 %) Senior Developer 9 3 (5.085 %) Senior .NET Developer 10 2 (3.390 %) ASP Developer 10 2 (3.390 %) SharePoint Developer 10 2 (3.390 %) PHP Developer 10 2 (3.390 %) .NET Web Developer 11 1 (1.695 %) Senior C# Developer 11 1 (1.695 %) Senior Web Developer 11 1 (1.695 %) Senior Technical Architect 11 1 (1.695 %) Analyst Programmer 11 1 (1.695 %) Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.085 %) N-Tier 2 2 (3.390 %) Spread Betting	Operating Systems 1 3 (5.085 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (16.95 %) E-Commerce 2 6 (10.17 %) SOA 3 3 (5.085 %) Configuration Management 3 3 (5.085 %) Migration 3 3 (5.085 %) OOD 3 3 (5.085 %) UML 3 3 (5.085 %) OO 4 2 (3.390 %) Agile Software Development 4 2 (3.390 %) Time Management 4 2 (3.390 %) BC Cleared 4 2 (3.390 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (1.695 %) Information Management 5 1 (1.695 %) Logistics 5 1 (1.695 %) Web Development 5 1 (1.695 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (1.695 %) Unit Testing 5 1 (1.695 %) CRM 5 1 (1.695 %) Scrum	Programming Languages 1 22 (37.29 %) JavaScript 2 17 (28.81 %) SQL 3 7 (11.86 %) VB.NET 4 3 (5.085 %) C++ 5 2 (3.390 %) DHTML 5 2 (3.390 %) PHP 5 2 (3.390 %) PL/SQL 5 2 (3.390 %) C 5 2 (3.390 %) VB 6 1 (1.695 %) VB6 6 1 (1.695 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (1.695 %) VBScript 6 1 (1.695 %) Java 6 1 (1.695 %) Perl
System Software 1 1 (1.695 %) MSMQ	Vendors 1 15 (25.42 %) Microsoft 2 3 (5.085 %) Sybase 3 2 (3.390 %) Adobe 3 2 (3.390 %) Zend