The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 11 12 11
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -1
Contract jobs citing C# 85 84 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 11.23% 9.438% 9.031%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.07% 25.00% 28.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 62 30
Average daily rate £300 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £266 £239
10% offered a daily rate of more than £429 £448 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £38.00 £14.75 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+157.62% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+20.96% -11.42%
All Programming Languages
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
326 336 195
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 43.06% 37.75% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 215 108
Average daily rate £280 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.84% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 5
Average hourly rate £13.50 £17.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.58% -38.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.50 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £57.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C#
West Yorkshire

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 163 (92.09%) .NET
2 117 (66.10%) ASP.NET
3 90 (50.85%) SQL Server
4 76 (42.94%) JavaScript
5 58 (32.77%) HTML
6 56 (31.64%) CSS
7 55 (31.07%) SQL
7 55 (31.07%) .NET Framework
8 52 (29.38%) MVC
9 50 (28.25%) Web Services
10 44 (24.86%) ASP.NET MVC
11 42 (23.73%) Visual Studio
12 36 (20.34%) SQL Server 2008
13 34 (19.21%) SharePoint
13 34 (19.21%) jQuery
14 33 (18.64%) Web Development
14 33 (18.64%) Agile Software Development
15 31 (17.51%) Scrum
16 27 (15.25%) WCF
16 27 (15.25%) Microsoft
17 26 (14.69%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
18 24 (13.56%) VB.NET
19 21 (11.86%) XML
19 21 (11.86%) E-Commerce
20 20 (11.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
21 19 (10.73%) WPF
21 19 (10.73%) ASP.NET MVC 3
22 18 (10.17%) Silverlight
23 17 (9.605%) Degree
23 17 (9.605%) T-SQL

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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
1 163 (92.09%) .NET
2 117 (66.10%) ASP.NET
3 58 (32.77%) HTML
4 56 (31.64%) CSS
5 55 (31.07%) .NET Framework
6 50 (28.25%) Web Services
7 44 (24.86%) ASP.NET MVC
8 34 (19.21%) jQuery
9 27 (15.25%) WCF
10 26 (14.69%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 21 (11.86%) XML
12 19 (10.73%) WPF
12 19 (10.73%) ASP.NET MVC 3
13 18 (10.17%) Silverlight
14 13 (7.345%) NHibernate
15 12 (6.780%) WinForms
15 12 (6.780%) REST
16 9 (5.085%) Ajax
16 9 (5.085%) MDX
17 8 (4.520%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 34 (19.21%) SharePoint
2 16 (9.040%) CMS
3 14 (7.910%) SharePoint 2010
4 11 (6.215%) BizTalk Server
4 11 (6.215%) EPiServer CMS
5 5 (2.825%) Umbraco
6 4 (2.260%) IIS
7 2 (1.130%) Apache Solr
7 2 (1.130%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (1.130%) DotNetNuke
7 2 (1.130%) Apache
7 2 (1.130%) SAS
7 2 (1.130%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.565%) Windows Azure
8 1 (0.565%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.565%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (5.650%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.695%) MS Office
3 2 (1.130%) MS Project
4 1 (0.565%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 6 (3.390%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.565%) HTTP
1 1 (0.565%) Internet
1 1 (0.565%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (50.85%) SQL Server
2 36 (20.34%) SQL Server 2008
3 20 (11.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 16 (9.040%) SQL Server 2005
5 14 (7.910%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 12 (6.780%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (6.780%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (5.650%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 7 (3.955%) SQL Server 2012
9 4 (2.260%) SQL Server 2000
10 2 (1.130%) RavenDB
10 2 (1.130%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.565%) OLAP
11 1 (0.565%) MySQL
11 1 (0.565%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.565%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 42 (23.73%) Visual Studio
2 14 (7.910%) JIRA
3 11 (6.215%) Selenium
4 10 (5.650%) WebDriver
5 9 (5.085%) NUnit
6 6 (3.390%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
7 5 (2.825%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (2.260%) Visual Studio Team System
8 4 (2.260%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 4 (2.260%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.695%) MSI
9 3 (1.695%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.695%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.130%) Git (software)
11 1 (0.565%) PVCS
11 1 (0.565%) WebSpeed
General
1 7 (3.955%) Finance
2 3 (1.695%) Telecoms
2 3 (1.695%) Retail
3 1 (0.565%) Legal
3 1 (0.565%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 149 (84.18%) Developer
2 92 (51.98%) .NET Developer
3 35 (19.77%) C# Developer
4 29 (16.38%) C# .NET Developer
5 22 (12.43%) ASP.NET Developer
6 18 (10.17%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 18 (10.17%) SharePoint Developer
7 9 (5.085%) Software Developer
8 8 (4.520%) Web Developer
9 7 (3.955%) Analyst
9 7 (3.955%) .NET Web Developer
9 7 (3.955%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 6 (3.390%) Agile .NET Developer
10 6 (3.390%) CMS Developer
10 6 (3.390%) C# Web Developer
10 6 (3.390%) VB.NET Developer
10 6 (3.390%) Test Analyst
10 6 (3.390%) Tester
11 5 (2.825%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.825%) BizTalk Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.780%) NHS
2 5 (2.825%) Computer Science
3 4 (2.260%) W3C
4 3 (1.695%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.695%) N-Tier
5 2 (1.130%) Open Source
5 2 (1.130%) iPhone
5 2 (1.130%) Mathematics
5 2 (1.130%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.565%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.565%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.565%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.345%) Windows
2 2 (1.130%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.130%) Android
3 1 (0.565%) UNIX
3 1 (0.565%) Windows XP
3 1 (0.565%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (29.38%) MVC
2 33 (18.64%) Web Development
2 33 (18.64%) Agile Software Development
3 31 (17.51%) Scrum
4 21 (11.86%) E-Commerce
5 14 (7.910%) TDD
6 13 (7.345%) OO
6 13 (7.345%) Unit Testing
7 12 (6.780%) Automated Testing
7 12 (6.780%) Kanban
7 12 (6.780%) Migration
8 11 (6.215%) Workflow
8 11 (6.215%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (5.650%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (5.650%) Dependency Injection
10 9 (5.085%) ITIL
11 7 (3.955%) PRINCE2
11 7 (3.955%) Software Testing
11 7 (3.955%) Software Engineering
12 6 (3.390%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 76 (42.94%) JavaScript
2 55 (31.07%) SQL
3 24 (13.56%) VB.NET
4 17 (9.605%) T-SQL
5 12 (6.780%) XAML
6 11 (6.215%) VB
7 9 (5.085%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.955%) Java
9 4 (2.260%) VB6
10 3 (1.695%) VBA
11 2 (1.130%) OCaml
11 2 (1.130%) Ruby
11 2 (1.130%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.130%) PHP
11 2 (1.130%) C++
12 1 (0.565%) Delphi
12 1 (0.565%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (9.605%) Degree
2 9 (5.085%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.955%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.695%) BC Cleared
5 2 (1.130%) ISEB
6 1 (0.565%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.565%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.650%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.695%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.130%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 27 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.040%) EPiServer
3 13 (7.345%) Oracle
4 6 (3.390%) RedDot
5 5 (2.825%) Perforce
6 3 (1.695%) VMware
6 3 (1.695%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.130%) hybris
7 2 (1.130%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.565%) Remedy
8 1 (0.565%) HP
8 1 (0.565%) Progress
8 1 (0.565%) Open Text
8 1 (0.565%) Sculptor
8 1 (0.565%) RedPrairie