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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the C# Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the London region.

 C# Developer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank263731
Rank change year-on-year
Up+11Down-6
Matching contract IT job ads14736541603
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London5.687 %3.962 %4.374 %
As % of the Job Titles category6.182 %4.292 %4.666 %
Daily rates quoted987348630
Average daily rate£535£470£500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.82 %-6.000 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£325£300£300
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£650£575£650
UK excluding London average daily rate£275£265£300
% change year-on-year
+3.770 %-11.66 %
Hourly rates quoted8549
Average hourly rate£38.75£30.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+29.16 %-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£31.50£35.00
% change year-on-year
-9.520 %-10.00 %
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
238281523734352
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London91.99 %92.31 %93.74 %
Daily rates quoted12764613713442
Average daily rate£450£413£450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.090 %-8.330 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£274£233£258
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£600£650
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£350
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %-3.570 %
Hourly rates quoted6057231882
Average hourly rate£22.50£20.50£22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.750 %-8.880 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.00£12.50£13.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£43.00£40.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %-9.090 %
C# Developer EnglandC# Developer
England

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.

C# Developer
Demand Trend

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

London C# Developer Demand Trend

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 London region.

London C# Developer Daily Rate Trend

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

London C# Developer Daily Rate Histogram

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 London region.

London C# Developer Hourly Rate Trend

C# Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# Developer within the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
City of LondonDown-6548£525+10.52 %
Canary WharfDown-1039£598-8.07 %
Docklands, LondonDown-724£500-
WestminsterNew entry-1--
HarrowNew entry-1--
C# Developer EnglandC# Developer
England

C# Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

12768 (100.00 %)C#
21774 (64.09 %).NET
31349 (48.74 %)Banking
41041 (37.61 %)Front Office
5975 (35.22 %)Investment Banking
6876 (31.65 %)SQL Server
7855 (30.89 %)Derivative
8803 (29.01 %)WinForms
9625 (22.58 %)SQL
10620 (22.40 %)Finance
11572 (20.66 %)ASP.NET
12552 (19.94 %)OO
13507 (18.32 %)WPF
14457 (16.51 %)C++
15444 (16.04 %)Java
16369 (13.33 %)Oracle
17360 (13.01 %)Agile Software Development
18359 (12.97 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
19356 (12.86 %)Equity Derivative
20323 (11.67 %)WCF
21307 (11.09 %)Windows
22303 (10.95 %)XML
23284 (10.26 %)Fixed Income
24280 (10.12 %)SQL Server 2005
25259 (9.357 %)Microsoft
26254 (9.176 %)Multithreading
27239 (8.634 %)Web Services
28213 (7.695 %)Equities
29212 (7.659 %)TDD
30188 (6.792 %).NET Framework

C# Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11774 (64.09 %).NET
2803 (29.01 %)WinForms
3572 (20.66 %)ASP.NET
4507 (18.32 %)WPF
5323 (11.67 %)WCF
6303 (10.95 %)XML
7239 (8.634 %)Web Services
8188 (6.792 %).NET Framework
9134 (4.841 %)AJAX
10108 (3.902 %)HTML
10108 (3.902 %)CSS
1189 (3.215 %)Silverlight
1285 (3.071 %)XSLT
1370 (2.529 %)WF
1469 (2.493 %)NHibernate
1567 (2.421 %)Middleware
1664 (2.312 %)jQuery
1751 (1.842 %)LINQ
1845 (1.626 %)SOAP
1941 (1.481 %)ASP
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
166 (2.384 %)SharePoint
264 (2.312 %)Rendezvous
264 (2.312 %)TIBCO EMS
353 (1.915 %)CMS
430 (1.084 %)MQSeries
527 (0.975 %)SharePoint Server 2007
527 (0.975 %)IIS
616 (0.578 %)BizTalk Server
715 (0.542 %)Sitecore CMS
813 (0.470 %)MTS
912 (0.434 %)EPiServer
109 (0.325 %)Tomcat
109 (0.325 %)Apache
109 (0.325 %)Umbraco
118 (0.289 %)Confluence
127 (0.253 %)SonicMQ
127 (0.253 %)Progress Apama
136 (0.217 %)MS Exchange
145 (0.181 %)Oracle Workflow
154 (0.145 %)ESB
London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
171 (2.565 %)MS Excel
262 (2.240 %)Spreadsheet
334 (1.228 %)MS Office
48 (0.289 %)MS Visio
52 (0.072 %)InfoPath
61 (0.036 %)Photoshop
61 (0.036 %)MS Project
61 (0.036 %)MATLAB
61 (0.036 %)MS PowerPoint
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
111 (0.397 %)Endur
26 (0.217 %)ION MarketView
35 (0.181 %)Global One
35 (0.181 %)BusinessWorks
44 (0.145 %)SunGard Martini
44 (0.145 %)TIBCO iProcess
52 (0.072 %)Dynamics CRM
52 (0.072 %)Summit
52 (0.072 %)Pivotal CRM
61 (0.036 %)RMDS
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
125 (0.903 %)Intranet
214 (0.506 %)HTTP
313 (0.470 %)Internet
410 (0.361 %)TCP/IP
57 (0.253 %)LDAP
62 (0.072 %)Extranet
71 (0.036 %)SMTP
71 (0.036 %)DHCP
71 (0.036 %)DNS
71 (0.036 %)Wi-Fi
71 (0.036 %)Firewall
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1876 (31.65 %)SQL Server
2280 (10.12 %)SQL Server 2005
398 (3.540 %)SQL Server 2008
473 (2.637 %)Oracle 10g
570 (2.529 %)RDBMS
570 (2.529 %)SQL Server Integration Services
668 (2.457 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
766 (2.384 %)SQL Server 2000
840 (1.445 %)Crystal Reports
932 (1.156 %)Oracle Reports
1028 (1.012 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1125 (0.903 %)OLAP
1220 (0.723 %)Datawarehouse
1317 (0.614 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1415 (0.542 %)KDB
1513 (0.470 %)Oracle 8/8i
1612 (0.434 %)Oracle 11g
1710 (0.361 %)Sybase ASE
188 (0.289 %)Reference Data
197 (0.253 %)Oracle 9i
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1167 (6.033 %)Subversion
2157 (5.672 %)NUnit
3155 (5.600 %)Visual Studio
474 (2.673 %)ClearCase
548 (1.734 %)TeamCity
646 (1.662 %)JIRA
739 (1.409 %)Team Foundation Server
838 (1.373 %)JUnit
926 (0.939 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
1024 (0.867 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1024 (0.867 %)NCover
1117 (0.614 %)CruiseControl
1117 (0.614 %)ReSharper
1215 (0.542 %)FitNesse
1314 (0.506 %)Oracle Forms
1413 (0.470 %)Selenium
1510 (0.361 %)ClearQuest
169 (0.325 %)csUnit
169 (0.325 %)OpenSTA
178 (0.289 %)Maven
London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11349 (48.74 %)Banking
21041 (37.61 %)Front Office
3975 (35.22 %)Investment Banking
4620 (22.40 %)Finance
549 (1.770 %)Back Office
633 (1.192 %)Publishing
722 (0.795 %)Financial Institution
821 (0.759 %)Education
919 (0.686 %)Games
919 (0.686 %)Insurance
1017 (0.614 %)Government
1116 (0.578 %)Retail
1212 (0.434 %)Telecoms
1310 (0.361 %)Corporate Banking
1310 (0.361 %)Marketing
145 (0.181 %)Law
145 (0.181 %)Home Office
154 (0.145 %)Legal
163 (0.108 %)Advertising
163 (0.108 %)Health
London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1855 (30.89 %)Derivative
2359 (12.97 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3356 (12.86 %)Equity Derivative
4284 (10.26 %)Fixed Income
5254 (9.176 %)Multithreading
6213 (7.695 %)Equities
7127 (4.588 %)Credit Derivative
8108 (3.902 %)Interest Rate Derivative
998 (3.540 %)Client/Server
1070 (2.529 %)N-Tier
1145 (1.626 %)Credit Risk
1243 (1.553 %)Grid Computing
1342 (1.517 %)Mathematics
1441 (1.481 %)Computer Science
1521 (0.759 %)Market Risk
1616 (0.578 %)Contract for Difference
1715 (0.542 %)Dependency Injection
1811 (0.397 %)Exotic Derivative
199 (0.325 %)Physics
199 (0.325 %)Open Source
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1307 (11.09 %)Windows
292 (3.324 %)UNIX
385 (3.071 %)Linux
418 (0.650 %)Solaris
510 (0.361 %)Windows Server 2008
69 (0.325 %)Windows Server 2003
73 (0.108 %)Windows XP
73 (0.108 %)Windows Vista
82 (0.072 %)Windows 7
91 (0.036 %)AIX
91 (0.036 %)SUSE
91 (0.036 %)Windows 2000 Server
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1552 (19.94 %)OO
2360 (13.01 %)Agile Software Development
3212 (7.659 %)TDD
4158 (5.708 %)Risk Management
5138 (4.986 %)Unit Testing
6114 (4.118 %)Scrum
7108 (3.902 %)OOD
897 (3.504 %)MVC
993 (3.360 %)RAD
1090 (3.251 %)E-Commerce
1182 (2.962 %)Continuous Integration
1268 (2.457 %)Web Development
1366 (2.384 %)Electronic Trading
1453 (1.915 %)Workflow
1551 (1.842 %)UML
1649 (1.770 %)OOP
1748 (1.734 %)SOA
1748 (1.734 %)Algorithmic Trading
1842 (1.517 %)CRM
1936 (1.301 %)Asset Management
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12768 (100.00 %)C#
2625 (22.58 %)SQL
3457 (16.51 %)C++
4444 (16.04 %)Java
5170 (6.142 %)VBA
6167 (6.033 %)JavaScript
7130 (4.697 %)PL/SQL
884 (3.035 %)VB
964 (2.312 %)T-SQL
1051 (1.842 %)C
1140 (1.445 %)VB6
1237 (1.337 %)Perl
1333 (1.192 %)Shell Script
1432 (1.156 %)VB.NET
1531 (1.120 %)VC++
1620 (0.723 %)Python
1719 (0.686 %)XAML
1811 (0.397 %)XPath
1910 (0.361 %)PHP
208 (0.289 %)PowerShell
London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1104 (3.757 %)Degree
216 (0.578 %)Microsoft Certification
312 (0.434 %)Security Cleared
410 (0.361 %)MCTS
410 (0.361 %)MCSD
59 (0.325 %)MCP
59 (0.325 %)MCAD
66 (0.217 %)DV Cleared
74 (0.145 %)SC Cleared
82 (0.072 %)Brainbench
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
140 (1.445 %)QA
22 (0.072 %)WCAG
31 (0.036 %)ISO9001
London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
110 (0.361 %)Active Directory
25 (0.181 %)VMware Infrastructure
34 (0.145 %)MSMQ
43 (0.108 %)VMware ESX
43 (0.108 %)XenApp
43 (0.108 %)XenDesktop
51 (0.036 %)Hyper-V
London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
16 (0.217 %)Tivoli
23 (0.108 %)MSI
31 (0.036 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1369 (13.33 %)Oracle
2259 (9.357 %)Microsoft
3155 (5.600 %)TIBCO
4144 (5.202 %)Sybase
555 (1.987 %)DataSynapse
654 (1.951 %)DevExpress
740 (1.445 %)Bloomberg
839 (1.409 %)Perforce
938 (1.373 %)Infragistics
1037 (1.337 %)Syncfusion
1131 (1.120 %)Reuters
1220 (0.723 %)IBM
1319 (0.686 %)Sitecore
1415 (0.542 %)Tradeweb
1511 (0.397 %)Agresso
168 (0.289 %)ION Trading
177 (0.253 %)eSpeed
177 (0.253 %)Charles River
177 (0.253 %)GigaSpaces
186 (0.217 %)RedDot