The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills 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# 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 London 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 11 13 9
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -4
Contract jobs citing C# 2209 2453 3684
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 9.687% 9.226% 11.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.83% 23.95% 27.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1670 1843 2710
Average daily rate £461 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.89% -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 19 29
Average hourly rate £39.51 £36.50 £40.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.23% -9.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.10 £20.00 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £59.40 £48.50 £60.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+14.75% -6.15%
All Programming Languages
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
9677 10244 13467
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 42.44% 38.53% 42.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6907 6983 9169
Average daily rate £440 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.57% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £280 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 151 146
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.75 £20.00 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.84 £50.00 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C#
England

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

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

London 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 London region.

London C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London C# Hourly Rate Histogram

C#
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London -1 720 £475 -5.00% 263
Canary Wharf +4 45 £600 +14.28%
Docklands, London +4 15 £380 -24.00%
Harrow +4 5 £275 -
Uxbridge 0 4 £275 -
Hounslow -3 4 £450 -
Chiswick - 4 £345 - 1
Croydon +8 3 £390 +20.00% 1
Bromley 0 1 £270 +20.00% 3
Brentford - 1 £330 -
Teddington - 1 £275 -
Westminster - 1 - -
Hackney - 1 - -
Paddington - - - -
Hammersmith - - - - 1
Wimbledon - - - - 2
Wembley - - - - 1
Ealing - - - -
Osterley - - - -
Twickenham - - - - 1
Enfield - - - -
Beckenham - - - -
Coulsdon - - - -
Kingston Upon Thames - - - - 2
New Malden - - - - 2
Orpington - - - -
Romford - - - -
Sidcup - - - -
Surbiton - - - - 2
C#
England

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 2902 (67.76%) .NET
2 1816 (42.40%) SQL Server
3 1628 (38.01%) SQL
4 1256 (29.33%) ASP.NET
5 1139 (26.59%) Banking
6 1082 (25.26%) Finance
7 901 (21.04%) Microsoft
8 864 (20.17%) WCF
9 850 (19.85%) TDD
10 843 (19.68%) WPF
11 762 (17.79%) MVC
12 756 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
13 743 (17.35%) Front Office
14 721 (16.83%) Java
15 711 (16.60%) JavaScript
16 698 (16.30%) Investment Banking
17 620 (14.48%) Windows
18 614 (14.34%) Oracle
19 588 (13.73%) OO
20 585 (13.66%) Multithreading
21 539 (12.58%) XML
22 537 (12.54%) C++
23 526 (12.28%) CSS
24 512 (11.95%) HTML
25 497 (11.60%) SQL Server 2008
26 479 (11.18%) Derivative
27 472 (11.02%) Visual Studio
28 469 (10.95%) jQuery
29 466 (10.88%) ASP.NET MVC
30 464 (10.83%) .NET Framework

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 2902 (67.76%) .NET
2 1256 (29.33%) ASP.NET
3 864 (20.17%) WCF
4 843 (19.68%) WPF
5 539 (12.58%) XML
6 526 (12.28%) CSS
7 512 (11.95%) HTML
8 469 (10.95%) jQuery
9 466 (10.88%) ASP.NET MVC
10 464 (10.83%) .NET Framework
11 437 (10.20%) Web Services
12 294 (6.864%) WinForms
13 282 (6.584%) Ajax
14 253 (5.907%) Silverlight
15 188 (4.389%) XSLT
16 182 (4.249%) HTML5
17 170 (3.969%) LINQ
18 169 (3.946%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
19 125 (2.919%) NHibernate
20 124 (2.895%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 337 (7.868%) SharePoint
2 174 (4.063%) CMS
3 172 (4.016%) SharePoint 2010
4 117 (2.732%) IIS
5 100 (2.335%) Windows Azure
6 93 (2.171%) BizTalk Server
7 82 (1.915%) Oracle Coherence
8 60 (1.401%) Umbraco
9 56 (1.307%) Sitecore CMS
10 52 (1.214%) SharePoint Server
11 42 (0.981%) SharePoint 2013
12 34 (0.794%) Apache
12 34 (0.794%) Tomcat
13 26 (0.607%) Kentico
14 24 (0.560%) MQSeries
15 22 (0.514%) Sitefinity
16 19 (0.444%) WebLogic
17 18 (0.420%) TIBCO EMS
17 18 (0.420%) ESB
18 16 (0.374%) Google App Engine
Applications
1 364 (8.499%) MS Excel
2 70 (1.634%) Spreadsheet
3 65 (1.518%) InfoPath
3 65 (1.518%) MS Office
4 20 (0.467%) Photoshop
5 11 (0.257%) Acrobat
6 10 (0.233%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.187%) MS PowerPoint
8 6 (0.140%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.093%) MS Project
10 3 (0.070%) XMetaL
11 2 (0.047%) PowerPivot
11 2 (0.047%) Office 365
12 1 (0.023%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 111 (2.592%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.514%) RMDS
3 17 (0.397%) Summit
4 13 (0.304%) Dynamics AX
5 12 (0.280%) Adaptiv
6 11 (0.257%) SunGard Panorama
7 10 (0.233%) 3000 Xtra
8 9 (0.210%) ZaiNet
8 9 (0.210%) Endur
8 9 (0.210%) Oracle EBS
9 8 (0.187%) Aligne
10 7 (0.163%) Front Arena
11 6 (0.140%) Tridion
12 5 (0.117%) Murex MxG2000
13 4 (0.093%) SiteCatalyst
13 4 (0.093%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 4 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
14 3 (0.070%) ION MarketView
14 3 (0.070%) TIBCO iProcess
14 3 (0.070%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 133 (3.105%) HTTP
2 105 (2.452%) Internet
3 47 (1.097%) Intranet
4 44 (1.027%) TCP/IP
5 34 (0.794%) Kerberos
6 14 (0.327%) Extranet
7 13 (0.304%) DNS
8 12 (0.280%) NAS
9 8 (0.187%) SAN
9 8 (0.187%) AMQP
10 6 (0.140%) FTP
10 6 (0.140%) SSL
11 5 (0.117%) VPN
11 5 (0.117%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.117%) LDAP
12 4 (0.093%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (0.093%) iSCSI
13 3 (0.070%) BSS
13 3 (0.070%) RFID
13 3 (0.070%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1816 (42.40%) SQL Server
2 497 (11.60%) SQL Server 2008
3 298 (6.958%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 285 (6.654%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 205 (4.786%) SQL Server 2005
6 202 (4.716%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 128 (2.989%) SQL Server 2012
8 94 (2.195%) Data Warehouse
9 92 (2.148%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 84 (1.961%) OLAP
11 55 (1.284%) Oracle 8/8i
12 52 (1.214%) RDBMS
13 48 (1.121%) SQL Server 2000
14 45 (1.051%) MySQL
15 44 (1.027%) QlikView
16 43 (1.004%) Oracle 11g
17 37 (0.864%) Oracle OLAP
18 36 (0.841%) TOAD
19 32 (0.747%) SQLPlus
20 29 (0.677%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 472 (11.02%) Visual Studio
2 261 (6.094%) Team Foundation Server
3 204 (4.763%) Subversion
4 145 (3.385%) NUnit
5 110 (2.568%) Selenium
6 98 (2.288%) TeamCity
7 95 (2.218%) JIRA
8 80 (1.868%) SpecFlow
9 66 (1.541%) CruiseControl
10 63 (1.471%) Git (software)
11 61 (1.424%) MSBuild
12 57 (1.331%) Rhino Mocks
13 46 (1.074%) WebDriver
14 41 (0.957%) MSTest
15 37 (0.864%) Oracle Forms
16 35 (0.817%) Cucumber
17 32 (0.747%) Maven
18 30 (0.700%) JUnit
19 27 (0.630%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
20 24 (0.560%) MSI
General
1 1139 (26.59%) Banking
2 1082 (25.26%) Finance
3 743 (17.35%) Front Office
4 698 (16.30%) Investment Banking
5 102 (2.382%) Back Office
6 76 (1.774%) Financial Institution
6 76 (1.774%) Retail
7 66 (1.541%) Publishing
8 58 (1.354%) Games
9 56 (1.307%) Telecoms
10 46 (1.074%) Marketing
11 35 (0.817%) Advertising
12 20 (0.467%) French Language
13 16 (0.374%) Legal
14 14 (0.327%) Manufacturing
14 14 (0.327%) Law
15 10 (0.233%) Retail Banking
16 7 (0.163%) Billing
17 6 (0.140%) Multimedia
18 5 (0.117%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 3262 (76.16%) Developer
2 1504 (35.12%) C# Developer
3 873 (20.38%) .NET Developer
4 494 (11.53%) C# .NET Developer
5 390 (9.106%) Senior Developer
6 334 (7.798%) Analyst
7 227 (5.300%) ASP.NET Developer
8 184 (4.296%) WPF Developer
9 181 (4.226%) Senior C# Developer
10 175 (4.086%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 169 (3.946%) SQL Developer
12 158 (3.689%) SharePoint Developer
13 141 (3.292%) Java Developer
14 129 (3.012%) Senior .NET Developer
15 117 (2.732%) Programmer
16 116 (2.708%) C++ Developer
17 114 (2.662%) Architect
18 106 (2.475%) Software Developer
19 101 (2.358%) Web Developer
20 92 (2.148%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 479 (11.18%) Derivative
2 433 (10.11%) Fixed Income
3 429 (10.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 182 (4.249%) Computer Science
5 134 (3.129%) Market Risk
6 118 (2.755%) Credit Risk
7 114 (2.662%) Equities
8 99 (2.311%) N-Tier
9 90 (2.101%) Credit Derivative
10 79 (1.845%) Mathematics
11 68 (1.588%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 66 (1.541%) Hedge funds
13 62 (1.448%) Grid Computing
13 62 (1.448%) Open Source
14 45 (1.051%) Enterprise Software
15 44 (1.027%) Inversion of Control
16 40 (0.934%) Physics
16 40 (0.934%) Visualisation
17 39 (0.911%) Equity Derivative
18 34 (0.794%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 620 (14.48%) Windows
2 174 (4.063%) UNIX
3 147 (3.432%) Linux
4 64 (1.494%) Windows Server 2008
5 61 (1.424%) Windows 7
6 56 (1.307%) Windows Server 2003
7 44 (1.027%) Android
8 43 (1.004%) Windows XP
9 35 (0.817%) Windows 8
10 34 (0.794%) Apple iOS
11 21 (0.490%) Windows Phone
12 14 (0.327%) Windows 2000
13 12 (0.280%) Windows Server 2012
14 10 (0.233%) Windows NT
15 8 (0.187%) Windows Phone 7
15 8 (0.187%) Windows Phone 8
16 6 (0.140%) Solaris
17 5 (0.117%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 4 (0.093%) AIX
18 4 (0.093%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 850 (19.85%) TDD
2 762 (17.79%) MVC
3 756 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
4 588 (13.73%) OO
5 585 (13.66%) Multithreading
6 459 (10.72%) Scrum
7 306 (7.145%) BDD
8 257 (6.000%) E-Commerce
9 209 (4.880%) Risk Management
10 198 (4.623%) Unit Testing
11 191 (4.459%) MVVM
12 185 (4.319%) Continuous Integration
13 177 (4.133%) CRM
14 167 (3.899%) Analytics
15 152 (3.549%) Workflow
16 146 (3.409%) Web Development
17 140 (3.269%) RAD
18 133 (3.105%) OOP
19 116 (2.708%) SOA
20 107 (2.498%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1628 (38.01%) SQL
2 721 (16.83%) Java
3 711 (16.60%) JavaScript
4 537 (12.54%) C++
5 307 (7.168%) VBA
6 295 (6.888%) T-SQL
7 205 (4.786%) Python
8 156 (3.642%) VB
9 120 (2.802%) VB.NET
9 120 (2.802%) PL/SQL
10 109 (2.545%) Perl
11 104 (2.428%) C
12 89 (2.078%) PowerShell
13 83 (1.938%) Ruby
14 62 (1.448%) VB6
15 50 (1.167%) VBScript
16 46 (1.074%) PHP
17 37 (0.864%) XAML
18 28 (0.654%) F#
19 27 (0.630%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 303 (7.074%) Degree
2 66 (1.541%) Security Cleared
3 27 (0.630%) DV Cleared
4 26 (0.607%) SC Cleared
5 24 (0.560%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (0.397%) ISEB
7 15 (0.350%) MCTS
8 14 (0.327%) PhD
9 11 (0.257%) ISTQB
9 11 (0.257%) MCSE
10 10 (0.233%) ITIL Certification
10 10 (0.233%) MCSD
11 7 (0.163%) MCP
11 7 (0.163%) MCAD
12 4 (0.093%) MCITP
12 4 (0.093%) BC Cleared
13 3 (0.070%) Microsoft Certified Master
14 2 (0.047%) MBA
14 2 (0.047%) MCPD
14 2 (0.047%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (2.778%) QA
2 15 (0.350%) Basel III
3 13 (0.304%) WCAG
4 10 (0.233%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.163%) ISO 9001
6 6 (0.140%) Basel II
7 3 (0.070%) Section 508
8 2 (0.047%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.047%) SLA
8 2 (0.047%) WAI
8 2 (0.047%) Dublin Core
9 1 (0.023%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (1.634%) Active Directory
2 24 (0.560%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.257%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.140%) VMware ESX
5 4 (0.093%) vSphere
6 2 (0.047%) UAG
6 2 (0.047%) Xen
6 2 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.023%) XenApp
7 1 (0.023%) Snort
7 1 (0.023%) NDS
7 1 (0.023%) Samba
7 1 (0.023%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 29 (0.677%) CA SiteMinder
2 27 (0.630%) HP Quality Center
3 23 (0.537%) SCCM
4 14 (0.327%) Control-M
4 14 (0.327%) WSUS
5 10 (0.233%) BMC PATROL
5 10 (0.233%) BMC Performance Manager
6 8 (0.187%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 6 (0.140%) Splunk
8 4 (0.093%) SCVMM
9 3 (0.070%) Tivoli
9 3 (0.070%) OpenView
9 3 (0.070%) CA Wily
9 3 (0.070%) Puppet
10 2 (0.047%) Ionix
10 2 (0.047%) MOM
10 2 (0.047%) BladeLogic
10 2 (0.047%) HP Operations Orchestration
11 1 (0.023%) SCOM
11 1 (0.023%) Nessus
Vendors
1 901 (21.04%) Microsoft
2 614 (14.34%) Oracle
3 156 (3.642%) Sybase
4 99 (2.311%) TIBCO
5 91 (2.125%) Reuters
6 81 (1.891%) Bloomberg
7 74 (1.728%) Sitecore
8 70 (1.634%) DevExpress
9 57 (1.331%) Business Objects
9 57 (1.331%) HP
10 51 (1.191%) Syncfusion
11 44 (1.027%) VMware
12 39 (0.911%) Perforce
12 39 (0.911%) EPiServer
13 38 (0.887%) DataSynapse
14 35 (0.817%) CA
15 33 (0.770%) Google
16 28 (0.654%) Infragistics
17 26 (0.607%) SunGard
18 25 (0.584%) Adobe
London
Location: Central London Day rate: £300 - £400 per day DOE Start date: ASAP Duration: 3 - 6 Months + future extensions Developer - C# / .NET - CONTRACT - London .NET (C#) Software developer...
Verticality Ltd
Rate: £300 to £400 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
ASP.NET MVC Developer required to work a on Greenfield project to build cutting-edge software for the Asset Management industry... Essential skills: - Very strong C#, ASP.NET.
Real Staffing
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 2 June 2013
West London
BizTalk Developer, Integration, Start ASAP, 3+ months, West London, £325+,My client is searching for a BizTalk Developer to start ASAP in West London.
Mint
Rate: £300 - £325 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
West London
This is a Greenfield site where you would be accountable for the development of high quality programming code for integration and application development, which must be reusable, meets...
MINT Recruitment
Rate: £300 - £325 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
City of London
C# Developer with strong ASP.NET MVC skills required by my client, a top-tier Investment Ban to work for a highly technolgy focused team... Essential skills: - Very...
Real Staffing
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
Cornucopia IT Resourcing
Rate: £250 - £280 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Satigo
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 5 June 2013
City, London
Informatiq Consulting
Rate: £350 - £375 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Gonnadoo
Rate: From £300 to £400 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Cornucopia IT Resourcing Limited
Rate: £250 - £280 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Bromley, Kent
Marcus Donald People
Rate: £260 to £280 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Circle Recruitment
Rate: £325 - £375 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
Salt
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £475.00 - £510.00 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £475.00 - £510.00 per annum
Posted: 19 June 2013
London
Coal IT Services
Rate: £300 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Cornucopia IT Resourcing Limited
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 29 May 2013
London
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Rate: £300 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Posted: 18 June 2013
City of London
Real Staffing
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
Real Staffing
Rate: £450 - £550 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Roc Search
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
DGH Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £180 - £192 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Parallel Consulting
Rate: £257.19 - £300.06 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013