The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Luton 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 Luton 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 9 9 4
Rank change year-on-year
0 -5
Contract jobs citing C# 11 6 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 13.41% 8.333% 13.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.00% 35.29% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 6
Average daily rate £363 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £330 £308
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £350 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+14.75% -6.15%
All Programming Languages
Luton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
22 17 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 26.83% 23.61% 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 12
Average daily rate £338 £318 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.29% -15.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £203 £319
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £12.42 £35.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-65.01% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C#
Bedfordshire

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 16 (100.00%) .NET
2 10 (62.50%) MVC
2 10 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 10 (62.50%) ASP.NET
3 9 (56.25%) Windows
3 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
4 8 (50.00%) SOA
4 8 (50.00%) Web Services
4 8 (50.00%) Scrum
5 7 (43.75%) E-Commerce
6 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
6 6 (37.50%) .NET Framework
7 5 (31.25%) NHibernate
7 5 (31.25%) SQL
7 5 (31.25%) HTML
7 5 (31.25%) Visual Studio
7 5 (31.25%) Windows Azure
7 5 (31.25%) BDD
8 4 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (25.00%) Web Development
8 4 (25.00%) XML
8 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (25.00%) TDD
8 4 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2005
9 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
9 3 (18.75%) Internet
9 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2008
9 3 (18.75%) Git (software)
9 3 (18.75%) WCF

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 16 (100.00%) .NET
2 10 (62.50%) ASP.NET
3 8 (50.00%) Web Services
4 6 (37.50%) .NET Framework
5 5 (31.25%) NHibernate
5 5 (31.25%) HTML
6 4 (25.00%) XML
7 3 (18.75%) WCF
8 2 (12.50%) KnockoutJS
8 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (12.50%) jQuery
9 1 (6.250%) Hibernate
9 1 (6.250%) CSS
9 1 (6.250%) MSMQ
9 1 (6.250%) WF
9 1 (6.250%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) Windows Azure
2 3 (18.75%) NServiceBus
3 2 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (12.50%) IIS
4 1 (6.250%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (6.250%) CMS
4 1 (6.250%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (6.250%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
2 2 (12.50%) DOC1
2 2 (12.50%) PrintSoft PReS
3 1 (6.250%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Exstream
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (12.50%) RDBMS
5 1 (6.250%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Visual Studio
2 4 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (18.75%) Git (software)
4 1 (6.250%) JIRA
4 1 (6.250%) Log4Net
4 1 (6.250%) NUnit
4 1 (6.250%) TeamCity
4 1 (6.250%) SpecFlow
4 1 (6.250%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (6.250%) FinalBuilder
General
1 2 (12.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) .NET Developer
3 4 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 4 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Web Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Agile .NET Developer
5 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Software Manager
6 1 (6.250%) Software Configuration Manager
6 1 (6.250%) C# Web Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Configuration Manager
6 1 (6.250%) .NET Web Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Software Engineer
6 1 (6.250%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.250%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Agile C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.250%) Client/Server
1 1 (6.250%) N-Tier
1 1 (6.250%) Inversion of Control
1 1 (6.250%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) MVC
2 8 (50.00%) SOA
2 8 (50.00%) Scrum
3 7 (43.75%) E-Commerce
4 5 (31.25%) BDD
5 4 (25.00%) Web Development
5 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (25.00%) TDD
6 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
7 1 (6.250%) Technical Architecture
7 1 (6.250%) Refactoring
7 1 (6.250%) AOP
7 1 (6.250%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (6.250%) Change Management
7 1 (6.250%) UML
7 1 (6.250%) OO
7 1 (6.250%) Configuration Management
7 1 (6.250%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) VB
4 1 (6.250%) VB6
4 1 (6.250%) VBA
4 1 (6.250%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.250%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) Degree
1 1 (6.250%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.250%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.250%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) HP
3 1 (6.250%) Oracle
3 1 (6.250%) Sitecore
Luton, Bedfordshire
Using the following technology: C#, SQL ASP.net, WCF, JavaScript, CSS, Webforms, MVC, Winforms and VB.net Skills required for the role of C# Developer / Programmer (SQL Server):...
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Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013