The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# over the 3 months to 23 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 Middlesex 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 19 24 36
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +12
Contract jobs citing C# 3 9 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.485% 2.866% 1.441%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.556% 14.75% 5.495%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 1
Average daily rate £350 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
All Programming Languages
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
54 61 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 26.73% 19.43% 26.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 23 42
Average daily rate £338 £350 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% -22.22%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 8
Average hourly rate £37.50 £39.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +34.48%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C#
South East

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Retail
3 1 (33.33%) Subversion
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Programmer
3 1 (33.33%) Programmer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Programmer
3 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
Middlesex
The Senior ASP.Net C# Developer should have experience with WPF, Silverlight and NHibernate. In addition to previous development with WPF, Silverlight and NHibernate the successful ASP.Net...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Middlesex
The QA Tester will be responsible for the testing of a web based application built in C# .Net. The applications are built in a combination of C# .Net...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Rate: £180 - £240 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013