Midlands C# Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the C# Developer role in IT contracts within the Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited C# Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

C# Developer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Falkirk Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Margate Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Preston Reading Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tadworth Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Wirral Witham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	56
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	21	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	2.251 %	1.575 %
Daily rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£338
Average daily rate	£356	£338
% change on same period last year	+5.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£303	£324
% change on same period last year	-6.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.81	£34.93
% change on same period last year	-8.92 %
Job Titles Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	933	1651
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.326 %	1.667 %
Daily rates quoted	133	288
Average minimum daily rate	£366	£385
Average daily rate	£387	£407
% change on same period last year	-4.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£409	£429
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	69
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.76	£21.31
Average hourly rate	£27.47	£22.12
% change on same period last year	+24.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.19	£22.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.69	£25.18
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
C# Developer England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily 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 Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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 Midlands region.

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# Developer across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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 Midlands region.

C# Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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.

1 40 (100.00 %) C# 2 36 (90.00 %) .NET 3 32 (80.00 %) ASP.NET 4 15 (37.50 %) SQL Server 5 7 (17.50 %) SQL Server 2005 6 6 (15.00 %) WinForms 6 6 (15.00 %) SQL 7 5 (12.50 %) JavaScript 7 5 (12.50 %) CSS 7 5 (12.50 %) Requirements Analysis 8 4 (10.00 %) Web Development 8 4 (10.00 %) AJAX 8 4 (10.00 %) VB.NET 8 4 (10.00 %) XML 8 4 (10.00 %) OO

8 4 (10.00 %) HTML 9 3 (7.500 %) Visual Studio 9 3 (7.500 %) Windows 9 3 (7.500 %) ASP 9 3 (7.500 %) E-Commerce 9 3 (7.500 %) NHS 9 3 (7.500 %) Back Office 9 3 (7.500 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 10 2 (5.000 %) Degree 10 2 (5.000 %) WCF 10 2 (5.000 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 2 (5.000 %) Freedom of Information 10 2 (5.000 %) Agile Software Development 10 2 (5.000 %) Active Directory 10 2 (5.000 %) SQL Server 2000

C# Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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.

Application Development 1 36 (90.00 %) .NET 2 32 (80.00 %) ASP.NET 3 6 (15.00 %) WinForms 4 5 (12.50 %) CSS 5 4 (10.00 %) AJAX 5 4 (10.00 %) HTML 5 4 (10.00 %) XML 6 3 (7.500 %) ASP 6 3 (7.500 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 7 2 (5.000 %) WCF 7 2 (5.000 %) WebServices 7 2 (5.000 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 1 (2.500 %) .NET Framework 8 1 (2.500 %) Silverlight 8 1 (2.500 %) LINQ 8 1 (2.500 %) ArcObjects 8 1 (2.500 %) ADO.NET 8 1 (2.500 %) XSLT 8 1 (2.500 %) XHTML 8 1 (2.500 %) RSS	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.500 %) IIS 1 1 (2.500 %) BizTalk Server 1 1 (2.500 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 1 (2.500 %) Photoshop 1 1 (2.500 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.500 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2 7 (17.50 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (5.000 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (2.500 %) GIS 4 1 (2.500 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (2.500 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (2.500 %) MS Access 4 1 (2.500 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 3 (7.500 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (2.500 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (2.500 %) Flash 2 1 (2.500 %) NUnit
General 1 3 (7.500 %) Back Office 2 1 (2.500 %) Telecoms 2 1 (2.500 %) Finance 2 1 (2.500 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (2.500 %) Retail 2 1 (2.500 %) Marketing	Miscellaneous 1 3 (7.500 %) NHS 2 2 (5.000 %) Freedom of Information 3 1 (2.500 %) Data Protection Act 3 1 (2.500 %) Social Network 3 1 (2.500 %) Firmware 3 1 (2.500 %) Device Driver
Operating Systems 1 3 (7.500 %) Windows 2 1 (2.500 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (12.50 %) Requirements Analysis 2 4 (10.00 %) Web Development 2 4 (10.00 %) OO 3 3 (7.500 %) E-Commerce 4 2 (5.000 %) RAD 4 2 (5.000 %) UML 4 2 (5.000 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (2.500 %) Validation 5 1 (2.500 %) Migration 5 1 (2.500 %) Scrum 5 1 (2.500 %) Data Protection 5 1 (2.500 %) Financial Modelling
Programming Languages 1 40 (100.00 %) C# 2 6 (15.00 %) SQL 3 5 (12.50 %) JavaScript 4 4 (10.00 %) VB.NET 5 2 (5.000 %) C++ 6 1 (2.500 %) VC++ 6 1 (2.500 %) VB6 6 1 (2.500 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (2.500 %) VBScript 6 1 (2.500 %) VB	Qualifications 1 2 (5.000 %) Degree
System Software 1 2 (5.000 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 2 (5.000 %) Oracle 2 1 (2.500 %) Microsoft