The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# over the 3 months to 17 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 Milton Keynes 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 20 31 26
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -5
Contract jobs citing C# 37 33 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 7.212% 4.539% 5.528%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.41% 17.74% 18.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 18 18
Average daily rate £350 £300 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -1.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £263 £207
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £355 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £38.50 - £14.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+20.96% -11.42%
All Programming Languages
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
135 186 174
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 26.32% 25.58% 29.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 93 79
Average daily rate £325 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £200 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £395 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 8
Average hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.71% -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £35.00 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.50 £38.70 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C#
Buckinghamshire

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 64 (85.33%) .NET
2 51 (68.00%) MVC
3 40 (53.33%) ASP.NET
4 30 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 30 (40.00%) WCF
4 30 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 29 (38.67%) Agile Software Development
6 23 (30.67%) JavaScript
7 19 (25.33%) NHibernate
8 16 (21.33%) SQL
9 14 (18.67%) OO
9 14 (18.67%) .NET Framework
9 14 (18.67%) SQL Server 2008
10 13 (17.33%) Unit Testing
10 13 (17.33%) CSS
11 12 (16.00%) HTML
11 12 (16.00%) Web Services
11 12 (16.00%) XML
11 12 (16.00%) jQuery
11 12 (16.00%) Scrum
12 11 (14.67%) Web Development
12 11 (14.67%) SQL Server 2005
12 11 (14.67%) Finance
12 11 (14.67%) KnockoutJS
13 10 (13.33%) TDD
13 10 (13.33%) Team Foundation Server
14 9 (12.00%) WPF
14 9 (12.00%) NUnit
14 9 (12.00%) Web Application Development
15 8 (10.67%) Continuous Integration

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 64 (85.33%) .NET
2 40 (53.33%) ASP.NET
3 30 (40.00%) WCF
3 30 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 19 (25.33%) NHibernate
5 14 (18.67%) .NET Framework
6 13 (17.33%) CSS
7 12 (16.00%) HTML
7 12 (16.00%) Web Services
7 12 (16.00%) XML
7 12 (16.00%) jQuery
8 11 (14.67%) KnockoutJS
9 9 (12.00%) WPF
10 7 (9.333%) SOAP
10 7 (9.333%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 7 (9.333%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 6 (8.000%) REST
11 6 (8.000%) WSDL
11 6 (8.000%) Middleware
12 5 (6.667%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 7 (9.333%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (8.000%) Oracle Service Bus
3 5 (6.667%) CMS
3 5 (6.667%) Oracle Workflow
3 5 (6.667%) Umbraco
4 2 (2.667%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.333%) Kentico
Applications
1 1 (1.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.333%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 14 (18.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (14.67%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (8.000%) Oracle 11g
5 5 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (1.333%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (1.333%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 10 (13.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 9 (12.00%) NUnit
3 7 (9.333%) Mercurial
3 7 (9.333%) Moq
3 7 (9.333%) FogBugz
4 5 (6.667%) Ant
4 5 (6.667%) Eclipse
4 5 (6.667%) JDeveloper
5 2 (2.667%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.333%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (1.333%) NMock
6 1 (1.333%) Subversion
6 1 (1.333%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 11 (14.67%) Finance
2 2 (2.667%) Banking
3 1 (1.333%) Marketing
3 1 (1.333%) Automotive
3 1 (1.333%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 71 (94.67%) Developer
2 44 (58.67%) .NET Developer
3 23 (30.67%) C# Developer
4 14 (18.67%) Web Developer
5 11 (14.67%) C# .NET Developer
6 10 (13.33%) ASP.NET Developer
7 8 (10.67%) Programmer
8 6 (8.000%) Oracle Developer
8 6 (8.000%) Agile C# Developer
8 6 (8.000%) C# Programmer
8 6 (8.000%) C# Web Developer
9 5 (6.667%) Oracle SOA Developer
9 5 (6.667%) SOA Developer
9 5 (6.667%) Lead Developer
9 5 (6.667%) Agile .NET Developer
10 4 (5.333%) .NET Web Developer
10 4 (5.333%) Senior Developer
10 4 (5.333%) WPF Developer
11 3 (4.000%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 3 (4.000%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.333%) N-Tier
2 6 (8.000%) EPoS
3 5 (6.667%) Web 2.0
4 3 (4.000%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.667%) SaaS
5 2 (2.667%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.333%) Statistics
6 1 (1.333%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.333%) Windows
2 2 (2.667%) MVS
3 1 (1.333%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (68.00%) MVC
2 29 (38.67%) Agile Software Development
3 14 (18.67%) OO
4 13 (17.33%) Unit Testing
5 12 (16.00%) Scrum
6 11 (14.67%) Web Development
7 10 (13.33%) TDD
8 9 (12.00%) Web Application Development
9 8 (10.67%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (10.67%) UML
9 8 (10.67%) SOA
10 6 (8.000%) BPEL
10 6 (8.000%) Workflow
11 5 (6.667%) Enterprise Architecture
12 4 (5.333%) Systems Analysis
13 3 (4.000%) Business Analysis
13 3 (4.000%) PRINCE2
13 3 (4.000%) Requirements Engineering
14 1 (1.333%) Stakeholder Management
14 1 (1.333%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 23 (30.67%) JavaScript
2 16 (21.33%) SQL
3 5 (6.667%) XQuery
3 5 (6.667%) XPath
4 3 (4.000%) VB.NET
4 3 (4.000%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.333%) VB
5 1 (1.333%) XAML
5 1 (1.333%) VB6
5 1 (1.333%) C++
5 1 (1.333%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (5.333%) SC Cleared
1 4 (5.333%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.000%) DV Cleared
2 3 (4.000%) ISEB
2 3 (4.000%) GSAE
3 2 (2.667%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.667%) MCP
3 2 (2.667%) MCAD
4 1 (1.333%) MCSD
4 1 (1.333%) MCITP
4 1 (1.333%) MCPD
4 1 (1.333%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (9.333%) Oracle
2 6 (8.000%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.333%) Ektron
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