The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Newbury region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# over the 3 months to 24 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 Newbury 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 14 12 11
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -1
Contract jobs citing C# 5 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newbury 4.386% 5.000% 3.810%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.25% 24.00% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
Average daily rate £225 £365 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-38.35% -18.88%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £56.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
All Programming Languages
Newbury
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
16 25 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newbury 14.04% 20.83% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 7
Average daily rate £375 £365 £333
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.73% +9.60%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £45.00 £56.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -20.35%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C#
Berkshire

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newbury 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 Newbury region.

Newbury C# Daily Rate Trend

C#
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C# across the Newbury region.

Newbury C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET
3 4 (66.67%) CSS
3 4 (66.67%) jQuery
4 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) TDD
4 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (50.00%) MVC
5 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
5 2 (33.33%) SOA
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (33.33%) Middleware
5 2 (33.33%) HTML
5 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (33.33%) Web Services
5 2 (33.33%) Banking
5 2 (33.33%) JIRA
5 2 (33.33%) WCF
5 2 (33.33%) HTML5
5 2 (33.33%) BDD
5 2 (33.33%) SpecFlow
5 2 (33.33%) Automation Testing
6 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 1 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (16.67%) LINQ
6 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET
3 4 (66.67%) CSS
3 4 (66.67%) jQuery
4 2 (33.33%) Middleware
4 2 (33.33%) HTML
4 2 (33.33%) Web Services
4 2 (33.33%) WCF
4 2 (33.33%) HTML5
5 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 1 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (16.67%) LINQ
5 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (16.67%) Ajax
5 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) SpecFlow
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) German Language
2 1 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Programmer
3 1 (16.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Programmer
3 1 (16.67%) CSS Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Programmer
3 1 (16.67%) CRM Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
3 1 (16.67%) HTML Developer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Programmer
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Programmer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Scrum
1 3 (50.00%) TDD
1 3 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) SOA
2 2 (33.33%) BDD
2 2 (33.33%) Automation Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) MCTS
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft