Newcastle C# Contracts

This section looks at the demand for C# skills within the Newcastle region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited C# over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Avon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kenilworth Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Ringwood Rochester Rotherham Sale Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	24
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	29	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	34.94 %	9.709 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£338	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£375	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£336
% change on same period last year	+0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.88	-
Average hourly rate	£39.81	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£44.75	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.98	£34.44
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Programming Languages Newcastle
Matching contract IT job ads	83	103
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.109 %	0.108 %
Daily rates quoted	7	15
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£288
Average daily rate	£344	£323
% change on same period last year	+6.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£333
% change on same period last year	+1.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.53	£36.67
Average hourly rate	£37.25	£41.23
% change on same period last year	-9.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.97	£45.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.21	£33.14
% change on same period last year	+0.18 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C# across the Newcastle region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing C# across the Newcastle region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# across the Newcastle region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle 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 46 (95.83 %) .NET 2 30 (62.50 %) ASP.NET 3 20 (41.67 %) SQL Server 4 19 (39.58 %) SQL 5 14 (29.17 %) XML 6 13 (27.08 %) Windows 6 13 (27.08 %) Visual Studio 7 11 (22.92 %) SQL Server 2005 8 10 (20.83 %) HTML 9 8 (16.67 %) VB.NET 10 6 (12.50 %) XHTML 10 6 (12.50 %) MS Excel 11 5 (10.42 %) SharePoint 11 5 (10.42 %) Microsoft 11 5 (10.42 %) ASP.NET 2.0

11 5 (10.42 %) SharePoint Server 2007 12 4 (8.333 %) .NET Framework 13 3 (6.250 %) Games 13 3 (6.250 %) C++ 13 3 (6.250 %) Transact-SQL 13 3 (6.250 %) ASP 13 3 (6.250 %) Blog 14 2 (4.167 %) Time Management 14 2 (4.167 %) AquaLogic 14 2 (4.167 %) Web 2.0 14 2 (4.167 %) IIS 14 2 (4.167 %) PL/SQL 14 2 (4.167 %) C 14 2 (4.167 %) BEA 14 2 (4.167 %) BizTalk Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle 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 46 (95.83 %) .NET 2 30 (62.50 %) ASP.NET 3 14 (29.17 %) XML 4 10 (20.83 %) HTML 5 6 (12.50 %) XHTML 6 5 (10.42 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 4 (8.333 %) .NET Framework 8 3 (6.250 %) ASP 9 2 (4.167 %) AJAX 9 2 (4.167 %) WebServices 10 1 (2.083 %) WinForms 10 1 (2.083 %) COM+ 10 1 (2.083 %) CSS 10 1 (2.083 %) .NET Remoting 10 1 (2.083 %) WCF 10 1 (2.083 %) Silverlight	Application Platforms 1 5 (10.42 %) SharePoint 1 5 (10.42 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 2 (4.167 %) IIS 2 2 (4.167 %) BizTalk Server 2 2 (4.167 %) WebLogic Portal
Applications 1 6 (12.50 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.083 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.083 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (2.083 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 20 (41.67 %) SQL Server 2 11 (22.92 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (4.167 %) Datawarehouse 3 2 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (2.083 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (2.083 %) MySQL 4 1 (2.083 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 1 (2.083 %) SQL Server Analysis Services	Development Applications 1 13 (27.08 %) Visual Studio
General 1 3 (6.250 %) Games 2 2 (4.167 %) Finance 3 1 (2.083 %) Automotive 3 1 (2.083 %) Health 3 1 (2.083 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (2.083 %) Animation	Job Titles 1 35 (72.92 %) Developer 2 26 (54.17 %) .NET Developer 3 22 (45.83 %) C# Developer 4 12 (25.00 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 10 (20.83 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 4 (8.333 %) Architect 7 3 (6.250 %) Web Developer 7 3 (6.250 %) SQL Developer 7 3 (6.250 %) C# Web Developer 8 2 (4.167 %) Web Manager 8 2 (4.167 %) Web Project Manager 8 2 (4.167 %) C Developer 8 2 (4.167 %) .NET Web Developer 8 2 (4.167 %) ASP Developer 8 2 (4.167 %) VB.NET Developer 8 2 (4.167 %) C++ Developer 8 2 (4.167 %) Project Manager 9 1 (2.083 %) Software Engineer 9 1 (2.083 %) Technical Architect 9 1 (2.083 %) VB Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (6.250 %) Blog 2 2 (4.167 %) Web 2.0 3 1 (2.083 %) N-Tier 3 1 (2.083 %) PDA 3 1 (2.083 %) Spread Betting 3 1 (2.083 %) Physics	Operating Systems 1 13 (27.08 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (4.167 %) Time Management 1 2 (4.167 %) OO 1 2 (4.167 %) Agile Software Development 1 2 (4.167 %) Migration 1 2 (4.167 %) Project Management 2 1 (2.083 %) Software Engineering 2 1 (2.083 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (2.083 %) OOD 2 1 (2.083 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 19 (39.58 %) SQL 2 8 (16.67 %) VB.NET 3 3 (6.250 %) C++ 3 3 (6.250 %) Transact-SQL 4 2 (4.167 %) PL/SQL 4 2 (4.167 %) C 5 1 (2.083 %) VB6 5 1 (2.083 %) JavaScript 5 1 (2.083 %) RPG 5 1 (2.083 %) VB
System Software 1 2 (4.167 %) AquaLogic 1 2 (4.167 %) MSMQ	Vendors 1 5 (10.42 %) Microsoft 2 2 (4.167 %) BEA