North West C# Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the C# Developer role in IT contracts within the North West region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited C# Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

C# Developer
Location Abingdon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Farnham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Huntingdon Isle of Man Kenilworth Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rotherham Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwickshire Wellingborough West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	55
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	119	89
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.157 %	0.093 %
As % of the category below	3.090 %	2.483 %
Daily rates quoted	8	9
Average minimum daily rate	£273	£320
Average daily rate	£289	£341
% change on same period last year	-15.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£306	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£320	£319
% change on same period last year	+0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.92	£28.20
Average hourly rate	£31.04	£29.80
% change on same period last year	+4.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.17	£31.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.07	£33.22
% change on same period last year	+2.53 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3851	3585
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.077 %	3.749 %
Daily rates quoted	934	732
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£320
Average daily rate	£355	£335
% change on same period last year	+6.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	439	348
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.83	£21.77
Average hourly rate	£22.70	£23.35
% change on same period last year	-2.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.56	£24.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.39	£25.89
% change on same period last year	-9.63 %
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 North West 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 North West region.

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# Developer across the North West region over the 3 months to 8 July 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 North West region.

C# Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

C# Developer
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing C# Developer within the North West region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	+9	68	£265	-37.40 %
Merseyside	+3	16	£330	-
Lancashire	+7	10	-	-
Cheshire	-28	10	-	-

C# Developer England

C# Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

1 233 (100.00 %) C# 2 224 (96.14 %) .NET 3 179 (76.82 %) ASP.NET 4 148 (63.52 %) SQL Server 5 79 (33.91 %) SQL Server 2005 6 58 (24.89 %) CSS 7 55 (23.61 %) HTML 7 55 (23.61 %) SQL 8 52 (22.32 %) XML 9 44 (18.88 %) JavaScript 10 35 (15.02 %) Finance 10 35 (15.02 %) AJAX 10 35 (15.02 %) WebServices 11 32 (13.73 %) VB.NET 12 29 (12.45 %) ASP.NET 2.0

13 27 (11.59 %) SQL Server 2000 13 27 (11.59 %) Windows 14 25 (10.73 %) Microsoft 15 24 (10.30 %) WinForms 16 22 (9.442 %) E-Commerce 16 22 (9.442 %) Visual Studio 17 21 (9.013 %) SharePoint 18 19 (8.155 %) XSLT 18 19 (8.155 %) .NET Framework 19 17 (7.296 %) OO 20 16 (6.867 %) UML 21 15 (6.438 %) Web Development 22 13 (5.579 %) XHTML 23 12 (5.150 %) Agile Software Development 24 11 (4.721 %) Retail

C# Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 1 224 (96.14 %) .NET 2 179 (76.82 %) ASP.NET 3 58 (24.89 %) CSS 4 55 (23.61 %) HTML 5 52 (22.32 %) XML 6 35 (15.02 %) AJAX 6 35 (15.02 %) WebServices 7 29 (12.45 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 24 (10.30 %) WinForms 9 19 (8.155 %) XSLT 9 19 (8.155 %) .NET Framework 10 13 (5.579 %) XHTML 11 10 (4.292 %) ASP 12 8 (3.433 %) ADO.NET 13 6 (2.575 %) WCF 14 4 (1.717 %) jQuery 14 4 (1.717 %) SOAP 15 3 (1.288 %) XSD 15 3 (1.288 %) XSL 15 3 (1.288 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library	Application Platforms 1 21 (9.013 %) SharePoint 2 6 (2.575 %) CMS 2 6 (2.575 %) BizTalk Server 2 6 (2.575 %) IIS 3 5 (2.146 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 4 (1.717 %) ArcIMS 5 2 (0.858 %) ArcGIS 6 1 (0.429 %) Content Management Server 6 1 (0.429 %) ESB
Applications 1 4 (1.717 %) MS Excel 2 2 (0.858 %) Photoshop 3 1 (0.429 %) MS Visio 3 1 (0.429 %) InfoPath 3 1 (0.429 %) Doxygen	Business Applications 1 1 (0.429 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 9 (3.863 %) Intranet 2 8 (3.433 %) Internet 3 2 (0.858 %) SSL 3 2 (0.858 %) Extranet 4 1 (0.429 %) GPRS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 148 (63.52 %) SQL Server 2 79 (33.91 %) SQL Server 2005 3 27 (11.59 %) SQL Server 2000 4 9 (3.863 %) SQL Server 7 5 7 (3.004 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 4 (1.717 %) Ingres 6 4 (1.717 %) Crystal Reports 7 2 (0.858 %) GIS 7 2 (0.858 %) Oracle 9i 7 2 (0.858 %) Oracle 10g 8 1 (0.429 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 22 (9.442 %) Visual Studio 2 8 (3.433 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 6 (2.575 %) NUnit 4 2 (0.858 %) InstallShield 4 2 (0.858 %) Flash 4 2 (0.858 %) Dreamweaver 5 1 (0.429 %) Oracle Forms 5 1 (0.429 %) Selenium	General 1 35 (15.02 %) Finance 2 11 (4.721 %) Retail 2 11 (4.721 %) Insurance 3 5 (2.146 %) Legal 3 5 (2.146 %) Banking 4 4 (1.717 %) Retail Banking 5 3 (1.288 %) Telecoms 6 2 (0.858 %) Marketing 6 2 (0.858 %) Multimedia 7 1 (0.429 %) Pharmaceutical 7 1 (0.429 %) Education 7 1 (0.429 %) Government 7 1 (0.429 %) Advertising
Miscellaneous 1 7 (3.004 %) N-Tier 2 5 (2.146 %) Spread Betting 3 4 (1.717 %) W3C 4 3 (1.288 %) Derivative 5 2 (0.858 %) PDA 5 2 (0.858 %) Multithreading 5 2 (0.858 %) Replication 6 1 (0.429 %) NHS 6 1 (0.429 %) Client/Server 6 1 (0.429 %) Asset Management	Operating Systems 1 27 (11.59 %) Windows 2 4 (1.717 %) Windows Mobile 3 2 (0.858 %) Windows CE 4 1 (0.429 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (9.442 %) E-Commerce 2 17 (7.296 %) OO 3 16 (6.867 %) UML 4 15 (6.438 %) Web Development 5 12 (5.150 %) Agile Software Development 6 10 (4.292 %) OOP 7 6 (2.575 %) Content Management 7 6 (2.575 %) Migration 8 5 (2.146 %) B2B 8 5 (2.146 %) Time Management 9 4 (1.717 %) Security Cleared 9 4 (1.717 %) Data Analysis 9 4 (1.717 %) Workflow 9 4 (1.717 %) OOD 9 4 (1.717 %) CRM 9 4 (1.717 %) SSADM 10 3 (1.288 %) OOA/OOD 10 3 (1.288 %) Web Design 11 2 (0.858 %) Statistical Analysis 11 2 (0.858 %) Business Analysis	Programming Languages 1 233 (100.00 %) C# 2 55 (23.61 %) SQL 3 44 (18.88 %) JavaScript 4 32 (13.73 %) VB.NET 5 11 (4.721 %) C++ 6 8 (3.433 %) Transact-SQL 6 8 (3.433 %) VB 7 7 (3.004 %) PL/SQL 8 4 (1.717 %) VB6 8 4 (1.717 %) VBScript 8 4 (1.717 %) DHTML 9 2 (0.858 %) Fortran 10 1 (0.429 %) VBA 10 1 (0.429 %) C 10 1 (0.429 %) Delphi 10 1 (0.429 %) XPath
Qualifications 1 2 (0.858 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (0.429 %) Degree	System Software 1 2 (0.858 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 25 (10.73 %) Microsoft 2 6 (2.575 %) Oracle 3 2 (0.858 %) Tridion 4 1 (0.429 %) Adobe 4 1 (0.429 %) ESRI 4 1 (0.429 %) Infragistics 4 1 (0.429 %) Google