The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the North Yorkshire 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 North Yorkshire 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 11 11 8
Rank change year-on-year
0 -3
Contract jobs citing C# 14 16 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 9.272% 9.143% 12.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.50% 33.33% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 17
Average daily rate £313 £300 £238
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% +26.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £259 £181
10% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £338 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
All Programming Languages
North Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
80 48 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 52.98% 27.43% 37.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 31 36
Average daily rate £350 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £245 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £356 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
Average hourly rate £42.00 - £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C#
Yorkshire

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Yorkshire 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 North Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire 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 North Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
York +3 12 £318 +22.11%
Harrogate - 5 - -
C#
Yorkshire

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 24 (80.00%) .NET
2 20 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 17 (56.67%) MVC
3 17 (56.67%) SQL
4 12 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 12 (40.00%) Visual Studio
4 12 (40.00%) jQuery
4 12 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
5 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
6 10 (33.33%) TDD
6 10 (33.33%) Ajax
6 10 (33.33%) .NET Framework
7 9 (30.00%) WCF
7 9 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
7 9 (30.00%) CSS
8 8 (26.67%) Web Services
8 8 (26.67%) HTML
8 8 (26.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 7 (23.33%) LINQ
9 7 (23.33%) T-SQL
9 7 (23.33%) XML
9 7 (23.33%) OO
9 7 (23.33%) Web Development
10 6 (20.00%) XSLT
10 6 (20.00%) HTML5
10 6 (20.00%) CSS3
10 6 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
11 5 (16.67%) WPF
11 5 (16.67%) Degree

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 24 (80.00%) .NET
2 20 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 12 (40.00%) jQuery
3 12 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 10 (33.33%) Ajax
4 10 (33.33%) .NET Framework
5 9 (30.00%) WCF
5 9 (30.00%) CSS
6 8 (26.67%) Web Services
6 8 (26.67%) HTML
6 8 (26.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 7 (23.33%) LINQ
7 7 (23.33%) XML
8 6 (20.00%) XSLT
8 6 (20.00%) HTML5
8 6 (20.00%) CSS3
8 6 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
9 5 (16.67%) WPF
9 5 (16.67%) JSON
10 4 (13.33%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.667%) SharePoint
1 2 (6.667%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (3.333%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (6.667%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (6.667%) Sage 1000
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (3.333%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
5 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 12 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 5 (16.67%) Subversion
3 4 (13.33%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (6.667%) Selenium
4 2 (6.667%) JIRA
4 2 (6.667%) WebDriver
5 1 (3.333%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (6.667%) Back Office
2 1 (3.333%) Retail
2 1 (3.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (96.67%) Developer
2 19 (63.33%) .NET Developer
3 7 (23.33%) ASP.NET Developer
4 4 (13.33%) C# Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Web Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (6.667%) WinForms Developer
6 2 (6.667%) Programmer
6 2 (6.667%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (6.667%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.667%) C# Programmer
6 2 (6.667%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (3.333%) ASP.NET Programmer
7 1 (3.333%) CRM Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Dynamics CRM Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Software Programmer
7 1 (3.333%) SQL Programmer
7 1 (3.333%) SQL Developer
7 1 (3.333%) .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) W3C
2 3 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (6.667%) Visualisation
4 1 (3.333%) Open Source
4 1 (3.333%) Social Media
4 1 (3.333%) N-Tier
4 1 (3.333%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) MVC
2 10 (33.33%) TDD
3 9 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (23.33%) OO
4 7 (23.33%) Web Development
5 5 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
5 5 (16.67%) OOP
5 5 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 5 (16.67%) E-Commerce
6 3 (10.00%) CRM
6 3 (10.00%) Scrum
7 2 (6.667%) Data Analysis
7 2 (6.667%) Software Engineering
7 2 (6.667%) Content Management
7 2 (6.667%) User Stories
7 2 (6.667%) Multithreading
7 2 (6.667%) BDD
7 2 (6.667%) Test Automation
8 1 (3.333%) Mobile Commerce
8 1 (3.333%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) SQL
2 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
3 7 (23.33%) T-SQL
4 3 (10.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.333%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Sage
3 2 (6.667%) EPiServer
4 1 (3.333%) Omniture