The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Peterborough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# over the 3 months to 22 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 Peterborough 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 12 7 6
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -1
Contract jobs citing C# 5 13 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 5.319% 14.44% 20.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.00% 54.17% 57.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 11
Average daily rate £350 £288 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.73% -17.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
All Programming Languages
Peterborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
25 24 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 26.60% 26.67% 35.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 19
Average daily rate £325 £313 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -13.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £275 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £32.00 £30.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.91% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
C#
Cambridgeshire

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 19 (73.08%) .NET
2 12 (46.15%) WCF
3 11 (42.31%) ASP.NET
4 10 (38.46%) WPF
5 8 (30.77%) VB6
5 8 (30.77%) Finance
5 8 (30.77%) Oracle
5 8 (30.77%) VB
5 8 (30.77%) DHTML
5 8 (30.77%) NHibernate
6 7 (26.92%) SQL
7 6 (23.08%) COM+
7 6 (23.08%) ASP
7 6 (23.08%) LINQ
8 5 (19.23%) Investment Management
8 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
8 5 (19.23%) SQL Server
9 4 (15.38%) C
9 4 (15.38%) T-SQL
9 4 (15.38%) Java
9 4 (15.38%) PL/SQL
9 4 (15.38%) Oracle OWB
9 4 (15.38%) Hibernate
9 4 (15.38%) MVC
9 4 (15.38%) Risk Management
9 4 (15.38%) Oracle BI EE
9 4 (15.38%) Spring
9 4 (15.38%) Apache Flex
9 4 (15.38%) GWT
9 4 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 19 (73.08%) .NET
2 12 (46.15%) WCF
3 11 (42.31%) ASP.NET
4 10 (38.46%) WPF
5 8 (30.77%) DHTML
5 8 (30.77%) NHibernate
6 6 (23.08%) COM+
6 6 (23.08%) ASP
6 6 (23.08%) LINQ
7 4 (15.38%) Hibernate
7 4 (15.38%) Spring
7 4 (15.38%) Apache Flex
7 4 (15.38%) GWT
8 2 (7.692%) CSS
8 2 (7.692%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.692%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) SQL Server
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle OWB
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
1 3 (11.54%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (11.54%) Subversion
General
1 8 (30.77%) Finance
2 2 (7.692%) Banking
3 1 (3.846%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 18 (69.23%) Developer
2 13 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 9 (34.62%) C# Developer
4 7 (26.92%) C# .NET Developer
4 7 (26.92%) ASP.NET Developer
5 5 (19.23%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 4 (15.38%) Development Manager
7 3 (11.54%) WPF Developer
8 2 (7.692%) Analyst Developer
8 2 (7.692%) Analyst
8 2 (7.692%) Applications Developer
9 1 (3.846%) Software Development Manager
9 1 (3.846%) IT Development Manager
9 1 (3.846%) Software Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (19.23%) Investment Management
2 4 (15.38%) MVC
2 4 (15.38%) Risk Management
2 4 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (11.54%) Waterfall
3 3 (11.54%) Scrum
4 2 (7.692%) OO
5 1 (3.846%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (3.846%) Asset Management
5 1 (3.846%) Migration
5 1 (3.846%) MVVM
5 1 (3.846%) Data Migration
5 1 (3.846%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) VB6
1 8 (30.77%) VB
2 7 (26.92%) SQL
3 4 (15.38%) C
3 4 (15.38%) T-SQL
3 4 (15.38%) Java
3 4 (15.38%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Oracle
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
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