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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the C# Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 16 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Scotland region.

 C# Developer
Location
3 months to
16 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank546769
Rank change year-on-year
Up+13Up+2
Matching contract IT job ads301335
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland1.543 %0.865 %1.239 %
As % of the Job Titles category1.640 %0.944 %1.314 %
Daily rates quoted1626
Average daily rate£320£268£313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.62 %-14.40 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£295£222£249
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£375£314£350
UK excluding London average daily rate£275£265£300
% change year-on-year
+3.770 %-11.66 %
Hourly rates quoted151
Average hourly rate£31.00£19.00£45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+63.15 %-57.77 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£31.75£35.00
% change year-on-year
-10.23 %-9.280 %
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
182913772664
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland94.08 %91.62 %94.30 %
Daily rates quoted606318587
Average daily rate£325£330£320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.510 %+3.120 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£200£210£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£450£500£488
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£340£350
% change year-on-year
-4.410 %-2.850 %
Hourly rates quoted74107223
Average hourly rate£15.00£18.00£15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66 %+20.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.00£8.93£9.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£32.00£40.50£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.60£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-12.00 %-9.090 %
C# Developer UKC# Developer
UK

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.

C# Developer
Demand Trend

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

Scotland C# Developer Demand Trend

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 Scotland region.

Scotland C# Developer Daily Rate Trend

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 Scotland region.

Scotland C# Developer Hourly Rate Trend

C# Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# Developer within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 16 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
GlasgowUp+921£320+52.38 %
EdinburghDown-118--
C# Developer UKC# Developer
UK

C# Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

144 (100.00 %)C#
242 (95.45 %).NET
319 (43.18 %)ASP.NET
415 (34.09 %)XML
511 (25.00 %)JavaScript
610 (22.73 %)SQL
610 (22.73 %)VB
610 (22.73 %)VB.NET
610 (22.73 %)CSS
610 (22.73 %)SQL Server
610 (22.73 %)VB6
79 (20.45 %).NET Framework
79 (20.45 %)Finance
88 (18.18 %)NHibernate
88 (18.18 %)Spring
97 (15.91 %)Agile Software Development
97 (15.91 %)Visual Studio
106 (13.64 %)SOAP
106 (13.64 %)HTML
106 (13.64 %)Spring.NET
106 (13.64 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
115 (11.36 %)SQL Server 2005
115 (11.36 %)MVC
115 (11.36 %)Web Services
115 (11.36 %)Oracle
124 (9.091 %)Java
124 (9.091 %)T-SQL
124 (9.091 %)Windows
124 (9.091 %)Microsoft
124 (9.091 %)Banking

C# Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
142 (95.45 %).NET
219 (43.18 %)ASP.NET
315 (34.09 %)XML
410 (22.73 %)CSS
59 (20.45 %).NET Framework
68 (18.18 %)NHibernate
68 (18.18 %)Spring
76 (13.64 %)SOAP
76 (13.64 %)HTML
76 (13.64 %)Spring.NET
85 (11.36 %)MVC
85 (11.36 %)Web Services
94 (9.091 %)OOXML
94 (9.091 %)ASP.NET MVC
94 (9.091 %)jQuery
94 (9.091 %)WPF
94 (9.091 %)WSE
103 (6.818 %)WCF
103 (6.818 %)LINQ
103 (6.818 %)XHTML
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11 (2.273 %)CMS
11 (2.273 %)SonicMQ
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
13 (6.818 %)MS Excel
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (2.273 %)Internet
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
110 (22.73 %)SQL Server
25 (11.36 %)SQL Server 2005
32 (4.545 %)SQL Server 2008
41 (2.273 %)MS Access
41 (2.273 %)Data Mining
41 (2.273 %)RDBMS
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
17 (15.91 %)Visual Studio
26 (13.64 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
33 (6.818 %)ReSharper
33 (6.818 %)NUnit
42 (4.545 %)CruiseControl
51 (2.273 %)Subversion
51 (2.273 %)Eclipse
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
19 (20.45 %)Finance
24 (9.091 %)Banking
33 (6.818 %)Pensions
33 (6.818 %)Home Office
41 (2.273 %)Investment Banking
41 (2.273 %)Government
41 (2.273 %)Retail
41 (2.273 %)Multimedia
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (4.545 %)Mainframe
12 (4.545 %)E-Learning
21 (2.273 %)RIA
21 (2.273 %)Computer Science
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
14 (9.091 %)Windows
21 (2.273 %)Windows Mobile
21 (2.273 %)Windows CE
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
17 (15.91 %)Agile Software Development
22 (4.545 %)OO
22 (4.545 %)TDD
22 (4.545 %)Scrum
22 (4.545 %)Extreme Programming
22 (4.545 %)Document Management
22 (4.545 %)User Acceptance Testing
22 (4.545 %)Investment Management
31 (2.273 %)Product Management
31 (2.273 %)Unit Testing
31 (2.273 %)Requirements Analysis
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
144 (100.00 %)C#
211 (25.00 %)JavaScript
310 (22.73 %)SQL
310 (22.73 %)VB
310 (22.73 %)VB.NET
310 (22.73 %)VB6
44 (9.091 %)Java
44 (9.091 %)T-SQL
52 (4.545 %)VBScript
52 (4.545 %)VBA
61 (2.273 %)XAML
61 (2.273 %)PL/SQL
61 (2.273 %)C
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
14 (9.091 %)Degree
22 (4.545 %)Microsoft Certification
31 (2.273 %)Security Cleared
31 (2.273 %)MCTS
31 (2.273 %)MCP
31 (2.273 %)MCAD
31 (2.273 %)MCSD
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15 (11.36 %)Oracle
24 (9.091 %)Microsoft
32 (4.545 %)IBM
32 (4.545 %)Infragistics
32 (4.545 %)telerik
41 (2.273 %)Sybase