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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 South East 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 19 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 South East region.

 C# Developer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank8910540
Rank change year-on-year
Up+16Down-65
Matching contract IT job ads11786477
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East1.569 %1.150 %3.176 %
As % of the Job Titles category1.730 %1.264 %3.448 %
Daily rates quoted5541127
Average daily rate£293£275£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.360 %-15.38 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£240£212£240
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£401£345£400
UK excluding London average daily rate£275£265£300
% change year-on-year
+3.770 %-11.66 %
Hourly rates quoted7349
Average hourly rate£42.50£50.00£40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.00 %+25.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£22.60£42.00£30.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£43.00£50.00£46.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£31.50£35.00
% change year-on-year
-9.520 %-10.00 %
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6762680213836
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East90.66 %90.94 %92.11 %
Daily rates quoted235116903103
Average daily rate£350£340£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£215£210£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£500£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£350
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %-3.570 %
Hourly rates quoted6317171743
Average hourly rate£18.88£21.00£22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.11 %-6.660 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.46£10.00£10.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£42.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %-9.090 %
C# Developer EnglandC# Developer
England

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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East C# Developer Daily Rate Trend

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# Developer across the South East region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

South East C# Developer Daily Rate Histogram

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 South East region.

South East C# Developer Hourly Rate Trend

C# Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# Developer across the South East region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

South East C# Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

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 South East region over the 3 months to 19 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
SurreyDown-1432£311+27.04 %
BerkshireUp+1630£285-10.58 %
HampshireUp+514£380+31.03 %
BuckinghamshireUp+212£250-16.66 %
OxfordshireUp+211£250-16.66 %
KentUp+99£300+30.43 %
East SussexNo change04£225-
West SussexDown-94£310+15.34 %
MiddlesexNew entry-4--
Home CountiesNew entry-1--
C# Developer EnglandC# Developer
England

C# Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1228 (100.00 %)C#
2199 (87.28 %).NET
3122 (53.51 %)SQL Server
4116 (50.88 %)ASP.NET
566 (28.95 %)SQL
656 (24.56 %)Microsoft
749 (21.49 %)Web Services
848 (21.05 %)SQL Server 2005
947 (20.61 %)XML
1043 (18.86 %)Windows
1142 (18.42 %)WinForms
1240 (17.54 %)OO
1240 (17.54 %)HTML
1336 (15.79 %)WCF
1336 (15.79 %)WPF
1435 (15.35 %)JavaScript
1435 (15.35 %)CSS
1534 (14.91 %)Visual Studio
1534 (14.91 %)T-SQL
1632 (14.04 %)Agile Software Development
1729 (12.72 %)TDD
1828 (12.28 %).NET Framework
1927 (11.84 %)AJAX
2025 (10.96 %)Finance
2124 (10.53 %)UML
2223 (10.09 %)SQL Server 2008
2321 (9.211 %)XSLT
2321 (9.211 %)MS Excel
2419 (8.333 %)MVC
2518 (7.895 %)LINQ

C# Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

South East IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1199 (87.28 %).NET
2116 (50.88 %)ASP.NET
349 (21.49 %)Web Services
447 (20.61 %)XML
542 (18.42 %)WinForms
640 (17.54 %)HTML
736 (15.79 %)WCF
736 (15.79 %)WPF
835 (15.35 %)CSS
928 (12.28 %).NET Framework
1027 (11.84 %)AJAX
1121 (9.211 %)XSLT
1218 (7.895 %)LINQ
1314 (6.140 %)Silverlight
1413 (5.702 %)jQuery
1510 (4.386 %)ASP
169 (3.947 %)ASP.NET 2.0
178 (3.509 %)NHibernate
178 (3.509 %)WF
186 (2.632 %)Middleware
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
114 (6.140 %)SharePoint
26 (2.632 %)IIS
26 (2.632 %)MS Exchange
26 (2.632 %)Exchange Server 2007
35 (2.193 %)BizTalk Server
35 (2.193 %)CMS
44 (1.754 %)Sitecore CMS
44 (1.754 %)SharePoint Server 2007
53 (1.316 %)DotNetNuke
53 (1.316 %)Umbraco
53 (1.316 %)NetWeaver
62 (0.877 %)Exchange Server 2003
62 (0.877 %)EPiServer
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
121 (9.211 %)MS Excel
25 (2.193 %)MS Office
31 (0.439 %)Spreadsheet
31 (0.439 %)InfoPath
31 (0.439 %)MS Project
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12 (0.877 %)SAP PM
12 (0.877 %)Dynamics CRM
12 (0.877 %)SAP ERP
21 (0.439 %)AWD
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
17 (3.070 %)TCP/IP
22 (0.877 %)HTTP
22 (0.877 %)LDAP
22 (0.877 %)X.500
22 (0.877 %)Extranet
31 (0.439 %)Wireless
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1122 (53.51 %)SQL Server
248 (21.05 %)SQL Server 2005
323 (10.09 %)SQL Server 2008
49 (3.947 %)SQL Server Integration Services
56 (2.632 %)DTS
56 (2.632 %)SQL Server 2000
65 (2.193 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
65 (2.193 %)Oracle 10g
73 (1.316 %)Crystal Reports
82 (0.877 %)ETL
82 (0.877 %)Oracle 11g
91 (0.439 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
91 (0.439 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
91 (0.439 %)RDBMS
91 (0.439 %)Datawarehouse
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
134 (14.91 %)Visual Studio
214 (6.140 %)NUnit
311 (4.825 %)Team Foundation Server
45 (2.193 %)ClearCase
54 (1.754 %)VSS/SourceSafe
63 (1.316 %)Visual Studio Team System
63 (1.316 %)Subversion
72 (0.877 %)ProC
72 (0.877 %)QuickTest Pro
72 (0.877 %)TeamCity
81 (0.439 %)ReSharper
81 (0.439 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
81 (0.439 %)CruiseControl
81 (0.439 %)PVCS
81 (0.439 %)Ant
81 (0.439 %)MSTest
South East IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
125 (10.96 %)Finance
28 (3.509 %)Insurance
36 (2.632 %)Education
36 (2.632 %)Marketing
44 (1.754 %)Telecoms
53 (1.316 %)Publishing
62 (0.877 %)Banking
62 (0.877 %)Retail
71 (0.439 %)Retail Banking
71 (0.439 %)Pensions
71 (0.439 %)Financial Institution
71 (0.439 %)Back Office
71 (0.439 %)Games
71 (0.439 %)Automotive
71 (0.439 %)Health
71 (0.439 %)Law
71 (0.439 %)Manufacturing
71 (0.439 %)Military
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
18 (3.509 %)N-Tier
24 (1.754 %)Computer Science
33 (1.316 %)Multithreading
42 (0.877 %)Dependency Injection
42 (0.877 %)Client/Server
42 (0.877 %)Data Integration
42 (0.877 %)Social Network
51 (0.439 %)Mathematics
51 (0.439 %)Mashup
51 (0.439 %)Portuguese Language
51 (0.439 %)iSeries
51 (0.439 %)Cloud Computing
51 (0.439 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
51 (0.439 %)W3C
51 (0.439 %)Smartcard
51 (0.439 %)DTV
51 (0.439 %)SaaS
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
143 (18.86 %)Windows
26 (2.632 %)Windows Server 2003
35 (2.193 %)Windows Server 2008
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
140 (17.54 %)OO
232 (14.04 %)Agile Software Development
329 (12.72 %)TDD
424 (10.53 %)UML
519 (8.333 %)MVC
615 (6.579 %)Scrum
615 (6.579 %)OOD
711 (4.825 %)Web Development
87 (3.070 %)Workflow
96 (2.632 %)SOA
105 (2.193 %)Unit Testing
105 (2.193 %)Document Management
105 (2.193 %)Business Intelligence
105 (2.193 %)OOP
114 (1.754 %)E-Commerce
114 (1.754 %)CRM
114 (1.754 %)Software Engineering
114 (1.754 %)Requirements Analysis
123 (1.316 %)Continuous Integration
123 (1.316 %)Load Testing
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1228 (100.00 %)C#
266 (28.95 %)SQL
335 (15.35 %)JavaScript
434 (14.91 %)T-SQL
517 (7.456 %)C++
613 (5.702 %)VB.NET
711 (4.825 %)VB
89 (3.947 %)Java
97 (3.070 %)PL/SQL
97 (3.070 %)C
105 (2.193 %)VBScript
113 (1.316 %)VB6
113 (1.316 %)XAML
122 (0.877 %)VBA
122 (0.877 %)PowerShell
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
112 (5.263 %)Microsoft Certification
210 (4.386 %)Degree
38 (3.509 %)Security Cleared
46 (2.632 %)MCSD
55 (2.193 %)MCAD
64 (1.754 %)SC Cleared
71 (0.439 %)DV Cleared
71 (0.439 %)MCTS
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (0.439 %)QA
South East IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14 (1.754 %)Active Directory
23 (1.316 %)VMware Infrastructure
32 (0.877 %)VMware ESX
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (1.316 %)MIIS
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
156 (24.56 %)Microsoft
212 (5.263 %)Oracle
35 (2.193 %)Sitecore
43 (1.316 %)VMware
43 (1.316 %)SAP
52 (0.877 %)Perforce
52 (0.877 %)Thunderhead
61 (0.439 %)Infragistics