The first 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 21 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 Job Titles advertised for the South East 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C# Developer
Rank 83 80 77
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -3
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 154 207 220
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 1.944% 2.038% 2.144%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.099% 2.204% 2.314%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 111 114
Average daily rate £350 £340 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% +4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £401 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
Average hourly rate £38.50 £40.00 £35.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.75% +12.67%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+20.68% -10.76%
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7336 9394 9506
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.60% 92.47% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3629 4201 4116
Average daily rate £350 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £220 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 724 798
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.38 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
C# Developer
England

C# Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total 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 Jobs Demand Trend

C# Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This 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

This 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 21 May 2013.

South East C# Developer Daily Rate Histogram

C# Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This 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
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 21 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
Hampshire +6 44 £313 +8.69%
Surrey -2 36 £350 +2.94%
Berkshire -1 26 £350 +0.71%
Buckinghamshire +11 22 £325 +8.33%
Oxfordshire -5 13 £350 +19.14%
Kent -3 6 £375 +19.04%
East Sussex 0 5 £375 +70.45%
Middlesex +3 1 £360 -
West Sussex -11 1 £335 -4.28%
Home Counties - 1 £400 -
C# Developer
England

C# Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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.

1 300 (100.00%) C#
2 266 (88.67%) .NET
3 168 (56.00%) SQL Server
4 126 (42.00%) ASP.NET
5 114 (38.00%) SQL
6 98 (32.67%) MVC
7 89 (29.67%) WCF
8 80 (26.67%) Scrum
9 77 (25.67%) Agile Software Development
10 75 (25.00%) .NET Framework
11 73 (24.33%) TDD
11 73 (24.33%) ASP.NET MVC
12 71 (23.67%) JavaScript
13 69 (23.00%) jQuery
14 63 (21.00%) CSS
15 58 (19.33%) HTML
15 58 (19.33%) Windows
16 57 (19.00%) SQL Server 2008
17 50 (16.67%) Microsoft
18 46 (15.33%) XML
19 41 (13.67%) Visual Studio
19 41 (13.67%) OO
20 40 (13.33%) LINQ
21 37 (12.33%) SOA
21 37 (12.33%) Web Services
22 35 (11.67%) Oracle
22 35 (11.67%) SQL Server 2005
22 35 (11.67%) BDD
23 33 (11.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
24 30 (10.00%) Continuous Integration

C# Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 266 (88.67%) .NET
2 126 (42.00%) ASP.NET
3 89 (29.67%) WCF
4 75 (25.00%) .NET Framework
5 73 (24.33%) ASP.NET MVC
6 69 (23.00%) jQuery
7 63 (21.00%) CSS
8 58 (19.33%) HTML
9 46 (15.33%) XML
10 40 (13.33%) LINQ
11 37 (12.33%) Web Services
12 33 (11.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 29 (9.667%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 28 (9.333%) WPF
15 27 (9.000%) NHibernate
15 27 (9.000%) Ajax
16 15 (5.000%) ASP.NET MVC 4
17 13 (4.333%) WinForms
18 12 (4.000%) WF
18 12 (4.000%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 22 (7.333%) Windows Azure
2 19 (6.333%) BizTalk Server
3 13 (4.333%) SharePoint
4 9 (3.000%) CMS
5 8 (2.667%) ESB
6 6 (2.000%) IIS
6 6 (2.000%) Umbraco
7 5 (1.667%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (1.000%) Amazon AWS
8 3 (1.000%) WebLogic
8 3 (1.000%) MSMQ
8 3 (1.000%) SharePoint 2013
8 3 (1.000%) SharePoint 2010
9 2 (0.667%) ActiveMQ
10 1 (0.333%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.333%) Lotus Domino
10 1 (0.333%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.333%) Kentico
10 1 (0.333%) EPiServer CMS
10 1 (0.333%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (3.333%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.000%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.667%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.333%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.333%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.667%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.000%) HTTP
3 2 (0.667%) FTP
3 2 (0.667%) Internet
4 1 (0.333%) BSS
4 1 (0.333%) Firewall
4 1 (0.333%) 2G
4 1 (0.333%) 3G
4 1 (0.333%) TELNET
4 1 (0.333%) GSM
4 1 (0.333%) UMTS
4 1 (0.333%) DNS
4 1 (0.333%) SSL
4 1 (0.333%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (56.00%) SQL Server
2 57 (19.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 35 (11.67%) SQL Server 2005
4 13 (4.333%) MySQL
5 12 (4.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (3.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (2.667%) SQL Server 2000
8 7 (2.333%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.000%) SQL Server 2012
10 5 (1.667%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (1.333%) OLAP
12 3 (1.000%) Oracle 10g
13 2 (0.667%) MS Access
13 2 (0.667%) Ingres
13 2 (0.667%) Crystal Reports
13 2 (0.667%) EDRMS
14 1 (0.333%) Data Mart
14 1 (0.333%) SQLite
14 1 (0.333%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.333%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
Development Applications
1 41 (13.67%) Visual Studio
2 26 (8.667%) Team Foundation Server
3 22 (7.333%) Subversion
4 19 (6.333%) SpecFlow
5 16 (5.333%) ReSharper
6 15 (5.000%) NUnit
7 14 (4.667%) Git (software)
8 12 (4.000%) Selenium
8 12 (4.000%) Moq
9 8 (2.667%) Mercurial
10 7 (2.333%) TeamCity
11 6 (2.000%) FogBugz
12 5 (1.667%) MSI
13 4 (1.333%) Jenkins
13 4 (1.333%) MSBuild
14 3 (1.000%) Expression Blend
14 3 (1.000%) NetAdvantage
14 3 (1.000%) VSS/SourceSafe
14 3 (1.000%) MSTest
15 2 (0.667%) JIRA
General
1 28 (9.333%) Finance
2 17 (5.667%) Telecoms
3 10 (3.333%) Banking
4 8 (2.667%) Retail
5 3 (1.000%) Marketing
6 2 (0.667%) Electronics
6 2 (0.667%) Aerospace
6 2 (0.667%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.333%) Billing
7 1 (0.333%) Military
7 1 (0.333%) Automotive
7 1 (0.333%) Games
7 1 (0.333%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.333%) N-Tier
2 9 (3.000%) Inversion of Control
3 8 (2.667%) SaaS
3 8 (2.667%) EPoS
3 8 (2.667%) Mathematics
3 8 (2.667%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (2.000%) PaaS
4 6 (2.000%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.333%) Open Source
5 4 (1.333%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.000%) Web 2.0
6 3 (1.000%) NHS
6 3 (1.000%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.667%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.667%) DTV
7 2 (0.667%) PKI
8 1 (0.333%) iPhone
8 1 (0.333%) Applied Mathematics
8 1 (0.333%) Computer Science
8 1 (0.333%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 58 (19.33%) Windows
2 3 (1.000%) Android
2 3 (1.000%) UNIX
3 2 (0.667%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.667%) Windows Phone
3 2 (0.667%) Windows 8
4 1 (0.333%) Windows Mobile
4 1 (0.333%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.333%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.333%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.333%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (32.67%) MVC
2 80 (26.67%) Scrum
3 77 (25.67%) Agile Software Development
4 73 (24.33%) TDD
5 41 (13.67%) OO
6 37 (12.33%) SOA
7 35 (11.67%) BDD
8 30 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
9 23 (7.667%) Unit Testing
9 23 (7.667%) Multithreading
10 21 (7.000%) Web Development
11 17 (5.667%) Kanban
12 15 (5.000%) Workflow
12 15 (5.000%) Dependency Injection
13 14 (4.667%) UML
14 12 (4.000%) MVVM
15 11 (3.667%) OOP
16 10 (3.333%) E-Commerce
17 8 (2.667%) Web Application Development
17 8 (2.667%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 300 (100.00%) C#
2 114 (38.00%) SQL
3 71 (23.67%) JavaScript
4 27 (9.000%) T-SQL
5 16 (5.333%) VB.NET
5 16 (5.333%) C++
5 16 (5.333%) PL/SQL
6 11 (3.667%) Java
7 9 (3.000%) Python
8 4 (1.333%) C
9 3 (1.000%) XAML
9 3 (1.000%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.667%) Delphi
10 2 (0.667%) VBA
11 1 (0.333%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.333%) F#
11 1 (0.333%) VB
11 1 (0.333%) Perl
11 1 (0.333%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (5.667%) Security Cleared
2 13 (4.333%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.000%) Degree
4 2 (0.667%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.333%) MCPD
5 1 (0.333%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.333%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.333%) SLA
2 1 (0.333%) QA
2 1 (0.333%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 2 (0.667%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.333%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.333%) SCOM
Vendors
1 50 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.67%) Oracle
3 5 (1.667%) Sitecore
4 3 (1.000%) Dundas
4 3 (1.000%) Infragistics
4 3 (1.000%) Business Objects
4 3 (1.000%) IBM
4 3 (1.000%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (0.667%) Xamarin
5 2 (0.667%) SAP
5 2 (0.667%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.333%) Telerik
6 1 (0.333%) Aquila
6 1 (0.333%) Wincor Nixdorf
6 1 (0.333%) Ektron
6 1 (0.333%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.333%) VMware
6 1 (0.333%) Apple
6 1 (0.333%) Nortel
6 1 (0.333%) Ericsson
Berkshire, Thames Valley
An industry giant based in Berkshire are looking for a strong C# Desktop Developer to join them on a contract basis.
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Marlow, Buckinghamshire
C#/ASP.Net/MVC/Razor/JS/WCF... Working alongside a team of six, you will be involved in developing a bespoke web based application underpinned by .Net4, MVC4,...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £250 to £300 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Maidenhead, Berkshire
C#/ASP.Net/MVC/Razor/JS/WCF... Working alongside a team of six, you will be involved in developing a bespoke web based application underpinned by .Net4, MVC4,...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £250 to £300 per day
Posted: 19 May 2013
Marlow, South East
C#/ASP-Net/MVC/Razor/JS/WCF-Opus Recruitment Solutions require two experienced developers with strong web and -net skills for an immediate contract based in Marlow-Working...
OPUS
Rate: GBP250 to GBP300 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Slough, Thames Valley
ASP .Net Web Developer, Front End Specialist (HTML 5 / CSS v3.0 / JQuery ASP .Net, C# .Net and MVC) Our client is looking for an experienced Front End...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Buckinghamshire, Thames Valley
C# / .Net / Web Developer / Webforms / HTML / CSS / JavaScript / Short Term Contract / Immediate Start / £200-220 per day / Buckinghamshire Capita are urgently recruiting for an experienced Web Developer, to...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £200 - £220 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Buckinghamshire
C# / .Net / Web Developer / Webforms / HTML / CSS / JavaScript / Short Term Contract / Immediate Start / £200-220 per day / Buckinghamshire Capita are urgently recruiting for an experienced Web Developer, to...
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Salary: £200 - £220 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Surrey
C#.Net & Oracle PL/SQL Developer required. Our client is looking for a C#.Net & Oracle PL/SQL Developer to start immediately. You must have the following essential...
Proactive Appointments
Rate: Unspecified Market Rate
Posted: 17 May 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Key skills: Software Developer, OOP, .Net, C#, full software development lifecycle, T-SQL, SQL Server, source control, SOA Our client's impressive offices are commutable daily from the...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Portsmouth, South East
We cannot say enough good things about this firm and are confident anyone that attends an interview will come away extremely impressed by the set-up, culture, environment...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
KEY SKILLS - ASP MVC - Very strong - SQL Server - Entity Framework - Very strong - Auto mapper - Design patterns & practises - Agile (Scrum, Kanban) - Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)/Test Driven Developement(TDD) -...
Real Staffing
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
Leading global software company based in Southampton, Hampshire requires a C# Software to join its growing development team... Due to the nature of these roles you will be...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Rate: £22000 - £25000 per annum + 25 days holiday, healthcare
Posted: 16 May 2013
Hastings, East Sussex
T he ideal C# Developer will possess the following essential skills and experience: Substantial and proven experience in the development and application of C# / ASP.NET based solutions...
Dryad Maritime
Rate: Starting at £35,000 depending on skills and experience
Posted: 17 May 2013
Guildford, Surrey
Tags - HTML, .NET, MVC, LINQ, TDD/BDD, Mocking, Moq, Ioc Framework, OO, GoF, Design, Application, Architecture, Enterprise, NHibernate, Caliburn.Micro, TeamCity, Nant, resharper, Javascript, Jquery, HTML5, CSS3, Backbone...
Roc Search
Posted: 15 May 2013
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Ideally, you will have extensive skills in the following technologies / agile methodologies: * C# with ASP.Net MVC * SOLID coding principles * Strong skills in SQL * Agile development using Scrum...
People Source Consulting
Rate: £380 - £425 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013