South West C# Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the C# Developer role in IT contracts within the South West region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited C# Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

C# Developer
Location Abingdon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Farnham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Huntingdon Isle of Man Kenilworth Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rotherham Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stowmarket Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwickshire Wellingborough West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	63	61
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	79	122
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.104 %	0.129 %
As % of the category below	1.883 %	2.308 %
Daily rates quoted	12	25
Average minimum daily rate	£274	£329
Average daily rate	£305	£340
% change on same period last year	-10.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£337	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£321
% change on same period last year	+0.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.63	£28.31
Average hourly rate	£34.75	£32.53
% change on same period last year	+6.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.88	£36.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.34	£32.87
% change on same period last year	+4.47 %
Job Titles South West
Matching contract IT job ads	4196	5285
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.533 %	5.606 %
Daily rates quoted	1420	1381
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£337
Average daily rate	£371	£356
% change on same period last year	+4.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	498	706
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.28	£25.23
Average hourly rate	£25.99	£27.00
% change on same period last year	-3.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.69	£28.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
C# Developer England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily 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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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 West region.

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# Developer across the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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 West region.

C# Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# Developer across the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing C# Developer within the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bristol	-6	26	£316	-9.49 %
Wiltshire	+3	18	£310	-15.45 %
Gloucestershire	+3	8	£350	-
Somerset	+1	5	£330	-
Dorset	0	5	£250	-24.74 %

C# Developer England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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.

1 181 (100.00 %) C# 2 161 (88.95 %) .NET 3 89 (49.17 %) SQL Server 4 84 (46.41 %) ASP.NET 5 44 (24.31 %) XML 6 36 (19.89 %) SQL Server 2005 7 35 (19.34 %) Oracle 8 33 (18.23 %) SQL 8 33 (18.23 %) WebServices 9 32 (17.68 %) Windows 10 26 (14.36 %) HTML 11 25 (13.81 %) .NET Framework 12 24 (13.26 %) Visual Studio 13 23 (12.71 %) Microsoft 14 22 (12.15 %) CSS

15 21 (11.60 %) VB.NET 16 19 (10.50 %) WinForms 17 15 (8.287 %) JavaScript 18 14 (7.735 %) C++ 18 14 (7.735 %) AJAX 19 13 (7.182 %) SOAP 20 12 (6.630 %) WSDL 20 12 (6.630 %) SQL Server 2000 20 12 (6.630 %) Telecoms 21 11 (6.077 %) Finance 22 8 (4.420 %) ASP.NET 2.0 22 8 (4.420 %) Security Cleared 22 8 (4.420 %) XSLT 23 7 (3.867 %) UML 23 7 (3.867 %) ASP

C# Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 1 161 (88.95 %) .NET 2 84 (46.41 %) ASP.NET 3 44 (24.31 %) XML 4 33 (18.23 %) WebServices 5 26 (14.36 %) HTML 6 25 (13.81 %) .NET Framework 7 22 (12.15 %) CSS 8 19 (10.50 %) WinForms 9 14 (7.735 %) AJAX 10 13 (7.182 %) SOAP 11 12 (6.630 %) WSDL 12 8 (4.420 %) XSLT 12 8 (4.420 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 7 (3.867 %) ASP 14 6 (3.315 %) WPF 15 5 (2.762 %) WCF 16 4 (2.210 %) Silverlight 16 4 (2.210 %) ADO.NET 16 4 (2.210 %) COM+ 17 2 (1.105 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 6 (3.315 %) SharePoint 2 3 (1.657 %) CMS 3 2 (1.105 %) IIS 3 2 (1.105 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (0.552 %) ArcGIS 4 1 (0.552 %) ArcIMS 4 1 (0.552 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 3 (1.657 %) InfoPath 2 1 (0.552 %) Photoshop 2 1 (0.552 %) MS Office 2 1 (0.552 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (0.552 %) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking 1 6 (3.315 %) Internet 2 2 (1.105 %) Extranet 2 2 (1.105 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.552 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 89 (49.17 %) SQL Server 2 36 (19.89 %) SQL Server 2005 3 12 (6.630 %) SQL Server 2000 4 5 (2.762 %) SQL Server 7 5 3 (1.657 %) GIS 6 2 (1.105 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 1 (0.552 %) Oracle Reports 7 1 (0.552 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 1 (0.552 %) Oracle 9i 7 1 (0.552 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 24 (13.26 %) Visual Studio 2 6 (3.315 %) Flash 3 4 (2.210 %) NUnit 4 3 (1.657 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 2 (1.105 %) Oracle Forms 5 2 (1.105 %) Dreamweaver 6 1 (0.552 %) ClearCase 6 1 (0.552 %) PVCS	General 1 12 (6.630 %) Telecoms 2 11 (6.077 %) Finance 3 5 (2.762 %) Government 3 5 (2.762 %) Insurance 4 3 (1.657 %) Manufacturing 4 3 (1.657 %) Advertising 5 2 (1.105 %) Legal 5 2 (1.105 %) Retail 6 1 (0.552 %) Multimedia 6 1 (0.552 %) Front Office 6 1 (0.552 %) Games 6 1 (0.552 %) Banking 6 1 (0.552 %) Law 6 1 (0.552 %) Aerospace
Miscellaneous 1 5 (2.762 %) Client/Server 2 4 (2.210 %) Device Driver 3 3 (1.657 %) N-Tier 4 2 (1.105 %) Multithreading 5 1 (0.552 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 1 (0.552 %) EPoS 5 1 (0.552 %) NHS 5 1 (0.552 %) Management Information System 5 1 (0.552 %) E-Learning 5 1 (0.552 %) Asset Management 5 1 (0.552 %) Spread Betting	Operating Systems 1 32 (17.68 %) Windows 2 7 (3.867 %) Windows CE 3 1 (0.552 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (4.420 %) Security Cleared 2 7 (3.867 %) UML 3 6 (3.315 %) OO 4 5 (2.762 %) E-Commerce 4 5 (2.762 %) TDD 4 5 (2.762 %) Web Development 5 4 (2.210 %) SC Cleared 5 4 (2.210 %) Agile Software Development 6 3 (1.657 %) Content Management 6 3 (1.657 %) Software Engineering 6 3 (1.657 %) Workflow 6 3 (1.657 %) OOP 7 2 (1.105 %) RUP 7 2 (1.105 %) CRM 7 2 (1.105 %) OOD 7 2 (1.105 %) MVC 7 2 (1.105 %) Migration 7 2 (1.105 %) Unit Testing 8 1 (0.552 %) Test Scripting 8 1 (0.552 %) Time Management	Programming Languages 1 181 (100.00 %) C# 2 33 (18.23 %) SQL 3 21 (11.60 %) VB.NET 4 15 (8.287 %) JavaScript 5 14 (7.735 %) C++ 6 6 (3.315 %) VB 6 6 (3.315 %) VC++ 7 5 (2.762 %) ActionScript 7 5 (2.762 %) PHP 8 3 (1.657 %) Transact-SQL 8 3 (1.657 %) VBScript 8 3 (1.657 %) DHTML 8 3 (1.657 %) VBA 8 3 (1.657 %) C 8 3 (1.657 %) VB6 9 2 (1.105 %) XAML 9 2 (1.105 %) Java 9 2 (1.105 %) Delphi 10 1 (0.552 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 5 (2.762 %) Degree 2 4 (2.210 %) Microsoft Certification 3 3 (1.657 %) MCTS 3 3 (1.657 %) MCAD 3 3 (1.657 %) MCSD	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.552 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 3 (1.657 %) MSMQ 2 2 (1.105 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 35 (19.34 %) Oracle 2 23 (12.71 %) Microsoft 3 2 (1.105 %) SAP 4 1 (0.552 %) Sybase 4 1 (0.552 %) Adobe 4 1 (0.552 %) Actuate 4 1 (0.552 %) ESRI