South Yorkshire C# Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for C# skills within the South Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited C# over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Banbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Cowes Crawley Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hove Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Margate Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	29
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	36	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.051 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	30.51 %	14.21 %
Daily rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum daily rate	£368	£360
Average daily rate	£378	£360
% change on same period last year	+5.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£332
% change on same period last year	-3.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.25	£28.50
Average hourly rate	£20.88	£31.50
% change on same period last year	-33.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.50	£34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.03	£33.61
% change on same period last year	-1.73 %
Programming Languages South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	118	183
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.166 %	0.185 %
Daily rates quoted	24	21
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£267
Average daily rate	£330	£274
% change on same period last year	+20.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£351	£280
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.36	£20.55
Average hourly rate	£25.80	£22.58
% change on same period last year	+14.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.24	£24.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.24	£32.80
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C# across the South Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing C# across the South Yorkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C# across the South Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Sheffield	+15	13	£376	-
Barnsley	-	4	-	-
Rotherham	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 55 (82.09 %) .NET 2 41 (61.19 %) SQL Server 3 37 (55.22 %) ASP.NET 4 21 (31.34 %) WebServices 5 20 (29.85 %) XML 6 18 (26.87 %) JavaScript 7 17 (25.37 %) SQL 7 17 (25.37 %) SQL Server 2005 8 16 (23.88 %) AJAX 9 13 (19.40 %) Visual Studio 10 11 (16.42 %) Microsoft 11 10 (14.93 %) Marketing 12 9 (13.43 %) SharePoint 13 8 (11.94 %) ASP 13 8 (11.94 %) C

14 7 (10.45 %) VB.NET 14 7 (10.45 %) BizTalk Server 14 7 (10.45 %) WPF 15 6 (8.955 %) Oracle 15 6 (8.955 %) HTML 16 5 (7.463 %) UML 16 5 (7.463 %) OO 16 5 (7.463 %) MS Access 16 5 (7.463 %) Unit Testing 16 5 (7.463 %) WCF 16 5 (7.463 %) SharePoint Server 2007 17 4 (5.970 %) Security Cleared 17 4 (5.970 %) Silverlight 17 4 (5.970 %) LINQ 17 4 (5.970 %) Windows

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 55 (82.09 %) .NET 2 37 (55.22 %) ASP.NET 3 21 (31.34 %) WebServices 4 20 (29.85 %) XML 5 16 (23.88 %) AJAX 6 8 (11.94 %) ASP 7 7 (10.45 %) WPF 8 6 (8.955 %) HTML 9 5 (7.463 %) WCF 10 4 (5.970 %) XHTML 10 4 (5.970 %) Silverlight 10 4 (5.970 %) LINQ 10 4 (5.970 %) ADO.NET 10 4 (5.970 %) CSS 11 3 (4.478 %) SOAP 12 2 (2.985 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 2 (2.985 %) WinForms 13 1 (1.493 %) XSL 13 1 (1.493 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 9 (13.43 %) SharePoint 2 7 (10.45 %) BizTalk Server 3 5 (7.463 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 2 (2.985 %) Commerce Server 2007 4 2 (2.985 %) Commerce Server 5 1 (1.493 %) CMS
Applications 1 2 (2.985 %) MS Excel 1 2 (2.985 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.493 %) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 41 (61.19 %) SQL Server 2 17 (25.37 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (7.463 %) MS Access 4 3 (4.478 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3 (4.478 %) SQL Server 2008 5 2 (2.985 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 2 (2.985 %) RDBMS 6 1 (1.493 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 13 (19.40 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (4.478 %) NUnit 3 1 (1.493 %) CruiseControl 3 1 (1.493 %) Subversion 3 1 (1.493 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 10 (14.93 %) Marketing 2 1 (1.493 %) Telecoms 2 1 (1.493 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 54 (80.60 %) Developer 2 34 (50.75 %) .NET Developer 3 26 (38.81 %) C# Developer 4 14 (20.90 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 12 (17.91 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 11 (16.42 %) Software Developer 7 7 (10.45 %) Web Developer 8 4 (5.970 %) Applications Developer 8 4 (5.970 %) Software Engineer 9 3 (4.478 %) Senior Developer 9 3 (4.478 %) SQL Developer 9 3 (4.478 %) SQL Server Developer 10 2 (2.985 %) .NET Web Developer 10 2 (2.985 %) Senior .NET Developer 10 2 (2.985 %) Senior ASP.NET Developer 10 2 (2.985 %) Lead Developer 10 2 (2.985 %) C++ Developer 10 2 (2.985 %) Consultant 10 2 (2.985 %) C++/C# Developer 10 2 (2.985 %) BizTalk Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.478 %) N-Tier 2 2 (2.985 %) PDA 3 1 (1.493 %) Wiki 3 1 (1.493 %) W3C 3 1 (1.493 %) E-Learning	Operating Systems 1 4 (5.970 %) Windows 2 2 (2.985 %) Windows Mobile 3 1 (1.493 %) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (7.463 %) UML 1 5 (7.463 %) OO 1 5 (7.463 %) Unit Testing 2 4 (5.970 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (5.970 %) Project Management 3 3 (4.478 %) E-Commerce 3 3 (4.478 %) ITIL 3 3 (4.478 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (4.478 %) B2B 3 3 (4.478 %) Resource Management 4 2 (2.985 %) Performance Management 5 1 (1.493 %) Use Case 5 1 (1.493 %) Internet Marketing 5 1 (1.493 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (1.493 %) B2C 5 1 (1.493 %) OOD 5 1 (1.493 %) Scrum 5 1 (1.493 %) Business Continuity 5 1 (1.493 %) TDD 5 1 (1.493 %) Asset Management	Programming Languages 1 18 (26.87 %) JavaScript 2 17 (25.37 %) SQL 3 8 (11.94 %) C 4 7 (10.45 %) VB.NET 5 4 (5.970 %) XAML 5 4 (5.970 %) C++ 5 4 (5.970 %) Transact-SQL 6 3 (4.478 %) VB6 6 3 (4.478 %) VB 7 2 (2.985 %) DHTML 7 2 (2.985 %) VBScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.985 %) HIPAA	Vendors 1 11 (16.42 %) Microsoft 2 6 (8.955 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.493 %) Borland