The first table below looks at the demand for the C# Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire 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 24 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 Staffordshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C# Developer
Rank 15 26 31
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +5
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 4 8 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 4.762% 3.704% 3.226%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.063% 3.791% 3.382%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 1
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
All Job Titles
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
79 211 207
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 94.05% 97.69% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 86 90
Average daily rate £325 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £238 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £368 £371 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 13
Average hourly rate £15.26 £17.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.81% +25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £13.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.29 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
C# Developer
West Midlands

C# Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing C# Developer across the Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire C# Developer Daily Rate Trend

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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Stoke-on-Trent +8 4 £325 -
C# Developer
West Midlands

C# Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (80.00%) Ajax
2 4 (80.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (60.00%) XML
3 3 (60.00%) XSLT
3 3 (60.00%) VB.NET
3 3 (60.00%) XHTML
3 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (60.00%) N-Tier
3 3 (60.00%) SOA
3 3 (60.00%) Document Management
3 3 (60.00%) SEO
3 3 (60.00%) JIRA
3 3 (60.00%) CSS3
3 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (60.00%) AccuRev
3 3 (60.00%) HTML5
4 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (40.00%) MVC
5 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
5 1 (20.00%) Windows
5 1 (20.00%) Web Services
5 1 (20.00%) SQL

C# Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (80.00%) Ajax
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
3 3 (60.00%) XML
3 3 (60.00%) XSLT
3 3 (60.00%) XHTML
3 3 (60.00%) CSS3
3 3 (60.00%) HTML5
4 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
5 1 (20.00%) Web Services
5 1 (20.00%) jQuery
5 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (20.00%) WURFL
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Mobile
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) BlackBerry OS
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (60.00%) SOA
2 3 (60.00%) Document Management
2 3 (60.00%) SEO
2 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
4 1 (20.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) AccuRev