The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Programming Languages category for the Surrey 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 10 9 13
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +4
Contract jobs citing C# 134 209 183
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 11.76% 12.70% 9.760%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.45% 31.81% 27.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 134 101
Average daily rate £350 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 4
Average hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £39.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -10.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £29.30 £32.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+20.96% -11.42%
All Programming Languages
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
413 657 658
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 36.26% 39.91% 35.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 345 346
Average daily rate £345 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.42% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £229 £260 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 46 31
Average hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £25.50 £23.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £44.60 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C#
South East

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing C# across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Surrey C# Jobs Demand Trend

C#
Daily Rate Trend

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

Surrey C# Daily Rate Trend

C#
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Surrey C# Daily Rate Histogram

C#
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Surrey C# Hourly Rate Histogram

C#
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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 17 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
Guildford +6 37 £340 -15.00%
Woking -1 14 £325 -
Leatherhead +4 11 £320 -14.66%
Staines -1 4 £225 -25.00%
Reigate +11 3 £425 +61.90%
Epsom - 3 £350 -
Redhill -5 1 £400 -
Lightwater - 1 £350 -
Farnham - 1 - -
Haslemere - 1 £400 -
C#
South East

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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#.

1 213 (79.18%) .NET
2 113 (42.01%) SQL
3 106 (39.41%) SQL Server
4 91 (33.83%) Microsoft
5 72 (26.77%) ASP.NET
6 67 (24.91%) Scrum
7 65 (24.16%) Windows
8 63 (23.42%) XML
9 54 (20.07%) Oracle
10 51 (18.96%) JavaScript
11 47 (17.47%) WPF
12 46 (17.10%) WCF
13 45 (16.73%) HTML
14 44 (16.36%) .NET Framework
15 39 (14.50%) SOA
15 39 (14.50%) TDD
16 38 (14.13%) MVC
17 37 (13.75%) CSS
18 32 (11.90%) Visual Studio
19 31 (11.52%) SharePoint
20 29 (10.78%) VB.NET
20 29 (10.78%) Telecoms
20 29 (10.78%) Degree
21 27 (10.04%) SQL Server 2008
22 26 (9.665%) Team Foundation Server
22 26 (9.665%) Agile Software Development
22 26 (9.665%) MS Excel
23 25 (9.294%) PL/SQL
23 25 (9.294%) Games
23 25 (9.294%) Silverlight

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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
1 213 (79.18%) .NET
2 72 (26.77%) ASP.NET
3 63 (23.42%) XML
4 47 (17.47%) WPF
5 46 (17.10%) WCF
6 45 (16.73%) HTML
7 44 (16.36%) .NET Framework
8 37 (13.75%) CSS
9 25 (9.294%) Silverlight
10 23 (8.550%) Web Services
11 22 (8.178%) NHibernate
12 20 (7.435%) ASP.NET MVC
13 19 (7.063%) jQuery
14 18 (6.691%) WinForms
15 16 (5.948%) LINQ
16 14 (5.204%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
17 13 (4.833%) Spring
18 11 (4.089%) WF
19 10 (3.717%) Ajax
20 9 (3.346%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 31 (11.52%) SharePoint
2 18 (6.691%) Windows Azure
3 15 (5.576%) SharePoint 2010
4 14 (5.204%) IIS
5 13 (4.833%) CMS
6 11 (4.089%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (2.602%) ESB
8 5 (1.859%) ActiveMQ
8 5 (1.859%) EPiServer CMS
8 5 (1.859%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (1.487%) Oracle Coherence
9 4 (1.487%) WebLogic
9 4 (1.487%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (1.487%) Apache
10 3 (1.115%) Documentum
10 3 (1.115%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (1.115%) Umbraco
10 3 (1.115%) Mule
11 2 (0.743%) Drupal
12 1 (0.372%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 26 (9.665%) MS Excel
2 15 (5.576%) MS Office
3 6 (2.230%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.859%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.372%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 14 (5.204%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.974%) SalesLogix
3 2 (0.743%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.487%) 3GPP
1 4 (1.487%) SNMP
1 4 (1.487%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.743%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.743%) Internet
2 2 (0.743%) BSS
3 1 (0.372%) Firewall
3 1 (0.372%) GSM
3 1 (0.372%) DNS
3 1 (0.372%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.372%) SSL
3 1 (0.372%) UMTS
3 1 (0.372%) FTP
3 1 (0.372%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (39.41%) SQL Server
2 27 (10.04%) SQL Server 2008
3 19 (7.063%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 18 (6.691%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 16 (5.948%) SQL Server 2005
6 7 (2.602%) Oracle 11g
7 6 (2.230%) Data Mining
8 4 (1.487%) MySQL
9 3 (1.115%) GIS
9 3 (1.115%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.743%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.743%) Oracle 10g
10 2 (0.743%) Ingres
10 2 (0.743%) SQL Server 2000
10 2 (0.743%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.743%) SQL Server 2012
11 1 (0.372%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.372%) BusinessObjects XI
11 1 (0.372%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.372%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 32 (11.90%) Visual Studio
2 26 (9.665%) Team Foundation Server
3 10 (3.717%) Moq
4 9 (3.346%) Subversion
5 8 (2.974%) NUnit
6 5 (1.859%) ReSharper
6 5 (1.859%) Expression Blend
7 4 (1.487%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.487%) Telelogic TAU
7 4 (1.487%) JIRA
7 4 (1.487%) CruiseControl
7 4 (1.487%) MSI
7 4 (1.487%) Rational Rose
7 4 (1.487%) MSBuild
8 3 (1.115%) QuickTest Pro
8 3 (1.115%) Selenium
9 2 (0.743%) NetAdvantage
10 1 (0.372%) XMLSpy
10 1 (0.372%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 1 (0.372%) ClearCase
General
1 29 (10.78%) Telecoms
2 25 (9.294%) Games
3 19 (7.063%) Finance
4 6 (2.230%) Banking
5 5 (1.859%) Investment Banking
6 4 (1.487%) Marketing
7 1 (0.372%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.372%) Electronics
7 1 (0.372%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.372%) Law
7 1 (0.372%) Legal
7 1 (0.372%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.372%) Advertising
7 1 (0.372%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 171 (63.57%) Developer
2 84 (31.23%) .NET Developer
3 66 (24.54%) C# Developer
4 44 (16.36%) C# .NET Developer
5 21 (7.807%) Software Engineer
6 19 (7.063%) WPF Developer
7 16 (5.948%) Analyst
7 16 (5.948%) ASP.NET Developer
7 16 (5.948%) SQL Developer
8 15 (5.576%) Architect
8 15 (5.576%) Senior Developer
9 14 (5.204%) Oracle Developer
9 14 (5.204%) SharePoint Developer
10 12 (4.461%) Applications Support
11 11 (4.089%) Software Developer
11 11 (4.089%) C# ASP.NET Developer
12 10 (3.717%) Web Developer
13 9 (3.346%) PL/SQL Developer
13 9 (3.346%) Senior C# Developer
13 9 (3.346%) Agile .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.948%) Computer Science
2 10 (3.717%) Online Games
3 7 (2.602%) Inversion of Control
3 7 (2.602%) Mathematics
3 7 (2.602%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.230%) N-Tier
4 6 (2.230%) SaaS
4 6 (2.230%) Kinect
5 5 (1.859%) Physics
6 4 (1.487%) Streaming Video
6 4 (1.487%) Visualisation
7 3 (1.115%) Open Source
7 3 (1.115%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.115%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.372%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.372%) W3C
8 1 (0.372%) DTV
8 1 (0.372%) Applied Mathematics
8 1 (0.372%) iPhone
8 1 (0.372%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 65 (24.16%) Windows
2 10 (3.717%) Windows 7
3 9 (3.346%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (2.602%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (1.859%) UNIX
6 4 (1.487%) Windows 8
7 2 (0.743%) Linux
8 1 (0.372%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.372%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (24.91%) Scrum
2 39 (14.50%) TDD
2 39 (14.50%) SOA
3 38 (14.13%) MVC
4 26 (9.665%) Agile Software Development
5 23 (8.550%) MVVM
6 20 (7.435%) Continuous Integration
7 19 (7.063%) BDD
8 18 (6.691%) Multithreading
8 18 (6.691%) CRM
9 17 (6.320%) OO
10 16 (5.948%) E-Commerce
11 14 (5.204%) Workflow
11 14 (5.204%) Data Analysis
12 12 (4.461%) Release Management
12 12 (4.461%) Test Automation
12 12 (4.461%) Business Intelligence
13 11 (4.089%) Migration
14 10 (3.717%) Dependency Injection
14 10 (3.717%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 113 (42.01%) SQL
2 51 (18.96%) JavaScript
3 29 (10.78%) VB.NET
4 25 (9.294%) PL/SQL
5 22 (8.178%) Java
6 16 (5.948%) VB
6 16 (5.948%) Python
7 14 (5.204%) C
7 14 (5.204%) C++
8 12 (4.461%) T-SQL
9 11 (4.089%) PHP
10 8 (2.974%) VB6
10 8 (2.974%) Ruby
11 6 (2.230%) MATLAB
12 5 (1.859%) VBScript
12 5 (1.859%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.487%) sed
13 4 (1.487%) AWK
13 4 (1.487%) Perl
14 3 (1.115%) XPath
Qualifications
1 29 (10.78%) Degree
2 16 (5.948%) SC Cleared
2 16 (5.948%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.230%) ISEB
4 4 (1.487%) ISTQB
5 2 (0.743%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.743%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.743%) MCP
6 1 (0.372%) MCAD
6 1 (0.372%) MCSD
6 1 (0.372%) HND
6 1 (0.372%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.372%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.372%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.461%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.487%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (0.743%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (4.089%) SCOM
2 4 (1.487%) WMI
3 1 (0.372%) SCCM
Vendors
1 91 (33.83%) Microsoft
2 54 (20.07%) Oracle
3 6 (2.230%) Sage
4 5 (1.859%) Teradata
4 5 (1.859%) EPiServer
5 4 (1.487%) Sitecore
5 4 (1.487%) Nokia Siemens Networks
5 4 (1.487%) Telelogic
5 4 (1.487%) VMware
6 3 (1.115%) SAP
7 2 (0.743%) Infragistics
7 2 (0.743%) Google
7 2 (0.743%) WSO2
8 1 (0.372%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.372%) Micro Focus
8 1 (0.372%) Business Objects
8 1 (0.372%) Adobe
8 1 (0.372%) Lotus
8 1 (0.372%) Telerik
8 1 (0.372%) Twitter
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