The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# 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 of the Programming Languages category for the Swindon 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#
Rank 16 15 11
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -4
Contract jobs citing C# 27 29 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 9.000% 7.989% 8.833%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.75% 26.85% 29.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 9
Average daily rate £300 £415 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.71% +10.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £233 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £540 £546 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
Average hourly rate £37.50 - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
All Programming Languages
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
80 108 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 26.67% 29.75% 29.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 71 47
Average daily rate £350 £335 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.47% -4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £213 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £450 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
Average hourly rate £13.00 £32.50 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-60.00% -2.98%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £32.50 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £32.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C#
Wiltshire

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 48 (90.57%) .NET
2 28 (52.83%) Web Services
3 25 (47.17%) SQL Server
4 24 (45.28%) WCF
4 24 (45.28%) Security Cleared
5 21 (39.62%) jQuery
6 20 (37.74%) SQL
6 20 (37.74%) XML
7 18 (33.96%) Microsoft
7 18 (33.96%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 17 (32.08%) SC Cleared
8 17 (32.08%) .NET Framework
8 17 (32.08%) JavaScript
9 16 (30.19%) ASP.NET
9 16 (30.19%) Windows
10 15 (28.30%) Visual Studio
10 15 (28.30%) Silverlight
11 14 (26.42%) Unit Testing
11 14 (26.42%) Team Foundation Server
12 13 (24.53%) VB
12 13 (24.53%) XSLT
12 13 (24.53%) Telecoms
13 11 (20.75%) Migration
13 11 (20.75%) Scrum
14 10 (18.87%) Workflow
14 10 (18.87%) Service Management
14 10 (18.87%) Oracle 9i
14 10 (18.87%) Siebel
14 10 (18.87%) Oracle
14 10 (18.87%) Oracle 11g

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 48 (90.57%) .NET
2 28 (52.83%) Web Services
3 24 (45.28%) WCF
4 21 (39.62%) jQuery
5 20 (37.74%) XML
6 18 (33.96%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 17 (32.08%) .NET Framework
8 16 (30.19%) ASP.NET
9 15 (28.30%) Silverlight
10 13 (24.53%) XSLT
11 9 (16.98%) CSS
11 9 (16.98%) HTML
12 8 (15.09%) Ajax
13 7 (13.21%) LINQ
13 7 (13.21%) JSON
13 7 (13.21%) Managed Extensibility Framework
14 4 (7.547%) WinForms
15 3 (5.660%) HTML5
16 2 (3.774%) ASP.NET MVC
16 2 (3.774%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 8 (15.09%) IIS
1 8 (15.09%) SharePoint
2 7 (13.21%) ArcGIS
3 6 (11.32%) SharePoint 2010
3 6 (11.32%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.887%) Content Management Server
4 1 (1.887%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 8 (15.09%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.887%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.547%) Intranet
2 3 (5.660%) Internet
3 1 (1.887%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (47.17%) SQL Server
2 10 (18.87%) Oracle 9i
2 10 (18.87%) Oracle 11g
3 9 (16.98%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (5.660%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (1.887%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (1.887%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (28.30%) Visual Studio
2 14 (26.42%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (13.21%) MSTest
3 7 (13.21%) Moq
4 5 (9.434%) Subversion
5 1 (1.887%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (1.887%) Selenium
5 1 (1.887%) JIRA
General
1 13 (24.53%) Telecoms
2 8 (15.09%) Finance
3 3 (5.660%) Retail
4 1 (1.887%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 42 (79.25%) Developer
2 21 (39.62%) .NET Developer
3 11 (20.75%) C# Developer
4 10 (18.87%) Consultant
5 9 (16.98%) Siebel Consultant
5 9 (16.98%) Software Developer
6 8 (15.09%) Software Engineer
6 8 (15.09%) Programmer
6 8 (15.09%) C# Programmer
6 8 (15.09%) C# .NET Developer
7 7 (13.21%) SharePoint Developer
7 7 (13.21%) Software Programmer
8 6 (11.32%) .NET Programmer
9 3 (5.660%) SQL Developer
9 3 (5.660%) Front-End Developer
10 2 (3.774%) Silverlight Developer
10 2 (3.774%) .NET Software Developer
10 2 (3.774%) .NET Software Engineer
10 2 (3.774%) C# Software Engineer
10 2 (3.774%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Client/Server
2 7 (13.21%) RIA
3 1 (1.887%) EPoS
3 1 (1.887%) W3C
3 1 (1.887%) Blog
3 1 (1.887%) Social Network
3 1 (1.887%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 16 (30.19%) Windows
2 7 (13.21%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.887%) Linux
3 1 (1.887%) UNIX
3 1 (1.887%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (26.42%) Unit Testing
2 11 (20.75%) Migration
2 11 (20.75%) Scrum
3 10 (18.87%) Workflow
3 10 (18.87%) Service Management
4 9 (16.98%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (13.21%) UML
6 6 (11.32%) MVC
7 2 (3.774%) Web Development
7 2 (3.774%) TDD
8 1 (1.887%) OOP
8 1 (1.887%) Security Management
8 1 (1.887%) Content Management
8 1 (1.887%) Database Security
8 1 (1.887%) Web Usability
8 1 (1.887%) Integration Testing
8 1 (1.887%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 20 (37.74%) SQL
2 17 (32.08%) JavaScript
3 13 (24.53%) VB
4 5 (9.434%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.887%) VBA
5 1 (1.887%) C
5 1 (1.887%) C++
Qualifications
1 24 (45.28%) Security Cleared
2 17 (32.08%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.21%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.887%) ISEB
4 1 (1.887%) Degree
4 1 (1.887%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.547%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 18 (33.96%) Microsoft
2 10 (18.87%) Siebel
2 10 (18.87%) Oracle
3 7 (13.21%) ESRI