The first table below looks at the demand for the C# Architect role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# Architect in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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# Architect
Rank 521 571 581
Rank change year-on-year
+50 +10
Contract jobs requiring a C# Architect 9 7 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.019% 0.012% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.013% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 4
Average daily rate £500 £600 £570
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +5.26%
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 £425 £475
% change year-on-year
+17.64% -10.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

C# Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

C# Architect Jobs Demand Trend

C# Architect
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing C# Architect within the UK.

C# Architect Daily Rate Trend

C# Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

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

C# Architect Daily Rate Histogram

C# Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C# Architect within the UK.

C# Architect Hourly Rate Trend

C# Architect
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# Architect within the UK 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
England +50 9 £500 -16.66%
East of England +17 4 £500 +17.64%
Hertfordshire - 4 £500 -
Yorkshire - 3 £465 -
West Yorkshire - 3 £465 -
Bradford - 2 £465 -
East Midlands - 2 £363 -
Nottinghamshire - 2 £363 -
Nottingham - 2 £363 -
Leeds - 1 £525 -

C# Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited C# Architect 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# Architect in their job title.

1 32 (100.00%) C#
2 31 (96.88%) .NET
3 24 (75.00%) OO
3 24 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
3 24 (75.00%) Retail
4 22 (68.75%) TDD
4 22 (68.75%) Windows
5 20 (62.50%) SOA
6 10 (31.25%) Scrum
7 6 (18.75%) Domain-Driven Design
8 5 (15.63%) BDD
9 3 (9.375%) MVVM
9 3 (9.375%) E-Commerce
9 3 (9.375%) SQL
10 2 (6.250%) SQL Server
10 2 (6.250%) AOP
10 2 (6.250%) Endeca
10 2 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (6.250%) WPF
10 2 (6.250%) Content Management
11 1 (3.125%) Open Source
11 1 (3.125%) HTML5
11 1 (3.125%) Continuous Integration
11 1 (3.125%) Multithreading
11 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2008
11 1 (3.125%) RedPrairie
11 1 (3.125%) ATDD
11 1 (3.125%) Big Data
11 1 (3.125%) Firewall
11 1 (3.125%) Identity Management

C# Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited C# Architect 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# Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 31 (96.88%) .NET
2 2 (6.250%) WPF
3 1 (3.125%) HTML5
3 1 (3.125%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.125%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.125%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.125%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (3.125%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.125%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.250%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (3.125%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.125%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (75.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.125%) Blog
1 1 (3.125%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 22 (68.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (75.00%) OO
1 24 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 22 (68.75%) TDD
3 20 (62.50%) SOA
4 10 (31.25%) Scrum
5 6 (18.75%) Domain-Driven Design
6 5 (15.63%) BDD
7 3 (9.375%) MVVM
7 3 (9.375%) E-Commerce
8 2 (6.250%) Content Management
8 2 (6.250%) AOP
9 1 (3.125%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (3.125%) Multithreading
9 1 (3.125%) OOD
9 1 (3.125%) Identity Management
9 1 (3.125%) ATDD
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (9.375%) SQL
3 1 (3.125%) MATLAB
3 1 (3.125%) C++
3 1 (3.125%) Java
System Software
1 1 (3.125%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (6.250%) Endeca
2 1 (3.125%) RedPrairie
2 1 (3.125%) Microsoft