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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the C# Developer 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# Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

 C# Developer
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank385846
Rank change year-on-year
Up+20Down-12
Matching contract IT job ads169910832645
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK3.881 %2.355 %3.231 %
As % of the Job Titles category4.252 %2.594 %3.478 %
Daily rates quoted1031443758
Average daily rate£525£400£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.25 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£275£236£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£650£575£650
UK excluding London average daily rate£275£275£313
% change year-on-year
--12.00 %
Hourly rates quoted1955160
Average hourly rate£31.00£35.00£34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.42 %+2.940 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£19.20£19.00£22.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.00£40.00£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£29.25£35.00£35.00
% change year-on-year
-16.42 %-
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
399614174576056
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK91.29 %90.76 %92.92 %
Daily rates quoted178101304622755
Average daily rate£400£375£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£220£230
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£350
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %-
Hourly rates quoted245839516731
Average hourly rate£18.00£20.84£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.62 %-5.270 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.00£11.00£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.50£37.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£20.00£21.00
% change year-on-year
-12.50 %-4.760 %

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.

C# Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C# Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

C# Developer Demand Trend

C# Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

C# Developer Daily Rate Trend

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010.

C# Developer Daily Rate Histogram

C# Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

C# Developer Hourly Rate Trend

C# Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010.

C# Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

C# Developer
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+161670£525+31.25 %
LondonUp+161409£550+22.22 %
City of LondonUp+1505£550+15.78 %
South EastUp+595£275-1.78 %
North WestUp+1053£265-15.20 %
East of EnglandUp+2940£325+25.00 %
ManchesterUp+435£275-26.66 %
Canary WharfDown-929£650-
SurreyDown-1128£300+9.09 %
Docklands, LondonUp+126£500-4.76 %
South WestUp+1221£225+2.27 %
ScotlandDown-421£338+55.17 %
BerkshireUp+1719£285-12.30 %
CambridgeshireUp+919£325+34.02 %
CambridgeUp+619£325+25.00 %
GlasgowUp+518£338+55.17 %
East MidlandsDown-2018£350+40.00 %
HampshireUp+1717£240-5.88 %
North EastUp+1211£115-54.00 %
NottinghamshireUp+211£320+28.00 %
YorkshireDown-3011£200-27.27 %
EssexUp+1810£265+27.71 %
West YorkshireDown-1410£200-27.60 %
Tyne and WearUp+119£115-54.00 %
NottinghamUp+29£245-2.00 %
SuffolkUp+19£325+20.93 %
CheshireDown-69£258-
KentUp+148£325-
Newcastle Upon TyneUp+78£115-54.00 %
BuckinghamshireUp+58£250-16.66 %

C# Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

13098 (100.00 %)C#
22054 (66.30 %).NET
31284 (41.45 %)Banking
41026 (33.12 %)SQL Server
5968 (31.25 %)Front Office
6914 (29.50 %)Investment Banking
7819 (26.44 %)ASP.NET
8778 (25.11 %)WinForms
9759 (24.50 %)Derivative
10713 (23.01 %)SQL
11619 (19.98 %)Finance
12565 (18.24 %)OO
13456 (14.72 %)Java
14453 (14.62 %)WPF
15441 (14.23 %)C++
16406 (13.11 %)Agile Software Development
17391 (12.62 %)XML
18388 (12.52 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
19378 (12.20 %)Oracle
20369 (11.91 %)Windows
21346 (11.17 %)SQL Server 2005
22334 (10.78 %)WCF
23321 (10.36 %)Microsoft
23321 (10.36 %)Web Services
24308 (9.942 %)Equity Derivative
25277 (8.941 %)Multithreading
26273 (8.812 %).NET Framework
27247 (7.973 %)TDD
28241 (7.779 %)JavaScript
29238 (7.682 %)Visual Studio

C# Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12054 (66.30 %).NET
2819 (26.44 %)ASP.NET
3778 (25.11 %)WinForms
4453 (14.62 %)WPF
5391 (12.62 %)XML
6334 (10.78 %)WCF
7321 (10.36 %)Web Services
8273 (8.812 %).NET Framework
9208 (6.714 %)CSS
10200 (6.456 %)AJAX
11186 (6.004 %)HTML
12142 (4.584 %)MVC
13112 (3.615 %)Silverlight
1487 (2.808 %)NHibernate
1586 (2.776 %)XSLT
1681 (2.615 %)jQuery
1774 (2.389 %)XHTML
1871 (2.292 %)LINQ
1962 (2.001 %)WF
2057 (1.840 %)ASP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1101 (3.260 %)SharePoint
261 (1.969 %)CMS
358 (1.872 %)SharePoint Server 2007
358 (1.872 %)Rendezvous
453 (1.711 %)TIBCO EMS
535 (1.130 %)MQSeries
633 (1.065 %)IIS
731 (1.001 %)BizTalk Server
820 (0.646 %)Sitecore CMS
914 (0.452 %)Umbraco
1013 (0.420 %)EPiServer
1112 (0.387 %)MTS
1211 (0.355 %)MS Exchange
1310 (0.323 %)WebSphere MQ
148 (0.258 %)Oracle Workflow
157 (0.226 %)Exchange Server 2007
157 (0.226 %)Apache
157 (0.226 %)Progress Apama
166 (0.194 %)Confluence
166 (0.194 %)ArcGIS
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
190 (2.905 %)MS Excel
259 (1.904 %)Spreadsheet
334 (1.097 %)MS Office
47 (0.226 %)MS Visio
55 (0.161 %)MS PowerPoint
64 (0.129 %)InfoPath
73 (0.097 %)CA Clarity
73 (0.097 %)Photoshop
73 (0.097 %)MS Project
81 (0.032 %)Adobe Illustrator
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
110 (0.323 %)Endur
27 (0.226 %)ION MarketView
36 (0.194 %)BusinessWorks
36 (0.194 %)Global One
44 (0.129 %)TIBCO iProcess
44 (0.129 %)SunGard Martini
52 (0.065 %)Dynamics CRM
52 (0.065 %)Summit
61 (0.032 %)Pivotal CRM
61 (0.032 %)RMDS
61 (0.032 %)Dynamics NAV
61 (0.032 %)SAP Oil and Gas
61 (0.032 %)AWD
61 (0.032 %)Navision
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
133 (1.065 %)Intranet
216 (0.516 %)Internet
315 (0.484 %)HTTP
413 (0.420 %)TCP/IP
59 (0.291 %)LDAP
65 (0.161 %)Extranet
73 (0.097 %)DNS
73 (0.097 %)Wireless
82 (0.065 %)X.500
82 (0.065 %)DHCP
82 (0.065 %)GPRS
82 (0.065 %)SMS
82 (0.065 %)SMTP
91 (0.032 %)IMAP
91 (0.032 %)FTP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11026 (33.12 %)SQL Server
2346 (11.17 %)SQL Server 2005
3100 (3.228 %)SQL Server 2008
474 (2.389 %)Oracle 10g
573 (2.356 %)SQL Server Integration Services
666 (2.130 %)RDBMS
764 (2.066 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
862 (2.001 %)SQL Server 2000
938 (1.227 %)Crystal Reports
1032 (1.033 %)OLAP
1131 (1.001 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1224 (0.775 %)Datawarehouse
1322 (0.710 %)Oracle Reports
1322 (0.710 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1418 (0.581 %)Oracle 8/8i
1514 (0.452 %)MySQL
1514 (0.452 %)Oracle 11g
1514 (0.452 %)KDB
1610 (0.323 %)GIS
178 (0.258 %)BusinessObjects
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1238 (7.682 %)Visual Studio
2160 (5.165 %)Subversion
3147 (4.745 %)NUnit
466 (2.130 %)ClearCase
551 (1.646 %)TeamCity
644 (1.420 %)Team Foundation Server
743 (1.388 %)JIRA
831 (1.001 %)JUnit
930 (0.968 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
1020 (0.646 %)CruiseControl
1119 (0.613 %)ReSharper
1119 (0.613 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1216 (0.516 %)Oracle Forms
1312 (0.387 %)ClearQuest
1312 (0.387 %)FitNesse
1411 (0.355 %)NCover
1510 (0.323 %)Log4Net
1510 (0.323 %)Eclipse
168 (0.258 %)Expression Blend
177 (0.226 %)Selenium
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11284 (41.45 %)Banking
2968 (31.25 %)Front Office
3914 (29.50 %)Investment Banking
4619 (19.98 %)Finance
546 (1.485 %)Back Office
634 (1.097 %)Insurance
732 (1.033 %)Publishing
828 (0.904 %)Retail
926 (0.839 %)Financial Institution
1025 (0.807 %)Education
1025 (0.807 %)Government
1124 (0.775 %)Marketing
1124 (0.775 %)Games
1213 (0.420 %)Health
1311 (0.355 %)Telecoms
149 (0.291 %)Legal
158 (0.258 %)Pensions
167 (0.226 %)Retail Banking
176 (0.194 %)Construction
176 (0.194 %)Pharmaceutical
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1759 (24.50 %)Derivative
2388 (12.52 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3308 (9.942 %)Equity Derivative
4277 (8.941 %)Multithreading
5226 (7.295 %)Equities
6205 (6.617 %)Fixed Income
7112 (3.615 %)N-Tier
8101 (3.260 %)Client/Server
998 (3.163 %)Credit Derivative
1094 (3.034 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1148 (1.549 %)Mathematics
1244 (1.420 %)Computer Science
1341 (1.323 %)Grid Computing
1438 (1.227 %)Credit Risk
1523 (0.742 %)NHS
1620 (0.646 %)Market Risk
1717 (0.549 %)Dependency Injection
1717 (0.549 %)Contract for Difference
1717 (0.549 %)Physics
1810 (0.323 %)Exotic Derivative
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1369 (11.91 %)Windows
285 (2.744 %)Linux
380 (2.582 %)UNIX
420 (0.646 %)Windows Server 2003
519 (0.613 %)Solaris
69 (0.291 %)Windows Mobile
77 (0.226 %)Windows Server 2008
86 (0.194 %)Windows XP
93 (0.097 %)Windows NT
93 (0.097 %)Windows 2000
93 (0.097 %)Windows CE
102 (0.065 %)Windows 7
111 (0.032 %)Windows Vista
111 (0.032 %)SUSE
111 (0.032 %)Windows 2000 Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1565 (18.24 %)OO
2406 (13.11 %)Agile Software Development
3247 (7.973 %)TDD
4145 (4.680 %)Unit Testing
4145 (4.680 %)Scrum
5140 (4.519 %)Risk Management
6117 (3.777 %)OOD
793 (3.002 %)E-Commerce
892 (2.970 %)Web Development
991 (2.937 %)RAD
1087 (2.808 %)UML
1182 (2.647 %)Continuous Integration
1265 (2.098 %)Algorithmic Trading
1363 (2.034 %)Electronic Trading
1461 (1.969 %)Workflow
1461 (1.969 %)OOP
1555 (1.775 %)SOA
1647 (1.517 %)CRM
1739 (1.259 %)Migration
1838 (1.227 %)Content Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
13098 (100.00 %)C#
2713 (23.01 %)SQL
3456 (14.72 %)Java
4441 (14.23 %)C++
5241 (7.779 %)JavaScript
6148 (4.777 %)PL/SQL
7121 (3.906 %)VBA
8115 (3.712 %)T-SQL
9103 (3.325 %)VB
1065 (2.098 %)VB.NET
1164 (2.066 %)C
1258 (1.872 %)VB6
1336 (1.162 %)Perl
1435 (1.130 %)VC++
1530 (0.968 %)XAML
1627 (0.872 %)Python
1726 (0.839 %)Shell Script
1817 (0.549 %)PHP
1910 (0.323 %)PowerShell
209 (0.291 %)Korn
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1125 (4.035 %)Degree
237 (1.194 %)Security Cleared
319 (0.613 %)Microsoft Certification
416 (0.516 %)SC Cleared
511 (0.355 %)DV Cleared
68 (0.258 %)MCSD
77 (0.226 %)MCAD
86 (0.194 %)MCTS
95 (0.161 %)MCP
102 (0.065 %)Brainbench
111 (0.032 %)CITP
111 (0.032 %)PhD
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
145 (1.453 %)QA
21 (0.032 %)WAI
21 (0.032 %)ISO9001
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
117 (0.549 %)Active Directory
212 (0.387 %)MSMQ
39 (0.291 %)VMware Infrastructure
42 (0.065 %)VMware ESX
51 (0.032 %)Hyper-V
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
14 (0.129 %)Tivoli
22 (0.065 %)MIIS
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1378 (12.20 %)Oracle
2321 (10.36 %)Microsoft
3142 (4.584 %)Sybase
4141 (4.551 %)TIBCO
557 (1.840 %)DevExpress
655 (1.775 %)DataSynapse
747 (1.517 %)Bloomberg
839 (1.259 %)Perforce
932 (1.033 %)Reuters
1031 (1.001 %)Infragistics
1130 (0.968 %)Syncfusion
1225 (0.807 %)Sitecore
1318 (0.581 %)Tradeweb
1416 (0.516 %)IBM
1511 (0.355 %)Agresso
169 (0.291 %)Charles River
169 (0.291 %)VMware
178 (0.258 %)eSpeed
178 (0.258 %)Business Objects
178 (0.258 %)ION Trading