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 16 May 2012 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.

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.

C# Developer
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank714838
Rank change year-on-year
Down-23Down-10
Matching contract IT job ads139221482167
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK2.352 %3.500 %3.936 %
As % of the Job Titles category2.541 %3.776 %4.282 %
Number of daily rates quoted97315361407
Average daily rate£400£550£525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.27 %+4.76 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£275£288£295
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£625£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£311£305£300
% change year-on-year
+2.04 %+1.66 %
Number of hourly rates quoted124958
Average hourly rate£30.00£32.50£30.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.69 %+6.55 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£14.20£22.20£12.45
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£46.00£37.50£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.00£32.50£28.50
% change year-on-year
-7.69 %+14.03 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
547785688250613
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK92.55 %92.70 %91.92 %
Number of daily rates quoted302013092924313
Average daily rate£400£425£410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88 %+3.65 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£240£250£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£325
% change year-on-year
-+7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted259529252766
Average hourly rate£18.75£20.00£19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25 %+2.56 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£11.00£10.75
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£40.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£18.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %+11.11 %

C# Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total 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 16 May 2012.

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 16 May 2012.

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 16 May 2012. 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
EnglandDown-211358£413-25.00 %
LondonDown-29780£525-7.89 %
City of LondonDown-27242£530-7.82 %
South EastDown-3211£325-
East of EnglandUp+687£325+8.33 %
South WestUp+370£298+10.18 %
North WestUp+1465£275-
SurreyNo change064£325-18.75 %
East MidlandsUp+2161£275+35.80 %
CambridgeshireUp+1648£350+16.66 %
YorkshireDown-2641£300+20.00 %
ManchesterDown-840£275-
BerkshireDown-237£348+6.92 %
West MidlandsDown-434£348+32.38 %
NottinghamshireUp+1927£275-
West SussexUp+1527£350+12.00 %
HampshireDown-1625£288-11.53 %
CambridgeUp+223£338+3.84 %
West YorkshireDown-1223£300+15.38 %
OxfordshireDown-521£300+0.84 %
ReadingUp+819£345+6.15 %
ScotlandDown-419£288-14.81 %
GloucestershireDown-1019£398+98.75 %
Canary WharfDown-518£500-16.66 %
BristolDown-818£313-
DerbyshireUp+1115£263-
NottinghamUp+1015£275-
HertfordshireUp+113£310+16.98 %
East SussexDown-913£248-23.84 %
BuckinghamshireDown-1413£300+20.00 %

C# Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, 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.

12697 (100.00 %)C#
22186 (81.05 %).NET
31231 (45.64 %)SQL Server
41077 (39.93 %)ASP.NET
5920 (34.11 %)SQL
6827 (30.66 %)WPF
7660 (24.47 %)WCF
8537 (19.91 %)TDD
9516 (19.13 %)MVC
10502 (18.61 %)Finance
11492 (18.24 %)Banking
12476 (17.65 %).NET Framework
13436 (16.17 %)Front Office
14424 (15.72 %)Microsoft
15403 (14.94 %)OO
16379 (14.05 %)XML
17368 (13.64 %)SQL Server 2008
18360 (13.35 %)JavaScript
19350 (12.98 %)Visual Studio
20336 (12.46 %)Agile Software Development
21329 (12.20 %)Multithreading
22325 (12.05 %)WinForms
23316 (11.72 %)Scrum
24315 (11.68 %)Investment Banking
25313 (11.61 %)HTML
26311 (11.53 %)CSS
27307 (11.38 %)Web Services
28290 (10.75 %)ASP.NET MVC
29273 (10.12 %)C++
30270 (10.01 %)Oracle

C# Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, 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
12186 (81.05 %).NET
21077 (39.93 %)ASP.NET
3827 (30.66 %)WPF
4660 (24.47 %)WCF
5476 (17.65 %).NET Framework
6379 (14.05 %)XML
7325 (12.05 %)WinForms
8313 (11.61 %)HTML
9311 (11.53 %)CSS
10307 (11.38 %)Web Services
11290 (10.75 %)ASP.NET MVC
12267 (9.900 %)jQuery
13201 (7.453 %)LINQ
14191 (7.082 %)Silverlight
15184 (6.822 %)Ajax
16129 (4.783 %)ADO.NET Entity Framework
17127 (4.709 %)NHibernate
1895 (3.522 %)XSLT
1991 (3.374 %)SOAP
2084 (3.115 %)ASP.NET MVC 3
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
186 (3.189 %)SharePoint
275 (2.781 %)IIS
356 (2.076 %)CMS
437 (1.372 %)MSMQ
437 (1.372 %)ESB
534 (1.261 %)BizTalk Server
626 (0.964 %)Rendezvous
721 (0.779 %)Umbraco
817 (0.630 %)TIBCO EMS
916 (0.593 %)SharePoint 2010
1012 (0.445 %)Amazon EC2
1111 (0.408 %)Oracle Coherence
128 (0.297 %)Sitecore CMS
128 (0.297 %)Kentico
128 (0.297 %)ArcGIS
137 (0.260 %)EPiServer CMS
137 (0.260 %)NServiceBus
145 (0.185 %)Tuxedo
145 (0.185 %)WebSphere MQ
145 (0.185 %)TeamSite
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1137 (5.080 %)MS Excel
239 (1.446 %)Spreadsheet
312 (0.445 %)MS Office
410 (0.371 %)MATLAB
59 (0.334 %)Photoshop
59 (0.334 %)MS Visio
63 (0.111 %)MS Project
71 (0.037 %)InfoPath
71 (0.037 %)FrameMaker
71 (0.037 %)Fireworks
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
118 (0.667 %)Dynamics CRM
29 (0.334 %)Line 50
34 (0.148 %)Summit
43 (0.111 %)TIBCO iProcess
43 (0.111 %)Dynamics NAV
43 (0.111 %)Global One
43 (0.111 %)Endur
43 (0.111 %)BusinessWorks
43 (0.111 %)Tridion
52 (0.074 %)ION MarketView
52 (0.074 %)Dynamics AX
61 (0.037 %)Eagle PACE
61 (0.037 %)Visualfiles
61 (0.037 %)Pivotal CRM
61 (0.037 %)Murex MxG2000
61 (0.037 %)Loanet
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
131 (1.149 %)TCP/IP
222 (0.816 %)Internet
39 (0.334 %)HTTP
48 (0.297 %)Intranet
55 (0.185 %)LDAP
64 (0.148 %)DNS
64 (0.148 %)FTP
73 (0.111 %)SSL
73 (0.111 %)Wireless
73 (0.111 %)X.400
82 (0.074 %)LTE
82 (0.074 %)SMS
82 (0.074 %)3GPP
82 (0.074 %)UMTS
82 (0.074 %)SMTP
91 (0.037 %)SNMP
91 (0.037 %)Bluetooth
91 (0.037 %)Broadband
91 (0.037 %)LAN
91 (0.037 %)RFID
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11231 (45.64 %)SQL Server
2368 (13.64 %)SQL Server 2008
3213 (7.898 %)SQL Server 2005
4109 (4.042 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
5100 (3.708 %)SQL Server Integration Services
631 (1.149 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
729 (1.075 %)Oracle 10g
729 (1.075 %)RDBMS
820 (0.742 %)Crystal Reports
919 (0.704 %)MySQL
919 (0.704 %)SQL Server 2000
1018 (0.667 %)ETL
1018 (0.667 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1117 (0.630 %)Oracle 11g
1212 (0.445 %)GIS
1311 (0.408 %)Sybase ASE
1311 (0.408 %)Oracle 8/8i
1410 (0.371 %)Data Warehouse
159 (0.334 %)MS Access
167 (0.260 %)OLAP
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1350 (12.98 %)Visual Studio
2156 (5.784 %)NUnit
3132 (4.894 %)Team Foundation Server
4125 (4.635 %)Subversion
577 (2.855 %)TeamCity
642 (1.557 %)Hudson
740 (1.483 %)Rhino Mocks
833 (1.224 %)Expression Blend
930 (1.112 %)JIRA
1022 (0.816 %)MSBuild
1117 (0.630 %)CruiseControl
1117 (0.630 %)WinDbg
1215 (0.556 %)Visual Studio Team System
1314 (0.519 %)Moq
1413 (0.482 %)StructureMap
1512 (0.445 %)ReSharper
1611 (0.408 %)StyleCop
1611 (0.408 %)MSTest
1710 (0.371 %)TortoiseSVN
189 (0.334 %)Selenium
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1502 (18.61 %)Finance
2492 (18.24 %)Banking
3436 (16.17 %)Front Office
4315 (11.68 %)Investment Banking
549 (1.817 %)Back Office
637 (1.372 %)Financial Institution
732 (1.187 %)Retail
823 (0.853 %)Legal
922 (0.816 %)Games
1019 (0.704 %)Telecoms
1114 (0.519 %)Marketing
1211 (0.408 %)Manufacturing
1310 (0.371 %)Music
149 (0.334 %)Publishing
149 (0.334 %)Automotive
149 (0.334 %)Electronics
158 (0.297 %)Pharmaceutical
167 (0.260 %)Billing
176 (0.222 %)Aerospace
176 (0.222 %)Private Banking
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1213 (7.898 %)Derivative
2181 (6.711 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3166 (6.155 %)Fixed Income
484 (3.115 %)Market Risk
484 (3.115 %)Hedge funds
582 (3.040 %)Equities
679 (2.929 %)Mathematics
771 (2.633 %)Computer Science
862 (2.299 %)Credit Risk
959 (2.188 %)N-Tier
1055 (2.039 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1151 (1.891 %)Credit Derivative
1234 (1.261 %)Inversion of Control
1327 (1.001 %)Exotic Derivative
1426 (0.964 %)Equity Derivative
1523 (0.853 %)RIA
1620 (0.742 %)Video on Demand
1719 (0.704 %)Grid Computing
1818 (0.667 %)Digital Media
1818 (0.667 %)Client/Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1269 (9.974 %)Windows
245 (1.669 %)Linux
324 (0.890 %)Windows 7
422 (0.816 %)UNIX
518 (0.667 %)Android
616 (0.593 %)Windows Server 2008
715 (0.556 %)Windows Mobile
811 (0.408 %)Windows Server 2003
811 (0.408 %)Apple iOS
910 (0.371 %)Windows XP
109 (0.334 %)BlackBerry OS
113 (0.111 %)Windows 2000
122 (0.074 %)Oracle Linux
122 (0.074 %)Windows 2000 Server
122 (0.074 %)Windows Phone 7
122 (0.074 %)Windows CE
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1537 (19.91 %)TDD
2516 (19.13 %)MVC
3403 (14.94 %)OO
4336 (12.46 %)Agile Software Development
5329 (12.20 %)Multithreading
6316 (11.72 %)Scrum
7185 (6.859 %)MVVM
8176 (6.526 %)Unit Testing
9161 (5.970 %)E-Commerce
10151 (5.599 %)Risk Management
11142 (5.265 %)Web Development
12119 (4.412 %)OOP
13113 (4.190 %)Continuous Integration
1478 (2.892 %)OOD
1571 (2.633 %)UML
1666 (2.447 %)Algorithmic Trading
1764 (2.373 %)Electronic Trading
1858 (2.151 %)Dependency Injection
1957 (2.113 %)BDD
2051 (1.891 %)User Acceptance Testing
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12697 (100.00 %)C#
2920 (34.11 %)SQL
3360 (13.35 %)JavaScript
4273 (10.12 %)C++
5255 (9.455 %)Java
6176 (6.526 %)VB.NET
7158 (5.858 %)T-SQL
8146 (5.413 %)VBA
9144 (5.339 %)VB
1082 (3.040 %)PL/SQL
1165 (2.410 %)VB6
1251 (1.891 %)XPath
1348 (1.780 %)C
1447 (1.743 %)XAML
1540 (1.483 %)F#
1617 (0.630 %)Delphi
1715 (0.556 %)PHP
1814 (0.519 %)VBScript
1814 (0.519 %)VC++
1913 (0.482 %)Python
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1187 (6.934 %)Degree
275 (2.781 %)Security Cleared
355 (2.039 %)SC Cleared
430 (1.112 %)DV Cleared
529 (1.075 %)Microsoft Certification
612 (0.445 %)PhD
77 (0.260 %)MCP
85 (0.185 %)MCSD
93 (0.111 %)MCTS
93 (0.111 %)BC Cleared
102 (0.074 %)MBA
102 (0.074 %)MCAD
102 (0.074 %)CFA
111 (0.037 %)HNC
111 (0.037 %)CTC Cleared
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
141 (1.520 %)QA
212 (0.445 %)ISO 9001
34 (0.148 %)Solvency II
34 (0.148 %)PCI DSS
43 (0.111 %)Basel II
52 (0.074 %)WAI
61 (0.037 %)WCAG
61 (0.037 %)Basel III
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
121 (0.779 %)Active Directory
215 (0.556 %)VMware Infrastructure
313 (0.482 %)VMware ESX
41 (0.037 %)vSphere
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (0.074 %)MIIS
21 (0.037 %)BladeLogic
21 (0.037 %)vCenter
21 (0.037 %)HP Quality Center
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1424 (15.72 %)Microsoft
2270 (10.01 %)Oracle
365 (2.410 %)TIBCO
445 (1.669 %)Sybase
527 (1.001 %)Reuters
527 (1.001 %)DevExpress
622 (0.816 %)Syncfusion
721 (0.779 %)Sitecore
820 (0.742 %)EPiServer
917 (0.630 %)DataSynapse
1016 (0.593 %)VMware
1114 (0.519 %)Infragistics
1213 (0.482 %)Perforce
1312 (0.445 %)Telerik
1411 (0.408 %)ESRI
159 (0.334 %)Bloomberg
159 (0.334 %)Sage
159 (0.334 %)AccuRev
168 (0.297 %)29West
168 (0.297 %)Ektron