The first table below looks at the demand for the C# Software 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# Software Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 June 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C# Software Developer
Rank 519 532 565
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +33
Contract jobs requiring a C# Software Developer 34 46 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.070% 0.079% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.086% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 11 18
Average daily rate £438 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.61% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £225 £274
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £416 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £290 £308
% change year-on-year
+10.34% -5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Average hourly rate - £30.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -15.27%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year
- -15.27%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44896 53769 56680
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.53% 92.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 25886 29628 30997
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £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 2148 2597 2927
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.20 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

C# Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

C# Software Developer Jobs Demand Trend

C# Software Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

C# Software Developer Daily Rate Trend

C# Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

C# Software Developer Daily Rate Histogram

C# Software Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

C# Software Developer Hourly Rate Trend

C# Software 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# Software Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +26 34 £438 +34.61% 51
London +30 13 £515 +21.17% 5
South East -6 11 £360 +28.57% 12
City of London +18 9 £515 +3.00% 3
Hampshire -15 6 £270 - 4
South West +22 4 £563 +150.00% 5
Southampton - 4 - - 2
West Midlands +16 3 £600 +84.61% 2
North West +13 3 £310 - 16
Birmingham +10 3 £600 +84.61%
Oxfordshire +3 3 £425 +88.88% 1
Wiltshire - 3 £600 -
Surrey +7 2 £360 +10.76%
East Midlands -4 2 £273 -
Winchester - 2 £270 - 1
Leatherhead - 2 £360 -
Manchester - 2 £315 - 10
Stockport - 1 £310 - 2
Lancashire - 1 £290 - 1
Preston - 1 £290 - 1
North Yorkshire - 1 £263 -
Yorkshire - 1 £263 - 3
Tyne and Wear - - - -
Wales - - - -
Nottinghamshire - - - -
West Sussex - - - -
West Yorkshire - - - - 1
Merseyside - - - - 3
North East - - - -
North Wales - - - -

C# Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 73 (100.00%) C#
2 55 (75.34%) .NET
3 53 (72.60%) SQL Server
4 33 (45.21%) Windows
5 31 (42.47%) Web Services
6 30 (41.10%) SQL
7 27 (36.99%) WCF
8 26 (35.62%) Multithreading
9 23 (31.51%) XML
10 22 (30.14%) OO
11 20 (27.40%) ASP.NET
12 17 (23.29%) Telecoms
13 16 (21.92%) Banking
13 16 (21.92%) N-Tier
14 15 (20.55%) Memory Management
15 12 (16.44%) Security Cleared
16 11 (15.07%) Microsoft
17 10 (13.70%) JavaScript
17 10 (13.70%) WPF
17 10 (13.70%) .NET Framework
17 10 (13.70%) SQL Server 2008
18 9 (12.33%) Degree
18 9 (12.33%) HTML
19 8 (10.96%) CSS
19 8 (10.96%) UML
19 8 (10.96%) jQuery
19 8 (10.96%) WinForms
19 8 (10.96%) DV Cleared
20 7 (9.589%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
20 7 (9.589%) TDD

C# Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 55 (75.34%) .NET
2 31 (42.47%) Web Services
3 27 (36.99%) WCF
4 23 (31.51%) XML
5 20 (27.40%) ASP.NET
6 10 (13.70%) WPF
6 10 (13.70%) .NET Framework
7 9 (12.33%) HTML
8 8 (10.96%) jQuery
8 8 (10.96%) WinForms
8 8 (10.96%) CSS
9 7 (9.589%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 6 (8.219%) Silverlight
11 5 (6.849%) Ajax
11 5 (6.849%) ADO.NET
12 4 (5.479%) JSON
12 4 (5.479%) ASP.NET MVC
12 4 (5.479%) Managed Extensibility Framework
13 3 (4.110%) HTML5
13 3 (4.110%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 6 (8.219%) IIS
2 4 (5.479%) ArcGIS
3 2 (2.740%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.740%) Windows Azure
4 1 (1.370%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (1.370%) CMS
4 1 (1.370%) WordPress
4 1 (1.370%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (5.479%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.370%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.370%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.370%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.849%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.370%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (72.60%) SQL Server
2 10 (13.70%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (9.589%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (4.110%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (4.110%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.740%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (2.740%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.370%) MySQL
6 1 (1.370%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.370%) Data Mart
6 1 (1.370%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.370%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (9.589%) Visual Studio
2 5 (6.849%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (5.479%) MSTest
3 4 (5.479%) Moq
4 3 (4.110%) NUnit
5 1 (1.370%) Subversion
5 1 (1.370%) JIRA
5 1 (1.370%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.370%) Git (software)
5 1 (1.370%) GitHub
5 1 (1.370%) Oracle Forms
General
1 17 (23.29%) Telecoms
2 16 (21.92%) Banking
3 5 (6.849%) Finance
3 5 (6.849%) Front Office
4 1 (1.370%) Back Office
4 1 (1.370%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.370%) Games
4 1 (1.370%) Retail
4 1 (1.370%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.370%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.92%) N-Tier
2 4 (5.479%) RIA
2 4 (5.479%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.740%) W3C
3 2 (2.740%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.740%) Equities
3 2 (2.740%) Derivative
3 2 (2.740%) Statistics
3 2 (2.740%) Mathematics
3 2 (2.740%) Physics
3 2 (2.740%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.370%) Social Network
4 1 (1.370%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.370%) Machine Learning
4 1 (1.370%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 33 (45.21%) Windows
2 5 (6.849%) Linux
2 5 (6.849%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (6.849%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (5.479%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.370%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (35.62%) Multithreading
2 22 (30.14%) OO
3 15 (20.55%) Memory Management
4 8 (10.96%) UML
5 7 (9.589%) TDD
6 6 (8.219%) Web Development
6 6 (8.219%) MVC
7 5 (6.849%) OOD
7 5 (6.849%) Unit Testing
8 4 (5.479%) MVVM
9 3 (4.110%) Dependency Injection
9 3 (4.110%) Scrum
9 3 (4.110%) Agile Software Development
10 2 (2.740%) CMMI
10 2 (2.740%) SOA
10 2 (2.740%) Business Intelligence
10 2 (2.740%) Metadata Management
10 2 (2.740%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (2.740%) Network Planning
11 1 (1.370%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 73 (100.00%) C#
2 30 (41.10%) SQL
3 10 (13.70%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.219%) C++
5 3 (4.110%) PL/SQL
5 3 (4.110%) VB
6 2 (2.740%) C
6 2 (2.740%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.740%) Java
7 1 (1.370%) PHP
7 1 (1.370%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.370%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.33%) Degree
3 8 (10.96%) DV Cleared
4 7 (9.589%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.370%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.370%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.370%) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.110%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.370%) TickIT
Vendors
1 11 (15.07%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.849%) Oracle
3 4 (5.479%) ESRI
4 1 (1.370%) VMware
4 1 (1.370%) Google
4 1 (1.370%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.370%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.370%) Facebook
4 1 (1.370%) Twitter
Preston, Lancashire
C# /.NET / Agile / SQL Server / WCF / WPF / Preston / Lancashire / Blackburn / Blackpool / Manchester / Wigan / Warrington / Cheshire. C# .NET Applications Developer... Suitable candidates must have proven experience of developing enterprise...
AMsource Technology
Rate: From £280 to £290 per day depending on experience
Posted: 12 June 2013
Winchester, Hampshire
At least two years experience is required along with knowledge of the following; - C# - ASP.NET -MVC -SQL Server -HTML/Javascript They are looking to line up interviews...
X4 Group
Rate: £30k - 40k per year + benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013