The first table below looks at the demand for the C# Software Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C# Software Engineer
Rank 488 518 568
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +50
Contract jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 53 52 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.110% 0.090% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.120% 0.097% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 19 20
Average daily rate £353 £290 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.55% -3.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £353 £288 £300
% change year-on-year
+22.60% -4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year
-18.75% -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44347 53663 57608
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.47% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25564 29628 31510
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
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 2099 2560 2964
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 £11.19 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%

C# Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

C# Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

C# Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

C# Software Engineer Daily Rate Trend

C# Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# Software Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

C# Software Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

C# Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

C# Software Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

C# Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 19 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 +7 46 £325 +12.06% 35
South East +26 19 £325 +35.41% 13
London +24 8 £463 -7.50% 4
Woking - 7 £325 -
Glasgow - 7 £400 -
Scotland - 7 £400 - 1
Surrey - 7 £325 - 1
South West +31 6 £600 +166.66% 4
Hampshire 0 6 - - 5
North West - 6 £300 - 5
West Midlands - 6 £563 - 1
City of London +4 5 £588 - 2
Birmingham - 5 £563 - 1
Southampton -1 4 - - 2
North East +14 3 - -
Yorkshire +2 3 - - 3
West Yorkshire -1 3 - - 2
Oxfordshire -2 3 £260 +9.47%
Leeds -8 3 - - 2
Oxford +2 2 £260 +15.55%
North Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
East Midlands -6 1 £250 -
Berkshire - 1 - - 7
Harrogate - 1 - - 1
Bradford - 1 - -
Bristol - - - - 1
Burton-upon-Trent - - - -
Cambridge - - - - 2
Cannock - - - -
Chester - - - -

C# Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited C# Software Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 88 (100.00%) C#
2 70 (79.55%) .NET
3 42 (47.73%) SQL
4 39 (44.32%) Multithreading
5 35 (39.77%) WPF
5 35 (39.77%) SQL Server
6 33 (37.50%) Microsoft
7 25 (28.41%) Web Services
8 22 (25.00%) WCF
9 21 (23.86%) OO
10 20 (22.73%) Visual Studio
11 16 (18.18%) UML
11 16 (18.18%) Windows
12 15 (17.05%) .NET Framework
12 15 (17.05%) Team Foundation Server
13 14 (15.91%) LINQ
13 14 (15.91%) Banking
13 14 (15.91%) TDD
14 13 (14.77%) XML
15 12 (13.64%) WinForms
15 12 (13.64%) Degree
15 12 (13.64%) Derivative
16 11 (12.50%) MS Excel
16 11 (12.50%) Java
16 11 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
16 11 (12.50%) Security Cleared
17 10 (11.36%) Finance
17 10 (11.36%) Front Office
17 10 (11.36%) TIBCO
17 10 (11.36%) TIBCO EMS

C# Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited C# Software Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 70 (79.55%) .NET
2 35 (39.77%) WPF
3 25 (28.41%) Web Services
4 22 (25.00%) WCF
5 15 (17.05%) .NET Framework
6 14 (15.91%) LINQ
7 13 (14.77%) XML
8 12 (13.64%) WinForms
9 7 (7.955%) ASP.NET
10 6 (6.818%) Silverlight
10 6 (6.818%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 4 (4.545%) HTML
11 4 (4.545%) CSS
11 4 (4.545%) Managed Extensibility Framework
12 3 (3.409%) REST
12 3 (3.409%) Reactive Extensions
12 3 (3.409%) Spring MVC
12 3 (3.409%) Spring
12 3 (3.409%) ASP
12 3 (3.409%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 10 (11.36%) TIBCO EMS
2 5 (5.682%) IIS
3 4 (4.545%) ArcGIS
4 3 (3.409%) Windows Azure
5 2 (2.273%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.136%) EPiServer CMS
6 1 (1.136%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (1.136%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (12.50%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.136%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.136%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.136%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.545%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.409%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (39.77%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (6.818%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (6.818%) SQL Server 2005
3 6 (6.818%) SQL Server 2012
4 4 (4.545%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.273%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (2.273%) KDB
5 2 (2.273%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (1.136%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.136%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 20 (22.73%) Visual Studio
2 15 (17.05%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (5.682%) NUnit
4 4 (4.545%) Moq
4 4 (4.545%) Git (software)
4 4 (4.545%) MSTest
5 3 (3.409%) InstallShield
5 3 (3.409%) Eclipse
6 2 (2.273%) JUnit
6 2 (2.273%) NuGet
6 2 (2.273%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.136%) GitHub
7 1 (1.136%) Subversion
General
1 14 (15.91%) Banking
2 10 (11.36%) Finance
2 10 (11.36%) Front Office
3 8 (9.091%) Investment Banking
4 4 (4.545%) Retail
5 3 (3.409%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.273%) Games
6 2 (2.273%) Marketing
7 1 (1.136%) Avionics
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.64%) Derivative
2 4 (4.545%) Client/Server
2 4 (4.545%) Fixed Income
2 4 (4.545%) RIA
3 3 (3.409%) Computer Science
3 3 (3.409%) EFT
4 2 (2.273%) N-Tier
4 2 (2.273%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.273%) Credit Risk
4 2 (2.273%) Market Risk
4 2 (2.273%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.273%) Open Source
4 2 (2.273%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (1.136%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.136%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.18%) Windows
2 4 (4.545%) Windows 7
3 3 (3.409%) Solaris
3 3 (3.409%) Linux
4 2 (2.273%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.136%) Android
5 1 (1.136%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (44.32%) Multithreading
2 21 (23.86%) OO
3 16 (18.18%) UML
4 14 (15.91%) TDD
5 9 (10.23%) Unit Testing
5 9 (10.23%) MVVM
6 7 (7.955%) Agile Software Development
7 6 (6.818%) OOD
7 6 (6.818%) Scrum
7 6 (6.818%) Electronic Trading
7 6 (6.818%) Software Architecture
8 4 (4.545%) MVC
8 4 (4.545%) Software Engineering
8 4 (4.545%) Requirements Analysis
8 4 (4.545%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (4.545%) Analytics
9 3 (3.409%) Product Management
9 3 (3.409%) Web Development
9 3 (3.409%) Configuration Management
9 3 (3.409%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 88 (100.00%) C#
2 42 (47.73%) SQL
3 11 (12.50%) Java
4 7 (7.955%) C++
5 6 (6.818%) VB
6 5 (5.682%) VB.NET
6 5 (5.682%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.545%) Scala
8 3 (3.409%) Perl
9 2 (2.273%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.273%) Lua
9 2 (2.273%) Haskell
9 2 (2.273%) F#
10 1 (1.136%) XAML
10 1 (1.136%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (13.64%) Degree
2 11 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.955%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.545%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.273%) HND
5 2 (2.273%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.273%) DO-178B
System Software
1 3 (3.409%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (3.409%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 2 (2.273%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 33 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.36%) TIBCO
3 6 (6.818%) Syncfusion
3 6 (6.818%) DevExpress
4 4 (4.545%) ESRI
5 3 (3.409%) Serena
5 3 (3.409%) VMware
5 3 (3.409%) Sybase
5 3 (3.409%) Oracle
6 1 (1.136%) Xamarin
6 1 (1.136%) EPiServer
6 1 (1.136%) Teradata
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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...
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Rate: £30k - 40k per year + benefits
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