Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# 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 of the Programming Languages category.

LinkC#
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank121715
Rank change year-on-year
Up+5Down-2
Matching contract IT job ads405729146491
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK9.268 %6.336 %7.930 %
As % of the Programming Languages category24.47 %20.33 %22.76 %
Daily rates quoted225810912062
Average daily rate£475£400£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.75 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£238£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£625£550£625
UK excluding London average daily rate£290£285£325
% change year-on-year
+1.750 %-12.30 %
Hourly rates quoted102165398
Average hourly rate£30.50£32.50£33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.150 %-1.510 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£17.50£19.00£22.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£42.50£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£32.50£33.00
% change year-on-year
-15.38 %-1.510 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
165781433028524
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK37.87 %31.16 %34.85 %
Daily rates quoted807247888851
Average daily rate£401£350£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.57 %-12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£225£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£525£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£305£325
% change year-on-year
-1.630 %-6.150 %
Hourly rates quoted83212302017
Average hourly rate£30.00£32.50£33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.690 %-1.510 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.88£16.00£19.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£42.50£44.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.00£32.50£33.50
% change year-on-year
-13.84 %-2.980 %

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#
Demand Trend

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

C# Demand Trend

C#
Daily Rate Trend

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

C# Daily Rate Trend

C#
Daily Rate Histogram

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

C# Daily Rate Histogram

C#
Hourly Rate Trend

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

C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

C# Hourly Rate Histogram

C#
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# 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+63955£475+18.75 %
LondonUp+42930£525+16.66 %
City of LondonNo change01006£525+10.52 %
South EastUp+5361£305+1.66 %
South WestUp+16142£250+11.11 %
East of EnglandUp+18140£315+14.54 %
North WestDown-1140£275-
SurreyUp+4115£310+3.33 %
ManchesterDown-182£275-
Canary WharfUp+272£575+15.00 %
ScotlandDown-871£300+8.10 %
YorkshireDown-1771£213-29.16 %
BerkshireUp+468£310-18.42 %
East MidlandsUp+165£228-17.27 %
West MidlandsDown-1153£275-15.38 %
West YorkshireDown-1252£213-26.08 %
BristolUp+1048£325+47.72 %
Docklands, LondonUp+248£500-11.11 %
LeedsDown-545£206-17.50 %
CambridgeshireUp+143£325+36.84 %
HertfordshireUp+3740£298+13.33 %
GlasgowNo change039£320-5.18 %
HampshireDown-539£280-3.44 %
CambridgeDown-233£325+33.33 %
OxfordshireUp+1229£280+21.73 %
KentUp+527£315+16.66 %
CheshireDown-1027£278-20.71 %
NottinghamshireUp+826£223-11.00 %
North EastUp+724£200-51.51 %
SomersetUp+1323£300+36.36 %

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing C# also 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 that cited C#.

15069 (68.89 %).NET
22848 (38.71 %)SQL Server
32551 (34.67 %)ASP.NET
42186 (29.71 %)Banking
52091 (28.42 %)SQL
61507 (20.48 %)Investment Banking
71468 (19.95 %)Front Office
81338 (18.18 %)Java
91296 (17.61 %)Derivative
101248 (16.96 %)Finance
111243 (16.89 %)XML
121115 (15.15 %)OO
131068 (14.51 %)C++
141048 (14.24 %)WinForms
151047 (14.23 %)SQL Server 2005
161039 (14.12 %)Microsoft
17983 (13.36 %)Windows
18982 (13.35 %)Oracle
19886 (12.04 %)Agile Software Development
20866 (11.77 %)Web Services
21813 (11.05 %)JavaScript
22783 (10.64 %)Visual Studio
23740 (10.06 %)SharePoint
24712 (9.677 %)WPF
25699 (9.500 %)CSS
25699 (9.500 %)HTML
26647 (8.793 %)WCF
27633 (8.603 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
28602 (8.182 %).NET Framework
29546 (7.420 %)AJAX

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing C# also 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 that cited C#. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
15069 (68.89 %).NET
22551 (34.67 %)ASP.NET
31243 (16.89 %)XML
41048 (14.24 %)WinForms
5866 (11.77 %)Web Services
6712 (9.677 %)WPF
7699 (9.500 %)CSS
7699 (9.500 %)HTML
8647 (8.793 %)WCF
9602 (8.182 %).NET Framework
10546 (7.420 %)AJAX
11311 (4.227 %)MVC
12304 (4.132 %)Silverlight
13289 (3.928 %)XSLT
14286 (3.887 %)ASP
15262 (3.561 %)NHibernate
16252 (3.425 %)Spring
17242 (3.289 %)XHTML
18224 (3.044 %)jQuery
19180 (2.446 %)SOAP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1740 (10.06 %)SharePoint
2492 (6.687 %)SharePoint Server 2007
3246 (3.343 %)IIS
4187 (2.541 %)CMS
5128 (1.740 %)BizTalk Server
694 (1.278 %)Rendezvous
787 (1.182 %)TIBCO EMS
866 (0.897 %)MQSeries
941 (0.557 %)EPiServer
941 (0.557 %)MS Exchange
1040 (0.544 %)Apache
1136 (0.489 %)SharePoint Portal Server
1235 (0.476 %)Sitecore CMS
1330 (0.408 %)Exchange Server 2007
1429 (0.394 %)Oracle Workflow
1429 (0.394 %)Tomcat
1526 (0.353 %)ESB
1624 (0.326 %)Umbraco
1722 (0.299 %)Exchange Server 2003
1820 (0.272 %)Content Management Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1325 (4.417 %)MS Excel
2127 (1.726 %)MS Office
3125 (1.699 %)Spreadsheet
4104 (1.413 %)InfoPath
550 (0.680 %)MS Visio
638 (0.516 %)Photoshop
714 (0.190 %)MS Project
812 (0.163 %)Adobe Illustrator
911 (0.149 %)MS PowerPoint
1010 (0.136 %)CA Clarity
115 (0.068 %)Fireworks
121 (0.014 %)ArcInfo
121 (0.014 %)XMetaL
121 (0.014 %)Maya
121 (0.014 %)MATLAB
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
164 (0.870 %)Dynamics CRM
246 (0.625 %)Microsoft CRM
333 (0.448 %)Endur
421 (0.285 %)BusinessWorks
518 (0.245 %)ION MarketView
616 (0.217 %)TIBCO iProcess
616 (0.217 %)RMDS
713 (0.177 %)Global One
88 (0.109 %)SunGard Martini
97 (0.095 %)Summit
97 (0.095 %)Oracle 11i
106 (0.082 %)Dynamics NAV
115 (0.068 %)Sophis RISQUE
115 (0.068 %)AWD
115 (0.068 %)SolArc RightAngle
124 (0.054 %)Navision
124 (0.054 %)Dynamics AX
133 (0.041 %)Minerva
133 (0.041 %)SalesLogix
142 (0.027 %)Sophis VALUE
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1124 (1.685 %)Intranet
2112 (1.522 %)Internet
399 (1.345 %)HTTP
463 (0.856 %)TCP/IP
542 (0.571 %)LDAP
627 (0.367 %)SSL
726 (0.353 %)Extranet
726 (0.353 %)DNS
820 (0.272 %)DHCP
918 (0.245 %)FTP
1016 (0.217 %)SMS
1113 (0.177 %)DSL
1212 (0.163 %)Wireless
138 (0.109 %)Firewall
138 (0.109 %)SAN
138 (0.109 %)Kerberos
138 (0.109 %)LAN
147 (0.095 %)HTTPS
147 (0.095 %)VoIP
147 (0.095 %)X.500
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12848 (38.71 %)SQL Server
21047 (14.23 %)SQL Server 2005
3376 (5.110 %)SQL Server 2008
4285 (3.873 %)SQL Server 2000
5282 (3.833 %)SQL Server Integration Services
6247 (3.357 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
7150 (2.039 %)Oracle 10g
8146 (1.984 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
9136 (1.848 %)RDBMS
10109 (1.481 %)Datawarehouse
11104 (1.413 %)OLAP
12101 (1.373 %)MySQL
1394 (1.278 %)Crystal Reports
1492 (1.250 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1576 (1.033 %)Oracle 8/8i
1672 (0.979 %)ETL
1747 (0.639 %)DTS
1846 (0.625 %)BusinessObjects
1846 (0.625 %)Oracle Reports
1942 (0.571 %)GIS
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1783 (10.64 %)Visual Studio
2335 (4.553 %)NUnit
3258 (3.506 %)Subversion
4157 (2.134 %)Team Foundation Server
5125 (1.699 %)TeamCity
6107 (1.454 %)VSS/SourceSafe
7101 (1.373 %)ClearCase
871 (0.965 %)Selenium
965 (0.883 %)JUnit
1062 (0.843 %)ReSharper
1062 (0.843 %)CruiseControl
1161 (0.829 %)FitNesse
1258 (0.788 %)JIRA
1353 (0.720 %)NCover
1447 (0.639 %)WatiN
1542 (0.571 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
1640 (0.544 %)WATIR
1736 (0.489 %)Expression Blend
1831 (0.421 %)Eclipse
1930 (0.408 %)QuickTest Pro
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12186 (29.71 %)Banking
21507 (20.48 %)Investment Banking
31468 (19.95 %)Front Office
41248 (16.96 %)Finance
5167 (2.270 %)Government
6141 (1.916 %)Back Office
792 (1.250 %)Retail
891 (1.237 %)Insurance
972 (0.979 %)Games
1065 (0.883 %)Publishing
1164 (0.870 %)Education
1263 (0.856 %)Marketing
1354 (0.734 %)Health
1354 (0.734 %)Financial Institution
1444 (0.598 %)Telecoms
1536 (0.489 %)Legal
1625 (0.340 %)Pensions
1723 (0.313 %)Manufacturing
1818 (0.245 %)Military
1917 (0.231 %)Retail Banking
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
15985 (81.34 %)Developer
23098 (42.10 %)C# Developer
31794 (24.38 %).NET Developer
4660 (8.970 %)Senior Developer
5529 (7.189 %)ASP.NET Developer
6430 (5.844 %)Analyst
7424 (5.762 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
8350 (4.757 %)SharePoint Developer
9346 (4.702 %)Senior C# Developer
10328 (4.458 %)Web Developer
11316 (4.295 %)Java Developer
12278 (3.778 %)WinForms Developer
13266 (3.615 %)SQL Developer
14251 (3.411 %)GUI Developer
15240 (3.262 %)C++ Developer
16204 (2.772 %)Front Office Developer
17170 (2.310 %)Programmer
18168 (2.283 %)Senior .NET Developer
19162 (2.202 %)Software Developer
20147 (1.998 %)Architect
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11296 (17.61 %)Derivative
2633 (8.603 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3511 (6.945 %)Equity Derivative
4403 (5.477 %)Fixed Income
5383 (5.205 %)Multithreading
6312 (4.240 %)Equities
7206 (2.800 %)N-Tier
8172 (2.338 %)Credit Derivative
9171 (2.324 %)Interest Rate Derivative
10155 (2.107 %)Client/Server
11114 (1.549 %)Credit Risk
12105 (1.427 %)Computer Science
1393 (1.264 %)Grid Computing
1489 (1.210 %)Mathematics
1584 (1.142 %)NHS
1656 (0.761 %)Market Risk
1734 (0.462 %)Management Information System
1829 (0.394 %)Social Network
1928 (0.381 %)Exotic Derivative
2026 (0.353 %)Open Source
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1983 (13.36 %)Windows
2329 (4.471 %)UNIX
3223 (3.031 %)Linux
4128 (1.740 %)Windows Server 2003
569 (0.938 %)Solaris
569 (0.938 %)Windows Server 2008
651 (0.693 %)Windows XP
730 (0.408 %)Windows Vista
828 (0.381 %)Windows Mobile
925 (0.340 %)Windows 2000
1022 (0.299 %)VMS
1118 (0.245 %)Windows 7
128 (0.109 %)AIX
137 (0.095 %)Windows 2000 Server
146 (0.082 %)Android
146 (0.082 %)Windows CE
154 (0.054 %)Red Hat Linux
154 (0.054 %)Windows NT
154 (0.054 %)HPUX
154 (0.054 %)Mac OS X
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11115 (15.15 %)OO
2886 (12.04 %)Agile Software Development
3530 (7.203 %)TDD
4340 (4.621 %)Unit Testing
5312 (4.240 %)Scrum
6307 (4.172 %)UML
7297 (4.036 %)OOD
8290 (3.941 %)Web Development
9270 (3.669 %)Risk Management
10225 (3.058 %)E-Commerce
10225 (3.058 %)Workflow
11205 (2.786 %)SOA
12203 (2.759 %)Continuous Integration
13188 (2.555 %)CRM
14183 (2.487 %)RAD
15130 (1.767 %)Migration
16129 (1.753 %)OOP
17121 (1.644 %)Electronic Trading
18115 (1.563 %)Content Management
19112 (1.522 %)OOA/OOD
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12091 (28.42 %)SQL
21338 (18.18 %)Java
31068 (14.51 %)C++
4813 (11.05 %)JavaScript
5532 (7.230 %)VB.NET
6464 (6.306 %)T-SQL
7438 (5.953 %)VBA
8366 (4.974 %)VB
9311 (4.227 %)C
10305 (4.145 %)PL/SQL
11143 (1.943 %)Perl
12125 (1.699 %)VB6
1396 (1.305 %)PHP
1485 (1.155 %)Python
1582 (1.114 %)VC++
1671 (0.965 %)Shell Script
1766 (0.897 %)PowerShell
1864 (0.870 %)VBScript
1950 (0.680 %)XAML
2029 (0.394 %)Ruby
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1320 (4.349 %)Degree
2299 (4.064 %)Security Cleared
3191 (2.596 %)SC Cleared
496 (1.305 %)Microsoft Certification
529 (0.394 %)MCSD
529 (0.394 %)ISEB
627 (0.367 %)MCP
725 (0.340 %)MCAD
823 (0.313 %)CTC Cleared
921 (0.285 %)DV Cleared
1020 (0.272 %)MCTS
1115 (0.204 %)MCPD
1115 (0.204 %)PhD
129 (0.122 %)MCSE
135 (0.068 %)PMI Certification
144 (0.054 %)ISEB Practitioner
153 (0.041 %)HND
153 (0.041 %)BC Cleared
153 (0.041 %)Brainbench
162 (0.027 %)MCDBA
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1121 (1.644 %)QA
221 (0.285 %)WAI
312 (0.163 %)WCAG
411 (0.149 %)ISO9001
56 (0.082 %)SLA
65 (0.068 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
74 (0.054 %)JTAG
83 (0.041 %)ISO12207
92 (0.027 %)Basel II
92 (0.027 %)HL7
92 (0.027 %)COBIT
101 (0.014 %)PAS 78
101 (0.014 %)GxP
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
183 (1.128 %)Active Directory
260 (0.815 %)MSMQ
323 (0.313 %)VMware Infrastructure
413 (0.177 %)Hyper-V
55 (0.068 %)VMware ESX
64 (0.054 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
73 (0.041 %)Oracle RAC
73 (0.041 %)Citrix Presentation Server
73 (0.041 %)Terminal Server
73 (0.041 %)XenApp
82 (0.027 %)XenDesktop
82 (0.027 %)Terminal Services
82 (0.027 %)AquaLogic
91 (0.014 %)Oracle RMAN
91 (0.014 %)VMware Workstation
91 (0.014 %)Shibboleth
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
126 (0.353 %)AutoSys
214 (0.190 %)SCCM
313 (0.177 %)MIIS
410 (0.136 %)Data Guard
57 (0.095 %)CONTROL-M
66 (0.082 %)Oracle Statspack
66 (0.082 %)Tivoli
75 (0.068 %)MSI
84 (0.054 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
93 (0.041 %)BMC Performance Manager
93 (0.041 %)BMC PATROL
93 (0.041 %)HP Quality Center
102 (0.027 %)SCOM
102 (0.027 %)OpenView
111 (0.014 %)OVSD
111 (0.014 %)HP NNM
111 (0.014 %)OVOU
111 (0.014 %)OVPI
111 (0.014 %)OVPM
111 (0.014 %)ServiceCenter
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11039 (14.12 %)Microsoft
2982 (13.35 %)Oracle
3368 (5.001 %)Sybase
4287 (3.901 %)TIBCO
598 (1.332 %)DataSynapse
680 (1.087 %)Bloomberg
776 (1.033 %)DevExpress
870 (0.951 %)Perforce
961 (0.829 %)Reuters
1051 (0.693 %)Infragistics
1150 (0.680 %)Sitecore
1246 (0.625 %)Business Objects
1342 (0.571 %)IBM
1432 (0.435 %)Syncfusion
1529 (0.394 %)ION Trading
1529 (0.394 %)VMware
1529 (0.394 %)OpenLink
1627 (0.367 %)Citrix
1627 (0.367 %)ESRI
1724 (0.326 %)Murex