Wales C# Contracts

This section looks at the demand for C# skills within the Wales region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited C# over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abbots Langley Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Avon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kenilworth Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Ringwood Rochester Rotherham Sale Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stowmarket Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	37
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	36	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	13.85 %	12.43 %
Daily rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum daily rate	£270	£300
Average daily rate	£288	£325
% change on same period last year	-11.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£307	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£335
% change on same period last year	+0.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.08	-
Average hourly rate	£36.69	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.31	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.20	£34.53
% change on same period last year	+1.95 %
Programming Languages Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	260	177
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.343 %	0.188 %
Daily rates quoted	74	24
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£256
Average daily rate	£359	£288
% change on same period last year	+24.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£332
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	31	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.86	£26.78
Average hourly rate	£29.28	£28.83
% change on same period last year	+1.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.69	£30.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.13	£33.16
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# across the Wales region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# across the Wales region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing C# within the Wales region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
South Wales	+8	33	£286	-12.00 %
West Wales	+4	1	£300	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region 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#.

1 72 (63.16 %) .NET 2 45 (39.47 %) ASP.NET 3 43 (37.72 %) SQL Server 4 41 (35.96 %) XML 4 41 (35.96 %) Windows 5 39 (34.21 %) Visual Studio 6 32 (28.07 %) SQL 7 24 (21.05 %) WebServices 8 23 (20.18 %) AJAX 9 22 (19.30 %) SOAP 9 22 (19.30 %) C++ 9 22 (19.30 %) HTML 9 22 (19.30 %) Security Cleared 10 20 (17.54 %) OO 11 19 (16.67 %) CSS

11 19 (16.67 %) VB 11 19 (16.67 %) IIS 11 19 (16.67 %) Microsoft 11 19 (16.67 %) SC Cleared 12 17 (14.91 %) UML 12 17 (14.91 %) Health 13 16 (14.04 %) C 14 14 (12.28 %) SOA 14 14 (12.28 %) Government 15 13 (11.40 %) SQL Server 2005 16 12 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2000 17 11 (9.649 %) Agile Software Development 18 10 (8.772 %) Windows XP 18 10 (8.772 %) Java 19 9 (7.895 %) Oracle

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region 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.

Application Development 1 72 (63.16 %) .NET 2 45 (39.47 %) ASP.NET 3 41 (35.96 %) XML 4 24 (21.05 %) WebServices 5 23 (20.18 %) AJAX 6 22 (19.30 %) HTML 6 22 (19.30 %) SOAP 7 19 (16.67 %) CSS 8 8 (7.018 %) JMS 9 6 (5.263 %) WSDL 9 6 (5.263 %) SAML 9 6 (5.263 %) XSD 10 4 (3.509 %) ADO.NET 10 4 (3.509 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 3 (2.632 %) .NET Framework 11 3 (2.632 %) XHTML 11 3 (2.632 %) NetBeans 12 2 (1.754 %) ASP 13 1 (0.877 %) XSLT 13 1 (0.877 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 19 (16.67 %) IIS 2 3 (2.632 %) SharePoint 3 1 (0.877 %) ArcGIS
Communications & Networking 1 9 (7.895 %) TCP/IP 2 7 (6.140 %) Internet 3 4 (3.509 %) SNMP 4 2 (1.754 %) GPRS 4 2 (1.754 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 43 (37.72 %) SQL Server 2 13 (11.40 %) SQL Server 2005 3 12 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3 (2.632 %) GIS 5 2 (1.754 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 39 (34.21 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (4.386 %) Visual Studio Team System 3 4 (3.509 %) Rational Rose 4 2 (1.754 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 2 (1.754 %) Flash 5 1 (0.877 %) NUnit 5 1 (0.877 %) Subversion 5 1 (0.877 %) Ant	General 1 17 (14.91 %) Health 2 14 (12.28 %) Government 3 8 (7.018 %) Military 4 3 (2.632 %) Finance 4 3 (2.632 %) Aerospace 5 2 (1.754 %) Electronics 6 1 (0.877 %) Marketing 6 1 (0.877 %) Animation 6 1 (0.877 %) Advertising
Job Titles 1 65 (57.02 %) Developer 2 35 (30.70 %) .NET Developer 3 34 (29.82 %) C# Developer 4 29 (25.44 %) Software Engineer 5 17 (14.91 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 13 (11.40 %) Web Developer 7 10 (8.772 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 9 (7.895 %) Senior Software Engineer 9 8 (7.018 %) C# Software Engineer 10 7 (6.140 %) Integration Engineer 10 7 (6.140 %) Software Integration Engineer 10 7 (6.140 %) Software Developer 11 6 (5.263 %) Senior C# Software Engineer 12 5 (4.386 %) .NET Web Developer 13 4 (3.509 %) Tester 14 3 (2.632 %) Applications Developer 14 3 (2.632 %) SQL Developer 14 3 (2.632 %) SQL Server Developer 15 2 (1.754 %) Software Development Engineer 15 2 (1.754 %) Real Time Software Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (5.263 %) NHS 2 3 (2.632 %) Streaming Video 3 2 (1.754 %) Pocket PC 3 2 (1.754 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.877 %) Blackberry 4 1 (0.877 %) PDA 4 1 (0.877 %) Welsh Language 4 1 (0.877 %) Wiki
Operating Systems 1 41 (35.96 %) Windows 2 10 (8.772 %) Windows XP 3 3 (2.632 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (1.754 %) Windows Mobile 5 1 (0.877 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (19.30 %) Security Cleared 2 20 (17.54 %) OO 3 19 (16.67 %) SC Cleared 4 17 (14.91 %) UML 5 14 (12.28 %) SOA 6 11 (9.649 %) Agile Software Development 7 8 (7.018 %) Software Engineering 7 8 (7.018 %) RAD 8 7 (6.140 %) Web Development 8 7 (6.140 %) Unit Testing 9 6 (5.263 %) Integration Testing 9 6 (5.263 %) BPEL 10 5 (4.386 %) OOD 11 4 (3.509 %) RUP 12 3 (2.632 %) Scrum 12 3 (2.632 %) Test Scripting 13 2 (1.754 %) Communications Security 13 2 (1.754 %) User Acceptance Testing 13 2 (1.754 %) MVC 13 2 (1.754 %) Validation
Programming Languages 1 32 (28.07 %) SQL 2 22 (19.30 %) C++ 3 19 (16.67 %) VB 4 16 (14.04 %) C 5 10 (8.772 %) Java 6 8 (7.018 %) JavaScript 6 8 (7.018 %) VB.NET 7 3 (2.632 %) Embedded C 8 2 (1.754 %) VB6 8 2 (1.754 %) ActionScript 9 1 (0.877 %) Delphi 9 1 (0.877 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 2 (1.754 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.877 %) QA	Vendors 1 19 (16.67 %) Microsoft 2 9 (7.895 %) Oracle 3 5 (4.386 %) telerik 4 4 (3.509 %) QNX