The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warrington region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Warrington region.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 11 13 15
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +2
Contract jobs citing C# 11 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 9.016% 5.319% 3.846%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.21% 13.89% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
Average daily rate £291 £323 £278
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.68% +16.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £317 £264
10% offered a daily rate of more than £356 £329 £292
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +57.89%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
All Programming Languages
Warrington
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
39 36 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 31.97% 38.30% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 17
Average daily rate £350 £330 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -2.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £246 £266 £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £435 £374
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +57.89%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C#
Cheshire

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing C# across the Warrington region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Warrington C# Jobs Demand Trend

C#
Daily Rate Trend

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

Warrington C# Daily Rate Trend

C#
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# across the Warrington region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Warrington C# Daily Rate Histogram

C#
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Warrington C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 14 (100.00%) .NET
1 14 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (78.57%) .NET Framework
3 10 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (57.14%) ASP.NET
5 7 (50.00%) Management Information System
5 7 (50.00%) SQL
5 7 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
6 6 (42.86%) Visual Studio
7 5 (35.71%) SharePoint
7 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
7 5 (35.71%) SQL Server 2008
8 4 (28.57%) iPad
8 4 (28.57%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 4 (28.57%) LINQ
8 4 (28.57%) jQuery
8 4 (28.57%) Android
8 4 (28.57%) Contact Management
8 4 (28.57%) Photoshop
8 4 (28.57%) Web Services
8 4 (28.57%) T-SQL
8 4 (28.57%) VB.NET
8 4 (28.57%) SQL Server 2012
9 3 (21.43%) Oracle
9 3 (21.43%) Java
9 3 (21.43%) Windows
9 3 (21.43%) SAP
9 3 (21.43%) Oracle 8/8i
9 3 (21.43%) MS Excel
9 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (78.57%) .NET Framework
3 8 (57.14%) ASP.NET
4 4 (28.57%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 4 (28.57%) LINQ
4 4 (28.57%) jQuery
4 4 (28.57%) Web Services
5 3 (21.43%) Windows SharePoint Services
5 3 (21.43%) WebSphere
5 3 (21.43%) Java EE
5 3 (21.43%) WCF
5 3 (21.43%) WPF
6 1 (7.143%) CSS
6 1 (7.143%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (35.71%) SharePoint
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Photoshop
2 3 (21.43%) MS Excel
3 2 (14.29%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Maximo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (35.71%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (28.57%) SQL Server 2012
5 3 (21.43%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Visual Studio
2 2 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) C# Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Software Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) C# .NET Developer
3 4 (28.57%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 4 (28.57%) .NET Developer
3 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Web Developer
5 2 (14.29%) C# Web Developer
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Developer
6 1 (7.143%) Web Applications Developer
6 1 (7.143%) .NET Web Developer
6 1 (7.143%) Applications Developer
6 1 (7.143%) C# Application Developer
6 1 (7.143%) .NET Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (28.57%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Android
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (28.57%) Contact Management
3 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) Scrum
3 3 (21.43%) Asset Management
3 3 (21.43%) Data Management
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (21.43%) Feature Driven Development
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Workflow
4 2 (14.29%) RUP
5 1 (7.143%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 4 (28.57%) T-SQL
3 4 (28.57%) VB.NET
4 3 (21.43%) Java
5 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 1 (7.143%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 1 (7.143%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
1 3 (21.43%) SAP
1 3 (21.43%) IBM
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft