The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Watford 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 Watford 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 - 15 13
Contract jobs citing C# 0 7 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford - 6.796% 6.173%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 18.42% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 2
Average daily rate - £350 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
All Programming Languages
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
23 38 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 31.94% 36.89% 43.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 16
Average daily rate £325 £363 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.34% +7.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £280 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £455 £446
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C#
Hertfordshire

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford C# Daily Rate Trend

C#
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Watford C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Games
2 1 (50.00%) E-Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Lagan
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Online Games
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (50.00%) JavaBeans
2 1 (50.00%) CTI
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaBeans
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) CTI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Programmer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) E-Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Online Games
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Lagan