The first table below looks at the demand for the C# Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 advertised for the West Midlands 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C# Developer
Rank 52 66 67
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +1
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 43 39 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 2.513% 1.745% 1.656%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.748% 1.890% 1.794%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 32 13
Average daily rate £275 £348 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.86% +26.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £243 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £400 £320
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £305 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.55% +1.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £18.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+26.12% -14.61%
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1565 2064 1784
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 91.47% 92.35% 92.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 725 976 761
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 151 146
Average hourly rate £18.50 £15.56 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.89% -13.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £33.00 £36.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
C# Developer
England

C# Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing C# Developer across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

West Midlands C# Developer Jobs Demand Trend

C# Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands C# Developer Daily Rate Trend

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C# Developer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

West Midlands C# Developer Daily Rate Histogram

C# Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands C# Developer Hourly Rate Trend

C# Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# Developer within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 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
Birmingham +9 16 £275 -8.33% 7
Warwickshire - 7 £220 - 13
Staffordshire +10 6 £328 +0.76% 6
Coventry -3 4 £135 -65.38% 3
Shropshire - 4 £250 - 1
Solihull +1 2 - - 2
Wolverhampton - 1 £450 -
Herefordshire - - - -
Sutton Coldfield - - - -
Walsall - - - -
West Bromwich - - - -
Worcestershire - - - - 3
C# Developer
England

C# Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited C# Developer 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# Developer in their job title.

1 90 (100.00%) C#
2 79 (87.78%) .NET
3 60 (66.67%) ASP.NET
4 52 (57.78%) SQL Server
5 37 (41.11%) SQL
6 35 (38.89%) JavaScript
7 29 (32.22%) MVC
8 28 (31.11%) .NET Framework
9 24 (26.67%) Ajax
9 24 (26.67%) jQuery
10 23 (25.56%) ASP.NET MVC
11 21 (23.33%) SQL Server 2008
12 19 (21.11%) Web Services
13 17 (18.89%) XML
13 17 (18.89%) CSS
13 17 (18.89%) Visual Studio
14 16 (17.78%) WCF
14 16 (17.78%) TDD
15 15 (16.67%) HTML
15 15 (16.67%) Microsoft
16 14 (15.56%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
17 12 (13.33%) HTML5
18 11 (12.22%) T-SQL
18 11 (12.22%) Windows
18 11 (12.22%) Agile Software Development
18 11 (12.22%) Unit Testing
19 10 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC 3
20 9 (10.00%) Silverlight
20 9 (10.00%) IIS
21 8 (8.889%) UML

C# Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited C# Developer 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# Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 79 (87.78%) .NET
2 60 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 28 (31.11%) .NET Framework
4 24 (26.67%) Ajax
4 24 (26.67%) jQuery
5 23 (25.56%) ASP.NET MVC
6 19 (21.11%) Web Services
7 17 (18.89%) XML
7 17 (18.89%) CSS
8 16 (17.78%) WCF
9 15 (16.67%) HTML
10 14 (15.56%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 12 (13.33%) HTML5
12 10 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC 3
13 9 (10.00%) Silverlight
14 8 (8.889%) XHTML
14 8 (8.889%) CSS3
15 6 (6.667%) Managed Extensibility Framework
16 5 (5.556%) LINQ
17 4 (4.444%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 9 (10.00%) IIS
2 6 (6.667%) ArcGIS
3 5 (5.556%) BizTalk Server
4 4 (4.444%) CMS
5 2 (2.222%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.111%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (1.111%) EPiServer CMS
6 1 (1.111%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (1.111%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (1.111%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (3.333%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.111%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (3.333%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.111%) Internet
1 1 (1.111%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (57.78%) SQL Server
2 21 (23.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (4.444%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (3.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.222%) GIS
5 2 (2.222%) MySQL
6 1 (1.111%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (18.89%) Visual Studio
2 7 (7.778%) Moq
2 7 (7.778%) MSTest
3 6 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (4.444%) Subversion
4 4 (4.444%) JIRA
5 1 (1.111%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.111%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (1.111%) NMock
5 1 (1.111%) Appcelerator Titanium
5 1 (1.111%) NUnit
5 1 (1.111%) WatiN
General
1 5 (5.556%) Games
2 2 (2.222%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.111%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.889%) N-Tier
2 6 (6.667%) Client/Server
2 6 (6.667%) RIA
3 3 (3.333%) Open Source
4 2 (2.222%) Blackberry
4 2 (2.222%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.222%) WURFL
5 1 (1.111%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.111%) Pocket PC
5 1 (1.111%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.22%) Windows
2 6 (6.667%) Windows 7
3 4 (4.444%) Android
3 4 (4.444%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.333%) Windows Mobile
5 2 (2.222%) BlackBerry OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (32.22%) MVC
2 16 (17.78%) TDD
3 11 (12.22%) Agile Software Development
3 11 (12.22%) Unit Testing
4 8 (8.889%) UML
5 7 (7.778%) OO
6 6 (6.667%) E-Commerce
6 6 (6.667%) Web Development
7 5 (5.556%) SEO
8 4 (4.444%) SOA
8 4 (4.444%) Document Management
9 3 (3.333%) Graceful Degradation
9 3 (3.333%) CRM
10 2 (2.222%) Business Intelligence
10 2 (2.222%) OOD
10 2 (2.222%) PRINCE2
10 2 (2.222%) OOP
10 2 (2.222%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (2.222%) Content Management
10 2 (2.222%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 90 (100.00%) C#
2 37 (41.11%) SQL
3 35 (38.89%) JavaScript
4 11 (12.22%) T-SQL
5 6 (6.667%) VB.NET
6 4 (4.444%) PHP
7 2 (2.222%) C++
8 1 (1.111%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.111%) Delphi
8 1 (1.111%) Java
8 1 (1.111%) VBScript
8 1 (1.111%) C
8 1 (1.111%) XAML
Qualifications
1 6 (6.667%) DV Cleared
1 6 (6.667%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.444%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.222%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.222%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.111%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.222%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 15 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.667%) ESRI
3 4 (4.444%) AccuRev
4 2 (2.222%) DevExpress
5 1 (1.111%) Twitter
5 1 (1.111%) Appcelerator
5 1 (1.111%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.111%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.111%) EPiServer
Warwick, West Midlands
Due to winning a number of new projects they require a C# ASP.NET Developer who has experience using .NET 4.0 / 4.5 for an initial 3...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £240 - £300 per day
Posted: 19 June 2013
Worcestershire, West Midlands
As an application developer will be required to write scalable VB.NET/C# code against specification, liaise with other departments and fault diagnosis and resolutions... VB.NET/C#...
Computer Futures
Posted: 30 May 2013
West Midlands
You will have strong experience with the following: C#, Webservices, WCF, Visual Studio and testing and code debugging. You will also have sound knowledge of LINQ, ASP.Net,...
ReThink Recruitment
Rate: £300 - £340 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
They are seeking talented individuals with proficiency in C# and TDD/BDD. The successful candidates will have proficiency in writing C#.Net code in Nunit... + The latest technologies...
North Point Recruitment
Rate: £225 - £275 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
Major eCommerce Co requires experienced .Net Web Applications Developer (VB.NET/C#.NET/ASP.NET/SQL) with strong UI, rich client side development and data access skills to...
Applause IT Innovation
Rate: £310 - £350 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 17 June 2013
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