The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Programming Languages category for the Wiltshire 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 14 16 14
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -2
Contract jobs citing C# 50 43 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 9.615% 7.288% 8.040%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.46% 25.60% 25.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 18 13
Average daily rate £300 £350 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +29.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £218 £212 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £543 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 10
Average hourly rate £35.00 £23.88 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+46.59% -11.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.20 £23.88 £22.73
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £24.66 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.75 £30.50 £32.75
% change year-on-year
+17.21% -6.87%
All Programming Languages
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
141 168 186
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 27.12% 28.47% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 90 78
Average daily rate £325 £328 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.76% -9.02%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £222 £213 £227
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £494
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 15
Average hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £23.88 £22.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £42.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C#
South West

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Swindon 0 30 £283 -35.24% 15
Salisbury -3 2 £300 - 4
Chippenham - 2 £273 - 2
Malmesbury - - - - 1
Bradford-on-Avon - - - -
Trowbridge - - - -
Warminster - - - -
C#
South West

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 80 (80.81%) .NET
2 53 (53.54%) SQL Server
3 44 (44.44%) ASP.NET
4 40 (40.40%) JavaScript
5 38 (38.38%) jQuery
6 37 (37.37%) WCF
6 37 (37.37%) Web Services
7 35 (35.35%) Security Cleared
8 32 (32.32%) Microsoft
9 27 (27.27%) Silverlight
9 27 (27.27%) MVC
9 27 (27.27%) XML
9 27 (27.27%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 26 (26.26%) SQL
11 24 (24.24%) Windows
12 23 (23.23%) Visual Studio
12 23 (23.23%) .NET Framework
13 22 (22.22%) SC Cleared
14 21 (21.21%) Unit Testing
15 20 (20.20%) HTML
15 20 (20.20%) Finance
15 20 (20.20%) Team Foundation Server
16 19 (19.19%) Scrum
17 18 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
18 17 (17.17%) MS Excel
19 16 (16.16%) DV Cleared
20 15 (15.15%) HTML5
20 15 (15.15%) XSLT
21 14 (14.14%) UML
21 14 (14.14%) CSS

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 80 (80.81%) .NET
2 44 (44.44%) ASP.NET
3 38 (38.38%) jQuery
4 37 (37.37%) WCF
4 37 (37.37%) Web Services
5 27 (27.27%) XML
5 27 (27.27%) Silverlight
5 27 (27.27%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 23 (23.23%) .NET Framework
7 20 (20.20%) HTML
8 18 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
9 15 (15.15%) HTML5
9 15 (15.15%) XSLT
10 14 (14.14%) CSS
11 13 (13.13%) Ajax
12 12 (12.12%) Managed Extensibility Framework
13 10 (10.10%) WinForms
14 9 (9.091%) JSON
14 9 (9.091%) LINQ
15 8 (8.081%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 11 (11.11%) IIS
2 10 (10.10%) ArcGIS
3 7 (7.071%) SharePoint
4 6 (6.061%) SharePoint Server
4 6 (6.061%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (1.010%) Windows Azure
5 1 (1.010%) Content Management Server
Applications
1 17 (17.17%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.010%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (1.010%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.030%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.040%) Intranet
2 3 (3.030%) Internet
3 2 (2.020%) TETRA
3 2 (2.020%) LTE
4 1 (1.010%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (53.54%) SQL Server
2 12 (12.12%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (7.071%) Oracle 11g
3 7 (7.071%) Oracle 9i
4 2 (2.020%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (1.010%) MySQL
5 1 (1.010%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (1.010%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (23.23%) Visual Studio
2 20 (20.20%) Team Foundation Server
3 12 (12.12%) MSTest
3 12 (12.12%) Moq
4 5 (5.051%) Subversion
5 1 (1.010%) JIRA
5 1 (1.010%) Selenium
5 1 (1.010%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (1.010%) Hudson
5 1 (1.010%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (20.20%) Finance
2 12 (12.12%) Telecoms
3 5 (5.051%) Retail
4 1 (1.010%) Multimedia
4 1 (1.010%) Military
4 1 (1.010%) Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (85.86%) Developer
2 41 (41.41%) .NET Developer
3 29 (29.29%) C# Developer
4 21 (21.21%) Software Developer
4 21 (21.21%) C# .NET Developer
5 13 (13.13%) Software Engineer
6 11 (11.11%) Programmer
7 10 (10.10%) ASP.NET Developer
7 10 (10.10%) Software Programmer
7 10 (10.10%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 10 (10.10%) C# Programmer
8 8 (8.081%) .NET Programmer
9 7 (7.071%) Consultant
9 7 (7.071%) Siebel Consultant
9 7 (7.071%) Front-End Developer
10 6 (6.061%) SharePoint Developer
11 5 (5.051%) SQL Developer
11 5 (5.051%) Applications Developer
12 4 (4.040%) C# Software Engineer
12 4 (4.040%) .NET Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.14%) Client/Server
2 10 (10.10%) RIA
3 1 (1.010%) Open Source
3 1 (1.010%) iPad
3 1 (1.010%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.010%) EPoS
3 1 (1.010%) W3C
3 1 (1.010%) Biometrics
3 1 (1.010%) Tandem
3 1 (1.010%) Physics
3 1 (1.010%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.010%) Blog
3 1 (1.010%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 24 (24.24%) Windows
2 11 (11.11%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.010%) UNIX
3 1 (1.010%) Linux
3 1 (1.010%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.27%) MVC
2 21 (21.21%) Unit Testing
3 19 (19.19%) Scrum
4 14 (14.14%) UML
5 13 (13.13%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (9.091%) Migration
7 8 (8.081%) Web Development
8 7 (7.071%) Workflow
8 7 (7.071%) Service Management
9 5 (5.051%) TDD
10 4 (4.040%) User Stories
11 3 (3.030%) Database Security
11 3 (3.030%) CRM
12 2 (2.020%) OOD
12 2 (2.020%) Integration Testing
12 2 (2.020%) OO
12 2 (2.020%) Kanban
13 1 (1.010%) Data Migration
13 1 (1.010%) Web Usability
13 1 (1.010%) Pattern Recognition
Programming Languages
1 40 (40.40%) JavaScript
2 26 (26.26%) SQL
3 11 (11.11%) VB
4 6 (6.061%) C++
5 5 (5.051%) VB.NET
6 3 (3.030%) C
7 2 (2.020%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.020%) VB6
8 1 (1.010%) VBA
8 1 (1.010%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 35 (35.35%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 16 (16.16%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.030%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.020%) MCDBA
5 2 (2.020%) Degree
6 1 (1.010%) ISEB
6 1 (1.010%) MCP
6 1 (1.010%) MCAD
6 1 (1.010%) MCSD
6 1 (1.010%) MCTS
6 1 (1.010%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.061%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 32 (32.32%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.10%) ESRI
3 7 (7.071%) Oracle
3 7 (7.071%) Siebel
4 1 (1.010%) SIMUL8
4 1 (1.010%) Twitter
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Rate: £35 per hour
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Contract Programme Manager, 9 months, infrastructure change programme. £ 400 - 480 per day. Swindon, Wiltshire. Large and well respected organisation is looking for a Contract Programme Manager who will...
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