Yorkshire C# Contracts

This section looks at the demand for C# skills within the Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited C# over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Altrincham Andover 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 Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham 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 Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Sale Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington 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 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	21
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	317	184
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.422 %	0.187 %
As % of the category below	30.93 %	16.65 %
Daily rates quoted	41	10
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£250
Average daily rate	£314	£275
% change on same period last year	+14.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£335
% change on same period last year	-0.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	54	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.20	£26.89
Average hourly rate	£32.75	£28.43
% change on same period last year	+15.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.29	£29.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.43	£33.75
% change on same period last year	+2.00 %
Programming Languages Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1025	1105
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.364 %	1.120 %
Daily rates quoted	186	139
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£295
Average daily rate	£307	£314
% change on same period last year	-2.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£332
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£333
% change on same period last year	-0.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	97	81
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.13	£25.86
Average hourly rate	£30.65	£27.27
% change on same period last year	+12.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.16	£28.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.36	£33.06
% change on same period last year	+0.90 %
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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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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 jobs citing C# within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
West Yorkshire	+4	209	£306	+15.79 %
North Yorkshire	+10	43	£353	+29.12 %
South Yorkshire	+21	30	£360	-
East Yorkshire	+9	16	£420	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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#.

1 579 (92.49 %) .NET 2 395 (63.10 %) ASP.NET 3 373 (59.58 %) SQL Server 4 181 (28.91 %) SQL Server 2005 5 174 (27.80 %) XML 6 128 (20.45 %) HTML 7 127 (20.29 %) SQL 8 113 (18.05 %) JavaScript 9 101 (16.13 %) Visual Studio 10 99 (15.81 %) WebServices 11 98 (15.65 %) SQL Server 2000 12 97 (15.50 %) Microsoft 13 86 (13.74 %) CSS 14 83 (13.26 %) SharePoint 15 74 (11.82 %) VB.NET

16 70 (11.18 %) ASP 17 66 (10.54 %) Windows 18 65 (10.38 %) VB 19 64 (10.22 %) Finance 20 63 (10.06 %) OO 21 60 (9.585 %) .NET Framework 22 52 (8.307 %) SQL Server 7 23 49 (7.827 %) UML 24 48 (7.668 %) Unit Testing 25 47 (7.508 %) AJAX 25 47 (7.508 %) IIS 26 45 (7.188 %) SharePoint Server 2007 26 45 (7.188 %) ASP.NET 2.0 27 44 (7.029 %) XSLT 28 41 (6.550 %) Web Development

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 1 579 (92.49 %) .NET 2 395 (63.10 %) ASP.NET 3 174 (27.80 %) XML 4 128 (20.45 %) HTML 5 99 (15.81 %) WebServices 6 86 (13.74 %) CSS 7 70 (11.18 %) ASP 8 60 (9.585 %) .NET Framework 9 47 (7.508 %) AJAX 10 45 (7.188 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 44 (7.029 %) XSLT 12 34 (5.431 %) XHTML 13 31 (4.952 %) WinForms 14 27 (4.313 %) ADO.NET 15 25 (3.994 %) COM+ 16 23 (3.674 %) WCF 17 20 (3.195 %) XSL 18 17 (2.716 %) ADO 19 14 (2.236 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 20 13 (2.077 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 83 (13.26 %) SharePoint 2 47 (7.508 %) IIS 3 45 (7.188 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 30 (4.792 %) CMS 5 26 (4.153 %) BizTalk Server 6 8 (1.278 %) Lotus Notes 7 7 (1.118 %) Lotus Domino 8 6 (0.958 %) Commerce Server 9 5 (0.799 %) Content Management Server 9 5 (0.799 %) TeamSite 9 5 (0.799 %) Commerce Server 2007 10 2 (0.319 %) EPiServer 10 2 (0.319 %) SharePoint Portal Server 11 1 (0.160 %) NetWeaver 11 1 (0.160 %) ArcGIS 11 1 (0.160 %) MS Exchange 11 1 (0.160 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 30 (4.792 %) MS Excel 2 8 (1.278 %) InfoPath 3 6 (0.958 %) MS Office 4 3 (0.479 %) Photoshop 5 2 (0.319 %) ArcView 5 2 (0.319 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 3 (0.479 %) Dynamics CRM 2 1 (0.160 %) Microsoft CRM 2 1 (0.160 %) Great Plains
Communications & Networking 1 36 (5.751 %) Internet 2 23 (3.674 %) Intranet 3 12 (1.917 %) Extranet 4 10 (1.597 %) VoIP 5 9 (1.438 %) TCP/IP 6 3 (0.479 %) DNS 6 3 (0.479 %) Firewall 6 3 (0.479 %) TETRA 7 2 (0.319 %) SSH 7 2 (0.319 %) CTI 8 1 (0.160 %) Ethernet 8 1 (0.160 %) GSM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 373 (59.58 %) SQL Server 2 181 (28.91 %) SQL Server 2005 3 98 (15.65 %) SQL Server 2000 4 52 (8.307 %) SQL Server 7 5 12 (1.917 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 10 (1.597 %) GIS 7 7 (1.118 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 7 (1.118 %) Crystal Reports 8 6 (0.958 %) MS Access 8 6 (0.958 %) BusinessObjects 9 5 (0.799 %) Oracle Reports 10 3 (0.479 %) RDBMS 10 3 (0.479 %) MySQL 11 2 (0.319 %) Oracle 10g 12 1 (0.160 %) Datawarehouse 12 1 (0.160 %) Crystal Enterprise 12 1 (0.160 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 1 (0.160 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 101 (16.13 %) Visual Studio 2 24 (3.834 %) NUnit 3 10 (1.597 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 9 (1.438 %) Visual Studio Team System 5 7 (1.118 %) Flash 6 3 (0.479 %) Dreamweaver 6 3 (0.479 %) InstallShield 6 3 (0.479 %) Subversion 7 1 (0.160 %) CruiseControl 7 1 (0.160 %) JBuilder 7 1 (0.160 %) Eclipse 7 1 (0.160 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 64 (10.22 %) Finance 2 18 (2.875 %) Banking 3 13 (2.077 %) Insurance 4 12 (1.917 %) Marketing 5 10 (1.597 %) Retail 6 8 (1.278 %) Health 7 5 (0.799 %) Pensions 8 4 (0.639 %) Graphic Design 8 4 (0.639 %) Telecoms 8 4 (0.639 %) 3D Graphics 9 3 (0.479 %) Legal 9 3 (0.479 %) Manufacturing 9 3 (0.479 %) Electronics 10 2 (0.319 %) Education 10 2 (0.319 %) Investment Banking 11 1 (0.160 %) International Banking 11 1 (0.160 %) Government 11 1 (0.160 %) Law 11 1 (0.160 %) Front Office 11 1 (0.160 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 539 (86.10 %) Developer 2 309 (49.36 %) .NET Developer 3 239 (38.18 %) C# Developer 4 124 (19.81 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 91 (14.54 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 66 (10.54 %) Web Developer 7 32 (5.112 %) Senior Developer 7 32 (5.112 %) SQL Developer 8 29 (4.633 %) SQL Server Developer 8 29 (4.633 %) SharePoint Developer 9 25 (3.994 %) .NET Web Developer 10 21 (3.355 %) C# Web Developer 10 21 (3.355 %) Software Developer 11 19 (3.035 %) VB Developer 12 15 (2.396 %) Architect 12 15 (2.396 %) Software Engineer 13 13 (2.077 %) Applications Developer 13 13 (2.077 %) VB6 Developer 14 12 (1.917 %) Analyst 15 11 (1.757 %) Technical Architect	Miscellaneous 1 12 (1.917 %) N-Tier 2 11 (1.757 %) PDA 3 10 (1.597 %) W3C 4 8 (1.278 %) E-Learning 5 6 (0.958 %) NHS 6 5 (0.799 %) Computer Science 7 4 (0.639 %) Client/Server 8 3 (0.479 %) Web 2.0 9 2 (0.319 %) Thin Client 9 2 (0.319 %) Fat Client 10 1 (0.160 %) RIA 10 1 (0.160 %) Data Integration 10 1 (0.160 %) Wiki 10 1 (0.160 %) Blog 10 1 (0.160 %) SCADA 10 1 (0.160 %) Management Information System 10 1 (0.160 %) IVR 10 1 (0.160 %) Streaming Media
Operating Systems 1 66 (10.54 %) Windows 2 4 (0.639 %) Windows NT 2 4 (0.639 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (0.479 %) Windows 2000 3 3 (0.479 %) Windows Mobile 4 2 (0.319 %) Ubuntu 4 2 (0.319 %) Linux 5 1 (0.160 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 63 (10.06 %) OO 2 49 (7.827 %) UML 3 48 (7.668 %) Unit Testing 4 41 (6.550 %) Web Development 5 34 (5.431 %) E-Commerce 6 18 (2.875 %) Agile Software Development 7 17 (2.716 %) ERD 8 16 (2.556 %) Content Management 8 16 (2.556 %) SOA 9 15 (2.396 %) Time Management 10 13 (2.077 %) Configuration Management 10 13 (2.077 %) OOP 11 12 (1.917 %) Software Engineering 12 11 (1.757 %) ITIL 12 11 (1.757 %) Workflow 13 10 (1.597 %) PRINCE2 13 10 (1.597 %) OOD 14 8 (1.278 %) CRM 14 8 (1.278 %) Security Cleared 15 6 (0.958 %) Software Testing
Programming Languages 1 127 (20.29 %) SQL 2 113 (18.05 %) JavaScript 3 74 (11.82 %) VB.NET 4 65 (10.38 %) VB 5 35 (5.591 %) VB6 6 29 (4.633 %) C++ 7 20 (3.195 %) Transact-SQL 8 19 (3.035 %) C 9 16 (2.556 %) VBScript 10 11 (1.757 %) DHTML 11 8 (1.278 %) Java 11 8 (1.278 %) Delphi 12 6 (0.958 %) Perl 13 5 (0.799 %) PHP 14 4 (0.639 %) XAML 15 3 (0.479 %) LotusScript 15 3 (0.479 %) Embedded C 15 3 (0.479 %) Embedded C++ 16 2 (0.319 %) Assembly Language 16 2 (0.319 %) Ruby	Qualifications 1 10 (1.597 %) Degree 2 6 (0.958 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (0.160 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (0.160 %) ITIL Certification 3 1 (0.160 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (0.958 %) QA 2 2 (0.319 %) HL7 2 2 (0.319 %) WAI	System Software 1 5 (0.799 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 97 (15.50 %) Microsoft 2 35 (5.591 %) Oracle 3 8 (1.278 %) Lotus 4 7 (1.118 %) Adobe 5 6 (0.958 %) Business Objects 5 6 (0.958 %) RedDot 5 6 (0.958 %) Google 6 2 (0.319 %) Motorola 6 2 (0.319 %) ESRI 6 2 (0.319 %) Mercator 7 1 (0.160 %) Remedy 7 1 (0.160 %) Micro Focus 7 1 (0.160 %) QNX 7 1 (0.160 %) Metastorm 7 1 (0.160 %) Borland 7 1 (0.160 %) SAP 7 1 (0.160 %) Siebel 7 1 (0.160 %) IBM 7 1 (0.160 %) Macromedia 7 1 (0.160 %) HP