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The table below looks at the demand for C# skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C# over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkC#
Location
3 months to
10 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank911
Rank change on same period last yearUp+2
Matching permanent IT job ads29072518
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled1.683 %1.084 %
As % of the category below30.38 %26.90 %
Salaries quoted25541957
Average minimum salary£49,258£53,418
Average salary£56,187£59,425
% change on same period last year-5.45 %
Average maximum salary£63,115£65,433
UK excluding London average salary£35,289£35,789
% change on same period last year-1.39 %
City of London IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads95709360
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled5.540 %4.028 %
Salaries quoted82627268
Average minimum salary£48,252£50,487
Average salary£54,153£56,026
% change on same period last year-3.34 %
Average maximum salary£60,055£61,564
UK excluding London average salary£35,506£35,791
% change on same period last year-0.79 %
C# LondonC#
London

C#
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing C# across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

City of London C# Demand Trend

C#
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing C# across the City of London region.

City of London C# Salary Trend

C#
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C# across the City of London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

City of London C# Salary Histogram

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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 IT job ads sampled that cited C#.

14013 (71.19 %).NET
22354 (41.76 %)SQL Server
32277 (40.39 %)SQL
42134 (37.86 %)Finance
51956 (34.70 %)ASP.NET
61612 (28.60 %)Banking
71476 (26.18 %)Java
81393 (24.71 %)C++
91376 (24.41 %)Front Office
101206 (21.39 %)OO
111080 (19.16 %)XML
12941 (16.69 %)Derivative
13866 (15.36 %)Microsoft
14846 (15.01 %)VBA
15828 (14.69 %)Oracle
16788 (13.98 %)VB
17776 (13.77 %)Degree
18773 (13.71 %)Investment Banking
19763 (13.54 %)Windows
20712 (12.63 %)WinForms
21687 (12.19 %)SQL Server 2005
22652 (11.57 %)VB.NET
23586 (10.40 %)JavaScript
24572 (10.15 %)HTML
25548 (9.721 %).NET Framework
26517 (9.172 %)WebServices
27484 (8.586 %)CSS
28476 (8.444 %)ASP
29474 (8.409 %)Equities
30438 (7.770 %)MS Excel

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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 IT job ads sampled that cited C#. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

City of London IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
14013 (71.19 %).NET
21956 (34.70 %)ASP.NET
31080 (19.16 %)XML
4712 (12.63 %)WinForms
5572 (10.15 %)HTML
6548 (9.721 %).NET Framework
7517 (9.172 %)WebServices
8484 (8.586 %)CSS
9476 (8.444 %)ASP
10432 (7.664 %)AJAX
11260 (4.612 %)XSLT
12254 (4.506 %)J2EE
13143 (2.537 %)Spring
14131 (2.324 %)ASP.NET 2.0
15125 (2.217 %)Middleware
16121 (2.147 %)Hibernate
17109 (1.934 %)XSL
18106 (1.880 %)WCF
19105 (1.863 %)XHTML
19105 (1.863 %)MFC
City of London IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1416 (7.380 %)SharePoint
2175 (3.104 %)IIS
3117 (2.076 %)BizTalk Server
4106 (1.880 %)CMS
599 (1.756 %)SharePoint Server 2007
671 (1.260 %)MQSeries
737 (0.656 %)Rendezvous
836 (0.639 %)MS Exchange
934 (0.603 %)Content Management Server
1026 (0.461 %)Apache
1026 (0.461 %)Tomcat
1120 (0.355 %)Oracle Workflow
1219 (0.337 %)WebLogic
1219 (0.337 %)SharePoint Portal Server
1313 (0.231 %)TIBCO EMS
1411 (0.195 %)Lotus Notes
1411 (0.195 %)Exchange Server 2000
1510 (0.177 %)SmartSockets
1510 (0.177 %)JBoss
1510 (0.177 %)SAS
City of London IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1438 (7.770 %)MS Excel
277 (1.366 %)MS Office
344 (0.781 %)Spreadsheet
441 (0.727 %)MS Visio
537 (0.656 %)Photoshop
622 (0.390 %)MATLAB
79 (0.160 %)InfoPath
86 (0.106 %)MS PowerPoint
93 (0.053 %)MS Project
102 (0.035 %)Fireworks
102 (0.035 %)Adobe Illustrator
102 (0.035 %)Adobe Premiere
111 (0.018 %)CA Clarity
City of London IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
130 (0.532 %)Oracle Financials
217 (0.302 %)SAP CRM
315 (0.266 %)Microsoft CRM
413 (0.231 %)Sophis VALUE
512 (0.213 %)Dynamics CRM
611 (0.195 %)Endur
78 (0.142 %)LongView
87 (0.124 %)Dynamics GP
95 (0.089 %)Summit
104 (0.071 %)FRONT ARENA
104 (0.071 %)Great Plains
112 (0.035 %)Dynamics AX
121 (0.018 %)Beauchamp
121 (0.018 %)Beauchamp Fund Manager
121 (0.018 %)Advent Geneva
121 (0.018 %)Axapta
City of London IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1218 (3.867 %)Internet
2106 (1.880 %)Intranet
363 (1.118 %)TCP/IP
461 (1.082 %)Extranet
529 (0.514 %)HTTP
616 (0.284 %)3G
713 (0.231 %)Reverse Proxy
812 (0.213 %)FTP
910 (0.177 %)SAN
109 (0.160 %)LAN
109 (0.160 %)SMS
118 (0.142 %)Wireless
127 (0.124 %)IMAP
127 (0.124 %)SMTP
136 (0.106 %)DNS
145 (0.089 %)SNMP
145 (0.089 %)LDAP
145 (0.089 %)Firewall
145 (0.089 %)SSH
154 (0.071 %)TELNET
City of London IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
12354 (41.76 %)SQL Server
2687 (12.19 %)SQL Server 2005
3348 (6.173 %)SQL Server 2000
4257 (4.559 %)RDBMS
5127 (2.253 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
6120 (2.129 %)SQL Server Integration Services
7116 (2.058 %)Datawarehouse
878 (1.384 %)OLAP
977 (1.366 %)Oracle 9i
1070 (1.242 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1168 (1.206 %)DTS
1267 (1.189 %)Oracle 8/8i
1361 (1.082 %)Oracle 10g
1454 (0.958 %)SQL Server 2008
1553 (0.940 %)Crystal Reports
1652 (0.922 %)BusinessObjects
1751 (0.905 %)ETL
1847 (0.834 %)MySQL
1941 (0.727 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
2039 (0.692 %)Oracle OLAP
City of London IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1250 (4.435 %)Visual Studio
2147 (2.608 %)NUnit
386 (1.526 %)VSS/SourceSafe
473 (1.295 %)Subversion
560 (1.064 %)Flash
639 (0.692 %)CruiseControl
725 (0.443 %)JIRA
824 (0.426 %)PVCS
923 (0.408 %)JUnit
923 (0.408 %)ClearCase
1020 (0.355 %)Oracle Forms
1117 (0.302 %)Rational Rose
1215 (0.266 %)Log4Net
1313 (0.231 %)Ant
1411 (0.195 %)PowerBuilder
158 (0.142 %)WinRunner
167 (0.124 %)TestDirector
167 (0.124 %)QuickTest Pro
174 (0.071 %)Eclipse
174 (0.071 %)Dreamweaver
City of London IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
12134 (37.86 %)Finance
21612 (28.60 %)Banking
31376 (24.41 %)Front Office
4773 (13.71 %)Investment Banking
5385 (6.830 %)Insurance
6187 (3.317 %)Education
7185 (3.282 %)Back Office
8180 (3.193 %)Financial Institution
9134 (2.377 %)Legal
10118 (2.093 %)Pensions
1191 (1.614 %)Games
1289 (1.579 %)Health
1388 (1.561 %)Law
1485 (1.508 %)Marketing
1568 (1.206 %)Telecoms
1645 (0.798 %)Publishing
1731 (0.550 %)Retail
1827 (0.479 %)Online Games
1924 (0.426 %)Government
2015 (0.266 %)Music
City of London IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
14120 (73.09 %)Developer
22126 (37.72 %)C# Developer
31243 (22.05 %).NET Developer
4687 (12.19 %)Analyst
5577 (10.24 %)Senior Developer
6403 (7.149 %)C#/ASP.NET Developer
7377 (6.688 %)ASP.NET Developer
8330 (5.854 %)Senior C# Developer
9309 (5.482 %)C++ Developer
10293 (5.198 %)SQL Developer
11290 (5.145 %)Analyst Developer
12276 (4.896 %)Java Developer
13232 (4.116 %)Team Leader
14228 (4.045 %)Senior .NET Developer
15227 (4.027 %)Architect
16217 (3.850 %)Programmer
17196 (3.477 %)Excel Developer
18188 (3.335 %)Web Developer
19177 (3.140 %)C++/C# Developer
20166 (2.945 %)Applications Support
City of London IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1941 (16.69 %)Derivative
2474 (8.409 %)Equities
3404 (7.167 %)Equity Derivative
4381 (6.759 %)Fixed Income
5248 (4.400 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
6213 (3.779 %)Multithreading
7204 (3.619 %)Computer Science
8198 (3.513 %)Mathematics
9177 (3.140 %)Credit Derivative
10173 (3.069 %)N-Tier
11107 (1.898 %)Client/Server
1262 (1.100 %)Physics
1361 (1.082 %)Market Risk
1453 (0.940 %)Credit Risk
1550 (0.887 %)Exotic Derivative
1649 (0.869 %)Management Information System
1740 (0.710 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1830 (0.532 %)VAX
1923 (0.408 %)Statistical Arbitrage
2021 (0.373 %)Replication
City of London IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1763 (13.54 %)Windows
2421 (7.469 %)UNIX
3230 (4.080 %)Linux
4127 (2.253 %)Solaris
598 (1.739 %)Windows 2000
696 (1.703 %)Windows XP
775 (1.330 %)Windows Server 2003
857 (1.011 %)Red Hat Linux
931 (0.550 %)Windows NT
1023 (0.408 %)Windows Mobile
1118 (0.319 %)Windows 2000 Server
1215 (0.266 %)Windows Vista
1311 (0.195 %)Ubuntu
143 (0.053 %)VMS
143 (0.053 %)Windows CE
152 (0.035 %)Windows Server 2008
City of London IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
11206 (21.39 %)OO
2344 (6.103 %)Risk Management
3314 (5.570 %)Agile Software Development
4302 (5.357 %)UML
5269 (4.772 %)Asset Management
6183 (3.246 %)RAD
7169 (2.998 %)Project Management
8164 (2.909 %)E-Commerce
9162 (2.874 %)Software Engineering
10159 (2.821 %)TDD
11153 (2.714 %)OOD
11153 (2.714 %)Web Development
12152 (2.696 %)Scrum
13137 (2.430 %)Algorithmic Trading
14125 (2.217 %)Unit Testing
14125 (2.217 %)Electronic Trading
15117 (2.076 %)SOA
16114 (2.022 %)Investment Management
17100 (1.774 %)Business Intelligence
1897 (1.721 %)OOP
City of London IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
12277 (40.39 %)SQL
21476 (26.18 %)Java
31393 (24.71 %)C++
4846 (15.01 %)VBA
5788 (13.98 %)VB
6652 (11.57 %)VB.NET
7586 (10.40 %)JavaScript
8394 (6.990 %)Transact-SQL
9237 (4.204 %)VB6
10189 (3.353 %)Perl
11151 (2.679 %)PL/SQL
12142 (2.519 %)C
13115 (2.040 %)VC++
1491 (1.614 %)Python
1573 (1.295 %)PHP
1662 (1.100 %)VBScript
1759 (1.047 %)DHTML
1847 (0.834 %)ActionScript
1946 (0.816 %)Ruby
2041 (0.727 %)Shell Script
City of London IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1776 (13.77 %)Degree
2120 (2.129 %)Microsoft Certification
357 (1.011 %)MCAD
357 (1.011 %)MCSD
451 (0.905 %)MCP
532 (0.568 %)MCTS
629 (0.514 %)PhD
724 (0.426 %)MCPD
814 (0.248 %)PRINCE2 Certification
96 (0.106 %)MCITP
96 (0.106 %)ISEB
105 (0.089 %)MCDBA
113 (0.053 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
122 (0.035 %)Postgraduate
122 (0.035 %)MCSE
131 (0.018 %)MCT
131 (0.018 %)ISTQB
City of London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1126 (2.235 %)QA
29 (0.160 %)Basel II
35 (0.089 %)COBIT
44 (0.071 %)SLA
52 (0.035 %)ISO9001
61 (0.018 %)ISO9000
61 (0.018 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
61 (0.018 %)WAI
City of London IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
159 (1.047 %)Active Directory
217 (0.302 %)MSMQ
39 (0.160 %)ISA Server
48 (0.142 %)VMware Infrastructure
53 (0.053 %)Oracle RAC
53 (0.053 %)Oracle RMAN
53 (0.053 %)Terminal Services
62 (0.035 %)MetaFrame
62 (0.035 %)Xen
62 (0.035 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
62 (0.035 %)Orbix
71 (0.018 %)VMware Workstation
71 (0.018 %)Terminal Server
71 (0.018 %)Citrix Presentation Server
City of London IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
16 (0.106 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
25 (0.089 %)AutoSys
25 (0.089 %)AppManager
25 (0.089 %)MOM
34 (0.071 %)Norton AntiVirus
43 (0.053 %)SCCM
51 (0.018 %)CONTROL-M
City of London IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1866 (15.36 %)Microsoft
2828 (14.69 %)Oracle
3399 (7.078 %)Sybase
4133 (2.359 %)TIBCO
558 (1.029 %)Red Hat
657 (1.011 %)IBM
752 (0.922 %)Business Objects
752 (0.922 %)Bloomberg
846 (0.816 %)Citrix
936 (0.639 %)Reuters
936 (0.639 %)Infragistics
1032 (0.568 %)Sun
1131 (0.550 %)Perforce
1229 (0.514 %)OpenLink
1328 (0.497 %)VMware
1328 (0.497 %)Sophis
1426 (0.461 %)Hummingbird
1523 (0.408 %)DataSynapse
1523 (0.408 %)Adobe
1620 (0.355 %)SAP