England C# Jobs

This section looks at the demand for C# skills within the England 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Batley Beaconsfield Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bishops Castle Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Buxton Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Darwen Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edgware Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horley Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newry Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oakham Oldham Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Ringwood Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Rutland Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadley Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Torquay Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Weymouth Whyteleafe Widnes Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	8	9
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching permanent IT job ads	23552	28810
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	12.67 %	12.01 %
As % of the category below	28.74 %	27.26 %
Salaries quoted	20762	24099
Average minimum salary	£37,847	£40,790
Average salary	£41,805	£44,805
% change on same period last year	-6.69 %
Average maximum salary	£45,763	£48,820
UK excluding London average salary	£35,189	£35,923
% change on same period last year	-2.04 %
Programming Languages England
Matching permanent IT job ads	81958	105694
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	44.11 %	44.07 %
Salaries quoted	69920	86012
Average minimum salary	£37,575	£39,466
Average salary	£41,241	£43,302
% change on same period last year	-4.75 %
Average maximum salary	£44,906	£47,137
UK excluding London average salary	£35,268	£35,641
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C# across the England region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the England region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	-1	10257	£51,809	-5.53 %
South East	+2	4235	£37,686	-2.36 %
East of England	+2	2294	£37,521	-1.28 %
South West	+4	1756	£33,998	+5.05 %
North West	+2	1566	£31,506	-7.01 %
Yorkshire	-2	1352	£32,651	+1.61 %
West Midlands	+4	1219	£32,435	-3.07 %
East Midlands	-1	768	£33,053	+2.48 %
North East	+4	239	£33,873	+8.39 %
Midlands	+4	75	£37,064	-20.17 %
South Coast	-5	3	£38,333	+5.22 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the England 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#.

1 39393 (81.80 %) .NET 2 25637 (53.23 %) SQL Server 3 23419 (48.63 %) ASP.NET 4 16512 (34.29 %) SQL 5 13042 (27.08 %) XML 6 10976 (22.79 %) Microsoft 7 9702 (20.15 %) C++ 8 9569 (19.87 %) Finance 9 8332 (17.30 %) VB.NET 10 8094 (16.81 %) JavaScript 11 7800 (16.20 %) SQL Server 2005 12 7797 (16.19 %) HTML 13 7754 (16.10 %) OO 14 7532 (15.64 %) Java 15 7468 (15.51 %) Windows

16 7259 (15.07 %) VB 17 6719 (13.95 %) Degree 18 6407 (13.30 %) WebServices 19 6274 (13.03 %) CSS 20 5442 (11.30 %) .NET Framework 21 5346 (11.10 %) AJAX 22 4954 (10.29 %) Oracle 23 4946 (10.27 %) ASP 24 4780 (9.925 %) SQL Server 2000 25 4687 (9.732 %) Banking 26 4667 (9.691 %) Visual Studio 27 4523 (9.392 %) MS Excel 28 4513 (9.371 %) WinForms 29 3823 (7.938 %) Front Office 30 3818 (7.928 %) SharePoint

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the England 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.

Application Development 1 39393 (81.80 %) .NET 2 23419 (48.63 %) ASP.NET 3 13042 (27.08 %) XML 4 7797 (16.19 %) HTML 5 6407 (13.30 %) WebServices 6 6274 (13.03 %) CSS 7 5442 (11.30 %) .NET Framework 8 5346 (11.10 %) AJAX 9 4946 (10.27 %) ASP 10 4513 (9.371 %) WinForms 11 2662 (5.527 %) XHTML 12 2538 (5.270 %) XSLT 13 1799 (3.735 %) WCF 14 1650 (3.426 %) J2EE 15 1368 (2.841 %) ADO.NET 16 1364 (2.832 %) ASP.NET 2.0 17 1326 (2.753 %) WPF 18 1001 (2.078 %) Silverlight 19 995 (2.066 %) MFC 20 865 (1.796 %) WF	Application Platforms 1 3818 (7.928 %) SharePoint 2 2310 (4.797 %) IIS 3 2139 (4.441 %) BizTalk Server 4 1523 (3.162 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 1226 (2.546 %) CMS 6 300 (0.623 %) Apache 7 287 (0.596 %) SharePoint Portal Server 8 262 (0.544 %) MQSeries 9 257 (0.534 %) ColdFusion 10 231 (0.480 %) Content Management Server 11 189 (0.392 %) Commerce Server 12 174 (0.361 %) Tomcat 13 147 (0.305 %) MS Exchange 14 130 (0.270 %) WebLogic 15 122 (0.253 %) JBoss 16 121 (0.251 %) ArcGIS 17 86 (0.179 %) Commerce Server 2007 18 76 (0.158 %) MTS 19 75 (0.156 %) Rendezvous 19 75 (0.156 %) ArcSDE
Applications 1 4523 (9.392 %) MS Excel 2 829 (1.721 %) MS Office 3 533 (1.107 %) Photoshop 4 372 (0.772 %) MS Visio 5 237 (0.492 %) Spreadsheet 6 174 (0.361 %) MATLAB 7 161 (0.334 %) InfoPath 8 144 (0.299 %) MS Project 9 108 (0.224 %) Adobe Illustrator 10 67 (0.139 %) Fireworks 11 45 (0.093 %) AutoCAD 12 41 (0.085 %) MS PowerPoint 13 39 (0.081 %) S-PLUS 14 25 (0.052 %) 3ds Max 15 22 (0.046 %) PrintSoft PReS 15 22 (0.046 %) Shockwave 16 13 (0.027 %) Maya 17 12 (0.025 %) ArcInfo 17 12 (0.025 %) FreeHand 18 10 (0.021 %) Adobe Director	Business Applications 1 482 (1.001 %) Microsoft CRM 2 327 (0.679 %) Dynamics CRM 3 166 (0.345 %) Axapta 4 131 (0.272 %) Summit 5 118 (0.245 %) Dynamics AX 6 53 (0.110 %) Navision 6 53 (0.110 %) Endur 7 40 (0.083 %) Oracle Financials 7 40 (0.083 %) SAP CRM 8 34 (0.071 %) Dynamics NAV 9 30 (0.062 %) Dynamics GP 10 25 (0.052 %) SalesLogix 11 22 (0.046 %) Great Plains 12 19 (0.039 %) Pivotal CRM 13 17 (0.035 %) FRONT ARENA 14 14 (0.029 %) Oracle Applications 14 14 (0.029 %) SAP Business One 15 13 (0.027 %) AWD 15 13 (0.027 %) Line 500 16 11 (0.023 %) GoldMine
Communications & Networking 1 2518 (5.228 %) Internet 2 1045 (2.170 %) Intranet 3 550 (1.142 %) TCP/IP 4 297 (0.617 %) HTTP 5 274 (0.569 %) Extranet 6 136 (0.282 %) FTP 7 132 (0.274 %) Wireless 8 129 (0.268 %) SMTP 9 103 (0.214 %) DNS 10 98 (0.203 %) LAN 11 95 (0.197 %) VoIP 12 87 (0.181 %) GSM 13 77 (0.160 %) WAN 14 74 (0.154 %) Firewall 15 63 (0.131 %) GPRS 16 61 (0.127 %) SMS 17 59 (0.123 %) LDAP 18 53 (0.110 %) SAN 18 53 (0.110 %) TETRA 19 51 (0.106 %) 3G	Database & Business Intelligence 1 25637 (53.23 %) SQL Server 2 7800 (16.20 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4780 (9.925 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1300 (2.699 %) RDBMS 5 1101 (2.286 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 1011 (2.099 %) MySQL 7 775 (1.609 %) Crystal Reports 8 687 (1.426 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 586 (1.217 %) DTS 10 454 (0.943 %) Datawarehouse 11 439 (0.912 %) Oracle 10g 12 424 (0.880 %) GIS 13 419 (0.870 %) MS Access 14 400 (0.831 %) Oracle 9i 15 305 (0.633 %) SQL Server 2008 16 304 (0.631 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 17 296 (0.615 %) BusinessObjects 18 259 (0.538 %) Oracle 8/8i 19 238 (0.494 %) OLAP 20 183 (0.380 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 4667 (9.691 %) Visual Studio 2 976 (2.027 %) Flash 3 793 (1.647 %) NUnit 4 718 (1.491 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 387 (0.804 %) Subversion 6 227 (0.471 %) Dreamweaver 7 163 (0.338 %) TestDirector 8 162 (0.336 %) InstallShield 9 158 (0.328 %) ClearCase 10 141 (0.293 %) CruiseControl 11 136 (0.282 %) QuickTest Pro 12 132 (0.274 %) Visual Studio Team System 13 127 (0.264 %) Oracle Forms 14 122 (0.253 %) Eclipse 15 99 (0.206 %) WinRunner 16 91 (0.189 %) JUnit 17 80 (0.166 %) PowerBuilder 18 77 (0.160 %) Ant 19 75 (0.156 %) JIRA 20 63 (0.131 %) Rational Rose	General 1 9569 (19.87 %) Finance 2 4687 (9.732 %) Banking 3 3823 (7.938 %) Front Office 4 2799 (5.812 %) Pensions 5 2356 (4.892 %) Investment Banking 6 1967 (4.084 %) Health 7 1725 (3.582 %) Insurance 8 1246 (2.587 %) Education 9 1175 (2.440 %) Marketing 10 1146 (2.380 %) Retail 11 941 (1.954 %) Telecoms 12 731 (1.518 %) Back Office 13 644 (1.337 %) Games 14 469 (0.974 %) Financial Institution 15 449 (0.932 %) Legal 16 443 (0.920 %) Government 17 364 (0.756 %) Advertising 18 353 (0.733 %) Publishing 19 351 (0.729 %) Law 20 299 (0.621 %) Music
Job Titles 1 34588 (71.82 %) Developer 2 15562 (32.31 %) C# Developer 3 14189 (29.46 %) .NET Developer 4 5394 (11.20 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 5000 (10.38 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 4811 (9.990 %) Web Developer 7 4255 (8.835 %) Senior Developer 8 3879 (8.054 %) Analyst 9 3657 (7.593 %) Software Developer 10 2560 (5.316 %) Programmer 11 2442 (5.071 %) Software Engineer 12 1993 (4.138 %) Senior C# Developer 13 1903 (3.951 %) .NET Web Developer 14 1783 (3.702 %) Architect 15 1770 (3.675 %) C++ Developer 16 1733 (3.598 %) SQL Developer 17 1699 (3.528 %) Senior .NET Developer 18 1620 (3.364 %) Junior 19 1500 (3.115 %) C# Web Developer 20 1469 (3.050 %) Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 3222 (6.690 %) Derivative 2 1654 (3.434 %) Computer Science 3 1360 (2.824 %) N-Tier 4 1194 (2.479 %) Equity Derivative 5 1184 (2.458 %) Equities 6 1132 (2.350 %) Fixed Income 7 1090 (2.263 %) Mathematics 8 979 (2.033 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 9 754 (1.566 %) Multithreading 10 687 (1.426 %) Client/Server 11 508 (1.055 %) Credit Derivative 12 340 (0.706 %) Web 2.0 13 339 (0.704 %) Physics 14 266 (0.552 %) W3C 15 258 (0.536 %) Management Information System 16 254 (0.527 %) Tandem 17 248 (0.515 %) Social Network 18 217 (0.451 %) Interest Rate Derivative 19 206 (0.428 %) PDA 20 187 (0.388 %) Market Risk
Operating Systems 1 7468 (15.51 %) Windows 2 1949 (4.047 %) UNIX 3 1406 (2.919 %) Linux 4 911 (1.892 %) Windows Server 2003 5 637 (1.323 %) Windows XP 6 434 (0.901 %) Windows 2000 7 324 (0.673 %) Solaris 8 237 (0.492 %) Windows Vista 9 221 (0.459 %) Windows Mobile 10 167 (0.347 %) Windows NT 11 125 (0.260 %) Windows 2000 Server 12 108 (0.224 %) Windows CE 13 80 (0.166 %) Windows Server 2008 14 73 (0.152 %) Red Hat Linux 15 37 (0.077 %) VMS 16 33 (0.069 %) Embedded Linux 17 32 (0.066 %) AIX 18 24 (0.050 %) HPUX 19 17 (0.035 %) VxWorks 20 14 (0.029 %) Nucleus RTOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 7754 (16.10 %) OO 2 3437 (7.137 %) UML 3 3359 (6.975 %) Web Development 4 2385 (4.952 %) Agile Software Development 5 2377 (4.936 %) E-Commerce 6 1906 (3.958 %) Scrum 7 1889 (3.922 %) Project Management 8 1436 (2.982 %) CRM 9 1327 (2.755 %) OOD 10 1240 (2.575 %) Unit Testing 11 1095 (2.274 %) Software Engineering 12 1093 (2.270 %) OOP 13 1034 (2.147 %) Risk Management 14 962 (1.998 %) SOA 15 885 (1.838 %) Content Management 16 871 (1.809 %) TDD 17 784 (1.628 %) Asset Management 18 751 (1.559 %) Extreme Programming 19 691 (1.435 %) Workflow 20 684 (1.420 %) RUP
Programming Languages 1 16512 (34.29 %) SQL 2 9702 (20.15 %) C++ 3 8332 (17.30 %) VB.NET 4 8094 (16.81 %) JavaScript 5 7532 (15.64 %) Java 6 7259 (15.07 %) VB 7 3134 (6.507 %) Transact-SQL 8 2590 (5.378 %) VB6 9 2481 (5.152 %) VBA 10 2100 (4.360 %) C 11 1336 (2.774 %) PHP 12 1173 (2.436 %) VC++ 13 1141 (2.369 %) PL/SQL 14 1038 (2.155 %) DHTML 15 977 (2.029 %) Perl 16 970 (2.014 %) VBScript 17 844 (1.752 %) Delphi 18 497 (1.032 %) Python 19 373 (0.775 %) ActionScript 20 234 (0.486 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 6719 (13.95 %) Degree 2 2610 (5.419 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1464 (3.040 %) MCSD 4 1134 (2.355 %) MCP 5 1133 (2.353 %) MCAD 6 307 (0.637 %) MCTS 7 266 (0.552 %) PhD 8 231 (0.480 %) ISEB 9 214 (0.444 %) MCPD 10 106 (0.220 %) MCSE 11 98 (0.203 %) HND 12 71 (0.147 %) HNC 12 71 (0.147 %) PRINCE2 Certification 13 70 (0.145 %) MCDBA 14 37 (0.077 %) MCITP 15 35 (0.073 %) PMI Certification 15 35 (0.073 %) Postgraduate 16 31 (0.064 %) PMP 17 24 (0.050 %) MCSA 18 22 (0.046 %) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 849 (1.763 %) QA 2 127 (0.264 %) WAI 3 89 (0.185 %) SLA 4 85 (0.176 %) ISO9001 5 51 (0.106 %) TickIT 6 49 (0.102 %) ISO9000 7 24 (0.050 %) HL7 8 21 (0.044 %) Basel II 9 19 (0.039 %) WCAG 10 16 (0.033 %) ISO8583 11 12 (0.025 %) 21 CFR Part 11 12 9 (0.019 %) DICOM 13 4 (0.008 %) COBIT 13 4 (0.008 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 14 2 (0.004 %) ISO27001 14 2 (0.004 %) MiFID	System Software 1 523 (1.086 %) Active Directory 2 220 (0.457 %) MSMQ 3 64 (0.133 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 46 (0.096 %) AquaLogic 5 36 (0.075 %) Terminal Services 6 30 (0.062 %) Terminal Server 7 19 (0.039 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 8 11 (0.023 %) Xen 8 11 (0.023 %) Orbix 9 10 (0.021 %) ISA Server 9 10 (0.021 %) VMware Workstation 10 6 (0.012 %) Intellisync 10 6 (0.012 %) Citrix Presentation Server 11 5 (0.010 %) VMware ESX 12 3 (0.006 %) MetaFrame 13 2 (0.004 %) Oracle RAC 14 1 (0.002 %) NetBackup 14 1 (0.002 %) Backup Exec 14 1 (0.002 %) Cronacle
Systems Management 1 63 (0.131 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 37 (0.077 %) MOM 3 29 (0.060 %) AutoSys 4 27 (0.056 %) MIIS 5 23 (0.048 %) SCOM 6 21 (0.044 %) SCCM 7 17 (0.035 %) CONTROL-M 8 10 (0.021 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 9 9 (0.019 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 9 9 (0.019 %) Tivoli 10 5 (0.010 %) AppManager 10 5 (0.010 %) Netcool 11 4 (0.008 %) Norton AntiVirus 12 2 (0.004 %) ZENworks 13 1 (0.002 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 10976 (22.79 %) Microsoft 2 4954 (10.29 %) Oracle 3 1216 (2.525 %) Sybase 4 433 (0.899 %) TIBCO 5 296 (0.615 %) Business Objects 6 257 (0.534 %) SAP 7 236 (0.490 %) Adobe 8 227 (0.471 %) IBM 9 195 (0.405 %) Bloomberg 10 180 (0.374 %) Reuters 11 176 (0.365 %) Citrix 12 143 (0.297 %) Sun 13 139 (0.289 %) ESRI 14 138 (0.287 %) Cognos 15 119 (0.247 %) Infragistics 16 116 (0.241 %) Google 17 108 (0.224 %) Macromedia 18 106 (0.220 %) Sage 18 106 (0.220 %) VMware 19 98 (0.203 %) Borland