Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C# over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Oxfordshire region.

 C#
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank446
Rank change year-on-year
No change0Up+2
Matching permanent IT job ads292199605
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire22.97 %17.66 %19.25 %
As % of the Programming Languages category42.50 %32.62 %34.05 %
Salaries quoted280186577
Average salary£37,500£37,500£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+7.140 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£29,500£27,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£50,000£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
6876101777
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire54.05 %54.13 %56.54 %
Salaries quoted6295271635
Average salary£35,000£32,500£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.690 %-7.140 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£23,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£45,000£47,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£34,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.440 %
C# South EastC#
South East

C#
Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire C# Salary Trend

C#
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C# across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Oxfordshire C# Salary Histogram

C#
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
OxfordNo change0126£32,500-7.14 %
AbingdonUp+149£37,500-
Henley-on-ThamesDown-216£42,500-5.55 %
ThameUp+113£35,000-2.77 %
WitneyDown-53£32,500+18.18 %
FaringdonNew entry-2£31,500-
C# South EastC#
South East

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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#.

1390 (81.25 %).NET
2288 (60.00 %)SQL Server
3252 (52.50 %)ASP.NET
4131 (27.29 %)JavaScript
5124 (25.83 %)XML
6111 (23.13 %)C++
7107 (22.29 %)SQL
895 (19.79 %)Microsoft
993 (19.38 %)Web Services
1090 (18.75 %)CSS
1185 (17.71 %)Degree
1280 (16.67 %)HTML
1373 (15.21 %)Java
1373 (15.21 %)Windows
1465 (13.54 %)VB.NET
1465 (13.54 %)WPF
1564 (13.33 %)OO
1663 (13.13 %)Silverlight
1762 (12.92 %)SQL Server 2005
1859 (12.29 %)Education
1958 (12.08 %)Project Management
2055 (11.46 %)WCF
2055 (11.46 %)AJAX
2152 (10.83 %)Web Development
2249 (10.21 %)Agile Software Development
2348 (10.00 %)MS Excel
2440 (8.333 %)T-SQL
2440 (8.333 %)Finance
2539 (8.125 %).NET Framework
2637 (7.708 %)Computer Science

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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.

Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1390 (81.25 %).NET
2252 (52.50 %)ASP.NET
3124 (25.83 %)XML
493 (19.38 %)Web Services
590 (18.75 %)CSS
680 (16.67 %)HTML
765 (13.54 %)WPF
863 (13.13 %)Silverlight
955 (11.46 %)AJAX
955 (11.46 %)WCF
1039 (8.125 %).NET Framework
1131 (6.458 %)XHTML
1228 (5.833 %)jQuery
1324 (5.000 %)XSLT
1422 (4.583 %)WinForms
1513 (2.708 %)ASP
1612 (2.500 %)CSLA.NET
1711 (2.292 %)XSL
1810 (2.083 %)Flash
198 (1.667 %)CSLA
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
129 (6.042 %)SharePoint
226 (5.417 %)IIS
39 (1.875 %)Apache
39 (1.875 %)BizTalk Server
47 (1.458 %)SharePoint Server 2007
54 (0.833 %)DotNetNuke
54 (0.833 %)CMS
54 (0.833 %)Oracle Workflow
54 (0.833 %)Tomcat
54 (0.833 %)WebLogic
61 (0.208 %)ArcGIS
61 (0.208 %)EPiServer
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
148 (10.00 %)MS Excel
29 (1.875 %)Photoshop
37 (1.458 %)Fireworks
44 (0.833 %)MS Visio
51 (0.208 %)MATLAB
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
18 (1.667 %)Dynamics CRM
26 (1.250 %)Dynamics AX
26 (1.250 %)Microsoft CRM
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
136 (7.500 %)Internet
28 (1.667 %)TCP/IP
35 (1.042 %)Intranet
44 (0.833 %)LDAP
52 (0.417 %)RFID
61 (0.208 %)DAB
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1288 (60.00 %)SQL Server
262 (12.92 %)SQL Server 2005
337 (7.708 %)SQL Server 2008
426 (5.417 %)SQL Server 2000
519 (3.958 %)MySQL
69 (1.875 %)SQL Server Integration Services
76 (1.250 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
76 (1.250 %)RDBMS
84 (0.833 %)BusinessObjects
84 (0.833 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
84 (0.833 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
92 (0.417 %)GIS
92 (0.417 %)OLAP
101 (0.208 %)PostgreSQL
101 (0.208 %)SQLite
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
130 (6.250 %)Visual Studio
215 (3.125 %)NUnit
36 (1.250 %)QuickTest Pro
36 (1.250 %)MorphX
45 (1.042 %)Selenium
53 (0.625 %)Expression Blend
53 (0.625 %)Subversion
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
159 (12.29 %)Education
240 (8.333 %)Finance
329 (6.042 %)Pensions
423 (4.792 %)Marketing
516 (3.333 %)Health
611 (2.292 %)Electronics
710 (2.083 %)Retail
87 (1.458 %)Insurance
95 (1.042 %)Games
95 (1.042 %)Advertising
103 (0.625 %)Manufacturing
103 (0.625 %)Construction
103 (0.625 %)Electric
103 (0.625 %)Aerospace
103 (0.625 %)Pharmaceutical
112 (0.417 %)Financial Institution
112 (0.417 %)Back Office
112 (0.417 %)Publishing
121 (0.208 %)Banking
121 (0.208 %)Automotive
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1361 (75.21 %)Developer
2163 (33.96 %).NET Developer
3152 (31.67 %)C# Developer
480 (16.67 %)Software Developer
571 (14.79 %)Web Developer
661 (12.71 %)ASP.NET Developer
661 (12.71 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
751 (10.63 %)Senior Developer
843 (8.958 %)Senior .NET Developer
942 (8.750 %)Software Engineer
1033 (6.875 %)C# Software Developer
1131 (6.458 %)Consultant
1225 (5.208 %)Senior C# Developer
1319 (3.958 %)C# Web Developer
1417 (3.542 %)Project Manager
1417 (3.542 %)VB.NET Developer
1516 (3.333 %)Junior
1516 (3.333 %)Senior ASP.NET Developer
1516 (3.333 %).NET Web Developer
1615 (3.125 %)Graduate
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
137 (7.708 %)Computer Science
223 (4.792 %)Mathematics
318 (3.750 %)Physics
318 (3.750 %)W3C
412 (2.500 %)N-Tier
412 (2.500 %)Smartcard
412 (2.500 %)Multithreading
510 (2.083 %)Biometrics
64 (0.833 %)Open Source
73 (0.625 %)Data Conversion
82 (0.417 %)Dependency Injection
82 (0.417 %)Client/Server
82 (0.417 %)Device Driver
91 (0.208 %)Tandem
91 (0.208 %)Web 2.0
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
173 (15.21 %)Windows
224 (5.000 %)Linux
311 (2.292 %)Windows CE
311 (2.292 %)Windows Server 2003
48 (1.667 %)Windows Mobile
55 (1.042 %)Debian
55 (1.042 %)Fedora
64 (0.833 %)Red Hat Linux
72 (0.417 %)UNIX
81 (0.208 %)Windows Server 2008
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
164 (13.33 %)OO
258 (12.08 %)Project Management
352 (10.83 %)Web Development
449 (10.21 %)Agile Software Development
534 (7.083 %)Scrum
632 (6.667 %)TDD
730 (6.250 %)Software Architecture
828 (5.833 %)E-Commerce
926 (5.417 %)Workflow
1023 (4.792 %)SOA
1118 (3.750 %)CRM
1216 (3.333 %)Web Design
1314 (2.917 %)Systems Analysis
1314 (2.917 %)OOP
1314 (2.917 %)Unit Testing
1413 (2.708 %)Software Engineering
1413 (2.708 %)UML
1512 (2.500 %)Content Management
169 (1.875 %)Software Testing
169 (1.875 %)Enterprise Architecture
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1131 (27.29 %)JavaScript
2111 (23.13 %)C++
3107 (22.29 %)SQL
473 (15.21 %)Java
565 (13.54 %)VB.NET
640 (8.333 %)T-SQL
721 (4.375 %)Python
820 (4.167 %)XAML
919 (3.958 %)C
1016 (3.333 %)VB
1115 (3.125 %)VB6
1210 (2.083 %)Delphi
1210 (2.083 %)Perl
137 (1.458 %)PHP
137 (1.458 %)VBScript
146 (1.250 %)Ruby
146 (1.250 %)X++
155 (1.042 %)Embedded C
164 (0.833 %)VBA
173 (0.625 %)Fortran
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
185 (17.71 %)Degree
236 (7.500 %)MCTS
335 (7.292 %)MCPD
428 (5.833 %)Microsoft Certification
520 (4.167 %)MCAD
520 (4.167 %)MCSD
66 (1.250 %)ISEB
74 (0.833 %)PhD
81 (0.208 %)MCP
81 (0.208 %)Postgraduate
81 (0.208 %)Security Cleared
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
119 (3.958 %)QA
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
16 (1.250 %)Active Directory
25 (1.042 %)Samba
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
195 (19.79 %)Microsoft
217 (3.542 %)Oracle
36 (1.250 %)Sybase
36 (1.250 %)HP
44 (0.833 %)Red Hat
44 (0.833 %)Business Objects
53 (0.625 %)Google
62 (0.417 %)Yahoo!
62 (0.417 %)SAP
71 (0.208 %)JBoss
71 (0.208 %)ESRI
71 (0.208 %)telerik
71 (0.208 %)Adobe