The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southport region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C# over the 3 months to 23 May 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 Southport region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 7 3 2
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -1
Permanent jobs citing C# 1 6 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southport 10.00% 35.29% 37.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.11% 46.15% 75.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 1
Average salary £35,000 £38,750 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.67% +29.16%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Programming Languages
Southport
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
9 13 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southport 90.00% 76.47% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 9 13 1
Average salary £27,500 £40,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-31.25% +33.33%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
C#
Merseyside

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southport C# Jobs Demand Trend

C#
Salary Trend

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

Southport C# Salary Trend

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southport 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 13 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (84.62%) ASP.NET
3 10 (76.92%) SQL Server
4 9 (69.23%) MVC
4 9 (69.23%) XML
5 8 (61.54%) Web Services
5 8 (61.54%) Visual Studio
5 8 (61.54%) WCF
6 6 (46.15%) SQL Server 2008
6 6 (46.15%) ASP.NET 2.0
6 6 (46.15%) SQL Server 2005
6 6 (46.15%) SQL Server 2000
6 6 (46.15%) MS Excel
7 5 (38.46%) Finance
8 4 (30.77%) .NET Framework
9 3 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (23.08%) Performance Testing
9 3 (23.08%) ISEB
10 2 (15.38%) DSDM
10 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
10 2 (15.38%) Regression Testing
10 2 (15.38%) System Testing
10 2 (15.38%) New Media
10 2 (15.38%) V-Model
10 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (15.38%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 1 (7.692%) CSS3
11 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 1 (7.692%) Test Strategy
11 1 (7.692%) HTML5

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southport 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 13 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (84.62%) ASP.NET
3 9 (69.23%) XML
4 8 (61.54%) Web Services
4 8 (61.54%) WCF
5 6 (46.15%) ASP.NET 2.0
6 4 (30.77%) .NET Framework
7 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (15.38%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 1 (7.692%) CSS3
8 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 1 (7.692%) HTML5
8 1 (7.692%) CSS
Applications
1 6 (46.15%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (76.92%) SQL Server
2 6 (46.15%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (46.15%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (46.15%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Developer
1 10 (76.92%) .NET Developer
2 8 (61.54%) C# Developer
2 8 (61.54%) ASP.NET Developer
2 8 (61.54%) C# .NET Developer
3 6 (46.15%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Analyst
4 3 (23.08%) Test Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) Lead Test Analyst
6 1 (7.692%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (7.692%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (7.692%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) New Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) MVC
2 3 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (23.08%) Performance Testing
3 2 (15.38%) DSDM
3 2 (15.38%) Regression Testing
3 2 (15.38%) System Testing
3 2 (15.38%) V-Model
4 1 (7.692%) Test Strategy
4 1 (7.692%) Test Management
4 1 (7.692%) Project Management
4 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (7.692%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.692%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft