The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT jobs advertised for the Swansea region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C# over the 3 months to 17 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 Swansea region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 3 4 3
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -1
Permanent jobs citing C# 12 21 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swansea 23.53% 24.42% 41.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.38% 41.18% 68.75%
Number of salaries quoted 10 20 31
Average salary £32,000 £29,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.47% +7.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,450 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £40,000 £31,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Programming Languages
Swansea
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
29 51 48
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swansea 56.86% 59.30% 60.00%
Number of salaries quoted 26 49 41
Average salary £35,000 £29,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.68% +16.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,300 £21,000 £19,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £31,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
C#
West Wales

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swansea 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 Swansea region.

Swansea C# Salary Trend

C#
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C# across the Swansea region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Swansea C# Salary Histogram

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swansea 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 38 (74.51%) .NET
2 29 (56.86%) ASP.NET
3 22 (43.14%) Microsoft
3 22 (43.14%) SQL Server
4 21 (41.18%) SQL
5 16 (31.37%) C++
5 16 (31.37%) HTML
5 16 (31.37%) OO
6 14 (27.45%) CSS
7 11 (21.57%) JavaScript
7 11 (21.57%) WinForms
8 10 (19.61%) Windows
9 8 (15.69%) CRM
9 8 (15.69%) Dynamics CRM
9 8 (15.69%) .NET Framework
10 7 (13.73%) XML
10 7 (13.73%) Oracle
10 7 (13.73%) Finance
11 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (11.76%) MySQL
11 6 (11.76%) Web Services
12 5 (9.804%) WCF
12 5 (9.804%) VB.NET
12 5 (9.804%) MVC
12 5 (9.804%) MS Excel
13 4 (7.843%) Internet
13 4 (7.843%) Scrum
13 4 (7.843%) ActionScript
13 4 (7.843%) PHP
13 4 (7.843%) Visual Studio

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swansea 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 38 (74.51%) .NET
2 29 (56.86%) ASP.NET
3 16 (31.37%) HTML
4 14 (27.45%) CSS
5 11 (21.57%) WinForms
6 8 (15.69%) .NET Framework
7 7 (13.73%) XML
8 6 (11.76%) Web Services
9 5 (9.804%) WCF
10 4 (7.843%) Ajax
10 4 (7.843%) XSLT
10 4 (7.843%) Flash
11 3 (5.882%) HTML5
11 3 (5.882%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 3 (5.882%) WPF
11 3 (5.882%) Silverlight
11 3 (5.882%) LINQ
11 3 (5.882%) jQuery
12 2 (3.922%) NHibernate
13 1 (1.961%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 4 (7.843%) SharePoint
1 4 (7.843%) Windows Azure
2 1 (1.961%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (1.961%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (1.961%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (9.804%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.961%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (15.69%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.843%) Internet
2 1 (1.961%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (43.14%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (11.76%) MySQL
3 3 (5.882%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (5.882%) RDBMS
3 3 (5.882%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (5.882%) GIS
4 2 (3.922%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (3.922%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 4 (7.843%) Visual Studio
2 3 (5.882%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (5.882%) Xcode
2 3 (5.882%) Mercurial
3 2 (3.922%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (13.73%) Finance
2 1 (1.961%) Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (90.20%) Developer
2 15 (29.41%) .NET Developer
2 15 (29.41%) C# Developer
3 13 (25.49%) C# .NET Developer
4 9 (17.65%) Software Developer
4 9 (17.65%) Web Developer
5 6 (11.76%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 5 (9.804%) ASP.NET Developer
6 5 (9.804%) Senior Developer
7 4 (7.843%) Consultant
7 4 (7.843%) Analyst
7 4 (7.843%) Programmer
7 4 (7.843%) Technical Consultant
7 4 (7.843%) CRM Consultant
7 4 (7.843%) CRM Technical Consultant
7 4 (7.843%) CRM Developer
8 3 (5.882%) VB.NET Developer
8 3 (5.882%) Analyst Developer
8 3 (5.882%) Senior Software Developer
8 3 (5.882%) Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.843%) Open Source
2 3 (5.882%) Blackberry
2 3 (5.882%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.961%) Informatics
3 1 (1.961%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.961%) iPhone
3 1 (1.961%) Health Informatics
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.61%) Windows
2 4 (7.843%) Android
2 4 (7.843%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.961%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (31.37%) OO
2 8 (15.69%) CRM
3 5 (9.804%) MVC
4 4 (7.843%) Scrum
4 4 (7.843%) Kanban
5 3 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (3.922%) User Experience Design
6 2 (3.922%) Customer Engagement
6 2 (3.922%) Requirements Analysis
7 1 (1.961%) UML
7 1 (1.961%) E-Commerce
7 1 (1.961%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (1.961%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 21 (41.18%) SQL
2 16 (31.37%) C++
3 11 (21.57%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.804%) VB.NET
5 4 (7.843%) ActionScript
5 4 (7.843%) PHP
6 3 (5.882%) C
7 2 (3.922%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.961%) VB
8 1 (1.961%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (7.843%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (1.961%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 22 (43.14%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.73%) Oracle
3 2 (3.922%) Twitter