C# Contracts in Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for C# skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited C# over the 3 months to 23 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

C# West Midlands / Birmingham
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	25	22	16
Rank change year-on-year	-3	-6
Contract jobs citing C#	32	61	58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham	5.21%	7.49%	7.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category	14.22%	20.75%	23.87%
Number of daily rates quoted	24	50	37
Median daily rate	£388	£350	£325
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+10.71%	+7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£320	£318	£288
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£475	£450	£410
UK excluding London median daily rate	£360	£350	£338
% change year-on-year	+2.85%	+3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	0	0
Median hourly rate	£17.00	-	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£41.25	£38.75	£39.00
% change year-on-year	+6.45%	-0.64%

C# is in the programming language skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for programming language skills.

Contract Programming Language Skills Birmingham
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills	225	294	243
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham	36.64%	36.12%	31.44%
Number of daily rates quoted	147	212	163
Median daily rate	£388	£350	£340
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+10.71%	+2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£289	£250	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£475	£450
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	3	2	6
Median hourly rate	£28.50	£38.00	£26.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-25.00%	+43.39%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£17.00	£37.60	£23.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£40.45	£38.00	£28.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£37.50	£36.50
% change year-on-year	+13.33%	+2.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in Birmingham citing C# as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Programming Languages category.

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing C# in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate trend for C# in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing C# in Birmingham over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for C# in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# in Birmingham.

Contractor hourly rate trend for C# in Birmingham

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing C# also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the Birmingham region with a requirement for C#.

1	43 (67.19%)	.NET
2	28 (43.75%)	MVC
3	25 (39.06%)	Agile Software Development
4	24 (37.50%)	SQL Server
4	24 (37.50%)	ASP.NET
5	23 (35.94%)	JavaScript
6	22 (34.38%)	SQL
7	20 (31.25%)	HTML
8	19 (29.69%)	CSS
9	18 (28.13%)	Microsoft
10	14 (21.88%)	Visual Studio
10	14 (21.88%)	HTML5
11	13 (20.31%)	Microsoft Azure
12	12 (18.75%)	ASP.NET MVC
13	10 (15.63%)	Scrum

13	10 (15.63%)	Finance
13	10 (15.63%)	AngularJS
14	9 (14.06%)	CSS3
14	9 (14.06%)	Team Foundation Server
14	9 (14.06%)	Web Services
15	8 (12.50%)	Python
15	8 (12.50%)	Workflow
15	8 (12.50%)	Entity Framework
16	7 (10.94%)	WCF
16	7 (10.94%)	jQuery
16	7 (10.94%)	Continuous Integration
16	7 (10.94%)	TDD
16	7 (10.94%)	.NET Framework
16	7 (10.94%)	VB.NET
17	6 (9.38%)	VB

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Co-occurring IT Skills in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	6 (9.38%)	SharePoint
2	2 (3.13%)	Apache Solr
2	2 (3.13%)	CMS
2	2 (3.13%)	Elasticsearch
2	2 (3.13%)	IIS
2	2 (3.13%)	ThingWorx
2	2 (3.13%)	Tomcat
2	2 (3.13%)	Umbraco
3	1 (1.56%)	BizTalk Server
3	1 (1.56%)	DNN
3	1 (1.56%)	NServiceBus
3	1 (1.56%)	SharePoint 2013

Applications
1	3 (4.69%)	Microsoft Excel
2	1 (1.56%)	Photoshop

Business Applications
1	5 (7.81%)	Dynamics CRM
2	4 (6.25%)	Dynamics AX
3	1 (1.56%)	Dynamics NAV

Cloud Services
1	13 (20.31%)	Microsoft Azure
2	4 (6.25%)	Dynamics 365
3	2 (3.13%)	Amazon AWS
4	1 (1.56%)	Office 365
4	1 (1.56%)	Trello

Communications & Networking
1	2 (3.13%)	LDAP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	24 (37.50%)	SQL Server
2	5 (7.81%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
3	4 (6.25%)	RDBMS
3	4 (6.25%)	Relational Database
4	3 (4.69%)	DB2
4	3 (4.69%)	PostgreSQL
4	3 (4.69%)	Power BI
4	3 (4.69%)	SQL Server 2005
5	2 (3.13%)	EDRMS
5	2 (3.13%)	MySQL
5	2 (3.13%)	SQL Server 2008
5	2 (3.13%)	SQL Server 2016
5	2 (3.13%)	SQL Server Integration Services
6	1 (1.56%)	Apache Cassandra
6	1 (1.56%)	Data Warehouse
6	1 (1.56%)	NoSQL
6	1 (1.56%)	QlikView
6	1 (1.56%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
6	1 (1.56%)	SSDT

Development Applications
1	14 (21.88%)	Visual Studio
2	9 (14.06%)	Team Foundation Server
3	3 (4.69%)	NUnit
3	3 (4.69%)	Visual Studio Team System
4	2 (3.13%)	Moq
4	2 (3.13%)	Subversion
5	1 (1.56%)	CruiseControl
5	1 (1.56%)	Git (software)
5	1 (1.56%)	JIRA
5	1 (1.56%)	Mercurial
5	1 (1.56%)	MSTest
5	1 (1.56%)	Selenium
5	1 (1.56%)	SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5	1 (1.56%)	TortoiseSVN

General
1	10 (15.63%)	Finance
2	6 (9.38%)	Automotive
3	5 (7.81%)	Manufacturing
4	3 (4.69%)	Banking
4	3 (4.69%)	Retail
5	2 (3.13%)	Legal
6	1 (1.56%)	Investment Banking
6	1 (1.56%)	Marketing
6	1 (1.56%)	Retail Banking

Job Titles
1	51 (79.69%)	Developer
2	30 (46.88%)	.NET Developer
3	26 (40.63%)	C# Developer
4	20 (31.25%)	C# .NET Developer
5	13 (20.31%)	ASP.NET MVC Developer
6	11 (17.19%)	Senior .NET Developer
6	11 (17.19%)	Senior Developer
7	10 (15.63%)	ASP.NET Developer
8	8 (12.50%)	Senior C# .NET Developer
8	8 (12.50%)	Senior C# Developer
9	7 (10.94%)	C# ASP.NET Developer
10	5 (7.81%)	JavaScript Developer
11	4 (6.25%)	Microsoft Developer
11	4 (6.25%)	SharePoint Developer
12	3 (4.69%)	Architect
12	3 (4.69%)	Automation Engineer
12	3 (4.69%)	CRM Developer
12	3 (4.69%)	SQL Developer
13	2 (3.13%)	Active Directory Engineer
13	2 (3.13%)	C# VB.NET Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	43 (67.19%)	.NET
2	24 (37.50%)	ASP.NET
3	20 (31.25%)	HTML
4	19 (29.69%)	CSS
5	14 (21.88%)	HTML5
6	12 (18.75%)	ASP.NET MVC
7	10 (15.63%)	AngularJS
8	9 (14.06%)	CSS3
8	9 (14.06%)	Web Services
9	8 (12.50%)	Entity Framework
10	7 (10.94%)	.NET Framework
10	7 (10.94%)	jQuery
10	7 (10.94%)	WCF
11	6 (9.38%)	ASP.NET Web API
12	4 (6.25%)	WPF
12	4 (6.25%)	XML
13	3 (4.69%)	ASP.NET MVC 5
13	3 (4.69%)	ASP.NET Web Forms
13	3 (4.69%)	RESTful
13	3 (4.69%)	Twitter Bootstrap

Miscellaneous
1	4 (6.25%)	FMCG
2	3 (4.69%)	AS400
2	3 (4.69%)	SCADA
2	3 (4.69%)	User Experience
3	2 (3.13%)	Computer Science
3	2 (3.13%)	Greenfield Project
4	1 (1.56%)	Management Information System
4	1 (1.56%)	Mobile App
4	1 (1.56%)	Mobile Banking

Operating Systems
1	2 (3.13%)	Linux
1	2 (3.13%)	Windows
2	1 (1.56%)	Android
2	1 (1.56%)	Apple iOS
2	1 (1.56%)	Unix

Processes & Methodologies
1	28 (43.75%)	MVC
2	25 (39.06%)	Agile Software Development
3	10 (15.63%)	Scrum
4	8 (12.50%)	Workflow
5	7 (10.94%)	Continuous Integration
5	7 (10.94%)	TDD
6	6 (9.38%)	CRM
7	5 (7.81%)	Front End Development
8	4 (6.25%)	Business Intelligence
8	4 (6.25%)	Task Automation
9	3 (4.69%)	Business Analysis
9	3 (4.69%)	Content Management
9	3 (4.69%)	Software Engineering
9	3 (4.69%)	Test Automation
9	3 (4.69%)	Unit Testing
9	3 (4.69%)	Web Development
10	2 (3.13%)	BDD
10	2 (3.13%)	E-Discovery
10	2 (3.13%)	Electronic Discovery Reference Model
10	2 (3.13%)	Microservices

Programming Languages
1	23 (35.94%)	JavaScript
2	22 (34.38%)	SQL
3	8 (12.50%)	Python
4	7 (10.94%)	VB.NET
5	6 (9.38%)	PowerShell
5	6 (9.38%)	VB
6	5 (7.81%)	Java
7	4 (6.25%)	T-SQL
8	3 (4.69%)	RPG
8	3 (4.69%)	RPG IV
9	2 (3.13%)	Perl
9	2 (3.13%)	VBA
10	1 (1.56%)	C
10	1 (1.56%)	TypeScript
10	1 (1.56%)	VB6

Qualifications
1	6 (9.38%)	Degree
2	2 (3.13%)	SC Cleared
2	2 (3.13%)	Security Cleared
3	1 (1.56%)	Master's Degree

System Software
1	6 (9.38%)	Active Directory

Systems Management
1	1 (1.56%)	FTK

Vendors
1	18 (28.13%)	Microsoft
2	4 (6.25%)	IBM
3	3 (4.69%)	CA
4	1 (1.56%)	Cincom
4	1 (1.56%)	JD Edwards
4	1 (1.56%)	Nuix
4	1 (1.56%)	Oracle
4	1 (1.56%)	SAP
4	1 (1.56%)	Sitecore
4	1 (1.56%)	Telerik
4	1 (1.56%)	Xamarin