The first table below looks at the demand for MSF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Altrincham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MSF over the 3 months to 22 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Altrincham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing MSF 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Altrincham - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £438 £475
% change year-on-year
- -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Altrincham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
8 9 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Altrincham 88.89% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 0
Average daily rate £280 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.84% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £9.25 £12.01 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.94% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
MSF
Manchester

MSF
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Altrincham region citing MSF 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited MSF.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) RUP
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) CMMI
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) InfoPath
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Ext JS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Office 365
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint 2013

MSF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Altrincham region citing MSF also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited MSF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Ext JS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) InfoPath
1 1 (100.00%) Office 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) RUP
1 1 (100.00%) CMMI
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript