The first table below looks at the demand for MVC skills in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MVC over the 3 months to 24 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 Belfast 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Rank 29 - 42
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MVC 4 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 2.062% - 0.612%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.604% - 1.149%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £280 - £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £23.88 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+38.21% -43.82%
All Processes & Methodologies
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
111 101 174
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 57.22% 62.35% 53.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 32 54
Average daily rate £350 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £260 £193
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £10.50 - £12.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
MVC
County Antrim

MVC
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MVC across the Belfast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Belfast MVC Jobs Demand Trend

MVC
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MVC across the Belfast region.

Belfast MVC Daily Rate Trend

MVC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing MVC 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 MVC.

1 11 (78.57%) .NET
2 6 (42.86%) Java
2 6 (42.86%) ASP.NET
2 6 (42.86%) C#
3 5 (35.71%) CRM
3 5 (35.71%) SharePoint
3 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 5 (35.71%) Ajax
3 5 (35.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (35.71%) jQuery
3 5 (35.71%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (35.71%) KnockoutJS
3 5 (35.71%) Twitter
3 5 (35.71%) Git (software)
3 5 (35.71%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (35.71%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 4 (28.57%) BizTalk Server
4 4 (28.57%) C++
5 2 (14.29%) Spring MVC
5 2 (14.29%) Spring
6 1 (7.143%) Maven
6 1 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (7.143%) Finance
6 1 (7.143%) Hibernate
6 1 (7.143%) Unit Testing
6 1 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (7.143%) Java EE
6 1 (7.143%) HttpUnit
6 1 (7.143%) N-Tier
6 1 (7.143%) JDBC

MVC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing MVC 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 MVC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (78.57%) .NET
2 6 (42.86%) ASP.NET
3 5 (35.71%) Ajax
3 5 (35.71%) jQuery
3 5 (35.71%) KnockoutJS
3 5 (35.71%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (14.29%) Spring MVC
4 2 (14.29%) Spring
5 1 (7.143%) Hibernate
5 1 (7.143%) Java EE
5 1 (7.143%) JDBC
5 1 (7.143%) XML
5 1 (7.143%) XSL
5 1 (7.143%) J2EE
5 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 5 (35.71%) SharePoint
1 5 (35.71%) SharePoint 2010
2 4 (28.57%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (7.143%) Apache
3 1 (7.143%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.143%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Git (software)
1 5 (35.71%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (7.143%) Maven
2 1 (7.143%) HttpUnit
2 1 (7.143%) Ant
2 1 (7.143%) JUnit
General
1 1 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Developer
1 10 (71.43%) .NET Developer
2 1 (7.143%) Technical Leader
2 1 (7.143%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (7.143%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) CRM
2 1 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (7.143%) Unit Testing
2 1 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (7.143%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Java
1 6 (42.86%) C#
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 4 (28.57%) C++
4 1 (7.143%) PHP
4 1 (7.143%) SQL
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Twitter
2 1 (7.143%) Jaspersoft