The first table below looks at the demand for Managed Extensibility Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Managed Extensibility Framework 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 Application Development category for the Birmingham 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Managed Extensibility Framework 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.228% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.980% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £525 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £525 - £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
All Application Development
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
102 173 128
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 23.29% 28.22% 25.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 108 74
Average daily rate £300 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £375 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 4
Average hourly rate £37.00 £36.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.36% +143.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Managed Extensibility Framework
West Midlands

Managed Extensibility Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Managed Extensibility Framework across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Birmingham Managed Extensibility Framework Jobs Demand Trend

Managed Extensibility Framework
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Managed Extensibility Framework across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Managed Extensibility Framework Daily Rate Trend

Managed Extensibility Framework
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Managed Extensibility Framework 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 Managed Extensibility Framework.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) IIS
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) UML
1 4 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 4 (100.00%) ESRI
1 4 (100.00%) ArcGIS
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 4 (100.00%) RIA
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) MSTest
1 4 (100.00%) Moq
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 4 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework

Managed Extensibility Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Managed Extensibility Framework 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 Managed Extensibility Framework. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 4 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) IIS
1 4 (100.00%) ArcGIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) MSTest
1 4 (100.00%) Moq
2 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Programmer
1 4 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Software Programmer
1 4 (100.00%) C# Programmer
2 2 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Software Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# Software Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Silverlight Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Programmer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 4 (100.00%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) UML
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) ESRI