The first table below looks at the demand for MSF 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 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF)
Rank - - 42
Contract jobs citing MSF 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - 0.398%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 0.687%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £475
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
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
298 398 291
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 67.27% 62.97% 57.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 215 179
Average daily rate £355 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.57% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £525 £497
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 9
Average hourly rate £34.75 £15.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+131.66% -18.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.28 £12.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.60 £34.80 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
MSF
West Midlands

MSF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham MSF Jobs Demand Trend

MSF
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham MSF Daily Rate Trend

MSF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET
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%) OOA/OOD
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) RUP
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Process
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) InfoPath
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint Server

MSF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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%) ADO.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
1 1 (100.00%) WF
1 1 (100.00%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint Server
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint Foundation
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) InfoPath
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Team System
1 1 (100.00%) MSBuild
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%) OOA/OOD
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) RUP
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Process
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft