The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Visual Studio 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 Development Applications category for the Brighton 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
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 23 28 20
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -8
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 4 11 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 2.797% 4.264% 3.846%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.22% 42.31% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Average daily rate £358 - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
All Development Applications
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
18 26 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 12.59% 10.08% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 14
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £293 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £325 £384
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio
East Sussex

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Visual Studio across the Brighton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Brighton Visual Studio Jobs Demand Trend

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Trend

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

Brighton Visual Studio Daily Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Visual Studio across the Brighton region.

Brighton Visual Studio Hourly Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton region citing Visual Studio 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 Visual Studio.

1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) LINQ
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (50.00%) DevExpress
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 2 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 2 (50.00%) NUnit
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) XSLT
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) Lua

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton region citing Visual Studio 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 Visual Studio. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) LINQ
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 2 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) XSLT
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) WPF
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) NUnit
1 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) C# Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
1 1 (25.00%) Informatics
1 1 (25.00%) Health Informatics
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
1 2 (50.00%) Pair Programming
1 2 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Lua
3 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) DevExpress