The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inversion of Control in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Inversion of Control over the 3 months to 20 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Bristol 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Inversion of Control (IoC)
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Inversion of Control 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.379% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.410% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £380
% change year-on-year
- -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
83 138 110
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 15.72% 16.45% 17.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 92 43
Average daily rate £325 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £239 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £512 £451 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 8
Average hourly rate £42.50 £27.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.40% +35.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
Inversion of Control
South West

Inversion of Control
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Inversion of Control across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Bristol Inversion of Control Jobs Demand Trend

Inversion of Control
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Inversion of Control across the Bristol region.

Bristol Inversion of Control Daily Rate Trend

Inversion of Control
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Inversion of Control 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 Inversion of Control.

1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) VB
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) OAuth
2 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Social Media
2 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (50.00%) Castle Windsor
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 2 (50.00%) Reactive Extensions
2 2 (50.00%) Facebook
2 2 (50.00%) Twitter
2 2 (50.00%) NuGet
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) ASP
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) UML
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development

Inversion of Control
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Inversion of Control 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 Inversion of Control. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) ASP
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) LINQ
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) OAuth
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (50.00%) Castle Windsor
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 2 (50.00%) Reactive Extensions
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) ReSharper
1 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (50.00%) NuGet
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (50.00%) C# Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) UML
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) VB
2 2 (50.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Facebook
1 2 (50.00%) Twitter