The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 51 52 51
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -1
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 1 13 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.196% 1.555% 0.765%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.857% 17.57% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 3
Average daily rate £325 £380 £301
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.47% +26.45%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £25.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -44.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
All Development Applications
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
35 74 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 6.849% 8.852% 5.963%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 45 21
Average daily rate £325 £390 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +24.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £291 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £387 £412 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 5
Average hourly rate - £35.00 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -4.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio
South West

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol Visual Studio Hourly Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 9 (90.00%) .NET
2 7 (70.00%) C#
3 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (60.00%) SQL
4 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (40.00%) OO
5 4 (40.00%) MVC
5 4 (40.00%) Ajax
5 4 (40.00%) jQuery
5 4 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
6 3 (30.00%) .NET Framework
6 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (30.00%) HTML
6 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET
7 2 (20.00%) MySQL
7 2 (20.00%) Oracle
7 2 (20.00%) IIS
7 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
7 2 (20.00%) VB
7 2 (20.00%) UML
7 2 (20.00%) ETL
7 2 (20.00%) Scrum
7 2 (20.00%) Degree
7 2 (20.00%) WCF
7 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
7 2 (20.00%) Ext JS

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 9 (90.00%) .NET
2 4 (40.00%) Ajax
2 4 (40.00%) jQuery
3 3 (30.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (30.00%) HTML
3 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (20.00%) WCF
4 2 (20.00%) Ext JS
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (20.00%) HTML5
4 2 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (20.00%) Sass
4 2 (20.00%) LESS
5 1 (10.00%) ASP
5 1 (10.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (20.00%) MySQL
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (10.00%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (10.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Database Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Database Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) iPhone
1 2 (20.00%) Augmented Reality
1 2 (20.00%) iPad
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Android
1 2 (20.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) OO
1 4 (40.00%) MVC
2 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (20.00%) UML
3 2 (20.00%) ETL
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (10.00%) Kimball Methodology
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) C#
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (20.00%) VB
5 1 (10.00%) VB6
5 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
5 1 (10.00%) PHP
5 1 (10.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Cognos
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