The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge 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 Cambridge 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 27 18 31
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +13
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 12 33 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 3.659% 7.820% 2.299%
As % of the Development Applications category 44.44% 45.83% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 2
Average daily rate £363 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.07% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £343 £250 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £376 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 2
Average hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -17.64%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
All Development Applications
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
27 72 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 8.232% 17.06% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 31 12
Average daily rate £315 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.54% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £360 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 9
Average hourly rate £40.50 £36.25 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.72% +45.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £35.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.65 £47.00 £34.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio
Cambridgeshire

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge 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 20 (74.07%) C#
1 20 (74.07%) .NET
2 15 (55.56%) ASP.NET
3 14 (51.85%) HTML5
4 11 (40.74%) CSS
5 10 (37.04%) HTML
5 10 (37.04%) MVC
5 10 (37.04%) jQuery
5 10 (37.04%) ASP.NET MVC
6 9 (33.33%) CSS3
6 9 (33.33%) WCF
6 9 (33.33%) Scrum
7 7 (25.93%) C++
7 7 (25.93%) F#
8 6 (22.22%) MVVM
8 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
8 6 (22.22%) C
8 6 (22.22%) OO
8 6 (22.22%) Data Modelling
8 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
9 5 (18.52%) Human Factors
10 4 (14.81%) Advertising
10 4 (14.81%) VC++
10 4 (14.81%) Windows
10 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
11 3 (11.11%) SQL
11 3 (11.11%) VB.NET
11 3 (11.11%) OOA/OOD
11 3 (11.11%) CAD
11 3 (11.11%) OOD

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 20 (74.07%) .NET
2 15 (55.56%) ASP.NET
3 14 (51.85%) HTML5
4 11 (40.74%) CSS
5 10 (37.04%) HTML
5 10 (37.04%) jQuery
5 10 (37.04%) ASP.NET MVC
6 9 (33.33%) CSS3
6 9 (33.33%) WCF
7 2 (7.407%) Ajax
8 1 (3.704%) XHTML
8 1 (3.704%) STL
8 1 (3.704%) .NET Framework
8 1 (3.704%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.407%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (3.704%) IIS
3 1 (3.704%) Mathematica
3 1 (3.704%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (7.407%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.704%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.407%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (3.704%) GCC
1 1 (3.704%) GDB
1 1 (3.704%) Git (software)
1 1 (3.704%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (14.81%) Advertising
2 1 (3.704%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (66.67%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Software Developer
2 5 (18.52%) User Experience Developer
3 4 (14.81%) UI Programmer
3 4 (14.81%) UI Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 3 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Front-End Developer
4 3 (11.11%) UI Designer
4 3 (11.11%) Designer
5 2 (7.407%) C# Developer
5 2 (7.407%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.704%) Architect
6 1 (3.704%) Programmer
6 1 (3.704%) Administrator
6 1 (3.704%) Consultant
6 1 (3.704%) VB.NET Developer
6 1 (3.704%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (3.704%) Senior C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Human Factors
2 1 (3.704%) N-Tier
2 1 (3.704%) NHS
2 1 (3.704%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Windows
2 1 (3.704%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) MVC
2 9 (33.33%) Scrum
3 6 (22.22%) MVVM
3 6 (22.22%) OO
3 6 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 3 (11.11%) OOA/OOD
4 3 (11.11%) CAD
4 3 (11.11%) OOD
4 3 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (3.704%) Document Management
5 1 (3.704%) Software Engineering
5 1 (3.704%) Migration
5 1 (3.704%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (3.704%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 20 (74.07%) C#
2 7 (25.93%) C++
2 7 (25.93%) F#
3 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 6 (22.22%) C
4 4 (14.81%) VC++
5 3 (11.11%) SQL
5 3 (11.11%) VB.NET
6 1 (3.704%) Lisp
6 1 (3.704%) Haskell
6 1 (3.704%) Erlang
6 1 (3.704%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.704%) R
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.407%) Telerik
3 1 (3.704%) Citrix
3 1 (3.704%) DevExpress