Cambridgeshire Visual Studio Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Studio skills within the Cambridgeshire region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Studio
Location Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Gateshead Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Romford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton-in-Ashfield Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Woking Woodstock Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	65
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching contract IT job ads	24	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	31.17 %	5.851 %
Daily rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum daily rate	£213	£375
Average daily rate	£251	£400
% change on same period last year	-37.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£290	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£301	£337
% change on same period last year	-10.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.00	-
Average hourly rate	£40.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£43.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.21	£32.75
% change on same period last year	-4.68 %
Development Applications Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	77	188
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.121 %	0.201 %
Daily rates quoted	17	36
Average minimum daily rate	£229	£272
Average daily rate	£257	£283
% change on same period last year	-9.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£285	£294
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£326
% change on same period last year	-4.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.26	£31.25
Average hourly rate	£33.39	£33.36
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.53	£35.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.68	£31.31
% change on same period last year	-2.00 %
Visual Studio East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Visual Studio
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Visual Studio across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Trend

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

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

Visual Studio
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridge	+20	16	£251	-16.25 %
Peterborough	+8	3	-	-

Visual Studio East of England

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 28 (73.68 %) .NET 2 23 (60.53 %) C++ 3 21 (55.26 %) ASP.NET 4 18 (47.37 %) C# 5 12 (31.58 %) MFC 5 12 (31.58 %) SQL Server 5 12 (31.58 %) XML 5 12 (31.58 %) Windows 6 8 (21.05 %) VB.NET 6 8 (21.05 %) Degree 6 8 (21.05 %) Computer Science 7 7 (18.42 %) SQL 7 7 (18.42 %) Microsoft 8 6 (15.79 %) WebServices 8 6 (15.79 %) Unit Testing

9 5 (13.16 %) .NET Framework 9 5 (13.16 %) Telecoms 9 5 (13.16 %) Transact-SQL 9 5 (13.16 %) JavaScript 9 5 (13.16 %) CSS 10 4 (10.53 %) Crystal Reports 10 4 (10.53 %) VB 10 4 (10.53 %) C 10 4 (10.53 %) OO 10 4 (10.53 %) ClearCase 10 4 (10.53 %) N-Tier 10 4 (10.53 %) AutoCAD 10 4 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2005 10 4 (10.53 %) Agile Software Development 11 3 (7.895 %) Software Engineering

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 28 (73.68 %) .NET 2 21 (55.26 %) ASP.NET 3 12 (31.58 %) MFC 3 12 (31.58 %) XML 4 6 (15.79 %) WebServices 5 5 (13.16 %) CSS 5 5 (13.16 %) .NET Framework 6 3 (7.895 %) WinForms 7 2 (5.263 %) AJAX 7 2 (5.263 %) XSLT 7 2 (5.263 %) WCF 7 2 (5.263 %) HTML 8 1 (2.632 %) XSD 8 1 (2.632 %) WPF 8 1 (2.632 %) JSON 8 1 (2.632 %) J2ME 8 1 (2.632 %) .NET Remoting	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.632 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 4 (10.53 %) AutoCAD 2 2 (5.263 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (5.263 %) CDMA 1 2 (5.263 %) GSM 1 2 (5.263 %) SS7 1 2 (5.263 %) ISUP 1 2 (5.263 %) TETRA 2 1 (2.632 %) TELNET 2 1 (2.632 %) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (31.58 %) SQL Server 2 4 (10.53 %) Crystal Reports 2 4 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 4 (10.53 %) ClearCase 2 3 (7.895 %) NUnit 3 2 (5.263 %) Visual Studio Team System
General 1 5 (13.16 %) Telecoms 2 3 (7.895 %) Banking 3 2 (5.263 %) Electronics 4 1 (2.632 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 21 (55.26 %) Developer 2 13 (34.21 %) Software Engineer 3 10 (26.32 %) .NET Developer 4 7 (18.42 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 7 (18.42 %) C# Developer 4 7 (18.42 %) VB.NET Developer 5 5 (13.16 %) C++ Developer 5 5 (13.16 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 6 4 (10.53 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 4 (10.53 %) C++ Software Engineer 7 3 (7.895 %) Web Developer 7 3 (7.895 %) Software Developer 7 3 (7.895 %) C# Web Developer 8 2 (5.263 %) SQL Developer 8 2 (5.263 %) Web Applications Developer 8 2 (5.263 %) .NET Web Developer 8 2 (5.263 %) Analyst 8 2 (5.263 %) Applications Developer 8 2 (5.263 %) Programmer 8 2 (5.263 %) C# Application Developer
Miscellaneous 1 8 (21.05 %) Computer Science 2 4 (10.53 %) N-Tier 3 2 (5.263 %) BBC 3 2 (5.263 %) Arabic Language 3 2 (5.263 %) Multithreading 4 1 (2.632 %) Java Card 4 1 (2.632 %) Cryptography 4 1 (2.632 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 12 (31.58 %) Windows 2 3 (7.895 %) Linux 3 2 (5.263 %) UNIX 4 1 (2.632 %) Windows XP 4 1 (2.632 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (15.79 %) Unit Testing 2 4 (10.53 %) OO 2 4 (10.53 %) Agile Software Development 3 3 (7.895 %) Software Engineering 4 2 (5.263 %) System Testing 4 2 (5.263 %) Time Management 4 2 (5.263 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (2.632 %) OOA/OOD 5 1 (2.632 %) Refactoring 5 1 (2.632 %) Information Management 5 1 (2.632 %) CRM 5 1 (2.632 %) OOD 5 1 (2.632 %) SOA 5 1 (2.632 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (2.632 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 23 (60.53 %) C++ 2 18 (47.37 %) C# 3 8 (21.05 %) VB.NET 4 7 (18.42 %) SQL 5 5 (13.16 %) Transact-SQL 5 5 (13.16 %) JavaScript 6 4 (10.53 %) VB 6 4 (10.53 %) C 7 1 (2.632 %) Java 7 1 (2.632 %) VBScript 7 1 (2.632 %) VBA 7 1 (2.632 %) XPath
Qualifications 1 8 (21.05 %) Degree	System Software 1 1 (2.632 %) MSMQ
Systems Management 1 1 (2.632 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 7 (18.42 %) Microsoft