The first table below looks at the demand for MVC skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MVC over the 3 months to 21 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Cardiff 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Rank 25 27 31
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +4
Contract jobs citing MVC 1 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 0.546% 2.212% 1.322%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.847% 3.333% 2.239%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
Average daily rate £325 £295 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.16% +31.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £23.88 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+42.40% -43.82%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
118 150 134
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 64.48% 66.37% 59.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 93 78
Average daily rate £350 £365 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% +12.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £275 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £500 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 4
Average hourly rate £17.00 £14.50 £100.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.24% -85.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.69 £12.10 £20.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.80 £16.90 £104.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
MVC
South Wales

MVC
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MVC across the Cardiff region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Cardiff MVC Jobs Demand Trend

MVC
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cardiff MVC Daily Rate Trend

MVC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region citing MVC 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 MVC.

1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) OOD
3 1 (33.33%) SOA
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) XAML
3 1 (33.33%) CMS
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) WPF
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC

MVC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region citing MVC 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 MVC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) WPF
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) C# Developer
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
2 2 (66.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Applications Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Database Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Web Applications Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Web Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Application Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) OOD
1 1 (33.33%) SOA
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) XAML
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft