The first table below looks at the demand for ASP.NET MVC 4 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP.NET MVC 4 over the 3 months to 24 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 Application Development category for the Cheshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft ASP.NET MVC4 Framework
Rank 58 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET MVC 4 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.691% - -
As % of the Application Development category 3.086% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £450 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £210 -
% change year-on-year
+54.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
162 230 264
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.38% 28.79% 27.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 123 176
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £270 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £488 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 3
Average hourly rate £30.00 £16.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+81.81% -13.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ASP.NET MVC 4
North West

ASP.NET MVC 4
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ASP.NET MVC 4 across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Cheshire ASP.NET MVC 4 Jobs Demand Trend

ASP.NET MVC 4
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ASP.NET MVC 4 across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire ASP.NET MVC 4 Daily Rate Trend

ASP.NET MVC 4
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing ASP.NET MVC 4 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 ASP.NET MVC 4.

1 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 7 (100.00%) MVC
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 7 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 5 (71.43%) SOA
2 5 (71.43%) XML
2 5 (71.43%) Visual Studio
2 5 (71.43%) HTML
2 5 (71.43%) MVVM
2 5 (71.43%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 5 (71.43%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (71.43%) Ajax
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (71.43%) .NET Framework
2 5 (71.43%) JSON
2 5 (71.43%) WCF
2 5 (71.43%) jQuery
2 5 (71.43%) Razor View Engine
3 4 (57.14%) TDD
4 3 (42.86%) Banking
4 3 (42.86%) Retail
4 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 3 (42.86%) N-Tier
5 2 (28.57%) Finance
5 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (28.57%) Razor Risk
5 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2012

ASP.NET MVC 4
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing ASP.NET MVC 4 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 ASP.NET MVC 4. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 7 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 5 (71.43%) XML
2 5 (71.43%) HTML
2 5 (71.43%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 5 (71.43%) Ajax
2 5 (71.43%) .NET Framework
2 5 (71.43%) JSON
2 5 (71.43%) WCF
2 5 (71.43%) jQuery
2 5 (71.43%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Visual Studio
1 5 (71.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Retail
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (85.71%) .NET Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Lead Developer
4 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Lead .NET Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) MVC
2 5 (71.43%) SOA
2 5 (71.43%) MVVM
3 4 (57.14%) TDD
4 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Razor Risk