The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inversion of Control in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Inversion of Control over the 3 months to 22 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Inversion of Control (IoC)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Inversion of Control 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire - - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £329 £375
% change year-on-year
+6.46% -12.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
163 147 201
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.18% 18.15% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 88 116
Average daily rate £350 £325 £359
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £230 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 10
Average hourly rate £9.00 £14.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.71% -3.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Inversion of Control
North West

Inversion of Control
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Inversion of Control across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Cheshire Inversion of Control Jobs Demand Trend

Inversion of Control
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Inversion of Control across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Inversion of Control Daily Rate Trend

Inversion of Control
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Inversion of Control 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 Inversion of Control.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Telerik
1 1 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ to SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Ninject
1 1 (100.00%) Unity DI Container

Inversion of Control
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Inversion of Control 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 Inversion of Control. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ to SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Ninject
1 1 (100.00%) Unity DI Container
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Telerik