Cheshire MFC Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MFC over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC)
Location Barnet Berkshire Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Hammersmith Hampshire Henley-on-Thames Hertfordshire High Wycombe London Manchester North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxfordshire Petersfield Portsmouth Redhill Somerset South East South West Southampton St Albans Stevenage Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Wiltshire Yeovil	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	65
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	2.715 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£280	£354
% change on same period last year	-20.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.17	£35.71
% change on same period last year	+4.08 %
Application Development Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	222	221
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.314 %	0.224 %
Daily rates quoted	36	35
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£308
Average daily rate	£325	£325
% change on same period last year	-0.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£336	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.13	£29.06
Average hourly rate	£30.85	£31.42
% change on same period last year	-1.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.57	£33.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.93	£31.98
% change on same period last year	-3.29 %
MFC North West

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.

MFC
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MFC across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.