The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Enterprise Library 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 Microsoft Enterprise Library 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 Enterprise Library
Rank 58 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Enterprise Library 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 £420 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £372 £275 -
% change year-on-year
+35.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.25 - -
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%
Microsoft Enterprise Library
North West

Microsoft Enterprise Library
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft Enterprise Library across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Cheshire Microsoft Enterprise Library Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Enterprise Library
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Microsoft Enterprise Library across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Microsoft Enterprise Library Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Enterprise Library
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Microsoft Enterprise Library 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 Microsoft Enterprise Library.

1 5 (100.00%) IIS
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) MCAD
1 5 (100.00%) MCSD
1 5 (100.00%) CRM
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) MCTS
1 5 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (100.00%) MCPD
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (100.00%) WCF
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio Team System
1 5 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server

Microsoft Enterprise Library
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Microsoft Enterprise Library 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 Microsoft Enterprise Library. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (100.00%) WCF
1 5 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio Team System
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) CRM Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Dynamics CRM Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CRM
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) MCAD
1 5 (100.00%) MCSD
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (100.00%) MCTS
1 5 (100.00%) MCPD
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft