The first table below looks at the demand for MVVM 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 MVVM 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 of the Processes & Methodologies 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
Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM)
Rank 58 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MVVM 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.680% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.909% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £450 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £351 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
+6.43% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £47.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
- +18.75%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
550 498 663
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 74.83% 61.48% 69.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 254 367
Average daily rate £375 £351 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.99% +7.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £270 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 26
Average hourly rate £40.00 £22.41 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.49% +12.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.95 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.83 £31.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
MVVM
North West

MVVM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire MVVM Jobs Demand Trend

MVVM
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire MVVM Daily Rate Trend

MVVM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) SOA
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) Ajax
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (100.00%) JSON
1 5 (100.00%) WCF
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 5 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 5 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 4 (80.00%) TDD
3 3 (60.00%) Banking
3 3 (60.00%) Retail
3 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (60.00%) N-Tier
4 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (40.00%) Razor Risk
4 2 (40.00%) Finance
5 1 (20.00%) Spring

MVVM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) Ajax
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (100.00%) JSON
1 5 (100.00%) WCF
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 5 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Retail
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (60.00%) Lead Developer
4 2 (40.00%) Lead .NET Developer
5 1 (20.00%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) SOA
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
2 4 (80.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Razor Risk