The first table below looks at the demand for MVC skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MVC 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Chester 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
Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Rank 22 19 -
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -
Contract jobs citing MVC 3 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 2.158% 1.709% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.703% 2.439% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
Average daily rate £325 £269 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.93% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £23.88 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+38.21% -43.82%
All Processes & Methodologies
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
111 82 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 79.86% 70.09% 68.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 34 36
Average daily rate £381 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.17% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £300 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 3
Average hourly rate £44.90 £14.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+220.71% -15.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.00 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.00 £50.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
MVC
Cheshire

MVC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester MVC Jobs Demand Trend

MVC
Daily Rate Trend

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

Chester MVC Daily Rate Trend

MVC
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing MVC 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 MVC.

1 10 (100.00%) C#
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (90.00%) ASP.NET
3 8 (80.00%) SQL Server
4 5 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 4 (40.00%) jQuery
5 4 (40.00%) E-Commerce
5 4 (40.00%) CMS
6 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (30.00%) SQL
6 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (30.00%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (30.00%) Sitecore
6 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
7 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 2 (20.00%) HTML5
7 2 (20.00%) WCF
7 2 (20.00%) CSS
8 1 (10.00%) Ajax
8 1 (10.00%) XML
8 1 (10.00%) HTML

MVC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (90.00%) ASP.NET
3 5 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 4 (40.00%) jQuery
5 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 2 (20.00%) HTML5
6 2 (20.00%) WCF
6 2 (20.00%) CSS
7 1 (10.00%) Ajax
7 1 (10.00%) XML
7 1 (10.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) CMS
2 3 (30.00%) Sitecore CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Web Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Sitecore