The first table below looks at the demand for ASP.NET MVC 4 skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP.NET MVC 4 over the 3 months to 18 June 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 City of London 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft ASP.NET MVC4 Framework
Rank 193 221 -
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET MVC 4 22 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.319% 0.013% -
As % of the Application Development category 1.101% 0.049% -
Number of daily rates quoted 17 1 0
Average daily rate £413 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.92% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £333 £210 -
% change year-on-year
+58.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1998 2049 2831
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.98% 26.57% 28.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1583 1564 2224
Average daily rate £413 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 25 22
Average hourly rate £41.50 £32.50 £42.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.69% -22.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £19.00 £16.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.50 £50.50 £113.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
ASP.NET MVC 4
London

ASP.NET MVC 4
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ASP.NET MVC 4 across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

City of London ASP.NET MVC 4 Jobs Demand Trend

ASP.NET MVC 4
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ASP.NET MVC 4 across the City of London region.

City of London ASP.NET MVC 4 Daily Rate Trend

ASP.NET MVC 4
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET MVC 4 across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London ASP.NET MVC 4 Daily Rate Histogram

ASP.NET MVC 4
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing ASP.NET MVC 4 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 ASP.NET MVC 4.

1 34 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 33 (97.06%) .NET
3 32 (94.12%) ASP.NET
4 31 (91.18%) MVC
5 29 (85.29%) C#
6 23 (67.65%) SQL Server
7 17 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
7 17 (50.00%) WCF
8 15 (44.12%) TDD
9 14 (41.18%) JavaScript
10 13 (38.24%) CSS
10 13 (38.24%) Finance
10 13 (38.24%) jQuery
11 11 (32.35%) .NET Framework
11 11 (32.35%) Scrum
11 11 (32.35%) Web Services
12 10 (29.41%) SQL
13 9 (26.47%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 9 (26.47%) ASP.NET MVC 3
13 9 (26.47%) REST
14 8 (23.53%) BDD
14 8 (23.53%) HTML
15 7 (20.59%) OO
15 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
15 7 (20.59%) HTML5
15 7 (20.59%) Banking
16 6 (17.65%) Ajax
16 6 (17.65%) Razor View Engine
16 6 (17.65%) Kanban
16 6 (17.65%) SOA

ASP.NET MVC 4
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing ASP.NET MVC 4 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 ASP.NET MVC 4. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 34 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 33 (97.06%) .NET
3 32 (94.12%) ASP.NET
4 17 (50.00%) WCF
5 13 (38.24%) jQuery
5 13 (38.24%) CSS
6 11 (32.35%) Web Services
6 11 (32.35%) .NET Framework
7 9 (26.47%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 9 (26.47%) REST
7 9 (26.47%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 8 (23.53%) HTML
9 7 (20.59%) HTML5
10 6 (17.65%) Ajax
10 6 (17.65%) Razor View Engine
11 5 (14.71%) NHibernate
11 5 (14.71%) XML
11 5 (14.71%) ADO.NET
11 5 (14.71%) RESTful
12 3 (8.824%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 5 (14.71%) CMS
2 4 (11.76%) Umbraco
2 4 (11.76%) Windows Azure
3 3 (8.824%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (8.824%) DotNetNuke
3 3 (8.824%) SharePoint
4 2 (5.882%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.941%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.882%) HTTP
1 2 (5.882%) Internet
2 1 (2.941%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.941%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (67.65%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.76%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (11.76%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (8.824%) SSDT
4 2 (5.882%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.941%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.941%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Visual Studio
2 4 (11.76%) SpecFlow
3 3 (8.824%) Subversion
4 2 (5.882%) JIRA
4 2 (5.882%) Git (software)
4 2 (5.882%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (5.882%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.941%) QUnit
5 1 (2.941%) Jasmine
5 1 (2.941%) MSTest
5 1 (2.941%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (2.941%) WATIR
General
1 13 (38.24%) Finance
2 7 (20.59%) Banking
3 5 (14.71%) Investment Banking
4 3 (8.824%) Publishing
5 2 (5.882%) Games
6 1 (2.941%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.941%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (73.53%) Developer
2 12 (35.29%) .NET Developer
3 11 (32.35%) C# Developer
4 6 (17.65%) Architect
4 6 (17.65%) C# .NET Developer
5 5 (14.71%) ASP.NET Developer
6 4 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (11.76%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (5.882%) Agile C# Developer
7 2 (5.882%) .NET Architect
8 1 (2.941%) E-Learning Developer
8 1 (2.941%) C# Web Developer
8 1 (2.941%) Development Manager
8 1 (2.941%) Lead Developer
8 1 (2.941%) Web Developer
8 1 (2.941%) ASP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.941%) N-Tier
1 1 (2.941%) W3C
1 1 (2.941%) E-Learning
1 1 (2.941%) SCORM
1 1 (2.941%) Learning Management System
1 1 (2.941%) Open Source
1 1 (2.941%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.882%) Windows
1 2 (5.882%) Linux
1 2 (5.882%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (91.18%) MVC
2 17 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 15 (44.12%) TDD
4 11 (32.35%) Scrum
5 8 (23.53%) BDD
6 7 (20.59%) OO
7 6 (17.65%) SOA
7 6 (17.65%) Kanban
8 5 (14.71%) E-Commerce
8 5 (14.71%) UML
8 5 (14.71%) Investment Management
9 3 (8.824%) Extreme Programming
9 3 (8.824%) MVVM
10 2 (5.882%) User Stories
10 2 (5.882%) Web Design
10 2 (5.882%) Pair Programming
10 2 (5.882%) OOP
10 2 (5.882%) Workflow
11 1 (2.941%) Configuration Management
11 1 (2.941%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (85.29%) C#
2 14 (41.18%) JavaScript
3 10 (29.41%) SQL
4 5 (14.71%) T-SQL
4 5 (14.71%) Java
5 3 (8.824%) VB.NET
6 2 (5.882%) C
6 2 (5.882%) C++
6 2 (5.882%) Perl
6 2 (5.882%) XAML
6 2 (5.882%) Ruby
7 1 (2.941%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (2.941%) Objective-C
7 1 (2.941%) ActionScript
7 1 (2.941%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1 (2.941%) MCSD
1 1 (2.941%) MCSE
1 1 (2.941%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (2.941%) MCTS
1 1 (2.941%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.941%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.882%) Dublin Core
2 1 (2.941%) Section 508
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.824%) EPiServer
2 3 (8.824%) Sitecore
3 1 (2.941%) Adobe
3 1 (2.941%) Remedy
3 1 (2.941%) TOWER Software