The first table below looks at the demand for MVVM 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 MVVM over the 3 months to 19 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM)
Rank 156 178 190
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +12
Contract jobs citing MVVM 54 34 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.796% 0.439% 0.609%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.074% 0.607% 0.858%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 31 59
Average daily rate £475 £535 £650
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.21% -17.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £374 £400 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £608 £625 £730
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+10.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
- +6.25%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5027 5597 7112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 74.14% 72.30% 71.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3796 4123 5235
Average daily rate £450 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £301 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 82 123
Average hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £16.65 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £125.00 £47.85 £54.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
MVVM
London

MVVM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London MVVM Daily Rate Trend

MVVM
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MVVM across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London MVVM Daily Rate Histogram

MVVM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 82 (85.42%) C#
2 68 (70.83%) WPF
3 57 (59.38%) .NET
4 44 (45.83%) WCF
5 37 (38.54%) Agile Software Development
5 37 (38.54%) SQL Server
6 34 (35.42%) OO
7 33 (34.38%) Finance
7 33 (34.38%) TDD
8 29 (30.21%) Multithreading
9 25 (26.04%) SQL
10 22 (22.92%) Banking
11 18 (18.75%) JavaScript
12 17 (17.71%) Microsoft
12 17 (17.71%) Subversion
13 16 (16.67%) JSON
14 15 (15.63%) Perforce
14 15 (15.63%) SQL Server 2008
15 14 (14.58%) Tableau
15 14 (14.58%) jQuery
15 14 (14.58%) Front Office
15 14 (14.58%) MVC
15 14 (14.58%) CSS
16 13 (13.54%) HTML5
17 12 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
17 12 (12.50%) VBA
17 12 (12.50%) Degree
17 12 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 11 (11.46%) SunGard Panorama
18 11 (11.46%) SQL Server 2005

MVVM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 68 (70.83%) WPF
2 57 (59.38%) .NET
3 44 (45.83%) WCF
4 16 (16.67%) JSON
5 14 (14.58%) jQuery
5 14 (14.58%) CSS
6 13 (13.54%) HTML5
7 11 (11.46%) Silverlight
8 10 (10.42%) HTML
9 9 (9.375%) LINQ
9 9 (9.375%) XML
10 8 (8.333%) .NET Framework
10 8 (8.333%) Managed Extensibility Framework
11 7 (7.292%) REST
12 6 (6.250%) Ajax
12 6 (6.250%) WF
12 6 (6.250%) SOAP
12 6 (6.250%) Web Services
12 6 (6.250%) COM
12 6 (6.250%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.083%) IIS
1 2 (2.083%) Windows Azure
2 1 (1.042%) MQSeries
Applications
1 11 (11.46%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.083%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.042%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 11 (11.46%) SunGard Panorama
2 9 (9.375%) Adaptiv
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.208%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (38.54%) SQL Server
2 15 (15.63%) SQL Server 2008
3 12 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (11.46%) SQL Server 2005
5 7 (7.292%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (4.167%) Big Data
7 3 (3.125%) SQLite
8 2 (2.083%) Sybase ASE
8 2 (2.083%) SQL Server 2000
8 2 (2.083%) SQL Server 2012
8 2 (2.083%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.083%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.042%) SSDT
9 1 (1.042%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 17 (17.71%) Subversion
2 8 (8.333%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.125%) PhoneGap
3 3 (3.125%) Appcelerator Titanium
4 2 (2.083%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.083%) TortoiseSVN
4 2 (2.083%) Microsoft Blend
5 1 (1.042%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
5 1 (1.042%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (1.042%) NCover
5 1 (1.042%) MSBuild
5 1 (1.042%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.042%) JIRA
5 1 (1.042%) CruiseControl
General
1 33 (34.38%) Finance
2 22 (22.92%) Banking
3 14 (14.58%) Front Office
4 7 (7.292%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.125%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 89 (92.71%) Developer
2 36 (37.50%) C# Developer
3 21 (21.88%) WPF Developer
4 20 (20.83%) .NET Developer
5 14 (14.58%) Architect
6 13 (13.54%) Senior Developer
7 12 (12.50%) .NET Architect
8 11 (11.46%) Senior C# Developer
9 9 (9.375%) JavaScript Developer
10 8 (8.333%) Applications Developer
10 8 (8.333%) Applications Architect
10 8 (8.333%) .NET Applications Developer
11 6 (6.250%) UI Programmer
11 6 (6.250%) UI Developer
11 6 (6.250%) Silverlight Developer
12 4 (4.167%) HTML Developer
13 2 (2.083%) Senior .NET Developer
13 2 (2.083%) RAD Developer
13 2 (2.083%) Lead Developer
13 2 (2.083%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.42%) Computer Science
2 9 (9.375%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (5.208%) Derivative
4 3 (3.125%) Inversion of Control
5 2 (2.083%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.083%) RIA
6 1 (1.042%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.042%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.042%) W3C
6 1 (1.042%) Handset
6 1 (1.042%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.042%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.042%) Mathematics
6 1 (1.042%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.042%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.46%) Windows
2 4 (4.167%) Android
3 3 (3.125%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.125%) Windows 8
4 2 (2.083%) Linux
4 2 (2.083%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (38.54%) Agile Software Development
2 34 (35.42%) OO
3 33 (34.38%) TDD
4 29 (30.21%) Multithreading
5 14 (14.58%) MVC
6 12 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
7 11 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (10.42%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (10.42%) CQRS
9 7 (7.292%) Scrum
10 6 (6.250%) Configuration Management
10 6 (6.250%) Risk Management
10 6 (6.250%) Web Testing
11 5 (5.208%) Waterfall
11 5 (5.208%) E-Commerce
12 4 (4.167%) Unit Testing
12 4 (4.167%) Web Development
12 4 (4.167%) SEO
12 4 (4.167%) BDD
13 3 (3.125%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 82 (85.42%) C#
2 25 (26.04%) SQL
3 18 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 12 (12.50%) VBA
5 10 (10.42%) C
6 3 (3.125%) XAML
6 3 (3.125%) Java
7 2 (2.083%) Perl
7 2 (2.083%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.083%) F#
8 1 (1.042%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.083%) Dublin Core
2 1 (1.042%) Basel III
Vendors
1 17 (17.71%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.63%) Perforce
3 14 (14.58%) Tableau
4 11 (11.46%) SunGard
5 5 (5.208%) TIBCO
6 3 (3.125%) DevExpress
6 3 (3.125%) Infragistics
6 3 (3.125%) Syncfusion
7 2 (2.083%) Sybase
8 1 (1.042%) Murex
8 1 (1.042%) Calypso
8 1 (1.042%) SAP
8 1 (1.042%) Business Objects
8 1 (1.042%) Oracle
City of London
C# / WPF / Contract / London / £500-£600pd A top tier investment bank is looking for a C# front to Back Developer with strong WPF/WCF experience to join their...
Real Staffing
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City of London
They are looking for a C# Developer with strong commercial experience of WPF to join their RWA team... Key Requirements for C# Developer: Strong core C# skills. Commercial...
Real Staffing
Rate: £500 - £550 per annum
Posted: 30 May 2013
City, London
Expertise in multi-threaded server side C# development on n-tier systems is essential. The candidate should also be proficient in SQL. A structured approach to software development...
Aston Carter
Rate: £550 - £650 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Expertise in multi-threaded server side C# development on n-tier systems is essential. The candidate should also be proficient in SQL... This role requires an excellent understanding...
Aston Carter
Rate: £550 - £650 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
This role requires a C# Developer with strong commerical experience of WPF and who specialises in UI applications. This role also exposes the C# Developer to new technologies...
Real Staffing
Rate: £500 - £550 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013