The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio Team System 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 Visual Studio Team System 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 Development Applications 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)
Rank 200 215 241
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +26
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Team System 3 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.047% 0.038% 0.041%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.382% 0.460% 0.398%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 4
Average daily rate - £325 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -33.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £394 £365 £335
% change year-on-year
+7.94% +8.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
785 652 1005
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.31% 8.290% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 489 757
Average daily rate £405 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.42% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 7
Average hourly rate £42.00 £37.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.51% +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £16.20 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.50 £39.70 £75.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio Team System
London

Visual Studio Team System
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Visual Studio Team System across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

City of London Visual Studio Team System Jobs Demand Trend

Visual Studio Team System
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Visual Studio Team System across the City of London region.

City of London Visual Studio Team System Daily Rate Trend

Visual Studio Team System
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Visual Studio Team System 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 Visual Studio Team System.

1 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (33.33%) ETRM
3 2 (33.33%) VBA
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Windows 2000
3 2 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
3 2 (33.33%) OO
3 2 (33.33%) Front Office
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) ISEB
3 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 2 (33.33%) Windows XP
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) NUnit
3 2 (33.33%) Billing

Visual Studio Team System
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Visual Studio Team System 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 Visual Studio Team System. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 2 (33.33%) CSS
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
1 2 (33.33%) Ajax
1 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 2 (33.33%) WCF
1 2 (33.33%) Silverlight
1 2 (33.33%) jQuery
1 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (33.33%) StructureMap
1 2 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 2 (33.33%) NEsper
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (16.67%) DTS
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 7
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 3 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (33.33%) NUnit
3 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
3 2 (33.33%) MSTest
3 2 (33.33%) Rhino Mocks
4 1 (16.67%) Selenium
4 1 (16.67%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Front Office
2 2 (33.33%) Billing
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Test Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Database Developer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) QA Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows 2000
1 2 (33.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (33.33%) ETRM
2 2 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
2 2 (33.33%) OO
2 2 (33.33%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) VBA
3 2 (33.33%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 1 (16.67%) VB
4 1 (16.67%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) ISEB
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft