City of London Visual Studio Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Studio skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Studio
Location Avon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Cirencester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dunfermline Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Pontypridd Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	146	140
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	75	60
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.099 %	0.064 %
As % of the category below	10.95 %	11.24 %
Daily rates quoted	32	11
Average minimum daily rate	£344	£360
Average daily rate	£374	£406
% change on same period last year	-7.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£404	£452
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£337
% change on same period last year	-7.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£45.00	-
Average hourly rate	£50.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£55.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.75	£31.54
% change on same period last year	+10.15 %
Development Applications City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	685	534
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.903 %	0.566 %
Daily rates quoted	372	263
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£438
Average daily rate	£404	£469
% change on same period last year	-13.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£441	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£329
% change on same period last year	+1.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.44	£17.63
Average hourly rate	£28.42	£19.75
% change on same period last year	+43.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.41	£21.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.57	£34.00
% change on same period last year	-1.26 %
Visual Studio London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Visual Studio
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Visual Studio across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Trend

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

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the City of London region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Visual Studio across the City of London region.

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Visual Studio 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.

1 133 (81.10 %) .NET 2 113 (68.90 %) C# 3 65 (39.63 %) SQL Server 4 63 (38.41 %) SQL 5 54 (32.93 %) ASP.NET 6 48 (29.27 %) Finance 7 47 (28.66 %) Windows 8 41 (25.00 %) Microsoft 9 40 (24.39 %) XML 10 39 (23.78 %) SQL Server 2005 11 38 (23.17 %) C++ 12 29 (17.68 %) HTML 13 28 (17.07 %) JavaScript 14 25 (15.24 %) .NET Framework 15 22 (13.41 %) WebServices

16 21 (12.80 %) CSS 16 21 (12.80 %) VB 17 20 (12.20 %) MFC 17 20 (12.20 %) BizTalk Server 18 19 (11.59 %) N-Tier 18 19 (11.59 %) SOA 18 19 (11.59 %) IIS 18 19 (11.59 %) NHibernate 19 18 (10.98 %) Banking 19 18 (10.98 %) SharePoint 19 18 (10.98 %) MonoRail 20 17 (10.37 %) SQL Server 2000 20 17 (10.37 %) MS Excel 21 16 (9.756 %) WinForms 21 16 (9.756 %) ASP

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Visual Studio 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 133 (81.10 %) .NET 2 54 (32.93 %) ASP.NET 3 40 (24.39 %) XML 4 29 (17.68 %) HTML 5 25 (15.24 %) .NET Framework 6 22 (13.41 %) WebServices 7 21 (12.80 %) CSS 8 20 (12.20 %) MFC 9 19 (11.59 %) NHibernate 10 18 (10.98 %) MonoRail 11 16 (9.756 %) WinForms 11 16 (9.756 %) ASP 12 13 (7.927 %) AJAX 13 9 (5.488 %) XHTML 14 8 (4.878 %) XSLT 15 7 (4.268 %) J2EE 16 6 (3.659 %) Hibernate 17 5 (3.049 %) Spring 17 5 (3.049 %) Middleware 17 5 (3.049 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 20 (12.20 %) BizTalk Server 2 19 (11.59 %) IIS 3 18 (10.98 %) SharePoint 4 11 (6.707 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 10 (6.098 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 9 (5.488 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 9 (5.488 %) MS Exchange 7 8 (4.878 %) TIBCO EMS 8 7 (4.268 %) CMS 9 4 (2.439 %) JBoss 9 4 (2.439 %) WebLogic 10 3 (1.829 %) Lotus Notes 10 3 (1.829 %) TeamSite 11 2 (1.220 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 1 (0.610 %) SharePoint Portal Server 12 1 (0.610 %) QuickPlace 12 1 (0.610 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 17 (10.37 %) MS Excel 2 8 (4.878 %) Photoshop 3 3 (1.829 %) MS Office 3 3 (1.829 %) Paint Shop Pro 4 1 (0.610 %) InfoPath 4 1 (0.610 %) Shockwave	Communications & Networking 1 3 (1.829 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (1.220 %) FTP 3 1 (0.610 %) Internet 3 1 (0.610 %) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence 1 65 (39.63 %) SQL Server 2 39 (23.78 %) SQL Server 2005 3 17 (10.37 %) SQL Server 2000 4 11 (6.707 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 7 (4.268 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 4 (2.439 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 3 (1.829 %) OLAP 7 3 (1.829 %) DTS 7 3 (1.829 %) BusinessObjects 7 3 (1.829 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 2 (1.220 %) SQL Server 7 8 2 (1.220 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 2 (1.220 %) GIS 9 1 (0.610 %) PowerCenter 9 1 (0.610 %) ETL 9 1 (0.610 %) Oracle 10g 9 1 (0.610 %) Oracle 9i	Development Applications 1 11 (6.707 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 8 (4.878 %) JIRA 3 7 (4.268 %) Ant 4 6 (3.659 %) NUnit 5 5 (3.049 %) Subversion 6 3 (1.829 %) Eclipse 6 3 (1.829 %) Flash 7 2 (1.220 %) Selenium 7 2 (1.220 %) Visual Studio Team System 7 2 (1.220 %) Dreamweaver 7 2 (1.220 %) MSI 7 2 (1.220 %) InstallShield 7 2 (1.220 %) Cactus 7 2 (1.220 %) HttpUnit 8 1 (0.610 %) Log4Net 8 1 (0.610 %) InterDev 8 1 (0.610 %) ClearCase
General 1 48 (29.27 %) Finance 2 18 (10.98 %) Banking 3 11 (6.707 %) Front Office 4 10 (6.098 %) Legal 5 8 (4.878 %) Investment Banking 6 6 (3.659 %) Publishing 7 4 (2.439 %) Marketing 8 3 (1.829 %) Health 8 3 (1.829 %) Retail 8 3 (1.829 %) Insurance 8 3 (1.829 %) Pharmaceutical 9 2 (1.220 %) Financial Institution 10 1 (0.610 %) Electronics 10 1 (0.610 %) Telecoms 10 1 (0.610 %) Advertising 10 1 (0.610 %) Education 10 1 (0.610 %) Government 10 1 (0.610 %) Music 10 1 (0.610 %) Music Industry 10 1 (0.610 %) Retail Banking	Job Titles 1 109 (66.46 %) Developer 2 28 (17.07 %) .NET Developer 3 26 (15.85 %) C# Developer 4 18 (10.98 %) Web Developer 5 17 (10.37 %) C++ Developer 6 11 (6.707 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 11 (6.707 %) Delivery Manager 7 10 (6.098 %) Applications Developer 8 9 (5.488 %) Analyst 8 9 (5.488 %) Trainer 8 9 (5.488 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 8 (4.878 %) Senior Developer 9 8 (4.878 %) Programmer 10 7 (4.268 %) Architect 10 7 (4.268 %) SQL Developer 11 6 (3.659 %) .NET Architect 11 6 (3.659 %) Analyst Programmer 12 5 (3.049 %) Lead Architect 13 4 (2.439 %) Consultant 13 4 (2.439 %) Analyst Developer
Miscellaneous 1 19 (11.59 %) N-Tier 2 7 (4.268 %) Derivative 3 5 (3.049 %) Equity Derivative 4 4 (2.439 %) Fixed Income 4 4 (2.439 %) Mathematics 5 3 (1.829 %) Management Information System 5 3 (1.829 %) Statistics 5 3 (1.829 %) Asset Management 5 3 (1.829 %) German Language 6 2 (1.220 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 2 (1.220 %) W3C 6 2 (1.220 %) Multithreading 7 1 (0.610 %) Data Conversion 7 1 (0.610 %) Computer Science 7 1 (0.610 %) Thin Client 7 1 (0.610 %) NHS 7 1 (0.610 %) AS400 7 1 (0.610 %) Equities 7 1 (0.610 %) Fund Management 7 1 (0.610 %) Credit Risk	Operating Systems 1 47 (28.66 %) Windows 2 9 (5.488 %) Unix 3 8 (4.878 %) Windows Server 2003 3 8 (4.878 %) Windows 2000 4 7 (4.268 %) Windows XP 5 2 (1.220 %) Linux 6 1 (0.610 %) VMS 6 1 (0.610 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (11.59 %) SOA 2 15 (9.146 %) OO 3 14 (8.537 %) Scrum 4 11 (6.707 %) Content Management 4 11 (6.707 %) CRM 5 10 (6.098 %) Business Intelligence 5 10 (6.098 %) UML 5 10 (6.098 %) Agile Software Development 6 6 (3.659 %) Web Development 6 6 (3.659 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 5 (3.049 %) Migration 7 5 (3.049 %) Investment Management 7 5 (3.049 %) Time Management 8 4 (2.439 %) E-Commerce 8 4 (2.439 %) ERP 9 3 (1.829 %) Test Management 10 2 (1.220 %) Continuous Integration 10 2 (1.220 %) Unit Testing 10 2 (1.220 %) Security Cleared 10 2 (1.220 %) OOP	Programming Languages 1 113 (68.90 %) C# 2 63 (38.41 %) SQL 3 38 (23.17 %) C++ 4 28 (17.07 %) JavaScript 5 21 (12.80 %) VB 6 16 (9.756 %) VB.NET 7 15 (9.146 %) VC++ 8 14 (8.537 %) VBA 8 14 (8.537 %) Java 9 10 (6.098 %) PL/SQL 10 8 (4.878 %) C 10 8 (4.878 %) Transact-SQL 11 3 (1.829 %) VBScript 11 3 (1.829 %) DHTML 11 3 (1.829 %) PHP 12 2 (1.220 %) VB6 13 1 (0.610 %) Pascal 13 1 (0.610 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 12 (7.317 %) Microsoft Certification 2 10 (6.098 %) MCSD 3 9 (5.488 %) MCSE 3 9 (5.488 %) MCDBA 3 9 (5.488 %) MCT 4 7 (4.268 %) Degree 5 2 (1.220 %) ISEB 6 1 (0.610 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 1 (0.610 %) MCTS	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (5.488 %) ISO9001 2 3 (1.829 %) QA 3 2 (1.220 %) WAI
System Software 1 10 (6.098 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (0.610 %) AutoSys 1 1 (0.610 %) MIIS
Vendors 1 41 (25.00 %) Microsoft 2 14 (8.537 %) Oracle 3 12 (7.317 %) Sybase 4 8 (4.878 %) TIBCO 5 7 (4.268 %) Adobe 6 3 (1.829 %) Business Objects 6 3 (1.829 %) SAP 6 3 (1.829 %) Lotus 7 2 (1.220 %) RedDot 8 1 (0.610 %) DataSynapse 8 1 (0.610 %) Reuters 8 1 (0.610 %) Infragistics 8 1 (0.610 %) Macromedia 8 1 (0.610 %) Sun