County Antrim Visual Studio Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Studio skills within the County Antrim region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Studio
Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwynedd Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Romford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton-in-Ashfield Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Woking Woodstock Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	11
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	7	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	22.58 %	82.14 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£293
Average daily rate	-	£301
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£302	£346
% change on same period last year	-12.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-25.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.68	£32.46
% change on same period last year	-5.50 %
Development Applications County Antrim
Matching contract IT job ads	31	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.050 %	0.030 %
Daily rates quoted	3	6
Average minimum daily rate	£233	£309
Average daily rate	£250	£325
% change on same period last year	-23.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£267	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£324
% change on same period last year	-3.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-25.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.55	£30.87
% change on same period last year	-1.02 %
Visual Studio Northern Ireland

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 County Antrim 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 County Antrim region.

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 County Antrim region.

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the County Antrim region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

Visual Studio
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the County Antrim region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Belfast	-10	7	-	-
Carrickfergus	-	1	-	-

Visual Studio Northern Ireland

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim 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 7 (87.50 %) .NET 1 7 (87.50 %) ASP.NET 1 7 (87.50 %) SQL Server 2 6 (75.00 %) SQL Server 2005 2 6 (75.00 %) SQL Server 2008 3 5 (62.50 %) SQL 4 4 (50.00 %) CSS 4 4 (50.00 %) VB 4 4 (50.00 %) Banking 5 3 (37.50 %) Replication 5 3 (37.50 %) Web Design 5 3 (37.50 %) DTS 5 3 (37.50 %) E-Commerce 5 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 5 3 (37.50 %) VB.NET

5 3 (37.50 %) WebServices 5 3 (37.50 %) XML 6 2 (25.00 %) DHTML 6 2 (25.00 %) ASP 7 1 (12.50 %) Education 7 1 (12.50 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (12.50 %) Windows XP 7 1 (12.50 %) Business Objects 7 1 (12.50 %) IIS 7 1 (12.50 %) HTML 7 1 (12.50 %) JavaScript 7 1 (12.50 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (12.50 %) VBScript 7 1 (12.50 %) C#

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim 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 7 (87.50 %) ASP.NET 1 7 (87.50 %) .NET 2 4 (50.00 %) CSS 3 3 (37.50 %) WebServices 3 3 (37.50 %) XML 4 2 (25.00 %) ASP 5 1 (12.50 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (87.50 %) SQL Server 2 6 (75.00 %) SQL Server 2005 2 6 (75.00 %) SQL Server 2008 3 3 (37.50 %) DTS 4 1 (12.50 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Flash
General 1 4 (50.00 %) Banking 2 1 (12.50 %) Education	Job Titles 1 5 (62.50 %) Developer 2 4 (50.00 %) .NET Developer 3 2 (25.00 %) VB.NET Developer 3 2 (25.00 %) SQL Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineer 4 1 (12.50 %) Systems Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) Business Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (37.50 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows XP 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) E-Commerce 1 3 (37.50 %) Web Design 2 1 (12.50 %) Software Testing	Programming Languages 1 5 (62.50 %) SQL 2 4 (50.00 %) VB 3 3 (37.50 %) VB.NET 4 2 (25.00 %) DHTML 5 1 (12.50 %) JavaScript 5 1 (12.50 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (12.50 %) C# 5 1 (12.50 %) C++ 5 1 (12.50 %) ActionScript 5 1 (12.50 %) VBScript
Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 2 1 (12.50 %) Business Objects