Derbyshire Visual Studio Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Studio skills within the Derbyshire 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 5 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 York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	37
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	7	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	43.75 %	20.83 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£200	-
Average daily rate	£250	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£340
% change on same period last year	-12.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.67	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£26.50	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+76.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.33	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.66	£31.79
% change on same period last year	-3.53 %
Development Applications Derbyshire
Matching contract IT job ads	16	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.026 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£297
Average daily rate	£358	£298
% change on same period last year	+20.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£299
UK excluding London average daily rate	£309	£324
% change on same period last year	-4.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.90	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£26.85	£10.64
% change on same period last year	+152.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.80	£11.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.60	£30.57
% change on same period last year	+0.08 %
Visual Studio East Midlands

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 Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire region.

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 5 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 Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 5 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
Derby	+7	3	£250	-
Chesterfield	+6	2	-	-

Visual Studio East Midlands

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 9 (75.00 %) .NET 2 7 (58.33 %) C# 2 7 (58.33 %) SQL Server 3 6 (50.00 %) C++ 3 6 (50.00 %) SQL 3 6 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2005 4 5 (41.67 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 5 (41.67 %) Transact-SQL 5 4 (33.33 %) VB 5 4 (33.33 %) XML 5 4 (33.33 %) OO 5 4 (33.33 %) Finance 5 4 (33.33 %) OOD 5 4 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 6 3 (25.00 %) VC++

7 2 (16.67 %) ClearCase 7 2 (16.67 %) MFC 7 2 (16.67 %) VB.NET 7 2 (16.67 %) Microsoft 7 2 (16.67 %) Agile Software Development 8 1 (8.333 %) VB6 8 1 (8.333 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 1 (8.333 %) Windows Vista 8 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2008 8 1 (8.333 %) BusinessObjects 8 1 (8.333 %) NHS 8 1 (8.333 %) CAD 8 1 (8.333 %) C

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 9 (75.00 %) .NET 2 4 (33.33 %) XML 3 2 (16.67 %) MFC 4 1 (8.333 %) ASP.NET	Applications 1 1 (8.333 %) MS Office 1 1 (8.333 %) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (58.33 %) SQL Server 2 6 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (41.67 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 4 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (8.333 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 1 (8.333 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (8.333 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2008	Development Applications 1 2 (16.67 %) ClearCase
General 1 4 (33.33 %) Finance 2 1 (8.333 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 9 (75.00 %) Developer 2 5 (41.67 %) .NET Developer 3 4 (33.33 %) C# Developer 4 2 (16.67 %) Software Developer 5 1 (8.333 %) Software Engineer 5 1 (8.333 %) DBA 5 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server DBA 5 1 (8.333 %) VB Developer 5 1 (8.333 %) SQL DBA 5 1 (8.333 %) Development DBA 5 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server Development DBA 5 1 (8.333 %) C++ Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (8.333 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 1 (8.333 %) Windows 1 1 (8.333 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (33.33 %) OO 1 4 (33.33 %) OOD 2 2 (16.67 %) Agile Software Development 3 1 (8.333 %) CAD	Programming Languages 1 7 (58.33 %) C# 2 6 (50.00 %) C++ 2 6 (50.00 %) SQL 3 5 (41.67 %) Transact-SQL 4 4 (33.33 %) VB 5 3 (25.00 %) VC++ 6 2 (16.67 %) VB.NET 7 1 (8.333 %) VB6 7 1 (8.333 %) C
Vendors 1 2 (16.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (8.333 %) Oracle 2 1 (8.333 %) Business Objects