East Midlands Visual Studio Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Studio skills within the East Midlands 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	40	63
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	52	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.069 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	25.12 %	14.13 %
Daily rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum daily rate	£266	-
Average daily rate	£289	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£311	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£337
% change on same period last year	-7.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£45.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£45.00	£32.50
% change on same period last year	+38.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.75	£31.54
% change on same period last year	+10.15 %
Development Applications East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	207	184
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.273 %	0.195 %
Daily rates quoted	49	34
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£272
Average daily rate	£317	£290
% change on same period last year	+9.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£307
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£329
% change on same period last year	+1.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.50	£24.95
Average hourly rate	£36.50	£25.75
% change on same period last year	+41.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.50	£26.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.57	£34.00
% change on same period last year	-1.26 %
Visual Studio England

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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Visual Studio
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Visual Studio within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Nottinghamshire	-2	12	£289	-
Derbyshire	-	9	-	-
Leicestershire	-13	2	-	-
Lincolnshire	-	2	-	-

Visual Studio England

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 79 (85.87 %) .NET 2 54 (58.70 %) ASP.NET 3 53 (57.61 %) SQL Server 3 53 (57.61 %) C# 4 35 (38.04 %) VB.NET 5 32 (34.78 %) SQL Server 2005 6 28 (30.43 %) JavaScript 7 25 (27.17 %) VB 8 24 (26.09 %) HTML 9 22 (23.91 %) SQL 10 21 (22.83 %) VB6 11 19 (20.65 %) CSS 12 18 (19.57 %) IIS 12 18 (19.57 %) SharePoint 13 17 (18.48 %) Microsoft

14 16 (17.39 %) OO 14 16 (17.39 %) XML 15 15 (16.30 %) CMS 15 15 (16.30 %) Content Management 16 14 (15.22 %) Windows 16 14 (15.22 %) Dreamweaver 17 13 (14.13 %) Java 17 13 (14.13 %) C++ 17 13 (14.13 %) SharePoint Server 2007 18 12 (13.04 %) ASP.NET 2.0 19 11 (11.96 %) Oracle 19 11 (11.96 %) OOD 20 10 (10.87 %) VSS/SourceSafe 20 10 (10.87 %) ASP 21 9 (9.783 %) Finance

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 79 (85.87 %) .NET 2 54 (58.70 %) ASP.NET 3 24 (26.09 %) HTML 4 19 (20.65 %) CSS 5 16 (17.39 %) XML 6 12 (13.04 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 10 (10.87 %) ASP 8 8 (8.696 %) WebServices 9 6 (6.522 %) AJAX 9 6 (6.522 %) .NET Framework 10 5 (5.435 %) Windows SharePoint Services 10 5 (5.435 %) XHTML 10 5 (5.435 %) STL 11 4 (4.348 %) SOAP 11 4 (4.348 %) CAML 12 3 (3.261 %) WinForms 13 2 (2.174 %) XSLT 13 2 (2.174 %) WCF 14 1 (1.087 %) WPF 14 1 (1.087 %) DirectX	Application Platforms 1 18 (19.57 %) IIS 1 18 (19.57 %) SharePoint 2 15 (16.30 %) CMS 3 13 (14.13 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 6 (6.522 %) ArcGIS 4 6 (6.522 %) ArcIMS 5 5 (5.435 %) ArcSDE 6 1 (1.087 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 1 (1.087 %) Photoshop 1 1 (1.087 %) MS Office 1 1 (1.087 %) MS Excel 1 1 (1.087 %) Authorware 1 1 (1.087 %) Fireworks 1 1 (1.087 %) Adobe Director 1 1 (1.087 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 5 (5.435 %) TCP/IP 2 4 (4.348 %) Internet 3 1 (1.087 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 53 (57.61 %) SQL Server 2 32 (34.78 %) SQL Server 2005 3 9 (9.783 %) SQL Server 2000 3 9 (9.783 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 9 (9.783 %) Crystal Reports 4 8 (8.696 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 6 (6.522 %) GIS 5 6 (6.522 %) Datawarehouse 6 5 (5.435 %) ETL 6 5 (5.435 %) OLAP 7 3 (3.261 %) Oracle Reports 7 3 (3.261 %) MS Access 7 3 (3.261 %) SQL Server 7 8 2 (2.174 %) MySQL 8 2 (2.174 %) Oracle 10g 8 2 (2.174 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 2 (2.174 %) SQL Server Analysis Services	Development Applications 1 14 (15.22 %) Dreamweaver 2 10 (10.87 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 5 (5.435 %) Subversion 4 1 (1.087 %) Flash 4 1 (1.087 %) NUnit
General 1 9 (9.783 %) Finance 2 3 (3.261 %) Government 2 3 (3.261 %) Marketing 3 1 (1.087 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (1.087 %) Retail 3 1 (1.087 %) Multimedia 3 1 (1.087 %) Local Government 3 1 (1.087 %) Automotive 3 1 (1.087 %) Education 3 1 (1.087 %) Electric	Job Titles 1 85 (92.39 %) Developer 2 40 (43.48 %) .NET Developer 3 24 (26.09 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 19 (20.65 %) C# Developer 5 18 (19.57 %) VB.NET Developer 6 16 (17.39 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 10 (10.87 %) SQL Developer 7 10 (10.87 %) Web Developer 8 7 (7.609 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 6 (6.522 %) SQL Server Developer 10 5 (5.435 %) SharePoint Developer 10 5 (5.435 %) Software Developer 10 5 (5.435 %) Datawarehouse Developer 10 5 (5.435 %) C++ Developer 10 5 (5.435 %) Programmer 11 4 (4.348 %) Applications Developer 11 4 (4.348 %) GIS Developer 12 3 (3.261 %) .NET Programmer 12 3 (3.261 %) Systems Developer 12 3 (3.261 %) Software Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (5.435 %) NHS 2 4 (4.348 %) Client/Server 3 3 (3.261 %) N-Tier 4 1 (1.087 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 14 (15.22 %) Windows 2 4 (4.348 %) Unix 3 2 (2.174 %) Linux 4 1 (1.087 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (17.39 %) OO 2 15 (16.30 %) Content Management 3 11 (11.96 %) OOD 4 8 (8.696 %) UML 5 5 (5.435 %) Configuration Management 6 4 (4.348 %) Agile Software Development 7 2 (2.174 %) Software Engineering 7 2 (2.174 %) Project Management 7 2 (2.174 %) CRM 7 2 (2.174 %) E-Commerce 8 1 (1.087 %) OOA/OOD 8 1 (1.087 %) E-business 8 1 (1.087 %) Unit Testing	Programming Languages 1 53 (57.61 %) C# 2 35 (38.04 %) VB.NET 3 28 (30.43 %) JavaScript 4 25 (27.17 %) VB 5 22 (23.91 %) SQL 6 21 (22.83 %) VB6 7 13 (14.13 %) C++ 7 13 (14.13 %) Java 8 8 (8.696 %) Transact-SQL 9 7 (7.609 %) C 10 2 (2.174 %) VBScript 11 1 (1.087 %) ActionScript
Qualifications 1 3 (3.261 %) Degree 2 2 (2.174 %) HNC	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.174 %) ISO9001 1 2 (2.174 %) QA
Vendors 1 17 (18.48 %) Microsoft 2 11 (11.96 %) Oracle 3 6 (6.522 %) Sage 4 4 (4.348 %) iSOFT 5 1 (1.087 %) Macromedia