The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inversion of Control in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Inversion of Control over the 3 months to 22 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the East of England 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Inversion of Control (IoC)
Rank 114 129 126
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -3
Contract jobs citing Inversion of Control 2 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.092% 0.067% 0.153%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.412% 0.321% 0.837%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
Average daily rate £363 - £305
90% offered a daily rate of more than £353 - £302
10% offered a daily rate of more than £373 - £344
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £329 £375
% change year-on-year
+6.46% -12.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
485 623 478
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 22.28% 20.90% 18.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 276 191
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £450 £491
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 68 67
Average hourly rate £33.00 £25.00 £25.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+32.00% -1.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £13.30 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £48.40 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Inversion of Control
England

Inversion of Control
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Inversion of Control across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

East of England Inversion of Control Jobs Demand Trend

Inversion of Control
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Inversion of Control across the East of England region.

East of England Inversion of Control Daily Rate Trend

Inversion of Control
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Inversion of Control within the East of England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bedfordshire - 1 £375 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 £350 -
Inversion of Control
England

Inversion of Control
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Inversion of Control 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 Inversion of Control.

1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) Git (software)
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) MVVM
3 1 (33.33%) Sitefinity
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (33.33%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) AutoMapper
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) CMS
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) SOA
3 1 (33.33%) NUnit

Inversion of Control
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Inversion of Control 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 Inversion of Control. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (33.33%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (33.33%) AutoMapper
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) NHibernate
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) Silverlight
2 1 (33.33%) LINQ
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Sitefinity
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git (software)
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) NUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) CRM Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Silverlight Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Silverlight Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) BDD
1 2 (66.67%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (33.33%) MVVM
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) SOA
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft