Expression Blend Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Expression Blend skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Expression Blend over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Development Applications category for the 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Expression Blend
Rank 487 523 460
Rank change year-on-year
+36 -63
Contract jobs citing Expression Blend 23 35 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.055% 0.066% 0.198%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.499% 0.694% 1.859%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 24 98
Average daily rate £528 £550 £570
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.09% -3.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £296 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £628 £725
UK excluding London average daily rate £378 £308 £325
% change year-on-year
+22.56% -5.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 4612 5040 6025
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 11.10% 9.447% 10.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2954 3058 3462
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £580
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 200 317
Average hourly rate £37.80 £36.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £23.88 £23.94
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Expression Blend
UK

Expression Blend
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Expression Blend across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

England Expression Blend Jobs Demand Trend

Expression Blend
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Expression Blend across the England region.

England Expression Blend Daily Rate Trend

Expression Blend
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Expression Blend across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Expression Blend Daily Rate Histogram

Expression Blend
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Expression Blend across the England region.

England Expression Blend Hourly Rate Trend

Expression Blend
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Expression Blend within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
London +10 14 £530 -7.82%
South East +23 7 £380 +23.37%
West Midlands - 2 £290 -
Expression Blend
UK

Expression Blend
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Expression Blend 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 Expression Blend.

1 51 (83.61%) WPF
2 41 (67.21%) C#
3 38 (62.30%) .NET
4 32 (52.46%) MVVM
5 30 (49.18%) Silverlight
6 29 (47.54%) Microsoft
7 28 (45.90%) SQL Server
8 19 (31.15%) Visual Studio
9 17 (27.87%) MS Excel
10 16 (26.23%) SQL Server 2008
10 16 (26.23%) Photoshop
10 16 (26.23%) XAML
11 14 (22.95%) Banking
11 14 (22.95%) Multithreading
12 13 (21.31%) Unit Testing
13 12 (19.67%) .NET Framework
13 12 (19.67%) Flash
14 11 (18.03%) Adobe Illustrator
14 11 (18.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 11 (18.03%) Oracle
14 11 (18.03%) Adobe
14 11 (18.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (16.39%) Oracle 8/8i
16 9 (14.75%) OO
17 8 (13.11%) Credit Risk
17 8 (13.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 7 (11.48%) Infragistics
18 7 (11.48%) Finance
18 7 (11.48%) Telerik
18 7 (11.48%) Web Services

Expression Blend
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Expression Blend 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 Expression Blend. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 51 (83.61%) WPF
2 38 (62.30%) .NET
3 30 (49.18%) Silverlight
4 12 (19.67%) Flash
4 12 (19.67%) .NET Framework
5 7 (11.48%) Web Services
5 7 (11.48%) XML
5 7 (11.48%) WCF
5 7 (11.48%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 6 (9.836%) OOXML
7 5 (8.197%) Ajax
7 5 (8.197%) .NET Remoting
7 5 (8.197%) ASP.NET
7 5 (8.197%) HTML
7 5 (8.197%) LINQ
7 5 (8.197%) jQuery
7 5 (8.197%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 5 (8.197%) Reactive Extensions
8 3 (4.918%) Apache Flex
9 1 (1.639%) COM
Application Platforms
1 5 (8.197%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (27.87%) MS Excel
2 16 (26.23%) Photoshop
3 11 (18.03%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (9.836%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (8.197%) InDesign
6 1 (1.639%) Adobe After Effects
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.197%) SNMP
1 5 (8.197%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.918%) Internet
3 1 (1.639%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (45.90%) SQL Server
2 16 (26.23%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (18.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 11 (18.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (16.39%) Oracle 8/8i
5 6 (9.836%) BusinessObjects
6 5 (8.197%) SQL Server 2012
7 2 (3.279%) Sybase ASE
7 2 (3.279%) Sybase IQ
8 1 (1.639%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 19 (31.15%) Visual Studio
2 5 (8.197%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 14 (22.95%) Banking
2 7 (11.48%) Finance
3 6 (9.836%) Front Office
3 6 (9.836%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.279%) French Language
5 1 (1.639%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.639%) Marketing
5 1 (1.639%) Multimedia
5 1 (1.639%) Back Office
5 1 (1.639%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 51 (83.61%) Developer
2 28 (45.90%) WPF Developer
3 17 (27.87%) Silverlight Developer
4 14 (22.95%) C# Developer
5 9 (14.75%) Designer
6 7 (11.48%) UI Developer
6 7 (11.48%) UI Programmer
7 6 (9.836%) Senior Developer
8 5 (8.197%) .NET Developer
9 4 (6.557%) User Experience Designer
9 4 (6.557%) Senior UI Developer
9 4 (6.557%) User Experience Architect
9 4 (6.557%) Architect
9 4 (6.557%) C# .NET Developer
10 3 (4.918%) Visual Designer
11 2 (3.279%) Senior C# Developer
11 2 (3.279%) Senior Silverlight Developer
12 1 (1.639%) User Experience Developer
12 1 (1.639%) Front-End Developer
12 1 (1.639%) Photoshop Designer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 8 (13.11%) Credit Risk
2 3 (4.918%) RIA
2 3 (4.918%) Derivative
3 2 (3.279%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.279%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.639%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.639%) Interactive TV
4 1 (1.639%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (1.639%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.197%) Windows
1 5 (8.197%) Windows 7
1 5 (8.197%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (52.46%) MVVM
2 14 (22.95%) Multithreading
3 13 (21.31%) Unit Testing
4 9 (14.75%) OO
5 6 (9.836%) Scrum
6 5 (8.197%) Data Analysis
6 5 (8.197%) SOA
6 5 (8.197%) Information Architecture
7 3 (4.918%) Risk Management
7 3 (4.918%) Software Engineering
8 2 (3.279%) Logistics
8 2 (3.279%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (3.279%) Data Management
8 2 (3.279%) RAD
8 2 (3.279%) E-Commerce
9 1 (1.639%) OOD
9 1 (1.639%) UML
9 1 (1.639%) Change Management
9 1 (1.639%) Information Management
9 1 (1.639%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 41 (67.21%) C#
2 16 (26.23%) XAML
3 5 (8.197%) MATLAB
4 3 (4.918%) SQL
5 1 (1.639%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.639%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (1.639%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.639%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.197%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (8.197%) WMI
Vendors
1 29 (47.54%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.03%) Adobe
2 11 (18.03%) Oracle
3 7 (11.48%) Infragistics
3 7 (11.48%) Telerik
4 6 (9.836%) Business Objects
4 6 (9.836%) SAP
5 2 (3.279%) Sybase
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