The first table below looks at the demand for Managed Extensibility Framework 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 Managed Extensibility Framework over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Application Development 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
Rank 516 532 558
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +26
Contract jobs citing Managed Extensibility Framework 19 17 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.043% 0.032% 0.037%
As % of the Application Development category 0.156% 0.122% 0.130%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 20
Average daily rate £600 £543 £563
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.59% -3.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £600 £268 £450
% change year-on-year
+124.29% -40.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12193 13979 16197
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.85% 26.37% 28.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7861 8549 9749
Average daily rate £375 £360 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 358 520
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.30 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.10% -4.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
Managed Extensibility Framework
UK

Managed Extensibility Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Managed Extensibility Framework across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

England Managed Extensibility Framework Jobs Demand Trend

Managed Extensibility Framework
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Managed Extensibility Framework Daily Rate Trend

Managed Extensibility Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Managed Extensibility Framework across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England Managed Extensibility Framework Daily Rate Histogram

Managed Extensibility Framework
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Managed Extensibility Framework Hourly Rate Trend

Managed Extensibility Framework
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Managed Extensibility Framework within the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +20 13 £600 +9.09%
West Midlands +10 3 £600 +124.29%
Managed Extensibility Framework
UK

Managed Extensibility Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Managed Extensibility Framework 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 Managed Extensibility Framework.

1 43 (97.73%) C#
2 36 (81.82%) .NET
3 31 (70.45%) WPF
4 29 (65.91%) MVVM
5 25 (56.82%) WCF
6 22 (50.00%) Windows
7 21 (47.73%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 20 (45.45%) .NET Framework
8 20 (45.45%) SQL Server
9 18 (40.91%) Visual Studio
9 18 (40.91%) Web Services
9 18 (40.91%) SQL Server 2008
10 17 (38.64%) IIS
11 16 (36.36%) Windows 7
12 15 (34.09%) Silverlight
12 15 (34.09%) TDD
13 13 (29.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (29.55%) Risk Management
13 13 (29.55%) MSTest
13 13 (29.55%) Reactive Extensions
14 12 (27.27%) Moq
14 12 (27.27%) LINQ
14 12 (27.27%) DV Cleared
14 12 (27.27%) Security Cleared
14 12 (27.27%) Front Office
14 12 (27.27%) Client/Server
15 11 (25.00%) Banking
15 11 (25.00%) Multithreading
15 11 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
16 10 (22.73%) Unit Testing

Managed Extensibility Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Managed Extensibility Framework 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 Managed Extensibility Framework. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 36 (81.82%) .NET
2 31 (70.45%) WPF
3 25 (56.82%) WCF
4 21 (47.73%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 20 (45.45%) .NET Framework
6 18 (40.91%) Web Services
7 15 (34.09%) Silverlight
8 13 (29.55%) Reactive Extensions
9 12 (27.27%) LINQ
10 10 (22.73%) ASP.NET
11 6 (13.64%) Ajax
12 5 (11.36%) .NET Remoting
12 5 (11.36%) Rendezvous
12 5 (11.36%) jQuery
12 5 (11.36%) HTML
13 4 (9.091%) SOAP
14 3 (6.818%) Unity DI Container
14 3 (6.818%) XML
15 2 (4.545%) WinForms
16 1 (2.273%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 17 (38.64%) IIS
2 10 (22.73%) ArcGIS
3 2 (4.545%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.273%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 5 (11.36%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.273%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.64%) SNMP
1 6 (13.64%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.273%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 18 (40.91%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (15.91%) SQL Server 2012
4 5 (11.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (11.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (4.545%) Sybase ASE
5 2 (4.545%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (4.545%) Sybase IQ
6 1 (2.273%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (2.273%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 18 (40.91%) Visual Studio
2 13 (29.55%) MSTest
3 12 (27.27%) Moq
4 11 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Blend
6 5 (11.36%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (2.273%) NUnit
7 1 (2.273%) CruiseControl
7 1 (2.273%) Subversion
7 1 (2.273%) JIRA
7 1 (2.273%) MSBuild
7 1 (2.273%) Jenkins
7 1 (2.273%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
7 1 (2.273%) NCover
General
1 12 (27.27%) Front Office
2 11 (25.00%) Banking
3 8 (18.18%) Finance
4 3 (6.818%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.545%) French Language
6 1 (2.273%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (93.18%) Developer
2 26 (59.09%) C# Developer
3 17 (38.64%) WPF Developer
4 13 (29.55%) .NET Developer
5 12 (27.27%) Software Developer
5 12 (27.27%) C# .NET Developer
6 10 (22.73%) Software Engineer
6 10 (22.73%) Programmer
6 10 (22.73%) Software Programmer
7 9 (20.45%) C# Programmer
8 7 (15.91%) .NET Programmer
9 5 (11.36%) UI Programmer
9 5 (11.36%) UI Developer
10 4 (9.091%) C# Software Developer
10 4 (9.091%) .NET Software Engineer
10 4 (9.091%) C# Software Engineer
10 4 (9.091%) .NET Software Developer
11 2 (4.545%) Silverlight Developer
12 1 (2.273%) Analyst Developer
12 1 (2.273%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (27.27%) Client/Server
3 10 (22.73%) RIA
4 7 (15.91%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (6.818%) Derivative
6 2 (4.545%) Computer Science
6 2 (4.545%) Credit Risk
6 2 (4.545%) Market Risk
7 1 (2.273%) SaaS
7 1 (2.273%) CUDA
7 1 (2.273%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 1 (2.273%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 22 (50.00%) Windows
2 16 (36.36%) Windows 7
3 5 (11.36%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (65.91%) MVVM
2 15 (34.09%) TDD
3 13 (29.55%) Risk Management
4 11 (25.00%) Multithreading
5 10 (22.73%) Unit Testing
5 10 (22.73%) UML
6 7 (15.91%) SOA
7 5 (11.36%) E-Commerce
8 3 (6.818%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (6.818%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (6.818%) Dependency Injection
9 2 (4.545%) Data Management
9 2 (4.545%) Project Planning
9 2 (4.545%) Workflow
9 2 (4.545%) Waterfall
10 1 (2.273%) Analytics
10 1 (2.273%) Scrum
10 1 (2.273%) OOD
10 1 (2.273%) OO
10 1 (2.273%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 43 (97.73%) C#
2 6 (13.64%) SQL
3 1 (2.273%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.273%) XAML
3 1 (2.273%) Java
3 1 (2.273%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (27.27%) DV Cleared
1 12 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.091%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) WMI
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
1 10 (22.73%) ESRI
2 5 (11.36%) TIBCO
3 4 (9.091%) Infragistics
4 3 (6.818%) Syncfusion
4 3 (6.818%) DevExpress
5 2 (4.545%) Sybase
6 1 (2.273%) DataSynapse