England MVC Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Model-View-Controller (MVC) skills within the England region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MVC over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Location Belfast Berkshire Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Docklands, London Dorset Dumbarton East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Kent Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Merseyside Milton Keynes North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	278	416
Rank change on same period last year	+138
Matching contract IT job ads	329	239
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.460 %	0.240 %
As % of the category below	2.116 %	1.040 %
Daily rates quoted	179	105
Average minimum daily rate	£351	£354
Average daily rate	£373	£374
% change on same period last year	-0.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£396	£394
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£306
% change on same period last year	+10.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.33	£41.25
Average hourly rate	£27.33	£46.25
% change on same period last year	-40.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.33	£51.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£50.00
% change on same period last year	-
Application Development England
Matching contract IT job ads	15548	22977
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	21.72 %	23.08 %
Daily rates quoted	5272	7160
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£362
Average daily rate	£376	£386
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£401	£409
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£333
% change on same period last year	-0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	937	1429
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.52	£30.19
Average hourly rate	£31.65	£32.42
% change on same period last year	-2.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.78	£34.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.32	£32.24
% change on same period last year	-2.87 %
MVC UK

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MVC across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MVC across the England region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MVC across the England region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MVC within the England region over the 3 months to 6 October 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
London	+151	248	£383	-12.16 %
South East	+41	48	£328	+21.96 %
Yorkshire	0	10	£369	+18.95 %
East Midlands	+16	7	£383	-
East of England	+19	6	£325	+14.70 %
North West	+9	4	£383	-11.11 %
West Midlands	+12	3	-	-
South West	+21	3	£275	-38.88 %

MVC UK

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing MVC 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 MVC.

1 347 (55.52 %) Java 2 307 (49.12 %) Spring 3 246 (39.36 %) Hibernate 4 190 (30.40 %) SQL 5 182 (29.12 %) J2EE 6 179 (28.64 %) Spring MVC 7 172 (27.52 %) JavaScript 8 160 (25.60 %) XML 9 145 (23.20 %) AJAX 10 144 (23.04 %) Oracle 11 139 (22.24 %) HTML 12 133 (21.28 %) .NET 13 131 (20.96 %) Agile Software Development 14 128 (20.48 %) CSS 15 119 (19.04 %) C#

16 118 (18.88 %) SQL Server 17 117 (18.72 %) OO 18 106 (16.96 %) MySQL 19 99 (15.84 %) Struts 19 99 (15.84 %) Scrum 20 96 (15.36 %) JSP 21 95 (15.20 %) Tomcat 22 94 (15.04 %) TDD 23 89 (14.24 %) WebServices 23 89 (14.24 %) Web Development 24 86 (13.76 %) PHP 25 85 (13.60 %) JUnit 26 74 (11.84 %) Linux 27 73 (11.68 %) Eclipse 28 71 (11.36 %) Finance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing MVC 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 MVC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 307 (49.12 %) Spring 2 246 (39.36 %) Hibernate 3 182 (29.12 %) J2EE 4 179 (28.64 %) Spring MVC 5 160 (25.60 %) XML 6 145 (23.20 %) AJAX 7 139 (22.24 %) HTML 8 133 (21.28 %) .NET 9 128 (20.48 %) CSS 10 99 (15.84 %) Struts 11 96 (15.36 %) JSP 12 89 (14.24 %) WebServices 13 63 (10.08 %) ASP.NET 14 60 (9.600 %) JDBC 15 58 (9.280 %) XHTML 16 56 (8.960 %) XSLT 17 44 (7.040 %) .NET Framework 17 44 (7.040 %) JSTL 18 43 (6.880 %) Servlets 19 40 (6.400 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 95 (15.20 %) Tomcat 2 59 (9.440 %) Apache 3 53 (8.480 %) WebLogic 4 46 (7.360 %) JBoss 5 38 (6.080 %) CMS 6 33 (5.280 %) ColdFusion 7 24 (3.840 %) IIS 8 14 (2.240 %) WebSphere Application Server 9 9 (1.440 %) MQSeries 10 6 (0.960 %) WebLogic Portal 11 4 (0.640 %) Lotus Notes 11 4 (0.640 %) Lotus Domino 12 3 (0.480 %) SharePoint 12 3 (0.480 %) Oracle Application Server 13 2 (0.320 %) ESB 13 2 (0.320 %) Oracle 10gAS 13 2 (0.320 %) Joomla! 13 2 (0.320 %) Rendezvous 13 2 (0.320 %) Resin 13 2 (0.320 %) Plone
Applications 1 7 (1.120 %) MS Excel 2 4 (0.640 %) MS Visio 2 4 (0.640 %) Photoshop 3 1 (0.160 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 8 (1.280 %) Algo Collateral 2 2 (0.320 %) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking 1 23 (3.680 %) Internet 2 8 (1.280 %) HTTP 3 5 (0.800 %) LDAP 4 2 (0.320 %) SMTP 4 2 (0.320 %) FTP 4 2 (0.320 %) Intranet 4 2 (0.320 %) SSH 5 1 (0.160 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 118 (18.88 %) SQL Server 2 106 (16.96 %) MySQL 3 32 (5.120 %) SQL Server 2005 4 27 (4.320 %) SQL Server 2000 5 24 (3.840 %) Oracle 10g 6 21 (3.360 %) DB2 7 7 (1.120 %) RDBMS 8 6 (0.960 %) Oracle 9i 9 5 (0.800 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 5 (0.800 %) JasperReports 9 5 (0.800 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 5 (0.800 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 10 3 (0.480 %) Oracle Reports 10 3 (0.480 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 3 (0.480 %) PostgreSQL 11 1 (0.160 %) Reference Data 11 1 (0.160 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 85 (13.60 %) JUnit 2 73 (11.68 %) Eclipse 3 68 (10.88 %) Subversion 4 63 (10.08 %) Flash 5 60 (9.600 %) NUnit 6 37 (5.920 %) Visual Studio 7 36 (5.760 %) Ant 8 19 (3.040 %) IntelliJ 9 16 (2.560 %) JDeveloper 9 16 (2.560 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 10 15 (2.400 %) JBuilder 11 9 (1.440 %) Log4j 11 9 (1.440 %) CruiseControl 12 3 (0.480 %) JIRA 12 3 (0.480 %) Selenium 13 2 (0.320 %) FitNesse 13 2 (0.320 %) Atlassian Bamboo 13 2 (0.320 %) XDoclet 14 1 (0.160 %) HttpUnit 14 1 (0.160 %) Log4Net	General 1 71 (11.36 %) Finance 2 51 (8.160 %) Banking 3 40 (6.400 %) Investment Banking 4 24 (3.840 %) Marketing 5 17 (2.720 %) Telecoms 6 9 (1.440 %) Games 6 9 (1.440 %) Publishing 7 8 (1.280 %) Insurance 8 5 (0.800 %) Retail 8 5 (0.800 %) Education 8 5 (0.800 %) Government 8 5 (0.800 %) Animation 8 5 (0.800 %) Flash Games 9 4 (0.640 %) Construction 9 4 (0.640 %) Multimedia 10 3 (0.480 %) Pharmaceutical 11 2 (0.320 %) Financial Institution 11 2 (0.320 %) Front Office 11 2 (0.320 %) Law 11 2 (0.320 %) Online Games
Job Titles 1 546 (87.36 %) Developer 2 200 (32.00 %) Java Developer 3 91 (14.56 %) C# Developer 4 70 (11.20 %) J2EE Developer 5 68 (10.88 %) PHP Developer 6 63 (10.08 %) .NET Developer 7 62 (9.920 %) Senior Developer 8 51 (8.160 %) Java/J2EE Developer 9 45 (7.200 %) Web Developer 10 25 (4.000 %) Flash Developer 11 24 (3.840 %) ActionScript Developer 12 23 (3.680 %) Senior C# Developer 13 22 (3.520 %) Architect 13 22 (3.520 %) Ruby On Rails Developer 14 21 (3.360 %) ColdFusion Developer 15 17 (2.720 %) Java Web Developer 15 17 (2.720 %) Java Architect 16 16 (2.560 %) Software Developer 17 15 (2.400 %) Technical Architect 17 15 (2.400 %) Senior Java Developer	Miscellaneous 1 24 (3.840 %) Web 2.0 2 9 (1.440 %) Social Network 2 9 (1.440 %) Fixed Income 3 7 (1.120 %) N-Tier 4 5 (0.800 %) Computer Science 5 4 (0.640 %) Equities 6 3 (0.480 %) Client/Server 6 3 (0.480 %) W3C 6 3 (0.480 %) Data Integration 7 2 (0.320 %) Semantic Web 7 2 (0.320 %) RIA 7 2 (0.320 %) NHS 7 2 (0.320 %) Mathematics 7 2 (0.320 %) Life Science 7 2 (0.320 %) Credit Risk 8 1 (0.160 %) Market Risk 8 1 (0.160 %) Derivative 8 1 (0.160 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 8 1 (0.160 %) Mainframe 8 1 (0.160 %) Handset
Operating Systems 1 74 (11.84 %) Linux 2 55 (8.800 %) Windows 3 54 (8.640 %) UNIX 4 8 (1.280 %) Solaris 5 7 (1.120 %) Red Hat Linux 6 1 (0.160 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 1 (0.160 %) HPUX 6 1 (0.160 %) Windows XP 6 1 (0.160 %) Mac OS X 6 1 (0.160 %) zOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 131 (20.96 %) Agile Software Development 2 117 (18.72 %) OO 3 99 (15.84 %) Scrum 4 94 (15.04 %) TDD 5 89 (14.24 %) Web Development 6 64 (10.24 %) E-Commerce 7 48 (7.680 %) OOP 8 36 (5.760 %) Unit Testing 9 28 (4.480 %) UML 10 20 (3.200 %) SOA 11 18 (2.880 %) OOD 12 15 (2.400 %) Continuous Integration 12 15 (2.400 %) Security Cleared 13 9 (1.440 %) AOP 13 9 (1.440 %) Change Management 13 9 (1.440 %) Migration 14 8 (1.280 %) Content Management 14 8 (1.280 %) Data Modelling 15 7 (1.120 %) OOA/OOD 15 7 (1.120 %) SC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 347 (55.52 %) Java 2 190 (30.40 %) SQL 3 172 (27.52 %) JavaScript 4 119 (19.04 %) C# 5 86 (13.76 %) PHP 6 46 (7.360 %) ActionScript 7 44 (7.040 %) PHP5 8 34 (5.440 %) Ruby 9 32 (5.120 %) PL/SQL 10 21 (3.360 %) PHP4 11 17 (2.720 %) Perl 12 16 (2.560 %) Python 13 14 (2.240 %) Transact-SQL 13 14 (2.240 %) Shell Script 14 10 (1.600 %) DHTML 15 7 (1.120 %) XPath 16 4 (0.640 %) C 17 2 (0.320 %) C++ 17 2 (0.320 %) VB 18 1 (0.160 %) XQuery	Qualifications 1 34 (5.440 %) Degree 2 9 (1.440 %) Sun Certification 3 2 (0.320 %) SCJP 4 1 (0.160 %) SCJD 4 1 (0.160 %) PMP 4 1 (0.160 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (0.960 %) QA	System Software 1 2 (0.320 %) MSMQ 2 1 (0.160 %) AquaLogic
Vendors 1 144 (23.04 %) Oracle 2 24 (3.840 %) Sybase 3 23 (3.680 %) Microsoft 4 22 (3.520 %) Adobe 5 21 (3.360 %) IBM 6 19 (3.040 %) Zend 7 15 (2.400 %) Cisco 7 15 (2.400 %) Motorola 8 13 (2.080 %) BEA 9 11 (1.760 %) Sun 10 6 (0.960 %) Macromedia 10 6 (0.960 %) Red Hat 11 5 (0.800 %) TIBCO 11 5 (0.800 %) Lotus 12 3 (0.480 %) Interwoven 12 3 (0.480 %) Google 13 2 (0.320 %) Infragistics 13 2 (0.320 %) Dundas 13 2 (0.320 %) Tridion 13 2 (0.320 %) ILOG