Visual Studio Team System 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 Visual Studio Team System 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 Visual Studio Team System 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 Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)
Rank 493 538 541
Rank change year-on-year
+45 +3
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Team System 17 20 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.041% 0.037% 0.055%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.369% 0.397% 0.515%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 15
Average daily rate £394 £395 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.25% +17.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £299 £304 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £560 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £394 £364 £335
% change year-on-year
+8.31% +8.58%
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% -
Visual Studio Team System
UK

Visual Studio Team System
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Visual Studio Team System Jobs Demand Trend

Visual Studio Team System
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Visual Studio Team System across the England region.

England Visual Studio Team System Daily Rate Trend

Visual Studio Team System
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Visual Studio Team System Daily Rate Histogram

Visual Studio Team System
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Visual Studio Team System across the England region.

England Visual Studio Team System Hourly Rate Trend

Visual Studio Team System
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio Team System 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 +13 6 - -
North West - 5 £420 -
South East +25 3 - -
Yorkshire - 3 £275 -
Visual Studio Team System
UK

Visual Studio Team System
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Visual Studio Team System 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 Team System.

1 27 (81.82%) Visual Studio
2 23 (69.70%) C#
2 23 (69.70%) Microsoft
3 20 (60.61%) .NET
4 17 (51.52%) SQL Server
5 16 (48.48%) Agile Software Development
6 14 (42.42%) ASP.NET
7 13 (39.39%) SQL
7 13 (39.39%) Team Foundation Server
8 11 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
8 11 (33.33%) HTML
8 11 (33.33%) CSS
8 11 (33.33%) .NET Framework
8 11 (33.33%) WCF
9 9 (27.27%) Degree
9 9 (27.27%) Windows
9 9 (27.27%) MVC
9 9 (27.27%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 8 (24.24%) Web Services
10 8 (24.24%) Ajax
10 8 (24.24%) Software Testing
10 8 (24.24%) Manual Testing
11 7 (21.21%) QA
11 7 (21.21%) JavaScript
11 7 (21.21%) IIS
11 7 (21.21%) ISEB
11 7 (21.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (18.18%) E-Commerce
12 6 (18.18%) Finance
12 6 (18.18%) XML

Visual Studio Team System
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 20 (60.61%) .NET
2 14 (42.42%) ASP.NET
3 11 (33.33%) CSS
3 11 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 11 (33.33%) WCF
3 11 (33.33%) HTML
4 9 (27.27%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 8 (24.24%) Web Services
5 8 (24.24%) Ajax
6 6 (18.18%) XML
7 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
8 4 (12.12%) jQuery
8 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (12.12%) NEsper
9 3 (9.091%) Silverlight
9 3 (9.091%) XSL
10 2 (6.061%) StructureMap
11 1 (3.030%) WPF
11 1 (3.030%) WF
11 1 (3.030%) Windows SharePoint Services
Application Platforms
1 7 (21.21%) IIS
2 5 (15.15%) SharePoint
3 4 (12.12%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (9.091%) Windows Azure
5 1 (3.030%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (3.030%) SharePoint Foundation
5 1 (3.030%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (3.030%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (9.091%) MS Project
1 3 (9.091%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.030%) InfoPath
2 1 (3.030%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.030%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (51.52%) SQL Server
2 11 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (15.15%) SQL Server 2000
3 5 (15.15%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (9.091%) RDBMS
5 2 (6.061%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.030%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (3.030%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (3.030%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (3.030%) SQL Server 7
6 1 (3.030%) DTS
Development Applications
1 27 (81.82%) Visual Studio
2 13 (39.39%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (12.12%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
3 4 (12.12%) MSTest
3 4 (12.12%) Rhino Mocks
4 3 (9.091%) QuickTest Pro
4 3 (9.091%) NUnit
5 2 (6.061%) SpecFlow
6 1 (3.030%) CruiseControl
6 1 (3.030%) Selenium
6 1 (3.030%) LoadRunner
6 1 (3.030%) MSBuild
General
1 6 (18.18%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Billing
3 2 (6.061%) Front Office
4 1 (3.030%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.030%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Developer
1 13 (39.39%) Analyst
1 13 (39.39%) Test Analyst
2 5 (15.15%) Senior Analyst
2 5 (15.15%) Senior Test Analyst
2 5 (15.15%) Tester
2 5 (15.15%) CRM Developer
3 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Developer
3 4 (12.12%) SharePoint Developer
3 4 (12.12%) Dynamics CRM Developer
4 3 (9.091%) Automation Test Analyst
4 3 (9.091%) Automation Analyst
4 3 (9.091%) .NET Developer
5 2 (6.061%) C# Developer
5 2 (6.061%) QA Tester
5 2 (6.061%) Manual Tester
5 2 (6.061%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (6.061%) Functional Tester
6 1 (3.030%) .NET Applications Developer
6 1 (3.030%) Performance Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Mathematics
2 3 (9.091%) Open Source
2 3 (9.091%) N-Tier
2 3 (9.091%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.030%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.030%) Statistics
3 1 (3.030%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Windows
2 5 (15.15%) Windows 2000
2 5 (15.15%) Windows XP
3 2 (6.061%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.030%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (27.27%) MVC
3 8 (24.24%) Software Testing
3 8 (24.24%) Manual Testing
4 6 (18.18%) Automated Testing
4 6 (18.18%) OO
4 6 (18.18%) E-Commerce
4 6 (18.18%) Automation Testing
5 5 (15.15%) Agile Testing
5 5 (15.15%) CRM
5 5 (15.15%) Test Scripting
6 4 (12.12%) ETRM
6 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
6 4 (12.12%) Web Development
6 4 (12.12%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (12.12%) Risk Management
7 3 (9.091%) Scrum
7 3 (9.091%) Project Management
7 3 (9.091%) OOA/OOD
7 3 (9.091%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 23 (69.70%) C#
2 13 (39.39%) SQL
3 7 (21.21%) JavaScript
4 5 (15.15%) VB.NET
5 3 (9.091%) Java
6 2 (6.061%) C
6 2 (6.061%) VBA
6 2 (6.061%) T-SQL
6 2 (6.061%) VB
7 1 (3.030%) VB6
7 1 (3.030%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Degree
2 7 (21.21%) ISEB
2 7 (21.21%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (18.18%) MCAD
3 6 (18.18%) MCPD
4 5 (15.15%) MCSD
4 5 (15.15%) MCTS
5 4 (12.12%) ISTQB
6 3 (9.091%) Security Cleared
7 2 (6.061%) SC Cleared
8 1 (3.030%) DV Cleared
8 1 (3.030%) MCP
8 1 (3.030%) MCDBA
8 1 (3.030%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) QA
Vendors
1 23 (69.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.030%) HP
2 1 (3.030%) Compaq
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