The first table below looks at the demand for MVC skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MVC 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Hertfordshire 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
Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Rank 55 57 51
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -6
Contract jobs citing MVC 9 18 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.382% 1.842% 1.522%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.940% 2.799% 2.462%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 9
Average daily rate £360 £300 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -40.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £300
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £23.88 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+42.40% -43.82%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
464 643 528
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 71.27% 65.81% 61.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 290 228
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 £265 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 56 76
Average hourly rate £21.50 £33.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.29% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.05 £12.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
MVC
East of England

MVC
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MVC across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Hertfordshire MVC Jobs Demand Trend

MVC
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire MVC Daily Rate Trend

MVC
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 Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage - 3 - -
MVC
East of England

MVC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 21 (60.00%) C#
2 19 (54.29%) .NET
2 19 (54.29%) CSS
3 17 (48.57%) ASP.NET
3 17 (48.57%) HTML
3 17 (48.57%) JavaScript
3 17 (48.57%) Scrum
4 14 (40.00%) TDD
5 13 (37.14%) ASP.NET MVC
6 12 (34.29%) Linux
7 11 (31.43%) Java
8 10 (28.57%) MySQL
8 10 (28.57%) Web Services
8 10 (28.57%) XML
8 10 (28.57%) E-Commerce
8 10 (28.57%) WCF
9 9 (25.71%) Agile Software Development
9 9 (25.71%) Spring
9 9 (25.71%) Ajax
9 9 (25.71%) Finance
10 8 (22.86%) Unit Testing
11 7 (20.00%) .NET Framework
11 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
11 7 (20.00%) SOAP
11 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
11 7 (20.00%) HTML5
11 7 (20.00%) CSS3
12 6 (17.14%) jQuery
12 6 (17.14%) Oracle
12 6 (17.14%) Apache

MVC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 19 (54.29%) .NET
1 19 (54.29%) CSS
2 17 (48.57%) ASP.NET
2 17 (48.57%) HTML
3 13 (37.14%) ASP.NET MVC
4 10 (28.57%) Web Services
4 10 (28.57%) XML
4 10 (28.57%) WCF
5 9 (25.71%) Spring
5 9 (25.71%) Ajax
6 7 (20.00%) .NET Framework
6 7 (20.00%) SOAP
6 7 (20.00%) HTML5
6 7 (20.00%) CSS3
7 6 (17.14%) jQuery
7 6 (17.14%) RESTful
7 6 (17.14%) JSON
8 5 (14.29%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 4 (11.43%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 4 (11.43%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 6 (17.14%) Apache
2 5 (14.29%) Tomcat
2 5 (14.29%) IIS
3 3 (8.571%) Drupal
4 2 (5.714%) CMS
5 1 (2.857%) Umbraco
5 1 (2.857%) DotNetNuke
5 1 (2.857%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (2.857%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (2.857%) Kentico
5 1 (2.857%) Sitefinity
5 1 (2.857%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (5.714%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.857%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 1 (2.857%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.857%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (28.57%) MySQL
2 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.714%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.857%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Subversion
1 5 (14.29%) Eclipse
2 4 (11.43%) Git (software)
3 3 (8.571%) Ant
3 3 (8.571%) JUnit
4 2 (5.714%) Selenium
5 1 (2.857%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.857%) Jasmine
General
1 9 (25.71%) Finance
2 3 (8.571%) Banking
3 2 (5.714%) Retail
4 1 (2.857%) Retail Banking
4 1 (2.857%) Marketing
4 1 (2.857%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 33 (94.29%) Developer
2 14 (40.00%) .NET Developer
3 9 (25.71%) Java Developer
4 6 (17.14%) Senior Developer
4 6 (17.14%) C# Developer
5 5 (14.29%) ASP.NET Developer
5 5 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
5 5 (14.29%) Agile .NET Developer
6 4 (11.43%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (11.43%) PHP Developer
6 4 (11.43%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 3 (8.571%) Drupal Developer
7 3 (8.571%) PHP Drupal Developer
7 3 (8.571%) Programmer
8 2 (5.714%) UI Programmer
8 2 (5.714%) Agile C# Developer
8 2 (5.714%) C# Programmer
8 2 (5.714%) Support Engineer
8 2 (5.714%) Applications Support
8 2 (5.714%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) N-Tier
2 1 (2.857%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 12 (34.29%) Linux
2 3 (8.571%) UNIX
2 3 (8.571%) Windows
3 1 (2.857%) Android
3 1 (2.857%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Scrum
2 14 (40.00%) TDD
3 10 (28.57%) E-Commerce
4 9 (25.71%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (22.86%) Unit Testing
6 5 (14.29%) OO
6 5 (14.29%) SOA
7 4 (11.43%) Automated Testing
8 3 (8.571%) Kanban
8 3 (8.571%) UML
8 3 (8.571%) BDD
9 2 (5.714%) Waterfall
9 2 (5.714%) ITIL
9 2 (5.714%) Multithreading
9 2 (5.714%) Web Usability
10 1 (2.857%) Continuous Integration
10 1 (2.857%) Web Development
10 1 (2.857%) Asset Management
10 1 (2.857%) BPEL
10 1 (2.857%) Code Coverage
Programming Languages
1 21 (60.00%) C#
2 17 (48.57%) JavaScript
3 11 (31.43%) Java
4 5 (14.29%) SQL
5 4 (11.43%) PHP
6 2 (5.714%) C++
6 2 (5.714%) VB
6 2 (5.714%) XPath
7 1 (2.857%) PowerHouse
7 1 (2.857%) Python
7 1 (2.857%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.857%) CoffeeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.714%) ITIL Certification
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.14%) Oracle
3 2 (5.714%) JBoss
3 2 (5.714%) Adobe
4 1 (2.857%) Zend
4 1 (2.857%) Ektron
4 1 (2.857%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.857%) EPiServer
4 1 (2.857%) Google