Hertfordshire Visual Studio Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Studio skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Studio
Location Avon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Ceredigion Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kendal Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	74	83
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	15	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	5.535 %	5.789 %
Daily rates quoted	2	7
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£409
Average daily rate	£310	£423
% change on same period last year	-26.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£330	£437
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£345
% change on same period last year	-12.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.68	£22.50
Average hourly rate	£32.58	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+30.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.49	£27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.64	£32.88
% change on same period last year	+5.37 %
Development Applications Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	271	190
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.361 %	0.192 %
Daily rates quoted	84	85
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£300
Average daily rate	£347	£322
% change on same period last year	+7.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£331
% change on same period last year	-0.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.10	£26.41
Average hourly rate	£32.05	£29.26
% change on same period last year	+9.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.00	£32.12
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.89	£34.13
% change on same period last year	-3.63 %
Visual Studio East of England

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.

Visual Studio
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Visual Studio across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Trend

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

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Visual Studio
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Stevenage	-	4	-	-
Hertford	-	1	£425	-

Visual Studio East of England

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Visual Studio 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.

1 17 (51.52 %) C++ 2 13 (39.39 %) C 3 12 (36.36 %) .NET 4 11 (33.33 %) MFC 4 11 (33.33 %) Microsoft 5 10 (30.30 %) VB 6 9 (27.27 %) SQL 7 8 (24.24 %) C# 7 8 (24.24 %) Java 7 8 (24.24 %) JavaScript 7 8 (24.24 %) Electronics 8 6 (18.18 %) XML 9 5 (15.15 %) BizTalk Server 10 4 (12.12 %) InterSystems 10 4 (12.12 %) Windows

10 4 (12.12 %) WebServices 10 4 (12.12 %) Datawarehouse 10 4 (12.12 %) SQL Server 10 4 (12.12 %) ASP.NET 10 4 (12.12 %) SQL Server 2005 10 4 (12.12 %) Degree 10 4 (12.12 %) Mathematics 10 4 (12.12 %) Physics 10 4 (12.12 %) Security Cleared 11 3 (9.091 %) .NET Framework 11 3 (9.091 %) AJAX 11 3 (9.091 %) VB6 11 3 (9.091 %) CSS 11 3 (9.091 %) Client/Server 11 3 (9.091 %) VC++

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Visual Studio 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 12 (36.36 %) .NET 2 11 (33.33 %) MFC 3 6 (18.18 %) XML 4 4 (12.12 %) ASP.NET 4 4 (12.12 %) WebServices 5 3 (9.091 %) AJAX 5 3 (9.091 %) .NET Framework 5 3 (9.091 %) CSS 6 2 (6.061 %) XHTML 6 2 (6.061 %) WCF 7 1 (3.030 %) Windows SharePoint Services 7 1 (3.030 %) HTML 7 1 (3.030 %) CGI 7 1 (3.030 %) SGML 7 1 (3.030 %) STL	Application Platforms 1 5 (15.15 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (3.030 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (3.030 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 2 (6.061 %) Photoshop 1 2 (6.061 %) Fireworks 1 2 (6.061 %) Adobe Illustrator	Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.061 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (6.061 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (12.12 %) SQL Server 1 4 (12.12 %) Datawarehouse 1 4 (12.12 %) SQL Server 2005 2 2 (6.061 %) InterSystems Cache 3 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 3 (9.091 %) LabVIEW 2 2 (6.061 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (3.030 %) Flash
General 1 8 (24.24 %) Electronics 2 3 (9.091 %) Manufacturing 3 2 (6.061 %) Military 3 2 (6.061 %) Multimedia 3 2 (6.061 %) Animation 4 1 (3.030 %) Retail 4 1 (3.030 %) Advertising 4 1 (3.030 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 19 (57.58 %) Developer 2 13 (39.39 %) Software Engineer 3 8 (24.24 %) Test Engineer 4 4 (12.12 %) Programmer 5 3 (9.091 %) Web Developer 5 3 (9.091 %) Applications Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) Senior Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) Analyst Programmer 6 2 (6.061 %) Analyst 6 2 (6.061 %) .NET Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) C# Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) Senior .NET Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) Datawarehouse Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) Team Leader 7 1 (3.030 %) Junior Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) Junior Web Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) .NET Team Leader 7 1 (3.030 %) Multimedia Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) SharePoint Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) C++ Software Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (12.12 %) Mathematics 1 4 (12.12 %) Physics 2 3 (9.091 %) Client/Server 3 1 (3.030 %) Multithreading	Operating Systems 1 4 (12.12 %) Windows 2 2 (6.061 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (12.12 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (6.061 %) Web Development 2 2 (6.061 %) Web Design 2 2 (6.061 %) SEO 3 1 (3.030 %) Workflow 3 1 (3.030 %) OO 3 1 (3.030 %) Project Management 3 1 (3.030 %) Asset Management	Programming Languages 1 17 (51.52 %) C++ 2 13 (39.39 %) C 3 10 (30.30 %) VB 4 9 (27.27 %) SQL 5 8 (24.24 %) C# 5 8 (24.24 %) Java 5 8 (24.24 %) JavaScript 6 3 (9.091 %) VB6 6 3 (9.091 %) VC++ 7 2 (6.061 %) VB.NET 8 1 (3.030 %) ActionScript 8 1 (3.030 %) Perl 8 1 (3.030 %) PHP 8 1 (3.030 %) Embedded C 8 1 (3.030 %) Embedded C++
Qualifications 1 4 (12.12 %) Degree 2 2 (6.061 %) PhD	Vendors 1 11 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 4 (12.12 %) InterSystems 3 2 (6.061 %) Adobe 4 1 (3.030 %) Oracle