The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT contracts advertised for the Knutsford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 20 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 Knutsford 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 20 - 24
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 2 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Knutsford 2.020% - 1.282%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.33% - 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £160 - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
All Development Applications
Knutsford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
6 6 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Knutsford 6.061% 8.108% 5.128%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 6
Average daily rate £226 £388 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-41.67% +43.51%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio
Cheshire

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Knutsford Visual Studio Jobs Demand Trend

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Trend

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

Knutsford Visual Studio Daily Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) XML
3 2 (50.00%) XSLT
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) XPath
3 2 (50.00%) LINQ
3 2 (50.00%) jQuery
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (25.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (25.00%) Web Development
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (25.00%) ASP
4 1 (25.00%) Windows
4 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) XML
3 2 (50.00%) XSLT
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) LINQ
3 2 (50.00%) jQuery
4 1 (25.00%) ASP
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Applications Developer
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Applications Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) ETL
1 1 (25.00%) MVC
1 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) XPath
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft