The first table below looks at the demand for MVVM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MVVM 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Lancashire 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
Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM)
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MVVM 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 0.510% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.826% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £213 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £351 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
+0.35% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £47.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
- +18.75%
All Processes & Methodologies
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
121 245 116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 61.73% 56.71% 51.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 141 53
Average daily rate £315 £375 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.00% +14.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £190 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £422 £489 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 16
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -42.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.90 £16.00 £21.94
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £65.07 £21.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
MVVM
North West

MVVM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire MVVM Jobs Demand Trend

MVVM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing MVVM 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 MVVM.

1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
2 3 (75.00%) WPF
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) LINQ
3 2 (50.00%) C++
4 1 (25.00%) HTML
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (25.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) VB
4 1 (25.00%) VBA
4 1 (25.00%) Silverlight
4 1 (25.00%) VB6
4 1 (25.00%) Subversion
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (25.00%) Ajax
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Remoting
4 1 (25.00%) IIS
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (25.00%) COM
4 1 (25.00%) DCOM
4 1 (25.00%) SOAP
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) XSD
4 1 (25.00%) Windows

MVVM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing MVVM 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 MVVM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
2 3 (75.00%) WPF
2 3 (75.00%) LINQ
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) Silverlight
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) COM
3 1 (25.00%) DCOM
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) XSD
3 1 (25.00%) ActiveX
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Remoting
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) MSMQ
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
1 1 (25.00%) TortoiseSVN
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) WPF Developer
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (50.00%) C# Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) VB
3 1 (25.00%) VBA
3 1 (25.00%) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft