Lancashire Visual Studio Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Studio skills within the Lancashire 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Studio
Location Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Ceredigion Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnham Gateshead Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ipswich Kendal Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Woodstock Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	35
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	12	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	32.43 %	19.67 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£233	-
Average daily rate	£245	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£258	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£298	£333
% change on same period last year	-10.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.06	£28.00
Average hourly rate	£22.81	£28.00
% change on same period last year	-18.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.56	£28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.11	£35.35
% change on same period last year	-6.34 %
Development Applications Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	37	61
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.052 %	0.062 %
Daily rates quoted	9	11
Average minimum daily rate	£204	£341
Average daily rate	£220	£354
% change on same period last year	-37.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£237	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£328
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.96	£25.70
Average hourly rate	£24.52	£27.80
% change on same period last year	-11.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.07	£29.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.49	£31.36
% change on same period last year	+3.60 %
Visual Studio North West

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 Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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 Lancashire region.

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Visual Studio
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 within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Preston	-3	6	-	-
Lancaster	+7	1	-	-

Visual Studio North West

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 20 (95.24 %) .NET 2 18 (85.71 %) CSS 3 17 (80.95 %) ASP 3 17 (80.95 %) JavaScript 4 15 (71.43 %) SQL 5 14 (66.67 %) Microsoft 6 11 (52.38 %) VBScript 6 11 (52.38 %) Oracle 6 11 (52.38 %) Crystal Reports 6 11 (52.38 %) PL/SQL 6 11 (52.38 %) Oracle Reports 7 10 (47.62 %) InterDev 8 7 (33.33 %) WebServices 8 7 (33.33 %) C# 8 7 (33.33 %) HTML

9 6 (28.57 %) LDAP 9 6 (28.57 %) e-GIF 10 5 (23.81 %) Government 10 5 (23.81 %) Local Government 10 5 (23.81 %) MS Excel 11 4 (19.05 %) SQL Server 12 3 (14.29 %) Summit 13 2 (9.524 %) SQL Server 2005 13 2 (9.524 %) Web Development 13 2 (9.524 %) VB.NET 13 2 (9.524 %) XML 13 2 (9.524 %) ASP.NET 14 1 (4.762 %) COM 14 1 (4.762 %) Apache 14 1 (4.762 %) Windows

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 20 (95.24 %) .NET 2 18 (85.71 %) CSS 3 17 (80.95 %) ASP 4 7 (33.33 %) WebServices 4 7 (33.33 %) HTML 5 2 (9.524 %) XML 5 2 (9.524 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (4.762 %) COM 6 1 (4.762 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.762 %) IIS 1 1 (4.762 %) Apache
Applications 1 5 (23.81 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 3 (14.29 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 6 (28.57 %) LDAP 2 1 (4.762 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (52.38 %) Crystal Reports 1 11 (52.38 %) Oracle Reports 2 4 (19.05 %) SQL Server 3 2 (9.524 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 10 (47.62 %) InterDev	General 1 5 (23.81 %) Government 1 5 (23.81 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 20 (95.24 %) Developer 2 11 (52.38 %) Web Developer 3 6 (28.57 %) Software Developer 4 3 (14.29 %) .NET Developer 5 2 (9.524 %) VB.NET Developer 5 2 (9.524 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) Web Applications Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) Web Programmer 6 1 (4.762 %) JavaScript Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) ASP Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) C# Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) Applications Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.762 %) VAX
Operating Systems 1 1 (4.762 %) Windows 1 1 (4.762 %) VMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (28.57 %) e-GIF 2 2 (9.524 %) Web Development 3 1 (4.762 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (4.762 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (4.762 %) SEO 3 1 (4.762 %) Web Design 3 1 (4.762 %) Information Management
Programming Languages 1 17 (80.95 %) JavaScript 2 15 (71.43 %) SQL 3 11 (52.38 %) PL/SQL 3 11 (52.38 %) VBScript 4 7 (33.33 %) C# 5 2 (9.524 %) VB.NET 6 1 (4.762 %) Pascal 6 1 (4.762 %) DCL 6 1 (4.762 %) C++ 6 1 (4.762 %) Java 6 1 (4.762 %) Perl 6 1 (4.762 %) C 6 1 (4.762 %) Transact-SQL	Vendors 1 14 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 11 (52.38 %) Oracle