The first table below looks at the demand for MVVM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MVVM over the 3 months to 21 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 Leicester 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM)
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MVVM 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicester 0.980% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.449% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £351 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
+6.43% +1.53%
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
Leicester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
69 51 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicester 67.65% 59.30% 78.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 18
Average daily rate £350 £330 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -26.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £275 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £473 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 18
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -73.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
MVVM
Leicestershire

MVVM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester MVVM Jobs Demand Trend

MVVM
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leicester MVVM Daily Rate Trend

MVVM
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MVVM across the Leicester region.

Leicester MVVM Hourly Rate Trend

MVVM
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester 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 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) WPF
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Silverlight
2 2 (66.67%) Expression Blend
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (66.67%) Telerik
2 2 (66.67%) Logistics
2 2 (66.67%) Infragistics
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) WinForms
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) WF
3 1 (33.33%) LINQ
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreading

MVVM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester 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 3 (100.00%) WPF
2 2 (66.67%) Silverlight
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) WinForms
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) WF
3 1 (33.33%) LINQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Expression Blend
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Silverlight Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 1 (33.33%) WPF Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Logistics
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) C++
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Telerik
1 2 (66.67%) Infragistics