Visual Studio Contracts in Liverpool
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 24 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 Liverpool 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 19 26 16
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -10
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 3 4 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 2.190% 2.198% 5.556%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.67% 16.67% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 3
Average daily rate - £315 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
All Development Applications
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 18 24 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 13.14% 13.19% 9.259%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 8
Average daily rate £425 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.76% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £290 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio
Merseyside

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool Visual Studio Daily Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Liverpool Visual Studio Hourly Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 15 (100.00%) .NET
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 14 (93.33%) ASP.NET
3 12 (80.00%) CMS
3 12 (80.00%) Umbraco
4 11 (73.33%) XML
5 8 (53.33%) MS Access
5 8 (53.33%) C#
5 8 (53.33%) SQL
6 7 (46.67%) jQuery
6 7 (46.67%) CSS
6 7 (46.67%) MVC
7 6 (40.00%) SEO
7 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
7 6 (40.00%) HTML5
7 6 (40.00%) CSS3
7 6 (40.00%) Twitter
8 5 (33.33%) Mobile App
8 5 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
8 5 (33.33%) Facebook
8 5 (33.33%) Git (software)
8 5 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
8 5 (33.33%) Google Maps API
8 5 (33.33%) Zend
8 5 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
8 5 (33.33%) CakePHP
8 5 (33.33%) WordPress
8 5 (33.33%) Google
8 5 (33.33%) Web Development
8 5 (33.33%) Business Development

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (93.33%) ASP.NET
3 11 (73.33%) XML
4 7 (46.67%) jQuery
4 7 (46.67%) CSS
5 6 (40.00%) HTML5
5 6 (40.00%) CSS3
6 5 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
6 5 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (33.33%) Google Maps API
6 5 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
6 5 (33.33%) CakePHP
6 5 (33.33%) XSD
6 5 (33.33%) XSLT
7 2 (13.33%) HTML
8 1 (6.667%) Web Services
8 1 (6.667%) WCF
8 1 (6.667%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC 2
Application Platforms
1 12 (80.00%) CMS
1 12 (80.00%) Umbraco
2 5 (33.33%) WordPress
3 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Bond Adapt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (53.33%) MS Access
3 5 (33.33%) MySQL
3 5 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git (software)
1 5 (33.33%) NetBeans
2 1 (6.667%) Dreamweaver
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (60.00%) .NET Developer
3 5 (33.33%) ASP.NET Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Umbraco Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (13.33%) SQL Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Access Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Web Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Front-End Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Front-End Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) MVC
2 6 (40.00%) SEO
3 5 (33.33%) Web Development
3 5 (33.33%) Business Development
3 5 (33.33%) OO
3 5 (33.33%) OOD
4 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (6.667%) Web Design
4 1 (6.667%) Scrum
4 1 (6.667%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) C#
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (33.33%) XPath
3 5 (33.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Twitter
2 5 (33.33%) Facebook
2 5 (33.33%) Zend
2 5 (33.33%) Google
2 5 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.667%) Adobe
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