The first table below looks at the demand for Managed Extensibility Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Managed Extensibility Framework over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Application Development category for the London 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
Rank 371 396 424
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +28
Contract jobs citing Managed Extensibility Framework 13 14 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.057% 0.053% 0.060%
As % of the Application Development category 0.186% 0.182% 0.198%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 19
Average daily rate £600 £550 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £467 £484
10% offered a daily rate of more than £620 £650 £705
UK excluding London average daily rate £600 £268 £450
% change year-on-year
+124.29% -40.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6974 7680 9585
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 30.58% 28.89% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5047 5216 6511
Average daily rate £400 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 104 116
Average hourly rate £40.00 £36.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% +46.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £19.52 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £67.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Managed Extensibility Framework
England

Managed Extensibility Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Managed Extensibility Framework across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

London Managed Extensibility Framework Jobs Demand Trend

Managed Extensibility Framework
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Managed Extensibility Framework across the London region.

London Managed Extensibility Framework Daily Rate Trend

Managed Extensibility Framework
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Managed Extensibility Framework within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
City of London +2 4 £588 +6.81%
Managed Extensibility Framework
England

Managed Extensibility Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Managed Extensibility Framework 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 Managed Extensibility Framework.

1 18 (100.00%) C#
1 18 (100.00%) WPF
2 17 (94.44%) MVVM
3 16 (88.89%) .NET
4 13 (72.22%) Risk Management
4 13 (72.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (66.67%) Front Office
5 12 (66.67%) TDD
6 11 (61.11%) Banking
7 7 (38.89%) Finance
7 7 (38.89%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (33.33%) Reactive Extensions
9 5 (27.78%) Multithreading
9 5 (27.78%) .NET Framework
9 5 (27.78%) TIBCO
9 5 (27.78%) Rendezvous
9 5 (27.78%) E-Commerce
10 4 (22.22%) Infragistics
10 4 (22.22%) Degree
11 3 (16.67%) Investment Banking
11 3 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
11 3 (16.67%) LINQ
11 3 (16.67%) Derivative
11 3 (16.67%) Syncfusion
11 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (16.67%) DevExpress
11 3 (16.67%) SQL
12 2 (11.11%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 2 (11.11%) Unity DI Container
12 2 (11.11%) Data Management

Managed Extensibility Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Managed Extensibility Framework 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 Managed Extensibility Framework. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (100.00%) WPF
2 16 (88.89%) .NET
3 6 (33.33%) Reactive Extensions
4 5 (27.78%) .NET Framework
4 5 (27.78%) Rendezvous
5 3 (16.67%) LINQ
6 2 (11.11%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (11.11%) Unity DI Container
6 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
6 2 (11.11%) WCF
7 1 (5.556%) Silverlight
7 1 (5.556%) Task Parallel Library
7 1 (5.556%) COM
7 1 (5.556%) SOAP
7 1 (5.556%) DHTML
7 1 (5.556%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Sybase IQ
1 2 (11.11%) Sybase ASE
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.556%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Blend
2 1 (5.556%) JIRA
2 1 (5.556%) NCover
2 1 (5.556%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
2 1 (5.556%) MSBuild
2 1 (5.556%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.556%) Subversion
2 1 (5.556%) CruiseControl
General
1 12 (66.67%) Front Office
2 11 (61.11%) Banking
3 7 (38.89%) Finance
4 3 (16.67%) Investment Banking
5 2 (11.11%) French Language
Job Titles
1 17 (94.44%) Developer
2 14 (77.78%) C# Developer
3 8 (44.44%) WPF Developer
4 5 (27.78%) UI Programmer
4 5 (27.78%) UI Developer
5 3 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (11.11%) .NET Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Analyst
7 1 (5.556%) Analyst Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (72.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (38.89%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (16.67%) Derivative
4 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 2 (11.11%) Credit Risk
4 2 (11.11%) Market Risk
5 1 (5.556%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (5.556%) CUDA
5 1 (5.556%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.556%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) MVVM
2 13 (72.22%) Risk Management
3 12 (66.67%) TDD
4 5 (27.78%) Multithreading
4 5 (27.78%) E-Commerce
5 3 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (11.11%) Data Management
6 2 (11.11%) Dependency Injection
7 1 (5.556%) Software Engineering
7 1 (5.556%) Refactoring
7 1 (5.556%) Analytics
7 1 (5.556%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (5.556%) Java
3 1 (5.556%) XAML
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) TIBCO
2 4 (22.22%) Infragistics
3 3 (16.67%) Syncfusion
3 3 (16.67%) DevExpress
4 2 (11.11%) Sybase
5 1 (5.556%) DataSynapse
5 1 (5.556%) Microsoft