The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio Tools for Office 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 Visual Studio Tools for Office over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)
Rank 370 397 423
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +26
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Tools for Office 11 5 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.051% 0.019% 0.036%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.419% 0.193% 0.316%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 6
Average daily rate £600 £350 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+71.42% -33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £485 £290 £438
10% offered a daily rate of more than £651 £428 £538
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
2628 2585 3477
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.11% 9.627% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1948 1754 2379
Average daily rate £413 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 36 29
Average hourly rate £41.50 £35.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% +25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.72 £22.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.40 £45.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio Tools for Office
England

Visual Studio Tools for Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Visual Studio Tools for Office Jobs Demand Trend

Visual Studio Tools for Office
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Visual Studio Tools for Office across the London region.

London Visual Studio Tools for Office Daily Rate Trend

Visual Studio Tools for Office
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Visual Studio Tools for Office across the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

London Visual Studio Tools for Office Daily Rate Histogram

Visual Studio Tools for Office
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Visual Studio Tools for Office Hourly Rate Trend

Visual Studio Tools for Office
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 Tools for Office within the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 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
City of London +23 5 £500 +53.84%
Canary Wharf - 3 £608 -
Visual Studio Tools for Office
England

Visual Studio Tools for Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Visual Studio Tools for Office 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 Tools for Office.

1 22 (95.65%) C#
2 15 (65.22%) .NET
3 14 (60.87%) VBA
3 14 (60.87%) Front Office
4 13 (56.52%) SQL Server
5 12 (52.17%) DNA
5 12 (52.17%) Agile Software Development
6 11 (47.83%) Sybase
6 11 (47.83%) Oracle
7 9 (39.13%) .NET Framework
7 9 (39.13%) SQL
8 8 (34.78%) Reuters
8 8 (34.78%) Bloomberg
8 8 (34.78%) Degree
8 8 (34.78%) Mathematics
8 8 (34.78%) Analytics
9 7 (30.43%) Silverlight
9 7 (30.43%) Finance
9 7 (30.43%) MS Excel
9 7 (30.43%) HTTP
10 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
10 6 (26.09%) Java
10 6 (26.09%) Visual Studio
10 6 (26.09%) WCF
10 6 (26.09%) WPF
10 6 (26.09%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (21.74%) Time Management
11 5 (21.74%) SQL Server 2008
11 5 (21.74%) Data Transformation
11 5 (21.74%) ADO.NET Entity Framework

Visual Studio Tools for Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Visual Studio Tools for Office 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 Tools for Office. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (65.22%) .NET
2 9 (39.13%) .NET Framework
3 7 (30.43%) Silverlight
4 6 (26.09%) WCF
4 6 (26.09%) WPF
5 5 (21.74%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 5 (21.74%) ASP.NET
6 4 (17.39%) CSS
6 4 (17.39%) XML
6 4 (17.39%) jQuery
6 4 (17.39%) ASP.NET MVC
6 4 (17.39%) NEsper
6 4 (17.39%) Ajax
7 3 (13.04%) WinForms
7 3 (13.04%) Web Services
7 3 (13.04%) HTML
8 2 (8.696%) StructureMap
8 2 (8.696%) LINQ
9 1 (4.348%) Managed Extensibility Framework
9 1 (4.348%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (17.39%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.348%) WorkSite
Applications
1 7 (30.43%) MS Excel
2 2 (8.696%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (56.52%) SQL Server
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (4.348%) IDOL
3 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Visual Studio
1 6 (26.09%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (17.39%) MSTest
2 4 (17.39%) Rhino Mocks
2 4 (17.39%) Visual Studio Team System
3 2 (8.696%) SpecFlow
3 2 (8.696%) NUnit
4 1 (4.348%) CruiseControl
4 1 (4.348%) Subversion
4 1 (4.348%) JIRA
4 1 (4.348%) MSBuild
4 1 (4.348%) NCover
4 1 (4.348%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (60.87%) Front Office
2 7 (30.43%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Developer
2 10 (43.48%) C# Developer
3 8 (34.78%) Excel Developer
4 6 (26.09%) Front Office Developer
5 5 (21.74%) Analyst
6 4 (17.39%) .NET Developer
6 4 (17.39%) VBA Developer
7 3 (13.04%) Analyst Developer
7 3 (13.04%) Excel VBA Developer
7 3 (13.04%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (13.04%) WPF Developer
8 2 (8.696%) UI Programmer
8 2 (8.696%) UI Developer
8 2 (8.696%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (8.696%) Senior Test Analyst
8 2 (8.696%) Test Analyst
9 1 (4.348%) Senior Developer
9 1 (4.348%) Programmer
9 1 (4.348%) C# Programmer
9 1 (4.348%) Senior Excel Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Mathematics
2 4 (17.39%) Physics
2 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.348%) Fixed Income
3 1 (4.348%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
2 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) DNA
1 12 (52.17%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (34.78%) Analytics
3 5 (21.74%) Data Transformation
3 5 (21.74%) Time Management
3 5 (21.74%) Risk Management
3 5 (21.74%) Scrum
4 4 (17.39%) ETRM
4 4 (17.39%) Multithreading
4 4 (17.39%) MVC
5 3 (13.04%) Use Case
6 2 (8.696%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (8.696%) Software Testing
6 2 (8.696%) TDD
6 2 (8.696%) Data Analysis
6 2 (8.696%) Automated Testing
6 2 (8.696%) Business Analysis
6 2 (8.696%) OOA/OOD
6 2 (8.696%) OO
6 2 (8.696%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (95.65%) C#
2 14 (60.87%) VBA
3 9 (39.13%) SQL
4 6 (26.09%) Java
5 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.348%) C++
6 1 (4.348%) XAML
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Degree
2 2 (8.696%) ISEB
2 2 (8.696%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.696%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.348%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Oracle
1 11 (47.83%) Sybase
2 8 (34.78%) Reuters
2 8 (34.78%) Bloomberg
3 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.348%) SAP