Luton Visual Studio Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Studio skills within the Luton 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 4 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Studio
Location Avon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Ceredigion Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnham Fife Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ipswich Kendal Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	33
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	3	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	33.33 %	4.082 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£342
% change on same period last year	-12.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£42.50	£33.75
% change on same period last year	+25.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.60	£35.30
% change on same period last year	-4.81 %
Development Applications Luton
Matching contract IT job ads	9	49
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.049 %
Daily rates quoted	3	17
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£306
Average daily rate	£300	£349
% change on same period last year	-14.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£36.25
Average hourly rate	£42.50	£37.19
% change on same period last year	+14.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£38.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.22	£33.21
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Visual Studio London

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 Luton 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 Luton region.

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 Luton region.

Visual Studio
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 10 (90.91 %) C++ 2 9 (81.82 %) Military 3 7 (63.64 %) Finance 4 3 (27.27 %) Windows 4 3 (27.27 %) C# 5 2 (18.18 %) C 5 2 (18.18 %) Degree 5 2 (18.18 %) Government 6 1 (9.091 %) DHTML 6 1 (9.091 %) SQL 6 1 (9.091 %) .NET 6 1 (9.091 %) XML 6 1 (9.091 %) XSL

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 1 (9.091 %) .NET 1 1 (9.091 %) XML 1 1 (9.091 %) XSL	General 1 9 (81.82 %) Military 2 7 (63.64 %) Finance 3 2 (18.18 %) Government
Job Titles 1 9 (81.82 %) Software Engineer 1 9 (81.82 %) C++ Software Engineer 2 2 (18.18 %) Developer 3 1 (9.091 %) Web Developer 3 1 (9.091 %) .NET Developer 3 1 (9.091 %) C++ Developer 3 1 (9.091 %) .NET Web Developer 3 1 (9.091 %) Real Time Developer	Operating Systems 1 3 (27.27 %) Windows
Programming Languages 1 10 (90.91 %) C++ 2 3 (27.27 %) C# 3 2 (18.18 %) C 4 1 (9.091 %) DHTML 4 1 (9.091 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (18.18 %) Degree