The first table below looks at the demand for MVC skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MVC over the 3 months to 22 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 Manchester 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Rank 23 41 40
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -1
Contract jobs citing MVC 65 51 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 6.900% 3.884% 2.930%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.731% 6.100% 4.484%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 33 21
Average daily rate £285 £275 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.63% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £254 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £370 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £300
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
Average hourly rate £28.75 - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £23.88 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+42.40% -43.82%
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
668 836 669
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 70.91% 63.67% 65.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 421 308
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £230 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 40 38
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.05 £12.01 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £77.50 £37.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
MVC
North West

MVC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester MVC Jobs Demand Trend

MVC
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester MVC Daily Rate Trend

MVC
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MVC across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Manchester MVC Daily Rate Histogram

MVC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester MVC Hourly Rate Trend

MVC
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MVC across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Manchester MVC Hourly Rate Histogram

MVC
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MVC within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 22 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
Oldham - 3 £176 -
Stockport - 3 £350 -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - -
Altrincham 0 1 - -
Wigan - 1 £300 -
MVC
North West

MVC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing MVC 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 MVC.

1 89 (68.46%) .NET
2 78 (60.00%) ASP.NET
3 77 (59.23%) C#
4 65 (50.00%) SQL Server
5 62 (47.69%) JavaScript
6 60 (46.15%) CSS
7 57 (43.85%) jQuery
8 49 (37.69%) ASP.NET MVC
9 48 (36.92%) SQL
10 44 (33.85%) HTML
11 42 (32.31%) TDD
12 38 (29.23%) Web Services
13 36 (27.69%) WCF
14 35 (26.92%) Java
15 29 (22.31%) Ajax
16 23 (17.69%) Spring
16 23 (17.69%) SQL Server 2008
17 20 (15.38%) XML
17 20 (15.38%) SharePoint
18 19 (14.62%) HTML5
19 18 (13.85%) .NET Framework
19 18 (13.85%) OOP
20 16 (12.31%) J2EE
20 16 (12.31%) NHibernate
21 15 (11.54%) ASP.NET MVC 3
21 15 (11.54%) OO
22 14 (10.77%) Hibernate
22 14 (10.77%) LINQ
22 14 (10.77%) Spring MVC
23 13 (10.00%) JSON

MVC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing MVC 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 MVC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 89 (68.46%) .NET
2 78 (60.00%) ASP.NET
3 60 (46.15%) CSS
4 57 (43.85%) jQuery
5 49 (37.69%) ASP.NET MVC
6 44 (33.85%) HTML
7 38 (29.23%) Web Services
8 36 (27.69%) WCF
9 29 (22.31%) Ajax
10 23 (17.69%) Spring
11 20 (15.38%) XML
12 19 (14.62%) HTML5
13 18 (13.85%) .NET Framework
14 16 (12.31%) J2EE
14 16 (12.31%) NHibernate
15 15 (11.54%) ASP.NET MVC 3
16 14 (10.77%) Hibernate
16 14 (10.77%) LINQ
16 14 (10.77%) Spring MVC
17 13 (10.00%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 20 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 10 (7.692%) CMS
3 8 (6.154%) ESB
4 5 (3.846%) Tomcat
5 4 (3.077%) Umbraco
5 4 (3.077%) Orchard CMS
5 4 (3.077%) Apache
6 3 (2.308%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (1.538%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.769%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (0.769%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.769%) IIS
8 1 (0.769%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.769%) Adobe CQ
8 1 (0.769%) Confluence
8 1 (0.769%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.769%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 7 (5.385%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.538%) MS Office
3 1 (0.769%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.769%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.769%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.769%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (0.769%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.769%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.769%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.385%) HTTP
2 6 (4.615%) Internet
3 3 (2.308%) LDAP
4 2 (1.538%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 23 (17.69%) SQL Server 2008
3 13 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (4.615%) MySQL
5 4 (3.077%) RavenDB
5 4 (3.077%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.077%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.308%) DB2
6 3 (2.308%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.538%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.538%) CouchDB
7 2 (1.538%) SQL Server 2012
7 2 (1.538%) SQL Server 2000
8 1 (0.769%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.769%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.769%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 13 (10.00%) Subversion
1 13 (10.00%) Visual Studio
2 8 (6.154%) Eclipse
3 7 (5.385%) TeamCity
4 6 (4.615%) Git (software)
5 4 (3.077%) JIRA
5 4 (3.077%) MSBuild
5 4 (3.077%) NetBeans
6 3 (2.308%) QUnit
6 3 (2.308%) Gradle
6 3 (2.308%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.538%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.538%) PHPUnit
7 2 (1.538%) Ant
8 1 (0.769%) Maven
8 1 (0.769%) NUnit
8 1 (0.769%) JUnit
8 1 (0.769%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
8 1 (0.769%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.769%) Hudson
General
1 4 (3.077%) Finance
2 2 (1.538%) Telecoms
2 2 (1.538%) Retail
3 1 (0.769%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 119 (91.54%) Developer
2 40 (30.77%) .NET Developer
3 21 (16.15%) Java Developer
3 21 (16.15%) C# Developer
4 19 (14.62%) Senior Developer
5 17 (13.08%) Web Developer
6 10 (7.692%) ASP.NET Developer
7 9 (6.923%) Agile C# Developer
8 8 (6.154%) Android Developer
9 6 (4.615%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 6 (4.615%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (3.846%) Software Developer
11 4 (3.077%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (3.077%) Senior .NET Developer
11 4 (3.077%) Java Web Developer
12 3 (2.308%) SharePoint Developer
12 3 (2.308%) WebSphere Developer
12 3 (2.308%) .NET Web Developer
12 3 (2.308%) Applications Developer
12 3 (2.308%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.385%) N-Tier
2 6 (4.615%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.846%) NHS
3 5 (3.846%) Digital Media
4 4 (3.077%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.538%) Smartphone
5 2 (1.538%) Semantic Web
5 2 (1.538%) Linked Data
5 2 (1.538%) BBC
5 2 (1.538%) E-Learning
6 1 (0.769%) W3C
6 1 (0.769%) Social Media
6 1 (0.769%) Mathematics
6 1 (0.769%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.154%) Android
2 6 (4.615%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.846%) Linux
4 2 (1.538%) UNIX
4 2 (1.538%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (32.31%) TDD
2 18 (13.85%) OOP
3 15 (11.54%) OO
4 12 (9.231%) Agile Software Development
5 11 (8.462%) E-Commerce
6 8 (6.154%) Scrum
6 8 (6.154%) Content Management
7 7 (5.385%) Web Development
8 6 (4.615%) BDD
8 6 (4.615%) Web Application Development
9 5 (3.846%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (3.077%) Kanban
10 4 (3.077%) SOA
10 4 (3.077%) Web Design
11 3 (2.308%) Pair Programming
11 3 (2.308%) ITIL
11 3 (2.308%) Unit Testing
12 2 (1.538%) Release Management
12 2 (1.538%) User Acceptance Testing
12 2 (1.538%) Progressive Enhancement
Programming Languages
1 77 (59.23%) C#
2 62 (47.69%) JavaScript
3 48 (36.92%) SQL
4 35 (26.92%) Java
5 11 (8.462%) T-SQL
6 10 (7.692%) VB.NET
6 10 (7.692%) PHP
7 5 (3.846%) Objective-C
7 5 (3.846%) C
8 4 (3.077%) VBScript
8 4 (3.077%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.077%) Ruby
9 3 (2.308%) VB
9 3 (2.308%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.308%) Scala
10 2 (1.538%) Groovy
10 2 (1.538%) CoffeeScript
10 2 (1.538%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.769%) Perl
11 1 (0.769%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (3.846%) Sun Certification
2 4 (3.077%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.538%) Degree
3 2 (1.538%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.769%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.538%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 1 (0.769%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.692%) Telerik
3 8 (6.154%) Oracle
3 8 (6.154%) JBoss
4 7 (5.385%) Zend
5 6 (4.615%) Sitecore
6 5 (3.846%) Apple
7 3 (2.308%) IBM
8 2 (1.538%) Facebook
8 2 (1.538%) Twitter
8 2 (1.538%) Adobe
8 2 (1.538%) Endeca
9 1 (0.769%) Alterian
9 1 (0.769%) Sun
9 1 (0.769%) Sage
9 1 (0.769%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.769%) Atlassian
Manchester, Lancashire
The individual will have technical knowledge of C#, .NET, SQL Server for web-based ASP.Net (MVC) application development with further experience of WCF etc seen as desirable.
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + Contract - 3 Months
Posted: 16 May 2013
Manchester, North West
The individual will have technical knowledge of C#, .NET, SQL Server for web-based ASP.Net (MVC) application development with further experience of WCF etc seen as desirable.
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
The individual will have technical knowledge of C#, .NET, SQL Server for web-based ASP.Net (MVC) application development with further experience of WCF etc seen as desirable.
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Essential Skills: - ASP.Net - C# - MVC 3 /4 - JQuery - HTML 4/5 - CSS - WCF - SQL Server, T-SQL Desirables: - JavaScript - Twitter Bootstrap - Less CSS - Knockout.js - Web Services,...
Computer Futures
Posted: 20 May 2013
Manchester, North West
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Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £230.00 - £290.00 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Stockport, North West
Ideally you will have experience with Umbraco, however I'm keen to hear from and speak to anyone who is a solid .NET/CMS developer in all CMS'...
Computer Futures
Posted: 20 May 2013
Greater Manchester, North West
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Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Manchester, North West
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Computer Futures
Rate: £200 - £270 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Manchester, North West
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Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £280 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Manchester, North West
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Real Staffing
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Manchester, North West
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Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013