Visual Studio Contracts in Manchester
 
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 Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 58 57 55
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -2
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 15 28 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.604% 2.164% 1.321%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.00% 24.56% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 10
Average daily rate £325 £225 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+44.44% +2.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £306 £175 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £350 £305
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Average hourly rate £190.00 £19.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+874.35% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
All Development Applications
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 100 114 87
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 10.70% 8.810% 8.208%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 58 44
Average daily rate £300 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £250 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £358 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 0
Average hourly rate £112.50 £33.30 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+237.83% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio
North West

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Visual Studio Hourly Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 38 (88.37%) .NET
2 34 (79.07%) SQL Server
3 33 (76.74%) C#
4 24 (55.81%) SQL Server 2008
5 23 (53.49%) ASP.NET
6 21 (48.84%) XML
6 21 (48.84%) SQL
7 18 (41.86%) CSS
8 16 (37.21%) JavaScript
9 15 (34.88%) HTML
9 15 (34.88%) Microsoft
10 13 (30.23%) T-SQL
10 13 (30.23%) Web Services
10 13 (30.23%) SQL Server 2005
11 12 (27.91%) MVC
12 10 (23.26%) Scrum
12 10 (23.26%) SharePoint
13 9 (20.93%) XHTML
13 9 (20.93%) LINQ
14 8 (18.60%) Ajax
14 8 (18.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (16.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (16.28%) .NET Framework
15 7 (16.28%) WCF
15 7 (16.28%) TDD
15 7 (16.28%) jQuery
15 7 (16.28%) ASP.NET MVC
16 6 (13.95%) Continuous Integration
17 5 (11.63%) Subversion
17 5 (11.63%) MS Excel

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 38 (88.37%) .NET
2 23 (53.49%) ASP.NET
3 21 (48.84%) XML
4 18 (41.86%) CSS
5 15 (34.88%) HTML
6 13 (30.23%) Web Services
7 9 (20.93%) XHTML
7 9 (20.93%) LINQ
8 8 (18.60%) Ajax
9 7 (16.28%) .NET Framework
9 7 (16.28%) WCF
9 7 (16.28%) jQuery
9 7 (16.28%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (11.63%) RESTful
11 3 (6.977%) Hibernate
11 3 (6.977%) Windows SharePoint Services
11 3 (6.977%) Lucene
11 3 (6.977%) JMS
11 3 (6.977%) ASP
11 3 (6.977%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 10 (23.26%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.977%) Apache
2 3 (6.977%) Apache Solr
2 3 (6.977%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (6.977%) JCAPS
3 2 (4.651%) SharePoint Foundation
3 2 (4.651%) SharePoint 2013
3 2 (4.651%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (4.651%) CMS
4 1 (2.326%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (2.326%) Umbraco
4 1 (2.326%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (11.63%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (9.302%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.326%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.326%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (79.07%) SQL Server
2 24 (55.81%) SQL Server 2008
3 13 (30.23%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (18.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (16.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (11.63%) RavenDB
7 4 (9.302%) SQL Server 2000
8 3 (6.977%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (6.977%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (4.651%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
9 2 (4.651%) SQL Server 2012
9 2 (4.651%) NoSQL
9 2 (4.651%) OLAP
10 1 (2.326%) QlikView
10 1 (2.326%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (2.326%) MS Access
10 1 (2.326%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (2.326%) MySQL
10 1 (2.326%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Subversion
2 4 (9.302%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 3 (6.977%) NetBeans
3 3 (6.977%) TeamCity
4 2 (4.651%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (4.651%) Git (software)
5 1 (2.326%) NUnit
5 1 (2.326%) JIRA
5 1 (2.326%) ClearQuest
5 1 (2.326%) InstallShield
5 1 (2.326%) FinalBuilder
General
1 3 (6.977%) Marketing
2 1 (2.326%) Back Office
2 1 (2.326%) Finance
2 1 (2.326%) Advertising
2 1 (2.326%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 33 (76.74%) Developer
2 13 (30.23%) .NET Developer
3 8 (18.60%) ASP.NET Developer
4 6 (13.95%) C# Developer
5 4 (9.302%) SQL Developer
5 4 (9.302%) Software Developer
6 3 (6.977%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.977%) SQL Server Developer
6 3 (6.977%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (6.977%) CRM Developer
6 3 (6.977%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (4.651%) Agile .NET Developer
7 2 (4.651%) Analyst
7 2 (4.651%) Web Developer
7 2 (4.651%) Consultant
7 2 (4.651%) Software Architect
7 2 (4.651%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (4.651%) Microsoft Developer
7 2 (4.651%) Report Developer
7 2 (4.651%) Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) NHS
2 4 (9.302%) Computer Science
3 3 (6.977%) Replication
3 3 (6.977%) N-Tier
4 2 (4.651%) Open Source
5 1 (2.326%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Windows
2 3 (6.977%) Linux
3 1 (2.326%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.91%) MVC
2 10 (23.26%) Scrum
3 7 (16.28%) TDD
4 6 (13.95%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (9.302%) ITIL
5 4 (9.302%) CRM
5 4 (9.302%) Content Management
6 3 (6.977%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (6.977%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (6.977%) UML
6 3 (6.977%) OOP
6 3 (6.977%) OO
7 2 (4.651%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (4.651%) Domain-Driven Design
7 2 (4.651%) Kanban
7 2 (4.651%) PRINCE2
7 2 (4.651%) RUP
7 2 (4.651%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (4.651%) Migration
8 1 (2.326%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (76.74%) C#
2 21 (48.84%) SQL
3 16 (37.21%) JavaScript
4 13 (30.23%) T-SQL
5 4 (9.302%) VB
6 3 (6.977%) VB.NET
6 3 (6.977%) VBA
6 3 (6.977%) Java
6 3 (6.977%) C
7 2 (4.651%) C++
7 2 (4.651%) Ruby
7 2 (4.651%) VB6
8 1 (2.326%) VC++
8 1 (2.326%) FoxPro (VFP)
8 1 (2.326%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (9.302%) Degree
2 3 (6.977%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.326%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.977%) HL7
2 1 (2.326%) TickIT
2 1 (2.326%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (6.977%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (6.977%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.326%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 15 (34.88%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.63%) Oracle
3 2 (4.651%) Twitter
3 2 (4.651%) Sitecore
3 2 (4.651%) Business Objects
3 2 (4.651%) Cognos
4 1 (2.326%) Atlassian
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