Manchester Visual Studio Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Studio skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Studio
Location Avon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Cirencester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Pontypridd Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	59	45
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	30	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.040 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	23.62 %	25.81 %
Daily rates quoted	0	9
Average minimum daily rate	-	£226
Average daily rate	-	£237
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£248
UK excluding London average daily rate	£310	£343
% change on same period last year	-9.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.00	£27.00
Average hourly rate	£28.50	£27.25
% change on same period last year	+4.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.00	£27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.02	£31.88
% change on same period last year	+9.83 %
Development Applications Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	127	93
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.167 %	0.097 %
Daily rates quoted	9	18
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£240
Average daily rate	£330	£258
% change on same period last year	+27.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£277
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£330
% change on same period last year	+1.37 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.05	£24.63
Average hourly rate	£23.48	£25.63
% change on same period last year	-8.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.92	£26.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.68	£33.86
% change on same period last year	-0.54 %
Visual Studio North West

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 Manchester 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 Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, 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 40 (88.89 %) .NET 2 23 (51.11 %) ASP.NET 3 22 (48.89 %) SQL Server 3 22 (48.89 %) HTML 4 20 (44.44 %) VB.NET 5 19 (42.22 %) C# 6 16 (35.56 %) JavaScript 6 16 (35.56 %) SQL 6 16 (35.56 %) XML 7 15 (33.33 %) WebServices 7 15 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 8 14 (31.11 %) CSS 9 11 (24.44 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 11 (24.44 %) XSLT 10 10 (22.22 %) XSL

10 10 (22.22 %) N-Tier 10 10 (22.22 %) Microsoft 11 9 (20.00 %) ASP 12 8 (17.78 %) Oracle Reports 12 8 (17.78 %) PL/SQL 12 8 (17.78 %) Oracle 12 8 (17.78 %) RDBMS 12 8 (17.78 %) AJAX 13 7 (15.56 %) .NET Framework 14 6 (13.33 %) SharePoint 14 6 (13.33 %) Windows 15 5 (11.11 %) OO 15 5 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2000 16 4 (8.889 %) Web Development 16 4 (8.889 %) Agile Software Development

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, 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 40 (88.89 %) .NET 2 23 (51.11 %) ASP.NET 3 22 (48.89 %) HTML 4 16 (35.56 %) XML 5 15 (33.33 %) WebServices 6 14 (31.11 %) CSS 7 11 (24.44 %) XSLT 8 10 (22.22 %) XSL 9 9 (20.00 %) ASP 10 8 (17.78 %) AJAX 11 7 (15.56 %) .NET Framework 12 3 (6.667 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 3 (6.667 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 13 1 (2.222 %) MFC 13 1 (2.222 %) XHTML 13 1 (2.222 %) ADO.NET 13 1 (2.222 %) STL 13 1 (2.222 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 6 (13.33 %) SharePoint 2 4 (8.889 %) BizTalk Server 2 4 (8.889 %) IIS 3 2 (4.444 %) SAS
Applications 1 2 (4.444 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (6.667 %) Internet 2 1 (2.222 %) Extranet 2 1 (2.222 %) Intranet 2 1 (2.222 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (48.89 %) SQL Server 2 15 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 8 (17.78 %) Oracle Reports 3 8 (17.78 %) RDBMS 4 5 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2000 5 3 (6.667 %) Datawarehouse 5 3 (6.667 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 1 (2.222 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (2.222 %) SQL Server Integration Services	Development Applications 1 11 (24.44 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 2 (4.444 %) Dreamweaver 2 2 (4.444 %) Flash 3 1 (2.222 %) WinRunner
General 1 3 (6.667 %) Manufacturing 1 3 (6.667 %) Retail 2 1 (2.222 %) Finance 2 1 (2.222 %) Education 2 1 (2.222 %) Insurance 2 1 (2.222 %) Pensions 2 1 (2.222 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 39 (86.67 %) Developer 2 27 (60.00 %) .NET Developer 3 12 (26.67 %) VB.NET Developer 4 11 (24.44 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 8 (17.78 %) Web Developer 5 8 (17.78 %) C# Developer 6 5 (11.11 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 5 (11.11 %) .NET Web Developer 7 4 (8.889 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 8 3 (6.667 %) Datawarehouse Developer 8 3 (6.667 %) SQL Developer 9 2 (4.444 %) SQL Server Developer 9 2 (4.444 %) C++ Developer 9 2 (4.444 %) Programmer 9 2 (4.444 %) Tester 9 2 (4.444 %) Applications Developer 10 1 (2.222 %) Senior Developer 10 1 (2.222 %) Analyst Programmer 10 1 (2.222 %) Software Engineer 10 1 (2.222 %) Architect
Miscellaneous 1 10 (22.22 %) N-Tier 2 3 (6.667 %) NHS 3 1 (2.222 %) Derivative	Operating Systems 1 6 (13.33 %) Windows 2 1 (2.222 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (11.11 %) OO 2 4 (8.889 %) Web Development 2 4 (8.889 %) Agile Software Development 3 3 (6.667 %) UML 3 3 (6.667 %) Migration 4 2 (4.444 %) Data Migration 4 2 (4.444 %) SEO 4 2 (4.444 %) E-Commerce 4 2 (4.444 %) OOP	Programming Languages 1 20 (44.44 %) VB.NET 2 19 (42.22 %) C# 3 16 (35.56 %) JavaScript 3 16 (35.56 %) SQL 4 8 (17.78 %) PL/SQL 5 4 (8.889 %) VB 6 3 (6.667 %) Transact-SQL 6 3 (6.667 %) VC++ 7 2 (4.444 %) C++ 8 1 (2.222 %) DHTML 8 1 (2.222 %) PHP 8 1 (2.222 %) ActionScript 8 1 (2.222 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 1 (2.222 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.222 %) ISO9001
Vendors 1 10 (22.22 %) Microsoft 2 8 (17.78 %) Oracle