The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT contracts advertised for the Marlow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Visual Studio 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 Development Applications category for the Marlow 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
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank - - 1
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 0 0 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Marlow - - 61.54%
As % of the Development Applications category - - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 8
Average daily rate - - £328
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
All Development Applications
Marlow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
2 1 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Marlow 28.57% 14.29% 61.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 8
Average daily rate - £175 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -46.56%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio
Buckinghamshire

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Marlow 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 Marlow region.

Marlow Visual Studio Daily Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Marlow 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) WinForms
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) Web Development
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) OLAP
2 2 (66.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (33.33%) ASP
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) WordPress

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Marlow 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) WinForms
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) ASP
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) WordPress
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (66.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Web Developer
2 2 (66.67%) C# .NET Developer
2 2 (66.67%) C# Developer
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET Developer
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Web Developer
2 2 (66.67%) C# Web Developer
2 2 (66.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) PHP