Marlow Visual Studio Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Studio skills within the Marlow 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Studio
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Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
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	£297	£339
% change on same period last year	-12.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.41	£34.60
% change on same period last year	-3.43 %
Development Applications Marlow
Matching contract IT job ads	6	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.001 %
Daily rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum daily rate	£289	-
Average daily rate	£303	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£317	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.52
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Visual Studio Buckinghamshire

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 Marlow 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 Marlow region.

Visual Studio
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, 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 1 (100.00 %) C# 1 1 (100.00 %) .NET 1 1 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (100.00 %) WebServices 1 1 (100.00 %) XML 1 1 (100.00 %) AJAX

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, 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 1 (100.00 %) .NET 1 1 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (100.00 %) WebServices 1 1 (100.00 %) XML 1 1 (100.00 %) AJAX	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) Web Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) .NET Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) C# Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) ASP.NET Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) .NET Web Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) C# Web Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer
Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) C#