Merseyside Visual Studio Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Studio skills within the Merseyside 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Studio
Location Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Crawley Crewe Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnham Gateshead Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Woodstock Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	34
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	22	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	30.56 %	20.00 %
Daily rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum daily rate	£265	£300
Average daily rate	£289	£325
% change on same period last year	-11.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£313	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£337
% change on same period last year	-11.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.33	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£29.17	£22.50
% change on same period last year	+29.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.05	£35.28
% change on same period last year	-6.29 %
Development Applications Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	72	55
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.102 %	0.056 %
Daily rates quoted	17	12
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£332
Average daily rate	£313	£352
% change on same period last year	-11.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£326	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£327
% change on same period last year	-1.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.57	£19.54
Average hourly rate	£22.93	£22.48
% change on same period last year	+1.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.29	£25.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.43	£31.25
% change on same period last year	+3.75 %
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 Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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 Merseyside region.

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

Visual Studio
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Liverpool	+4	12	£279	-14.23 %
Wirral	-	2	-	-
Bootle	-	1	£267	-

Visual Studio North West

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 36 (94.74 %) .NET 2 26 (68.42 %) SQL Server 3 24 (63.16 %) C# 4 21 (55.26 %) SQL Server 2005 5 19 (50.00 %) VB.NET 5 19 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 6 14 (36.84 %) WebServices 6 14 (36.84 %) XML 7 13 (34.21 %) Crystal Reports 8 12 (31.58 %) Windows 9 11 (28.95 %) SQL Server 2000 9 11 (28.95 %) SQL 10 9 (23.68 %) VB 10 9 (23.68 %) WinForms 11 8 (21.05 %) .NET Framework

12 7 (18.42 %) Insurance 12 7 (18.42 %) Agile Software Development 12 7 (18.42 %) NUnit 12 7 (18.42 %) VB6 12 7 (18.42 %) XSLT 13 6 (15.79 %) Microsoft 13 6 (15.79 %) VSS/SourceSafe 13 6 (15.79 %) ADO.NET 13 6 (15.79 %) InstallShield 14 5 (13.16 %) HTML 14 5 (13.16 %) Unit Testing 15 4 (10.53 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 15 4 (10.53 %) Graphic Design 15 4 (10.53 %) WCF 15 4 (10.53 %) SC Cleared

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 36 (94.74 %) .NET 2 19 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 3 14 (36.84 %) WebServices 3 14 (36.84 %) XML 4 9 (23.68 %) WinForms 5 8 (21.05 %) .NET Framework 6 7 (18.42 %) XSLT 7 6 (15.79 %) ADO.NET 8 5 (13.16 %) HTML 9 4 (10.53 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 9 4 (10.53 %) WCF 10 3 (7.895 %) LINQ 10 3 (7.895 %) NHibernate 10 3 (7.895 %) ADO 10 3 (7.895 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 3 (7.895 %) Ext JS 11 2 (5.263 %) ASP 12 1 (2.632 %) XHTML 12 1 (2.632 %) Java RMI 12 1 (2.632 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 2 (5.263 %) IIS 1 2 (5.263 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (2.632 %) Photoshop 1 1 (2.632 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.632 %) GPRS 1 1 (2.632 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 26 (68.42 %) SQL Server 2 21 (55.26 %) SQL Server 2005 3 13 (34.21 %) Crystal Reports 4 11 (28.95 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (2.632 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 1 (2.632 %) Informix	Development Applications 1 7 (18.42 %) NUnit 2 6 (15.79 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 6 (15.79 %) InstallShield 3 1 (2.632 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (2.632 %) Visual Studio Team System
General 1 7 (18.42 %) Insurance 2 4 (10.53 %) Graphic Design 2 4 (10.53 %) Finance 3 1 (2.632 %) Health 3 1 (2.632 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 33 (86.84 %) Developer 2 23 (60.53 %) .NET Developer 3 12 (31.58 %) C# Developer 4 11 (28.95 %) VB.NET Developer 5 3 (7.895 %) Software Developer 6 2 (5.263 %) VB Developer 6 2 (5.263 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 2 (5.263 %) SQL Developer 6 2 (5.263 %) VB6 Developer 6 2 (5.263 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 2 (5.263 %) CSharp Software Developer 7 1 (2.632 %) C++/C# Developer 7 1 (2.632 %) .NET Programmer 7 1 (2.632 %) Junior Developer 7 1 (2.632 %) SQL Server Developer 7 1 (2.632 %) Junior Web Developer 7 1 (2.632 %) Junior 7 1 (2.632 %) C++ Developer 7 1 (2.632 %) Web Developer 7 1 (2.632 %) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.632 %) N-Tier 1 1 (2.632 %) NHS 1 1 (2.632 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 12 (31.58 %) Windows 2 1 (2.632 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (2.632 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (2.632 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (18.42 %) Agile Software Development 2 5 (13.16 %) Unit Testing 3 4 (10.53 %) SC Cleared 3 4 (10.53 %) Security Cleared 4 3 (7.895 %) OO 5 2 (5.263 %) BC Cleared 6 1 (2.632 %) Migration 6 1 (2.632 %) Asset Management 6 1 (2.632 %) Content Management 6 1 (2.632 %) Logistics	Programming Languages 1 24 (63.16 %) C# 2 19 (50.00 %) VB.NET 3 11 (28.95 %) SQL 4 9 (23.68 %) VB 5 7 (18.42 %) VB6 6 4 (10.53 %) JavaScript 7 1 (2.632 %) VBA 7 1 (2.632 %) VBScript 7 1 (2.632 %) C++
Qualifications 1 1 (2.632 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 2 (5.263 %) MSMQ 2 1 (2.632 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 6 (15.79 %) Microsoft 2 1 (2.632 %) Dundas 2 1 (2.632 %) IBM