The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term N-Tier in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited N-Tier over the 3 months to 24 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Milton Keynes 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
N-Tier
Rank 45 51 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs citing N-Tier 10 11 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 1.883% 1.576% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.804% 5.978% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 0
Average daily rate £375 £333 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.78% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
102 184 139
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 19.21% 26.36% 23.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 54 41
Average daily rate £350 £325 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +10.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £248 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £423
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 15 18
Average hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.20% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.58 £10.34 £13.23
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £35.00 £16.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
N-Tier
Buckinghamshire

N-Tier
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing N-Tier across the Milton Keynes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Milton Keynes N-Tier Jobs Demand Trend

N-Tier
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing N-Tier across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes N-Tier Daily Rate Trend

N-Tier
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing N-Tier across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes N-Tier Hourly Rate Trend

N-Tier
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing N-Tier 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 N-Tier.

1 9 (81.82%) C#
1 9 (81.82%) .NET
1 9 (81.82%) OO
1 9 (81.82%) MVC
2 8 (72.73%) WCF
2 8 (72.73%) ASP.NET
3 5 (45.45%) NHibernate
3 5 (45.45%) Finance
4 4 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (36.36%) TDD
4 4 (36.36%) Web Development
4 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (27.27%) jQuery
5 3 (27.27%) Banking
5 3 (27.27%) Scrum
5 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
5 3 (27.27%) SQL
6 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 2 (18.18%) Oracle
6 2 (18.18%) UNIX
6 2 (18.18%) Windows
6 2 (18.18%) VMware
6 2 (18.18%) Service Management
6 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
6 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (18.18%) OLTP
6 2 (18.18%) Intel
6 2 (18.18%) NetApp
6 2 (18.18%) Technical Architecture

N-Tier
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing N-Tier 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 N-Tier. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (81.82%) .NET
2 8 (72.73%) WCF
2 8 (72.73%) ASP.NET
3 5 (45.45%) NHibernate
4 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (27.27%) jQuery
6 2 (18.18%) KnockoutJS
7 1 (9.091%) LINQ
7 1 (9.091%) Ajax
7 1 (9.091%) XHTML
7 1 (9.091%) CSS
7 1 (9.091%) Web Services
7 1 (9.091%) XML
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (18.18%) OLTP
3 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio
1 1 (9.091%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 1 (9.091%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Developer
1 9 (81.82%) .NET Developer
2 7 (63.64%) Agile .NET Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Web Developer
4 3 (27.27%) .NET Programmer
4 3 (27.27%) Programmer
5 1 (9.091%) Virtualisation Architect
5 1 (9.091%) Designer
5 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Designer
5 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (9.091%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Architect
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) UNIX
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) OO
1 9 (81.82%) MVC
2 4 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (36.36%) TDD
2 4 (36.36%) Web Development
3 3 (27.27%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) Service Management
4 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (9.091%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.091%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) VMware
1 2 (18.18%) Intel
1 2 (18.18%) NetApp
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