The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT contracts advertised for the Norfolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Visual Studio 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 of the Development Applications category for the Norfolk 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
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 30 21 14
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -7
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 2 11 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norfolk 1.093% 4.183% 8.679%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.38% 44.00% 82.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 11
Average daily rate - £400 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +39.13%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £16.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
All Development Applications
Norfolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
13 25 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norfolk 7.104% 9.506% 10.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 11
Average daily rate £310 £400 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.50% +39.13%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £281 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £418 £302
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £16.25 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio
East of England

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

Norfolk Visual Studio Daily Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Visual Studio across the Norfolk region.

Norfolk Visual Studio Hourly Rate Trend

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 Norfolk region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Norwich +4 2 - -
Visual Studio
East of England

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) XHTML
3 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (25.00%) HTTP
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) PHP

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) XHTML
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) LINQ
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (25.00%) AutoMapper
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) SpecFlow
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (25.00%) NUnit
2 1 (25.00%) CruiseControl
2 1 (25.00%) Subversion
2 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (25.00%) WatiN
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Business Systems Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft