Visual Studio Contracts in the North East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 17 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 North East 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 29 44 37
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -7
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 5 4 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 1.894% 0.837% 2.018%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.71% 9.091% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 7
Average daily rate £270 £358 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.47% +15.32%
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 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
All Development Applications
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 14 44 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 5.303% 9.205% 9.865%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 23 20
Average daily rate £285 £336 £294
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.24% +14.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £265 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £378 £325
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
England

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region over the 3 months to 17 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
Durham +1 3 £270 -26.02%
Tyne and Wear +11 2 - -
Visual Studio
England

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 12 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (58.33%) C#
2 7 (58.33%) HTML
2 7 (58.33%) CSS
3 6 (50.00%) jQuery
3 6 (50.00%) HTML5
4 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
4 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
4 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
5 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET
5 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
6 3 (25.00%) Multithreading
6 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
6 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (25.00%) Supplier Management
6 3 (25.00%) Degree
6 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (25.00%) WPF
6 3 (25.00%) CSS3
6 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (25.00%) CMS
6 3 (25.00%) WinForms
6 3 (25.00%) MVC
6 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
6 3 (25.00%) MS Office
6 3 (25.00%) W3C
6 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
7 2 (16.67%) SQL

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 12 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (58.33%) CSS
2 7 (58.33%) HTML
3 6 (50.00%) jQuery
3 6 (50.00%) HTML5
4 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET
5 3 (25.00%) WinForms
5 3 (25.00%) CSS3
5 3 (25.00%) WPF
6 2 (16.67%) CAML
6 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
7 1 (8.333%) Ajax
7 1 (8.333%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (25.00%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MS Office
1 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (8.333%) Fireworks
2 1 (8.333%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Web Developer
2 3 (25.00%) SharePoint Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Front-End Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Front-End Web Developer
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) C# Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) .NET Web Developer
4 1 (8.333%) WPF Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) W3C
1 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (8.333%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) MVC
1 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (25.00%) Supplier Management
1 3 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (16.67%) Web Development
2 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (8.333%) OO
3 1 (8.333%) CRM
3 1 (8.333%) Project Management
3 1 (8.333%) Progressive Enhancement
3 1 (8.333%) Graceful Degradation
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) C#
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) OCaml
4 1 (8.333%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) RedDot
3 1 (8.333%) SAP
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