The first table below looks at the demand for ASP.NET MVC 2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP.NET MVC 2 over the 3 months to 21 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 Application Development category for the North West 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft ASP.NET MVC2 Framework
Rank 118 131 129
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -2
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET MVC 2 1 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.042% 0.127% 0.033%
As % of the Application Development category 0.157% 0.436% 0.137%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
Average daily rate £325 £325 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.24%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
637 918 732
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 26.98% 29.11% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 504 424
Average daily rate £300 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 32 22
Average hourly rate £29.96 £18.51 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+61.90% -32.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.37 £33.31 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ASP.NET MVC 2
England

ASP.NET MVC 2
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ASP.NET MVC 2 across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

North West ASP.NET MVC 2 Jobs Demand Trend

ASP.NET MVC 2
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ASP.NET MVC 2 across the North West region.

North West ASP.NET MVC 2 Daily Rate Trend

ASP.NET MVC 2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing ASP.NET MVC 2 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 ASP.NET MVC 2.

1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
1 6 (100.00%) jQuery
2 5 (83.33%) WCF
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (83.33%) Web Services
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (83.33%) Visual Studio
3 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
3 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (50.00%) LINQ
4 3 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 3 (50.00%) UML
4 3 (50.00%) XML
4 3 (50.00%) XSLT
5 2 (33.33%) Windows
5 2 (33.33%) MVC
5 2 (33.33%) Windows Mobile
5 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (16.67%) TDD
6 1 (16.67%) Retail
6 1 (16.67%) Umbraco
6 1 (16.67%) BDD
6 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
6 1 (16.67%) JavaScript

ASP.NET MVC 2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing ASP.NET MVC 2 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 ASP.NET MVC 2. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) jQuery
2 5 (83.33%) WCF
2 5 (83.33%) Web Services
3 3 (50.00%) LINQ
3 3 (50.00%) XML
3 3 (50.00%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Umbraco
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server 2008
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 3 (50.00%) UML
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript