The first table below looks at the demand for MFC 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 MFC 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC)
Rank 114 129 -
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -
Contract jobs citing MFC 4 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.172% 0.096% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.627% 0.337% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
Average daily rate £250 £288 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.04% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £308 £285
% change year-on-year
-18.69% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £37.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year
- +2.77%
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
638 889 748
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 27.37% 28.58% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 476 428
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 £235 £238 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 21
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.51 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.46% -36.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.31 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
MFC
England

MFC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West MFC Jobs Demand Trend

MFC
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West MFC Daily Rate Trend

MFC
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MFC across the North West region.

North West MFC Hourly Rate Trend

MFC
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MFC within the North West 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
Cheshire +3 4 £250 -9.09%
MFC
England

MFC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing MFC 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 MFC.

1 4 (100.00%) C
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) Servlets
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) XSL
1 4 (100.00%) XSLT
1 4 (100.00%) PhD
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) XPath
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
1 4 (100.00%) Web Application Development
2 3 (75.00%) Web Development
2 3 (75.00%) SQLite
2 3 (75.00%) jQuery
2 3 (75.00%) JSON
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) Windows CE
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful

MFC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing MFC 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 MFC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) Servlets
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) XSL
1 4 (100.00%) XSLT
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) jQuery
2 3 (75.00%) JSON
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) REST
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQLite
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Web Developer
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Applications Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Web Applications Developer
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Web Developer
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C++ Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C++/C# Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows CE
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Web Application Development
2 3 (75.00%) Web Development
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) XPath
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) PhD