The first table below looks at the demand for MVC 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 MVC over the 3 months to 22 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Rank 30 52 84
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +32
Contract jobs citing MVC 119 89 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 5.055% 2.802% 1.395%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.151% 4.534% 2.136%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 54 26
Average daily rate £290 £311 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.82% +13.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £221 £265 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £368 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £300
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
Average hourly rate £28.75 £16.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+74.24% -40.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £23.88 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+42.40% -43.82%
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1664 1963 1966
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.69% 61.81% 65.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 818 1011 1024
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 87 97
Average hourly rate £21.00 £18.25 £20.30
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.06% -10.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £13.28 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £53.92 £37.50 £37.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
MVC
England

MVC
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MVC across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

North West MVC Jobs Demand Trend

MVC
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West MVC Daily Rate Trend

MVC
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MVC across the North West region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

North West MVC Daily Rate Histogram

MVC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West MVC Hourly Rate Trend

MVC
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MVC across the North West region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

North West MVC Hourly Rate Histogram

MVC
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MVC within the North West region over the 3 months to 22 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
Manchester +18 65 £285 +3.63%
Cheshire +21 30 £325 +4.41%
Lancashire +11 10 £275 -12.69%
Merseyside +4 9 £263 -19.23%
MVC
England

MVC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing MVC 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 MVC.

1 175 (72.92%) .NET
2 162 (67.50%) C#
3 149 (62.08%) ASP.NET
4 134 (55.83%) SQL Server
5 122 (50.83%) JavaScript
6 116 (48.33%) jQuery
7 109 (45.42%) CSS
8 88 (36.67%) ASP.NET MVC
9 84 (35.00%) HTML
10 80 (33.33%) WCF
11 73 (30.42%) SQL
12 59 (24.58%) SQL Server 2008
12 59 (24.58%) TDD
13 57 (23.75%) Web Services
14 51 (21.25%) Ajax
15 49 (20.42%) Java
16 45 (18.75%) .NET Framework
17 44 (18.33%) HTML5
18 42 (17.50%) Visual Studio
18 42 (17.50%) XML
19 35 (14.58%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
20 33 (13.75%) OO
20 33 (13.75%) Microsoft
20 33 (13.75%) Agile Software Development
21 30 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
22 29 (12.08%) PHP
23 28 (11.67%) Spring
23 28 (11.67%) CSS3
24 27 (11.25%) JSON
25 26 (10.83%) CMS

MVC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing MVC 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 MVC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 175 (72.92%) .NET
2 149 (62.08%) ASP.NET
3 116 (48.33%) jQuery
4 109 (45.42%) CSS
5 88 (36.67%) ASP.NET MVC
6 84 (35.00%) HTML
7 80 (33.33%) WCF
8 57 (23.75%) Web Services
9 51 (21.25%) Ajax
10 45 (18.75%) .NET Framework
11 44 (18.33%) HTML5
12 42 (17.50%) XML
13 35 (14.58%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 28 (11.67%) Spring
14 28 (11.67%) CSS3
15 27 (11.25%) JSON
16 26 (10.83%) ASP.NET MVC 3
17 22 (9.167%) J2EE
18 18 (7.500%) Hibernate
19 17 (7.083%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 26 (10.83%) CMS
2 23 (9.583%) SharePoint
3 14 (5.833%) Umbraco
4 13 (5.417%) IIS
5 9 (3.750%) ESB
6 7 (2.917%) Sitecore CMS
6 7 (2.917%) WordPress
7 5 (2.083%) Apache
7 5 (2.083%) Tomcat
8 4 (1.667%) Orchard CMS
9 3 (1.250%) Magento
9 3 (1.250%) Drupal
10 2 (0.833%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.833%) ActiveMQ
10 2 (0.833%) Joomla!
10 2 (0.833%) Windows Azure
10 2 (0.833%) SharePoint 2010
11 1 (0.417%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.417%) Adobe CQ
11 1 (0.417%) EPiServer CMS
Applications
1 8 (3.333%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.833%) MS Office
3 1 (0.417%) Office 365
3 1 (0.417%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.417%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.417%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.417%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (2.500%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.833%) Bond Adapt
3 1 (0.417%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.417%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.333%) HTTP
2 7 (2.917%) Internet
3 4 (1.667%) Intranet
4 3 (1.250%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (55.83%) SQL Server
2 59 (24.58%) SQL Server 2008
3 30 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
4 20 (8.333%) MySQL
5 11 (4.583%) SQL Server 2012
6 7 (2.917%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.083%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.083%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (2.083%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.083%) SQL Server 2000
7 5 (2.083%) RDBMS
7 5 (2.083%) DB2
8 4 (1.667%) RavenDB
9 3 (1.250%) CouchDB
9 3 (1.250%) SQLite
10 2 (0.833%) MS Access
10 2 (0.833%) SQL Server 7
10 2 (0.833%) Oracle 11g
10 2 (0.833%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.417%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 42 (17.50%) Visual Studio
2 16 (6.667%) Git (software)
2 16 (6.667%) Subversion
3 12 (5.000%) Team Foundation Server
4 9 (3.750%) Eclipse
4 9 (3.750%) NetBeans
5 7 (2.917%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.083%) Visual Studio Team System
6 5 (2.083%) NUnit
7 4 (1.667%) JUnit
7 4 (1.667%) JIRA
7 4 (1.667%) Gradle
7 4 (1.667%) MSBuild
8 3 (1.250%) QUnit
8 3 (1.250%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.250%) Maven
8 3 (1.250%) Ant
9 2 (0.833%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
9 2 (0.833%) Mercurial
9 2 (0.833%) PHPUnit
General
1 9 (3.750%) Finance
2 5 (2.083%) Retail
2 5 (2.083%) Games
3 3 (1.250%) Banking
4 2 (0.833%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.417%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 227 (94.58%) Developer
2 88 (36.67%) .NET Developer
3 33 (13.75%) C# Developer
4 27 (11.25%) Java Developer
5 26 (10.83%) Web Developer
6 25 (10.42%) Senior Developer
7 23 (9.583%) Software Developer
8 21 (8.750%) ASP.NET Developer
9 11 (4.583%) C# .NET Developer
10 9 (3.750%) Agile C# Developer
10 9 (3.750%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 9 (3.750%) PHP Developer
11 8 (3.333%) Senior .NET Developer
11 8 (3.333%) Android Developer
12 7 (2.917%) Front-End Developer
13 6 (2.500%) Applications Developer
13 6 (2.500%) Programmer
13 6 (2.500%) Lead Developer
13 6 (2.500%) .NET Web Developer
13 6 (2.500%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.333%) Mobile App
2 11 (4.583%) N-Tier
3 10 (4.167%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.500%) NHS
4 6 (2.500%) Digital Media
5 4 (1.667%) Mathematics
5 4 (1.667%) Social Media
6 3 (1.250%) E-Learning
6 3 (1.250%) 3D Graphics
7 2 (0.833%) BBC
7 2 (0.833%) Smartphone
7 2 (0.833%) Semantic Web
7 2 (0.833%) Linked Data
8 1 (0.417%) Open Source
8 1 (0.417%) Inversion of Control
8 1 (0.417%) Computer Science
8 1 (0.417%) W3C
8 1 (0.417%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.333%) Windows
2 13 (5.417%) Linux
3 9 (3.750%) Android
4 7 (2.917%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.667%) UNIX
6 3 (1.250%) Windows CE
7 1 (0.417%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (24.58%) TDD
2 33 (13.75%) OO
2 33 (13.75%) Agile Software Development
3 23 (9.583%) OOP
4 21 (8.750%) E-Commerce
4 21 (8.750%) Web Application Development
5 17 (7.083%) Scrum
6 16 (6.667%) Web Development
7 11 (4.583%) SOA
8 9 (3.750%) Mobile Application Development
8 9 (3.750%) MVVM
8 9 (3.750%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (3.750%) Content Management
9 8 (3.333%) CRM
9 8 (3.333%) BDD
10 7 (2.917%) Kanban
10 7 (2.917%) UML
11 6 (2.500%) SEO
11 6 (2.500%) Unit Testing
11 6 (2.500%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 162 (67.50%) C#
2 122 (50.83%) JavaScript
3 73 (30.42%) SQL
4 49 (20.42%) Java
5 29 (12.08%) PHP
6 14 (5.833%) VB.NET
7 13 (5.417%) C
8 12 (5.000%) T-SQL
9 10 (4.167%) XPath
10 9 (3.750%) VB
11 7 (2.917%) C++
12 5 (2.083%) Shell Script
12 5 (2.083%) Objective-C
13 4 (1.667%) VBScript
13 4 (1.667%) Ruby
14 3 (1.250%) Scala
14 3 (1.250%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.250%) VB6
14 3 (1.250%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.833%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (5.833%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (3.333%) MCAD
2 8 (3.333%) MCSD
2 8 (3.333%) Degree
2 8 (3.333%) MCTS
3 5 (2.083%) MCPD
3 5 (2.083%) Sun Certification
4 4 (1.667%) PhD
5 3 (1.250%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.250%) MCP
6 1 (0.417%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.417%) QA
1 1 (0.417%) HL7
1 1 (0.417%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.833%) Shibboleth
2 1 (0.417%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.417%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 33 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.750%) Zend
3 15 (6.250%) Oracle
4 11 (4.583%) Sitecore
4 11 (4.583%) Telerik
5 9 (3.750%) JBoss
6 8 (3.333%) Twitter
7 7 (2.917%) Facebook
8 5 (2.083%) EPiServer
8 5 (2.083%) Google
8 5 (2.083%) Apple
9 4 (1.667%) IBM
10 3 (1.250%) Endeca
11 2 (0.833%) Adobe
11 2 (0.833%) Razor Risk
12 1 (0.417%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.417%) Alterian
12 1 (0.417%) Sun
12 1 (0.417%) SunGard
12 1 (0.417%) Sage
Manchester, Lancashire
The individual will have technical knowledge of C#, .NET, SQL Server for web-based ASP.Net (MVC) application development with further experience of WCF etc seen as desirable.
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
The individual will have technical knowledge of C#, .NET, SQL Server for web-based ASP.Net (MVC) application development with further experience of WCF etc seen as desirable.
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + Contract - 3 Months
Posted: 16 May 2013
Manchester, North West
The individual will have technical knowledge of C#, .NET, SQL Server for web-based ASP.Net (MVC) application development with further experience of WCF etc seen as desirable.
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Wilmslow, North West
Our client based in Wilmslow is currently looking for a .NET Developer for a 1-3 month rolling contract. This role will suit a motivated and pro-active...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Rate: £200 - £350 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Essential Skills: - ASP.Net - C# - MVC 3 /4 - JQuery - HTML 4/5 - CSS - WCF - SQL Server, T-SQL Desirables: - JavaScript - Twitter Bootstrap - Less CSS - Knockout.js - Web Services,...
Computer Futures
Posted: 20 May 2013
Manchester, North West
The key skills they are looking for are: Experience of .net up to and including .net 4.5 and C# .Net Web Application Development (ASP.NET/MVC) HTML,...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £230.00 - £290.00 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Lancashire, North West
The core of this role is back-end web application development focussing on developing a new core system for the business.Essential Skills: - C# (.Net 3.5 and...
Computer Futures
Posted: 20 May 2013
Stockport, North West
Ideally you will have experience with Umbraco, however I'm keen to hear from and speak to anyone who is a solid .NET/CMS developer in all CMS'...
Computer Futures
Posted: 20 May 2013
Greater Manchester, North West
Sharepoint 2010, Sharepoint 2013, .NET, C#, Sharepoitn Upgrade, Manchester, 3 Months, £300 - £400 p/day I have an urgent requirement for a Sharepoint Developer to join my Manchester...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Wilmslow, Cheshire
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1 Greenplace
Rate: From £250 to £350 per day dependent upon experience
Posted: 8 May 2013
Manchester, North West
The technical skill set you will be utilising includes; Java Spring (including MVC and Web Flow) Hibernate JSR 168 & JSR 286HTML/HTML5 CSS/CSS3 JavaScript Ajax JQuery Webservices (...
Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £280 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Manchester, North West
The technical skill set you will be utilising includes; Java Spring (including MVC and Web Flow) Hibernate JSR 168 & JSR 286HTML/HTML5 CSS/CSS3 JavaScript Ajax JQuery Webservices (...
Computer Futures
Rate: £200 - £270 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Manchester, North West
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Real Staffing
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Manchester, North West
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Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013