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

The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio 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 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 63 87 85
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -2
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 56 45 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 2.438% 1.421% 1.526%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.22% 17.11% 21.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 23
Average daily rate £319 £286 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.35% +4.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £283 £167 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £449 £350 £345
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
Average hourly rate £110.00 £19.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+464.10% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
All Development Applications
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 252 263 222
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 10.97% 8.304% 7.210%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 138 118
Average daily rate £314 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.46% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £270 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £21.86 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+71.54% -27.13%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.96 £15.60 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £34.79 £31.00
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

North West 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 West region.

North West Visual Studio Daily Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

North West Visual Studio Daily Rate Histogram

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 West region.

North West Visual Studio Hourly Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

North West Visual Studio Hourly Rate Histogram

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 West 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
Cheshire +19 20 £420 +47.19%
Manchester -2 15 £325 +44.44%
Lancashire +18 8 £300 +64.56%
Merseyside +11 7 - -
Visual Studio
England

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

1 109 (90.83%) .NET
2 100 (83.33%) SQL Server
3 89 (74.17%) C#
4 70 (58.33%) ASP.NET
5 59 (49.17%) SQL Server 2008
6 55 (45.83%) SQL
7 52 (43.33%) XML
8 43 (35.83%) JavaScript
8 43 (35.83%) MVC
9 40 (33.33%) CSS
9 40 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
10 39 (32.50%) .NET Framework
11 38 (31.67%) Microsoft
12 37 (30.83%) HTML
13 35 (29.17%) jQuery
14 34 (28.33%) WCF
15 33 (27.50%) Web Services
16 22 (18.33%) Windows
16 22 (18.33%) ASP.NET MVC
17 20 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
17 20 (16.67%) LINQ
18 19 (15.83%) T-SQL
18 19 (15.83%) SharePoint
19 18 (15.00%) MS Excel
20 16 (13.33%) Scrum
21 15 (12.50%) CMS
21 15 (12.50%) TDD
21 15 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
21 15 (12.50%) Ajax
21 15 (12.50%) Umbraco

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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
1 109 (90.83%) .NET
2 70 (58.33%) ASP.NET
3 52 (43.33%) XML
4 40 (33.33%) CSS
5 39 (32.50%) .NET Framework
6 37 (30.83%) HTML
7 35 (29.17%) jQuery
8 34 (28.33%) WCF
9 33 (27.50%) Web Services
10 22 (18.33%) ASP.NET MVC
11 20 (16.67%) LINQ
11 20 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 15 (12.50%) Ajax
13 14 (11.67%) XSLT
14 11 (9.167%) Razor View Engine
15 9 (7.500%) JSON
15 9 (7.500%) XHTML
16 8 (6.667%) XSD
16 8 (6.667%) ASP
16 8 (6.667%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 19 (15.83%) SharePoint
2 15 (12.50%) CMS
2 15 (12.50%) Umbraco
3 8 (6.667%) IIS
4 5 (4.167%) WordPress
5 4 (3.333%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (3.333%) SharePoint 2010
6 3 (2.500%) Apache
6 3 (2.500%) JCAPS
6 3 (2.500%) Apache Solr
7 2 (1.667%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.667%) SharePoint Foundation
7 2 (1.667%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.833%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.833%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (15.00%) MS Excel
2 5 (4.167%) Photoshop
3 3 (2.500%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.667%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 9 (7.500%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.667%) Maximo
2 2 (1.667%) Bond Adapt
3 1 (0.833%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.667%) HTTP
2 1 (0.833%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.833%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 59 (49.17%) SQL Server 2008
3 40 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
4 15 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (11.67%) SQL Server 2012
6 9 (7.500%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (7.500%) MS Access
7 7 (5.833%) SQL Server 2000
8 6 (5.000%) MySQL
9 5 (4.167%) Oracle 8/8i
9 5 (4.167%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (4.167%) RavenDB
10 4 (3.333%) Oracle 11g
10 4 (3.333%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (2.500%) Oracle 10g
11 3 (2.500%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.667%) OLAP
12 2 (1.667%) SQLPlus
12 2 (1.667%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
12 2 (1.667%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (11.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 8 (6.667%) NetBeans
3 7 (5.833%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 7 (5.833%) Git (software)
4 6 (5.000%) Subversion
5 5 (4.167%) Visual Studio Team System
6 4 (3.333%) FinalBuilder
6 4 (3.333%) Eclipse
6 4 (3.333%) ClearQuest
6 4 (3.333%) InstallShield
7 3 (2.500%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.667%) Dreamweaver
8 2 (1.667%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.833%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.833%) NUnit
9 1 (0.833%) JIRA
General
1 11 (9.167%) Finance
2 5 (4.167%) Banking
3 3 (2.500%) Retail
3 3 (2.500%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.667%) Marketing
5 1 (0.833%) Local Government
5 1 (0.833%) Back Office
5 1 (0.833%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 94 (78.33%) Developer
2 39 (32.50%) .NET Developer
3 18 (15.00%) Software Developer
4 14 (11.67%) ASP.NET Developer
5 8 (6.667%) C# Developer
5 8 (6.667%) Analyst
5 8 (6.667%) Microsoft Developer
5 8 (6.667%) CRM Developer
6 7 (5.833%) SQL Developer
7 6 (5.000%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.167%) Web Developer
8 5 (4.167%) Dynamics CRM Developer
8 5 (4.167%) Umbraco Developer
9 4 (3.333%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (3.333%) SharePoint Developer
9 4 (3.333%) SharePoint Administrator
9 4 (3.333%) Administrator
9 4 (3.333%) Applications Developer
9 4 (3.333%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.333%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.167%) NHS
2 9 (7.500%) Mobile App
3 7 (5.833%) N-Tier
4 6 (5.000%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.333%) Computer Science
6 3 (2.500%) Replication
6 3 (2.500%) iPad
7 2 (1.667%) Open Source
8 1 (0.833%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.833%) PKI
8 1 (0.833%) Mathematics
8 1 (0.833%) RMADS
8 1 (0.833%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.33%) Windows
2 10 (8.333%) Linux
3 7 (5.833%) Android
4 4 (3.333%) UNIX
4 4 (3.333%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.500%) Windows XP
5 3 (2.500%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (0.833%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (35.83%) MVC
2 16 (13.33%) Scrum
3 15 (12.50%) TDD
4 13 (10.83%) OO
4 13 (10.83%) Agile Software Development
5 11 (9.167%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (7.500%) CRM
7 8 (6.667%) MVVM
8 7 (5.833%) ITIL
8 7 (5.833%) SEO
9 6 (5.000%) UML
9 6 (5.000%) OOD
9 6 (5.000%) SOA
9 6 (5.000%) Web Development
10 5 (4.167%) Business Development
10 5 (4.167%) Business Intelligence
11 4 (3.333%) Workflow
11 4 (3.333%) Content Management
11 4 (3.333%) Test Management
11 4 (3.333%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 89 (74.17%) C#
2 55 (45.83%) SQL
3 43 (35.83%) JavaScript
4 19 (15.83%) T-SQL
5 14 (11.67%) VB
6 9 (7.500%) VB.NET
6 9 (7.500%) Java
6 9 (7.500%) XPath
7 6 (5.000%) VB6
7 6 (5.000%) C++
8 5 (4.167%) PHP
9 4 (3.333%) C
9 4 (3.333%) VBScript
9 4 (3.333%) FoxPro (VFP)
10 3 (2.500%) VBA
10 3 (2.500%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.667%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.667%) Ruby
12 1 (0.833%) VC++
12 1 (0.833%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (9.167%) Degree
2 8 (6.667%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.000%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (4.167%) MCTS
4 5 (4.167%) MCAD
4 5 (4.167%) MCSD
4 5 (4.167%) MCPD
5 3 (2.500%) ISEB
5 3 (2.500%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.500%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.833%) CISSP
6 1 (0.833%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.500%) HL7
2 2 (1.667%) QA
3 1 (0.833%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.833%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.833%) TickIT
System Software
1 3 (2.500%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.833%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.333%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (2.500%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 38 (31.67%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.50%) Oracle
3 10 (8.333%) Twitter
4 5 (4.167%) Facebook
4 5 (4.167%) Google
4 5 (4.167%) Zend
5 3 (2.500%) HP
6 2 (1.667%) Adobe
6 2 (1.667%) SunGard
6 2 (1.667%) Business Objects
6 2 (1.667%) SAP
6 2 (1.667%) Cognos
6 2 (1.667%) IBM
6 2 (1.667%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.667%) Razor Risk
7 1 (0.833%) ArcSight
7 1 (0.833%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.833%) TippingPoint
7 1 (0.833%) Citrix
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