The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Visual Studio 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 Development Applications category for the Nottingham 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 Visual Studio
Rank 33 23 18
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -5
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 5 7 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 1.736% 3.125% 4.292%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.74% 33.33% 47.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 5
Average daily rate £305 £310 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.61% +16.98%
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 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
All Development Applications
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
23 21 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 7.986% 9.375% 9.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 10
Average daily rate £305 £310 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.61% -5.98%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £240 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £360 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio
Nottinghamshire

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham Visual Studio Hourly Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 10 (83.33%) .NET
1 10 (83.33%) ASP.NET
2 9 (75.00%) C#
2 9 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (75.00%) jQuery
3 8 (66.67%) SQL Server
4 6 (50.00%) SQL
5 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
5 5 (41.67%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (41.67%) WCF
6 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
6 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 4 (33.33%) MVC
6 4 (33.33%) Ajax
6 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
6 4 (33.33%) Oracle
6 4 (33.33%) Web Services
7 3 (25.00%) CSS
7 3 (25.00%) IIS
7 3 (25.00%) T-SQL
7 3 (25.00%) HTML
7 3 (25.00%) Windows
7 3 (25.00%) Web Development
8 2 (16.67%) MVVM
8 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (16.67%) CMS
8 2 (16.67%) Scrum

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 10 (83.33%) .NET
1 10 (83.33%) ASP.NET
2 9 (75.00%) jQuery
3 5 (41.67%) WCF
4 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 4 (33.33%) Ajax
4 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
4 4 (33.33%) Web Services
5 3 (25.00%) CSS
5 3 (25.00%) HTML
6 2 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (16.67%) LINQ
7 1 (8.333%) ASP
7 1 (8.333%) XSLT
7 1 (8.333%) XHTML
7 1 (8.333%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (8.333%) Managed Extensibility Framework
7 1 (8.333%) HTML5
7 1 (8.333%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) IIS
2 2 (16.67%) CMS
3 1 (8.333%) Drupal
3 1 (8.333%) WordPress
3 1 (8.333%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (16.67%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) HTTP
1 1 (8.333%) SNMP
1 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (8.333%) Eclipse
2 1 (8.333%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (8.333%) CruiseControl
2 1 (8.333%) Subversion
2 1 (8.333%) MbUnit
2 1 (8.333%) StyleCop
General
1 2 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 3 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 3 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Designer
3 2 (16.67%) Front-End Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior C# Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Web Developer
4 1 (8.333%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.333%) VB.NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Silverlight Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) W3C
1 1 (8.333%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (8.333%) Android
2 1 (8.333%) Apple iOS
2 1 (8.333%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (33.33%) MVC
3 3 (25.00%) Web Development
4 2 (16.67%) MVVM
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) TDD
4 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) OO
4 2 (16.67%) OOD
4 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 1 (8.333%) Project Management
5 1 (8.333%) SOA
5 1 (8.333%) CRM
5 1 (8.333%) Unit Testing
5 1 (8.333%) Multithreading
5 1 (8.333%) SEO
5 1 (8.333%) Web Design
5 1 (8.333%) Responsive Web Design
5 1 (8.333%) Performance Improvement
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) C#
1 9 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 2 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (8.333%) PHP
5 1 (8.333%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.333%) Google
3 1 (8.333%) Facebook
3 1 (8.333%) Twitter
3 1 (8.333%) Sitecore