The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Visual Studio 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 Development Applications category for the Nottinghamshire 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 Visual Studio
Rank 35 27 22
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -5
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 6 11 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 1.829% 3.901% 4.714%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.22% 33.33% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 7
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 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
All Development Applications
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
27 33 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 8.232% 11.70% 9.428%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 26 16
Average daily rate £303 £314 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.58% -3.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £271 £250 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £349 £375 £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 1
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio
East Midlands

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire Visual Studio Hourly Rate Trend

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 Nottinghamshire 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
Nottingham -6 5 £305 -1.61%
Visual Studio
East Midlands

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 11 (78.57%) C#
1 11 (78.57%) JavaScript
1 11 (78.57%) .NET
1 11 (78.57%) ASP.NET
1 11 (78.57%) jQuery
2 9 (64.29%) SQL Server
3 7 (50.00%) SQL
4 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
4 5 (35.71%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (35.71%) Ajax
4 5 (35.71%) WCF
4 5 (35.71%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET MVC
4 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 4 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
5 4 (28.57%) MVC
5 4 (28.57%) Oracle
5 4 (28.57%) HTML
5 4 (28.57%) CSS
5 4 (28.57%) Web Services
6 3 (21.43%) IIS
6 3 (21.43%) T-SQL
6 3 (21.43%) Windows
6 3 (21.43%) Web Development
6 3 (21.43%) Razor View Engine
7 2 (14.29%) Apple iOS
7 2 (14.29%) CSS3
7 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (14.29%) Android

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 11 (78.57%) .NET
1 11 (78.57%) ASP.NET
1 11 (78.57%) jQuery
2 5 (35.71%) Ajax
2 5 (35.71%) WCF
2 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET MVC
2 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 4 (28.57%) HTML
3 4 (28.57%) CSS
3 4 (28.57%) Web Services
4 3 (21.43%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (14.29%) CSS3
5 2 (14.29%) HTML5
5 2 (14.29%) ASP
5 2 (14.29%) LINQ
6 1 (7.143%) WPF
6 1 (7.143%) Silverlight
6 1 (7.143%) XSLT
6 1 (7.143%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) IIS
2 2 (14.29%) CMS
3 1 (7.143%) DotNetNuke
3 1 (7.143%) Drupal
3 1 (7.143%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (7.143%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Photoshop
1 2 (14.29%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.143%) HTTP
1 1 (7.143%) SNMP
1 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (35.71%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (7.143%) CruiseControl
2 1 (7.143%) Subversion
2 1 (7.143%) Eclipse
2 1 (7.143%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (7.143%) MbUnit
2 1 (7.143%) StyleCop
General
1 2 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) C# .NET Developer
2 4 (28.57%) .NET Developer
2 4 (28.57%) C# Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Front-End Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Designer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior C# Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (7.143%) .NET Programmer
5 1 (7.143%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (7.143%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (7.143%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.143%) VB.NET Developer
5 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Programmer
5 1 (7.143%) Web Developer
5 1 (7.143%) C# Programmer
5 1 (7.143%) Silverlight Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Graphic Design
1 1 (7.143%) W3C
1 1 (7.143%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Apple iOS
2 2 (14.29%) Android
3 1 (7.143%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (28.57%) MVC
3 3 (21.43%) Web Development
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) MVVM
4 2 (14.29%) OO
4 2 (14.29%) OOD
4 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 2 (14.29%) Scrum
4 2 (14.29%) TDD
4 2 (14.29%) Business Analysis
5 1 (7.143%) SEO
5 1 (7.143%) Web Design
5 1 (7.143%) Project Management
5 1 (7.143%) SOA
5 1 (7.143%) CRM
5 1 (7.143%) E-Commerce
5 1 (7.143%) Unit Testing
5 1 (7.143%) Multithreading
5 1 (7.143%) Performance Improvement
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) C#
1 11 (78.57%) JavaScript
2 7 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) T-SQL
4 2 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.143%) PHP
5 1 (7.143%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle
3 1 (7.143%) Google
3 1 (7.143%) Adobe
3 1 (7.143%) Sitecore
3 1 (7.143%) Facebook
3 1 (7.143%) Twitter