The first table below looks at the demand for MVC skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MVC 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Oxford 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
Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Rank 35 35 22
Rank change year-on-year
0 -13
Contract jobs citing MVC 1 5 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 0.435% 1.462% 3.125%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.621% 2.564% 7.353%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
Average daily rate £245 £288 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.78% -8.73%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £23.88 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+42.40% -43.82%
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
161 195 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 70.00% 57.02% 42.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 123 39
Average daily rate £350 £425 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% +54.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £257 £300 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £500 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 19 3
Average hourly rate £10.33 £20.06 £12.28
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.52% +63.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
MVC
Oxfordshire

MVC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford MVC Daily Rate Trend

MVC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 8 (72.73%) C#
1 8 (72.73%) .NET
2 7 (63.64%) ASP.NET
2 7 (63.64%) TDD
3 5 (45.45%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
5 3 (27.27%) OO
5 3 (27.27%) CSS
5 3 (27.27%) Web Services
5 3 (27.27%) XML
5 3 (27.27%) jQuery
5 3 (27.27%) .NET Framework
5 3 (27.27%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (18.18%) Ajax
6 2 (18.18%) LINQ
6 2 (18.18%) XSLT
6 2 (18.18%) Windows
6 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
6 2 (18.18%) VB
6 2 (18.18%) HTML
6 2 (18.18%) Java
6 2 (18.18%) WinForms
6 2 (18.18%) Scrum
7 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (9.091%) Spring
7 1 (9.091%) Automated Testing
7 1 (9.091%) Software Engineering
7 1 (9.091%) VMware
7 1 (9.091%) Publishing
7 1 (9.091%) JavaScript

MVC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 8 (72.73%) .NET
2 7 (63.64%) ASP.NET
3 3 (27.27%) CSS
3 3 (27.27%) Web Services
3 3 (27.27%) XML
3 3 (27.27%) jQuery
3 3 (27.27%) .NET Framework
3 3 (27.27%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (18.18%) Ajax
4 2 (18.18%) LINQ
4 2 (18.18%) XSLT
4 2 (18.18%) HTML
4 2 (18.18%) WinForms
5 1 (9.091%) Spring
5 1 (9.091%) J2EE
5 1 (9.091%) Spring Security
5 1 (9.091%) Spring Web Flow
5 1 (9.091%) JSON
5 1 (9.091%) Spring MVC
5 1 (9.091%) CodeIgniter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.091%) MySQL
2 1 (9.091%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (9.091%) Spring Roo
General
1 1 (9.091%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Web Developer
2 5 (45.45%) .NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Web Developer
4 1 (9.091%) PHP Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.091%) C# Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Android Developer
4 1 (9.091%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.091%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) TDD
2 3 (27.27%) OO
3 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (9.091%) Automated Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Software Engineering
4 1 (9.091%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (9.091%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) VB
2 2 (18.18%) Java
3 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.091%) PHP
3 1 (9.091%) SQL
3 1 (9.091%) C
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) VMware