The first table below looks at the demand for MVVM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MVVM over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Oxfordshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM)
Rank 49 54 47
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -7
Contract jobs citing MVVM 1 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.212% 0.172% 1.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.311% 0.275% 1.786%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
Average daily rate £450 - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+10.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
- +6.25%
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
322 363 280
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 68.37% 62.37% 56.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 200 149
Average daily rate £375 £413 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% +26.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £288 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 33 11
Average hourly rate £15.75 £19.41 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.83% -22.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
MVVM
South East

MVVM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire MVVM Jobs Demand Trend

MVVM
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire MVVM Daily Rate Trend

MVVM
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing MVVM 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 MVVM.

1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) WPF
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Hedge funds
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (25.00%) MSI
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) WinForms
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (25.00%) Caliburn.Micro
3 1 (25.00%) Kendo UI

MVVM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing MVVM 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 MVVM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) WPF
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Caliburn.Micro
2 1 (25.00%) Kendo UI
2 1 (25.00%) WinForms
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) WCF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MSI
1 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) C# Developer
2 3 (75.00%) WPF Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (50.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
1 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#