The first table below looks at the demand for MVC skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MVC 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Reading 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
Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Rank 31 79 73
Rank change year-on-year
+48 -6
Contract jobs citing MVC 40 5 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 4.790% 0.448% 1.152%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.246% 0.712% 1.734%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 1 8
Average daily rate £375 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £400 £216
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £19.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £23.88 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+38.21% -43.82%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
552 702 692
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.11% 62.96% 66.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 270 310
Average daily rate £390 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.40% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 18
Average hourly rate £16.00 £14.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -47.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £23.80 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
MVC
Berkshire

MVC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading MVC Daily Rate Trend

MVC
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MVC across the Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading MVC Daily Rate Histogram

MVC
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MVC across the Reading region.

Reading MVC Hourly Rate Trend

MVC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 66 (77.65%) .NET
2 63 (74.12%) C#
3 50 (58.82%) CSS
4 48 (56.47%) ASP.NET
5 41 (48.24%) jQuery
6 38 (44.71%) JavaScript
7 37 (43.53%) HTML5
8 35 (41.18%) SQL Server
9 34 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
10 32 (37.65%) TDD
11 30 (35.29%) HTML
12 24 (28.24%) WCF
13 20 (23.53%) BDD
13 20 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
14 19 (22.35%) CSS3
14 19 (22.35%) .NET Framework
15 18 (21.18%) Scrum
16 17 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
17 15 (17.65%) Ajax
17 15 (17.65%) KnockoutJS
18 14 (16.47%) ASP.NET MVC 4
19 13 (15.29%) Razor View Engine
19 13 (15.29%) Telecoms
19 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
20 12 (14.12%) SOA
20 12 (14.12%) SQL
20 12 (14.12%) Android
20 12 (14.12%) LINQ
21 11 (12.94%) SpecFlow
21 11 (12.94%) Sass

MVC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 66 (77.65%) .NET
2 50 (58.82%) CSS
3 48 (56.47%) ASP.NET
4 41 (48.24%) jQuery
5 37 (43.53%) HTML5
6 34 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 30 (35.29%) HTML
8 24 (28.24%) WCF
9 19 (22.35%) CSS3
9 19 (22.35%) .NET Framework
10 17 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 15 (17.65%) Ajax
11 15 (17.65%) KnockoutJS
12 14 (16.47%) ASP.NET MVC 4
13 13 (15.29%) Razor View Engine
14 12 (14.12%) LINQ
15 11 (12.94%) Sass
15 11 (12.94%) Web Services
15 11 (12.94%) XML
16 9 (10.59%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 9 (10.59%) Windows Azure
1 9 (10.59%) ESB
2 6 (7.059%) CMS
3 4 (4.706%) MSMQ
4 3 (3.529%) IIS
5 1 (1.176%) Orchard CMS
5 1 (1.176%) Umbraco
5 1 (1.176%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (8.235%) MS Excel
2 6 (7.059%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.176%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.176%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (41.18%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.059%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (3.529%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (2.353%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (12.94%) SpecFlow
2 8 (9.412%) Jasmine
2 8 (9.412%) Visual Studio
3 7 (8.235%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (7.059%) JIRA
5 4 (4.706%) Subversion
6 2 (2.353%) Eclipse
6 2 (2.353%) Xcode
7 1 (1.176%) Gradle
7 1 (1.176%) ReSharper
7 1 (1.176%) Appcelerator Titanium
7 1 (1.176%) Rhino Mocks
7 1 (1.176%) Moq
7 1 (1.176%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (15.29%) Telecoms
2 11 (12.94%) Banking
3 6 (7.059%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (3.529%) Retail
5 2 (2.353%) Finance
Job Titles
1 77 (90.59%) Developer
2 31 (36.47%) .NET Developer
3 13 (15.29%) UI Developer
3 13 (15.29%) Front-End Developer
4 12 (14.12%) UI Programmer
5 8 (9.412%) C# Developer
6 7 (8.235%) ASP.NET Developer
6 7 (8.235%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (5.882%) Programmer
8 4 (4.706%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.706%) Web Developer
8 4 (4.706%) Agile .NET Developer
9 3 (3.529%) C# Programmer
9 3 (3.529%) Architect
10 2 (2.353%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.353%) Applications Developer
10 2 (2.353%) Senior .NET Developer
10 2 (2.353%) Web Applications Developer
10 2 (2.353%) Android Developer
10 2 (2.353%) ASP.NET Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.94%) iPad
2 7 (8.235%) Digital Media
3 5 (5.882%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.529%) Inversion of Control
4 3 (3.529%) Blackberry
5 2 (2.353%) iPhone
5 2 (2.353%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.176%) Ergonomics
6 1 (1.176%) SaaS
6 1 (1.176%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.176%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.12%) Android
2 7 (8.235%) Windows
3 4 (4.706%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.176%) UNIX
4 1 (1.176%) Solaris
4 1 (1.176%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (37.65%) TDD
2 20 (23.53%) BDD
2 20 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
3 18 (21.18%) Scrum
4 12 (14.12%) SOA
5 8 (9.412%) MVVM
6 7 (8.235%) Kanban
7 6 (7.059%) Automation Testing
7 6 (7.059%) Information Architecture
7 6 (7.059%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (4.706%) UML
8 4 (4.706%) OO
8 4 (4.706%) Domain-Driven Design
8 4 (4.706%) Multithreading
9 3 (3.529%) Web Development
10 2 (2.353%) Content Management
10 2 (2.353%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (2.353%) Resource Management
11 1 (1.176%) CQRS
11 1 (1.176%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 63 (74.12%) C#
2 38 (44.71%) JavaScript
3 12 (14.12%) SQL
4 6 (7.059%) Java
5 2 (2.353%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.176%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.059%) Adobe
3 3 (3.529%) JBoss
4 2 (2.353%) Oracle
5 1 (1.176%) Twitter
5 1 (1.176%) Appcelerator
5 1 (1.176%) Google
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