The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT contracts advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 20 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 Slough 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 34 - 35
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 5 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 2.058% - 1.961%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.23% - 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 6
Average daily rate - - £175
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 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
All Development Applications
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
26 18 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 10.70% 8.738% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 22
Average daily rate £375 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £170 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £295 £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 9
Average hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio
Berkshire

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough Visual Studio Hourly Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) XSLT
1 5 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 5 (100.00%) XHTML
1 5 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (100.00%) Ajax
1 5 (100.00%) Web Development
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (100.00%) LINQ
1 5 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 4 (80.00%) VB.NET
2 4 (80.00%) jQuery
2 4 (80.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 4 (80.00%) Ruby
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) ASP
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (20.00%) JSON

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) XSLT
1 5 (100.00%) XHTML
1 5 (100.00%) Ajax
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (100.00%) LINQ
1 5 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 4 (80.00%) jQuery
2 4 (80.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) WCF
3 1 (20.00%) ASP
3 1 (20.00%) HTML5
Applications
1 5 (100.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Web Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Senior .NET Web Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Senior Web Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (100.00%) Web Development
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) VB.NET
2 4 (80.00%) Ruby
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft