The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT contracts advertised for the Solihull 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 Solihull 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 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Solihull 6.897% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 57.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £276 - -
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
Solihull
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
7 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Solihull 12.07% 11.39% 1.408%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £292 £450 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.22% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio
West Midlands

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Solihull 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 Solihull region.

Solihull 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 Solihull region.

Solihull Visual Studio Hourly Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Solihull 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Code Coverage
2 3 (75.00%) Release Management
2 3 (75.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (50.00%) MSBuild
4 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) HTML
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (25.00%) CSS

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Solihull 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (50.00%) MSBuild
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Release Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Configuration Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Release Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Code Coverage
1 3 (75.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle