Expression Blend Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Expression Blend skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Expression Blend 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 South East 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 Expression Blend
Rank 218 239 239
Rank change year-on-year
+21 0
Contract jobs citing Expression Blend 7 8 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.090% 0.079% 0.049%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.835% 0.874% 0.470%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 2
Average daily rate £380 £308 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.37% -9.41%
UK excluding London average daily rate £378 £308 £325
% change year-on-year
+22.56% -5.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 838 915 1064
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 10.71% 9.047% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 477 429
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £250 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 53 115
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £31.00 £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Expression Blend
England

Expression Blend
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Expression Blend across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

South East Expression Blend Jobs Demand Trend

Expression Blend
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Expression Blend across the South East region.

South East Expression Blend Daily Rate Trend

Expression Blend
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Expression Blend across the South East region.

South East Expression Blend Hourly Rate Trend

Expression Blend
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Expression Blend within the South East region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Surrey +17 4 - -
Expression Blend
England

Expression Blend
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Expression Blend 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 Expression Blend.

1 8 (88.89%) .NET
1 8 (88.89%) WPF
1 8 (88.89%) MVVM
2 6 (66.67%) Scrum
3 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
3 5 (55.56%) OO
3 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 5 (55.56%) MATLAB
3 5 (55.56%) Data Analysis
3 5 (55.56%) Multithreading
3 5 (55.56%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (55.56%) C#
4 4 (44.44%) Photoshop
5 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) XAML
6 1 (11.11%) Finance

Expression Blend
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Expression Blend 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 Expression Blend. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (88.89%) .NET
1 8 (88.89%) WPF
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 5 (55.56%) WPF Developer
3 4 (44.44%) Designer
4 3 (33.33%) Visual Designer
4 3 (33.33%) C# Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Photoshop Designer
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) MVVM
2 6 (66.67%) Scrum
3 5 (55.56%) Data Analysis
3 5 (55.56%) OO
3 5 (55.56%) Multithreading
4 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C#
1 5 (55.56%) MATLAB
2 1 (11.11%) XAML
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
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