The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inversion of Control 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 Inversion of Control 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Inversion of Control (IoC)
Rank 216 234 239
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +5
Contract jobs citing Inversion of Control 9 8 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.111% 0.080% 0.142%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.533% 0.400% 0.766%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 4
Average daily rate £425 £305 £380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+39.34% -19.73%
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £308 £365
% change year-on-year
+17.88% -15.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1687 1999 1957
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 20.87% 19.90% 18.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 793 813 825
Average daily rate £375 £340 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.29% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £220 £207
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £330
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 181 186
Average hourly rate £21.50 £30.00 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.33% +13.20%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.15 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -10.00%
Inversion of Control
England

Inversion of Control
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Inversion of Control across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

South East Inversion of Control Jobs Demand Trend

Inversion of Control
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Inversion of Control Daily Rate Trend

Inversion of Control
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Inversion of Control Hourly Rate Trend

Inversion of Control
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Inversion of Control within the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Surrey - 8 £425 -
East Sussex - 1 £350 - 2
Hampshire - - - - 3
Kent - - - - 4
Middlesex - - - -
Oxfordshire - - - -
West Sussex - - - - 5
Berkshire - - - - 1
Buckinghamshire - - - - 3
Inversion of Control
England

Inversion of Control
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Inversion of Control 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 Inversion of Control.

1 18 (94.74%) .NET
2 16 (84.21%) SQL Server
2 16 (84.21%) C#
3 15 (78.95%) MVC
4 13 (68.42%) ASP.NET
4 13 (68.42%) ASP.NET MVC
5 12 (63.16%) TDD
5 12 (63.16%) jQuery
6 11 (57.89%) NHibernate
6 11 (57.89%) CSS
6 11 (57.89%) BDD
7 10 (52.63%) Windows
8 9 (47.37%) JavaScript
9 8 (42.11%) WPF
9 8 (42.11%) Scrum
9 8 (42.11%) Moq
10 7 (36.84%) .NET Framework
10 7 (36.84%) Agile Software Development
11 6 (31.58%) NUnit
11 6 (31.58%) Subversion
11 6 (31.58%) TeamCity
11 6 (31.58%) HTML5
11 6 (31.58%) StructureMap
11 6 (31.58%) CSS3
11 6 (31.58%) KnockoutJS
12 5 (26.32%) Caliburn.Micro
12 5 (26.32%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (26.32%) Backbone.js
12 5 (26.32%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 5 (26.32%) LINQ

Inversion of Control
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Inversion of Control 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 Inversion of Control. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (94.74%) .NET
2 13 (68.42%) ASP.NET
2 13 (68.42%) ASP.NET MVC
3 12 (63.16%) jQuery
4 11 (57.89%) NHibernate
4 11 (57.89%) CSS
5 8 (42.11%) WPF
6 7 (36.84%) .NET Framework
7 6 (31.58%) HTML5
7 6 (31.58%) StructureMap
7 6 (31.58%) CSS3
7 6 (31.58%) KnockoutJS
8 5 (26.32%) Backbone.js
8 5 (26.32%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 5 (26.32%) Caliburn.Micro
8 5 (26.32%) LINQ
8 5 (26.32%) HTML
9 4 (21.05%) XML
9 4 (21.05%) ASP
9 4 (21.05%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) ESB
2 2 (10.53%) IIS
2 2 (10.53%) CMS
3 1 (5.263%) Windows Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (84.21%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Moq
2 6 (31.58%) TeamCity
2 6 (31.58%) NUnit
2 6 (31.58%) Subversion
3 5 (26.32%) MSI
3 5 (26.32%) ReSharper
4 2 (10.53%) NetAdvantage
5 1 (5.263%) JIRA
5 1 (5.263%) Selenium
5 1 (5.263%) FitNesse
5 1 (5.263%) Fiddler
5 1 (5.263%) WebDriver
5 1 (5.263%) StyleCop
5 1 (5.263%) MSTest
5 1 (5.263%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.263%) Finance
2 1 (5.263%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.263%) Billing
Job Titles
1 16 (84.21%) Developer
2 9 (47.37%) C# Developer
3 7 (36.84%) .NET Developer
4 6 (31.58%) ASP.NET Developer
5 5 (26.32%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 5 (26.32%) C# .NET Developer
5 5 (26.32%) WPF Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Agile C# Developer
6 2 (10.53%) SQL Developer
6 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Developer
7 1 (5.263%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (15.79%) Open Source
3 1 (5.263%) SaaS
3 1 (5.263%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Windows XP
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (10.53%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) MVC
2 12 (63.16%) TDD
3 11 (57.89%) BDD
4 8 (42.11%) Scrum
5 7 (36.84%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (26.32%) OO
7 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (5.263%) Test Automation
8 1 (5.263%) Domain-Driven Design
8 1 (5.263%) ATDD
8 1 (5.263%) User Stories
8 1 (5.263%) CRM
8 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce
8 1 (5.263%) ERP
8 1 (5.263%) SOA
8 1 (5.263%) ETL
8 1 (5.263%) Use Case
8 1 (5.263%) Performance Testing
8 1 (5.263%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (84.21%) C#
2 9 (47.37%) JavaScript
3 4 (21.05%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Infragistics
West Malling, South East
.NET Developer, ASP.NET MVC, C#, SQL Server, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, Continuous Integration, Dependency Injection,...
Noir Consulting
Rate: £350 - £400 per day + £350 - £400 / Day
Posted: 17 June 2013