The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio Tools for Office 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 Visual Studio Tools for Office over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)
Rank - 246 -
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Tools for Office 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East - 0.010% -
As % of the Development Applications category - 0.108% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
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
844 924 1085
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 10.80% 9.096% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 484 439
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 54 54 115
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% -
Visual Studio Tools for Office
England

Visual Studio Tools for Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Visual Studio Tools for Office Jobs Demand Trend

Visual Studio Tools for Office
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Visual Studio Tools for Office across the South East region.

South East Visual Studio Tools for Office Daily Rate Trend

Visual Studio Tools for Office
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Visual Studio Tools for Office 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 Tools for Office.

1 5 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 5 (100.00%) VBA
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) MS Office
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) Hyperion
1 5 (100.00%) HFM
1 5 (100.00%) XPath

Visual Studio Tools for Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Visual Studio Tools for Office 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 Tools for Office. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
1 5 (100.00%) XML
Applications
1 5 (100.00%) MS Office
1 5 (100.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (100.00%) HFM
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Programmer
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Programmer
1 5 (100.00%) VB.NET Programmer
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 5 (100.00%) VBA
1 5 (100.00%) XPath
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) Hyperion