South West MVC Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Model-View-Controller (MVC) skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MVC over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Location Belfast Berkshire Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Croydon Docklands, London Dorset Dumbarton East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Kent Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Milton Keynes North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey UK Uxbridge Wales Watford West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	141	168
Rank change on same period last year	+27
Matching contract IT job ads	6	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.686 %	0.243 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£450
Average daily rate	£275	£450
% change on same period last year	-38.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£309
% change on same period last year	+7.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.50	£45.00
% change on same period last year	-38.88 %
Application Development South West
Matching contract IT job ads	875	1235
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.247 %	1.277 %
Daily rates quoted	195	268
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£311
Average daily rate	£327	£328
% change on same period last year	-0.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	137	177
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.68	£30.67
Average hourly rate	£28.75	£33.66
% change on same period last year	-14.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.83	£36.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.79	£32.03
% change on same period last year	-3.85 %
MVC England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MVC across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MVC across the South West region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MVC across the South West region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MVC within the South West region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bristol	-	5	-	-
Dorset	-	1	£275	-

MVC England

MVC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing MVC 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 MVC.

1 7 (87.50 %) .NET 2 6 (75.00 %) WCF 3 5 (62.50 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (62.50 %) SQL Server 3 5 (62.50 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (62.50 %) Windows 3 5 (62.50 %) Scrum 4 4 (50.00 %) Log4Net 4 4 (50.00 %) MS Visio 4 4 (50.00 %) NHibernate 4 4 (50.00 %) Spring 4 4 (50.00 %) Agile Software Development 4 4 (50.00 %) Spring.NET 5 3 (37.50 %) C# 6 2 (25.00 %) Visual Studio

6 2 (25.00 %) TDD 7 1 (12.50 %) NUnit 7 1 (12.50 %) Banking 7 1 (12.50 %) CruiseControl 7 1 (12.50 %) Content Management 7 1 (12.50 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (12.50 %) WPF 7 1 (12.50 %) Silverlight 7 1 (12.50 %) Unit Testing 7 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 1 (12.50 %) XML 7 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 7 1 (12.50 %) Assembly Language 7 1 (12.50 %) REXX 7 1 (12.50 %) zOS

MVC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing MVC 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 MVC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (87.50 %) .NET 2 6 (75.00 %) WCF 3 5 (62.50 %) ASP.NET 4 4 (50.00 %) Spring 4 4 (50.00 %) NHibernate 4 4 (50.00 %) Spring.NET 5 1 (12.50 %) .NET Framework 5 1 (12.50 %) XML 5 1 (12.50 %) WPF 5 1 (12.50 %) Silverlight 5 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) CMS
Applications 1 4 (50.00 %) MS Visio	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (62.50 %) SQL Server 1 5 (62.50 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 4 (50.00 %) Log4Net 2 2 (25.00 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (12.50 %) NUnit 3 1 (12.50 %) CruiseControl	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Home Office 1 1 (12.50 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Developer 1 3 (37.50 %) C# Developer 1 3 (37.50 %) Technical Lead 2 1 (12.50 %) Systems Programmer 2 1 (12.50 %) Programmer 2 1 (12.50 %) .NET Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineer	Operating Systems 1 5 (62.50 %) Windows 2 1 (12.50 %) zOS
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (62.50 %) Scrum 2 4 (50.00 %) Agile Software Development 3 2 (25.00 %) TDD 4 1 (12.50 %) Content Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Unit Testing 4 1 (12.50 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 3 (37.50 %) C# 2 1 (12.50 %) Assembly Language 2 1 (12.50 %) REXX
Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft