The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 21 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 Southampton 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 34 - 21
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 1 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 0.334% - 3.315%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.000% - 31.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £400 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
All Development Applications
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
25 14 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 8.361% 6.034% 10.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 4
Average daily rate £343 £394 £456
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.01% -13.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £295 £302
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £435 £555
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
Average hourly rate £40.00 £37.00 £34.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.10% +6.47%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio
Hampshire

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton Visual Studio Hourly Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) WinForms
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Social Media
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ESB
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) WF
2 1 (50.00%) LINQ
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) DHTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) WinForms
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) WF
2 1 (50.00%) LINQ
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) DHTML
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) ESB
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) Intranet
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
1 1 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (50.00%) UML
1 1 (50.00%) OOD
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)