Visual Studio Contracts in Staffordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 23 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 Staffordshire 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 16 25 38
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +13
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 3 11 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 3.409% 5.140% 0.913%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.00% 18.97% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
Average daily rate £240 £425 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-43.52% +41.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
All Development Applications
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 12 58 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 13.64% 27.10% 5.936%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 31 12
Average daily rate £330 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +1.53%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio
West Midlands

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Visual Studio Hourly Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Stoke-on-Trent +10 3 £240 -
Visual Studio
West Midlands

Visual Studio
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (60.00%) MVC
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) LINQ
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (60.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (40.00%) WCF
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (60.00%) LINQ
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (60.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (40.00%) WCF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Web Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Applications Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Web Applications Developer
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
Web Application Developer - Stoke, Staffordshire - £250 per day
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
ASP.Net Developer (ASP.NET/SQL/MVC) - Stoke-on-Trent... Your primary focus will be on building a new application for online reporting using ASP.Net with Visual...
Ashdown IT
Rate: £230 - £250 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
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