The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent 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 13 21 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 2 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 7.143% 2.941% -
As % of the Development Applications category 25.00% 5.000% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £240 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.72% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
All Development Applications
Stoke-on-Trent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
8 40 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 28.57% 58.82% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 26 0
Average daily rate £328 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.76% -
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
Staffordshire

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent Visual Studio Daily Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (66.67%) LINQ
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 8
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XSD
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) N-Tier
3 1 (33.33%) OOD
3 1 (33.33%) SOA
3 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) WinForms
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Mobile
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) WF

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (66.67%) LINQ
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XSD
3 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) WinForms
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) WF
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) REST
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Applications Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Web Applications Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Web Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 8
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) OOD
2 1 (33.33%) SOA
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) DevExpress
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