Visual Studio Contracts in Surrey
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram 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 Surrey 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 Surrey 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 53 58 58
Rank change year-on-year
+5 0
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 27 41 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 2.348% 2.547% 2.245%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.77% 17.60% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 30
Average daily rate £388 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.71% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £262 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
All Development Applications
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 124 233 208
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 10.78% 14.47% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 141 117
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £422
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 9
Average hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +5.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio
South East

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Visual Studio Daily Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Surrey Visual Studio Daily Rate Histogram

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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey 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
Staines +2 6 £388 -3.12%
Guildford - 6 - -
Woking 0 1 £390 -32.17%
Leatherhead - 1 £375 -
Epsom - 1 £350 -
Visual Studio
South East

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 48 (62.34%) .NET
2 45 (58.44%) Microsoft
3 39 (50.65%) SQL
3 39 (50.65%) Scrum
4 36 (46.75%) ASP.NET
5 34 (44.16%) XML
5 34 (44.16%) VB.NET
5 34 (44.16%) Windows
6 33 (42.86%) C#
7 29 (37.66%) SQL Server
8 28 (36.36%) WCF
9 27 (35.06%) SharePoint
10 25 (32.47%) Workflow
11 24 (31.17%) MVC
12 23 (29.87%) WF
12 23 (29.87%) CRM
13 22 (28.57%) XSLT
14 21 (27.27%) MS Office
14 21 (27.27%) Dynamics CRM
15 16 (20.78%) Finance
15 16 (20.78%) JavaScript
16 14 (18.18%) HTML
16 14 (18.18%) Team Foundation Server
17 13 (16.88%) CSS
17 13 (16.88%) Games
18 11 (14.29%) Windows Azure
18 11 (14.29%) jQuery
19 10 (12.99%) PowerShell
19 10 (12.99%) Degree
19 10 (12.99%) QA

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 48 (62.34%) .NET
2 36 (46.75%) ASP.NET
3 34 (44.16%) XML
4 28 (36.36%) WCF
5 23 (29.87%) WF
6 22 (28.57%) XSLT
7 14 (18.18%) HTML
8 13 (16.88%) CSS
9 11 (14.29%) jQuery
10 10 (12.99%) Web Services
11 7 (9.091%) Ajax
11 7 (9.091%) WPF
12 6 (7.792%) .NET Framework
13 4 (5.195%) soapUI
13 4 (5.195%) SOAP
14 3 (3.896%) LINQ
14 3 (3.896%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
15 2 (2.597%) REST
15 2 (2.597%) Managed Extensibility Framework
15 2 (2.597%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 27 (35.06%) SharePoint
2 11 (14.29%) Windows Azure
3 4 (5.195%) ESB
3 4 (5.195%) IIS
4 3 (3.896%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (2.597%) EPiServer CMS
5 2 (2.597%) CMS
6 1 (1.299%) Lotus Notes
6 1 (1.299%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (1.299%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 21 (27.27%) MS Office
2 7 (9.091%) MS Excel
3 3 (3.896%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.896%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 21 (27.27%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.896%) Internet
2 2 (2.597%) Bluetooth
3 1 (1.299%) Intranet
3 1 (1.299%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.299%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (37.66%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.39%) SQL Server 2005
3 6 (7.792%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (2.597%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.597%) MySQL
5 1 (1.299%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (1.299%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 14 (18.18%) Team Foundation Server
2 9 (11.69%) MSBuild
3 8 (10.39%) Ant
4 6 (7.792%) JMeter
5 2 (2.597%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (2.597%) MSTest
6 1 (1.299%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (1.299%) JUnit
6 1 (1.299%) ClearCase
6 1 (1.299%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.299%) Bugzilla
6 1 (1.299%) NetBeans
6 1 (1.299%) Subversion
6 1 (1.299%) WiX
General
1 16 (20.78%) Finance
2 13 (16.88%) Games
3 3 (3.896%) Marketing
4 2 (2.597%) Publishing
5 1 (1.299%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.299%) Law
5 1 (1.299%) Legal
5 1 (1.299%) Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (58.44%) Developer
2 30 (38.96%) .NET Developer
3 16 (20.78%) VB.NET Developer
4 11 (14.29%) C# Developer
5 9 (11.69%) Automation Engineer
5 9 (11.69%) C# .NET Developer
6 8 (10.39%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.494%) ASP.NET Developer
7 5 (6.494%) Test Leader
7 5 (6.494%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 4 (5.195%) Development Engineer
8 4 (5.195%) Systems Developer
8 4 (5.195%) Software Development Engineer
8 4 (5.195%) Test Engineer
8 4 (5.195%) Analyst
8 4 (5.195%) Test Analyst
9 3 (3.896%) Software Developer
9 3 (3.896%) SharePoint Developer
9 3 (3.896%) Agile Test Analyst
9 3 (3.896%) C# Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.792%) N-Tier
1 6 (7.792%) Client/Server
2 5 (6.494%) Computer Science
3 4 (5.195%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.597%) Kinect
5 1 (1.299%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.299%) Mathematics
5 1 (1.299%) Blog
5 1 (1.299%) Social Media
5 1 (1.299%) Open Source
5 1 (1.299%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (44.16%) Windows
2 2 (2.597%) Linux
3 1 (1.299%) UNIX
3 1 (1.299%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.299%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (50.65%) Scrum
2 25 (32.47%) Workflow
3 24 (31.17%) MVC
4 23 (29.87%) CRM
5 7 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (7.792%) Automated Testing
7 5 (6.494%) Test Automation
7 5 (6.494%) Build Automation
8 4 (5.195%) Test Strategy
8 4 (5.195%) Load Testing
8 4 (5.195%) Software Testing
8 4 (5.195%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (5.195%) OOP
8 4 (5.195%) OO
9 3 (3.896%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (3.896%) OOD
9 3 (3.896%) SOA
9 3 (3.896%) TDD
9 3 (3.896%) Document Management
9 3 (3.896%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 39 (50.65%) SQL
2 34 (44.16%) VB.NET
3 33 (42.86%) C#
4 16 (20.78%) JavaScript
5 10 (12.99%) PowerShell
6 9 (11.69%) Python
7 7 (9.091%) T-SQL
7 7 (9.091%) C
8 6 (7.792%) Groovy
8 6 (7.792%) C++
9 4 (5.195%) VB
10 2 (2.597%) Embedded C
10 2 (2.597%) Java
11 1 (1.299%) Perl
11 1 (1.299%) VC++
11 1 (1.299%) Ada
Qualifications
1 10 (12.99%) Degree
2 5 (6.494%) ISTQB
3 4 (5.195%) ISEB
4 2 (2.597%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.597%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.99%) QA
2 1 (1.299%) TickIT
System Software
1 1 (1.299%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 45 (58.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.597%) EPiServer
2 2 (2.597%) Perforce
2 2 (2.597%) Oracle
3 1 (1.299%) Lotus
3 1 (1.299%) Facebook
3 1 (1.299%) Twitter
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