The first table below looks at the demand for ASP.NET MVC 2 skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP.NET MVC 2 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 Application Development category.

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 ASP.NET MVC2 Framework
Rank 503 505 497
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -8
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET MVC 2 37 76 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.078% 0.130% 0.138%
As % of the Application Development category 0.287% 0.508% 0.503%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 48 50
Average daily rate £310 £325 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.61% +4.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £274 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12893 14967 16509
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.31% 25.60% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8051 8793 9618
Average daily rate £375 £350 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 384 385 569
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.15 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

ASP.NET MVC 2
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ASP.NET MVC 2 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

ASP.NET MVC 2 Jobs Demand Trend

ASP.NET MVC 2
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ASP.NET MVC 2 within the UK.

ASP.NET MVC 2 Daily Rate Trend

ASP.NET MVC 2
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET MVC 2 within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

ASP.NET MVC 2 Daily Rate Histogram

ASP.NET MVC 2
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ASP.NET MVC 2 within the UK.

ASP.NET MVC 2 Hourly Rate Trend

ASP.NET MVC 2
Top 21 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASP.NET MVC 2 within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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
England -1 29 £310 -4.61%
London -9 11 £350 +7.69%
West Midlands - 9 £288 -
Worcestershire - 7 £300 -
Scotland - 5 £300 -
Worcester - 5 £281 -
Yorkshire +5 4 £300 -
Glasgow - 4 £300 -
City of London +5 3 £400 +6.66%
West Yorkshire +2 3 £300 -
Leeds - 3 £300 -
East Midlands - 2 £310 -
North West +13 1 £325 -
Hertfordshire +11 1 - -
East of England +6 1 - -
South East +5 1 £400 +14.28%
Stirlingshire - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 £400 -
Stirling - 1 - -
Reading - 1 £400 -
Birmingham - 1 £275 -

ASP.NET MVC 2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ASP.NET MVC 2 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 ASP.NET MVC 2.

1 68 (100.00%) .NET
1 68 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 65 (95.59%) C#
3 55 (80.88%) SQL Server
4 50 (73.53%) jQuery
5 47 (69.12%) HTML
6 46 (67.65%) MVC
7 37 (54.41%) XML
7 37 (54.41%) ASP.NET MVC
8 36 (52.94%) Ajax
9 35 (51.47%) JavaScript
10 34 (50.00%) Visual Studio
10 34 (50.00%) CSS
11 27 (39.71%) SQL
12 26 (38.24%) SQL Server 2005
13 21 (30.88%) Web Services
14 20 (29.41%) SQL Server 2008
15 19 (27.94%) UML
15 19 (27.94%) OO
15 19 (27.94%) CMS
15 19 (27.94%) Scrum
16 18 (26.47%) ADO.NET
16 18 (26.47%) .NET Framework
17 15 (22.06%) E-Commerce
18 14 (20.59%) ASP.NET MVC 3
19 12 (17.65%) Finance
19 12 (17.65%) SharePoint
19 12 (17.65%) EPiServer
20 11 (16.18%) Umbraco
20 11 (16.18%) Razor View Engine

ASP.NET MVC 2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ASP.NET MVC 2 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 ASP.NET MVC 2. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 68 (100.00%) .NET
1 68 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 50 (73.53%) jQuery
3 47 (69.12%) HTML
4 37 (54.41%) XML
4 37 (54.41%) ASP.NET MVC
5 36 (52.94%) Ajax
6 34 (50.00%) CSS
7 21 (30.88%) Web Services
8 18 (26.47%) ADO.NET
8 18 (26.47%) .NET Framework
9 14 (20.59%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 11 (16.18%) Razor View Engine
10 11 (16.18%) WCF
10 11 (16.18%) XSLT
11 10 (14.71%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 7 (10.29%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 7 (10.29%) WPF
12 7 (10.29%) JSON
13 6 (8.824%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 19 (27.94%) CMS
2 12 (17.65%) SharePoint
3 11 (16.18%) Umbraco
4 10 (14.71%) DotNetNuke
4 10 (14.71%) Sitecore CMS
5 6 (8.824%) IIS
6 3 (4.412%) MSMQ
6 3 (4.412%) EPiServer CMS
7 1 (1.471%) Kentico
7 1 (1.471%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (1.471%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.353%) Internet
2 1 (1.471%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (80.88%) SQL Server
2 26 (38.24%) SQL Server 2005
3 20 (29.41%) SQL Server 2008
4 8 (11.76%) SQL Server 2000
5 6 (8.824%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (5.882%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (5.882%) SQL Server 2012
7 1 (1.471%) GIS
7 1 (1.471%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.471%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 34 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (5.882%) Subversion
2 4 (5.882%) NUnit
3 3 (4.412%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (4.412%) Rhino Mocks
3 3 (4.412%) MSBuild
4 1 (1.471%) MSTest
General
1 12 (17.65%) Finance
2 5 (7.353%) Back Office
3 2 (2.941%) Retail
4 1 (1.471%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.471%) Banking
4 1 (1.471%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.471%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (92.65%) Developer
2 44 (64.71%) .NET Developer
3 13 (19.12%) C# Developer
4 12 (17.65%) C# .NET Developer
5 11 (16.18%) ASP.NET Developer
6 9 (13.24%) Software Developer
7 8 (11.76%) Web Developer
8 7 (10.29%) Senior Developer
8 7 (10.29%) .NET Web Developer
9 6 (8.824%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 6 (8.824%) Senior .NET Developer
10 3 (4.412%) Mobile Developer
10 3 (4.412%) Analyst
10 3 (4.412%) Analyst Programmer
10 3 (4.412%) Programmer
10 3 (4.412%) CMS Developer
10 3 (4.412%) UI Developer
10 3 (4.412%) UI Programmer
11 2 (2.941%) .NET Analyst Programmer
11 2 (2.941%) Senior Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) N-Tier
2 4 (5.882%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (4.412%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.824%) Windows
2 3 (4.412%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (4.412%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (4.412%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (67.65%) MVC
2 19 (27.94%) UML
2 19 (27.94%) OO
2 19 (27.94%) Scrum
3 15 (22.06%) E-Commerce
4 11 (16.18%) Web Development
4 11 (16.18%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (11.76%) PRINCE2
6 6 (8.824%) Web Analytics
6 6 (8.824%) Content Management
6 6 (8.824%) Unit Testing
6 6 (8.824%) TDD
6 6 (8.824%) SEO
6 6 (8.824%) Analytics
6 6 (8.824%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (7.353%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (7.353%) Data Protection
7 5 (7.353%) Incident Management
8 4 (5.882%) Domain-Driven Design
9 3 (4.412%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 65 (95.59%) C#
2 35 (51.47%) JavaScript
3 27 (39.71%) SQL
4 10 (14.71%) VB.NET
5 8 (11.76%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.412%) VBScript
6 3 (4.412%) VB
6 3 (4.412%) VB6
7 2 (2.941%) C
8 1 (1.471%) XAML
Qualifications
1 1 (1.471%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.353%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.471%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (17.65%) EPiServer
2 10 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.71%) Sitecore
3 1 (1.471%) Oracle
3 1 (1.471%) Cadis
3 1 (1.471%) Ektron
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