The first table below looks at the demand for Managed Extensibility Framework skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Managed Extensibility Framework 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
Rank 524 549 571
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +22
Contract jobs citing Managed Extensibility Framework 17 16 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.037% 0.027% 0.024%
As % of the Application Development category 0.135% 0.108% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 13
Average daily rate £575 £550 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.54% +4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £467 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £675 £650 £590
UK excluding London average daily rate £525 - £450
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
12638 14882 17097
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.27% 25.50% 27.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7921 8711 9986
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
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 363 389 578
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 £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

Managed Extensibility Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Managed Extensibility Framework within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Managed Extensibility Framework Jobs Demand Trend

Managed Extensibility Framework
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Managed Extensibility Framework within the UK.

Managed Extensibility Framework Daily Rate Trend

Managed Extensibility Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Managed Extensibility Framework within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Managed Extensibility Framework Daily Rate Histogram

Managed Extensibility Framework
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Managed Extensibility Framework within the UK.

Managed Extensibility Framework Hourly Rate Trend

Managed Extensibility Framework
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Managed Extensibility Framework within the UK 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
England +45 17 £575 +4.54%
London +29 10 £588 +6.81%
South West +33 4 £600 -
Wiltshire - 4 £600 -
Swindon - 4 £563 -
City of London +19 3 £600 +9.09%
Corsham - 3 £600 -
Suffolk - 2 £350 -
East of England - 2 £350 -
Canary Wharf -5 1 £575 -4.16%
West Midlands - 1 £525 -
South East - 1 £288 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £288 -
Milton Keynes - 1 £288 -
Birmingham - 1 £525 -

Managed Extensibility Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Managed Extensibility Framework 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 Managed Extensibility Framework.

1 37 (97.37%) C#
2 30 (78.95%) .NET
3 27 (71.05%) WPF
4 25 (65.79%) MVVM
5 23 (60.53%) WCF
6 20 (52.63%) Windows
7 19 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 18 (47.37%) .NET Framework
8 18 (47.37%) SQL Server
9 16 (42.11%) Visual Studio
9 16 (42.11%) Web Services
9 16 (42.11%) SQL Server 2008
10 15 (39.47%) IIS
11 14 (36.84%) Windows 7
12 13 (34.21%) Reactive Extensions
12 13 (34.21%) Silverlight
13 12 (31.58%) TDD
14 11 (28.95%) LINQ
14 11 (28.95%) Multithreading
14 11 (28.95%) MSTest
15 10 (26.32%) Moq
15 10 (26.32%) DV Cleared
15 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
15 10 (26.32%) Risk Management
15 10 (26.32%) ASP.NET
15 10 (26.32%) Client/Server
15 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
15 10 (26.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 9 (23.68%) Team Foundation Server
17 8 (21.05%) RIA

Managed Extensibility Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Managed Extensibility Framework 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 Managed Extensibility Framework. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 30 (78.95%) .NET
2 27 (71.05%) WPF
3 23 (60.53%) WCF
4 19 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 18 (47.37%) .NET Framework
6 16 (42.11%) Web Services
7 13 (34.21%) Reactive Extensions
7 13 (34.21%) Silverlight
8 11 (28.95%) LINQ
9 10 (26.32%) ASP.NET
10 6 (15.79%) Ajax
11 5 (13.16%) HTML
11 5 (13.16%) .NET Remoting
11 5 (13.16%) jQuery
12 3 (7.895%) SOAP
12 3 (7.895%) XML
13 2 (5.263%) Unity DI Container
13 2 (5.263%) WinForms
14 1 (2.632%) DHTML
14 1 (2.632%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 15 (39.47%) IIS
2 8 (21.05%) ArcGIS
3 5 (13.16%) Rendezvous
4 2 (5.263%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.632%) MSMQ
5 1 (2.632%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 5 (13.16%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.632%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) SNMP
1 6 (15.79%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.632%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (47.37%) SQL Server
2 16 (42.11%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (18.42%) SQL Server 2012
4 5 (13.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (13.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.263%) Sybase ASE
5 2 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (5.263%) Sybase IQ
6 1 (2.632%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (2.632%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 16 (42.11%) Visual Studio
2 11 (28.95%) MSTest
3 10 (26.32%) Moq
4 9 (23.68%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (18.42%) Expression Blend
6 5 (13.16%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (2.632%) Subversion
7 1 (2.632%) CruiseControl
7 1 (2.632%) NUnit
7 1 (2.632%) JIRA
7 1 (2.632%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
7 1 (2.632%) NCover
7 1 (2.632%) MSBuild
7 1 (2.632%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (21.05%) Front Office
1 8 (21.05%) Banking
2 5 (13.16%) Finance
3 3 (7.895%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.263%) French Language
5 1 (2.632%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (92.11%) Developer
2 21 (55.26%) C# Developer
3 16 (42.11%) WPF Developer
4 11 (28.95%) .NET Developer
5 10 (26.32%) C# .NET Developer
5 10 (26.32%) Software Developer
6 8 (21.05%) Software Programmer
6 8 (21.05%) Software Engineer
6 8 (21.05%) Programmer
7 7 (18.42%) C# Programmer
8 5 (13.16%) .NET Programmer
9 2 (5.263%) .NET Software Developer
9 2 (5.263%) UI Programmer
9 2 (5.263%) Silverlight Developer
9 2 (5.263%) C# Software Developer
9 2 (5.263%) UI Developer
9 2 (5.263%) C# Software Engineer
9 2 (5.263%) .NET Software Engineer
10 1 (2.632%) Analyst
10 1 (2.632%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) Client/Server
1 10 (26.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (21.05%) RIA
3 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (7.895%) Derivative
5 2 (5.263%) Credit Risk
5 2 (5.263%) Market Risk
5 2 (5.263%) Computer Science
6 1 (2.632%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.632%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (2.632%) SaaS
6 1 (2.632%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 20 (52.63%) Windows
2 14 (36.84%) Windows 7
3 5 (13.16%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) MVVM
2 12 (31.58%) TDD
3 11 (28.95%) Multithreading
4 10 (26.32%) Risk Management
5 8 (21.05%) Unit Testing
5 8 (21.05%) UML
6 7 (18.42%) SOA
7 3 (7.895%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (7.895%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (5.263%) Waterfall
8 2 (5.263%) Dependency Injection
8 2 (5.263%) Project Planning
8 2 (5.263%) E-Commerce
8 2 (5.263%) Data Management
8 2 (5.263%) Workflow
9 1 (2.632%) Software Engineering
9 1 (2.632%) OOD
9 1 (2.632%) OO
9 1 (2.632%) Refactoring
9 1 (2.632%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 37 (97.37%) C#
2 5 (13.16%) SQL
3 1 (2.632%) XAML
3 1 (2.632%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.632%) Java
3 1 (2.632%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) DV Cleared
1 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) WMI
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 8 (21.05%) ESRI
3 5 (13.16%) TIBCO
4 4 (10.53%) Infragistics
5 3 (7.895%) DevExpress
5 3 (7.895%) Syncfusion
6 2 (5.263%) Sybase
7 1 (2.632%) DataSynapse
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