MFC Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MFC skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MFC over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC)
Rank 517 462 492
Rank change year-on-year
-55 +30
Contract jobs citing MFC 13 116 96
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.028% 0.199% 0.157%
As % of the Application Development category 0.102% 0.778% 0.569%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 43 69
Average daily rate £250 £315 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.63% -40.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £315 £285
% change year-on-year
-20.63% +10.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 29 11
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £37.50 £37.50
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 12713 14910 16863
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.40% 25.58% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7958 8755 9793
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 375 374 576
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 £42.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

MFC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

MFC Jobs Demand Trend

MFC
Daily Rate Trend

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

MFC Daily Rate Trend

MFC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MFC Hourly Rate Trend

MFC
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MFC within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 -54 9 £265 -11.66%
North West +16 4 £250 -13.04%
Cheshire +9 4 £250 -9.09%
Scotland -15 4 £250 -30.06%
Glasgow -18 4 £250 -37.50%
London -17 2 - -
South West +19 1 £325 -
West Midlands +8 1 £340 -
City of London +3 1 - -
East of England +1 1 £265 -22.05%
Suffolk 0 1 £265 -22.05%
Wiltshire - 1 £325 -
Warwickshire - 1 £340 -
Bury St Edmunds - 1 £265 -

MFC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing MFC 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 MFC.

1 33 (100.00%) C++
2 25 (75.76%) C#
3 19 (57.58%) Windows
4 18 (54.55%) C
5 15 (45.45%) Windows CE
6 12 (36.36%) VC++
6 12 (36.36%) .NET
7 9 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
8 6 (18.18%) Fortran
8 6 (18.18%) OpenGL
8 6 (18.18%) Multithreading
9 5 (15.15%) Mathematics
9 5 (15.15%) WCF
9 5 (15.15%) DirectX
10 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
10 4 (12.12%) MVC
10 4 (12.12%) Data Analysis
10 4 (12.12%) XSL
10 4 (12.12%) XSLT
10 4 (12.12%) PhD
10 4 (12.12%) Visual Studio
10 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET
10 4 (12.12%) SQL
10 4 (12.12%) Servlets
10 4 (12.12%) Web Services
10 4 (12.12%) XPath
10 4 (12.12%) HTML5
10 4 (12.12%) Web Application Development
11 3 (9.091%) SQLite
11 3 (9.091%) jQuery

MFC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing MFC 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 MFC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (36.36%) .NET
2 6 (18.18%) OpenGL
3 5 (15.15%) DirectX
3 5 (15.15%) WCF
4 4 (12.12%) HTML5
4 4 (12.12%) XSL
4 4 (12.12%) XSLT
4 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET
4 4 (12.12%) Servlets
4 4 (12.12%) Web Services
5 3 (9.091%) XML
5 3 (9.091%) jQuery
5 3 (9.091%) CSS
5 3 (9.091%) JSON
6 2 (6.061%) WinForms
6 2 (6.061%) Qt
7 1 (3.030%) RESTful
7 1 (3.030%) REST
7 1 (3.030%) WPF
7 1 (3.030%) COM
Applications
1 1 (3.030%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.061%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.030%) RTP
2 1 (3.030%) SS7
2 1 (3.030%) ISDN
2 1 (3.030%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.091%) SQLite
2 1 (3.030%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.030%) NUnit
2 1 (3.030%) JIRA
General
1 1 (3.030%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (63.64%) Developer
2 8 (24.24%) Software Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) C++ Software Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Programmer
3 6 (18.18%) C++ Programmer
4 5 (15.15%) Software Programmer
4 5 (15.15%) Analyst Programmer
4 5 (15.15%) Analyst
4 5 (15.15%) C++ Analyst Programmer
5 4 (12.12%) Web Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Applications Developer
5 4 (12.12%) C++ Developer
6 3 (9.091%) .NET Developer
6 3 (9.091%) .NET Web Developer
6 3 (9.091%) Web Applications Developer
6 3 (9.091%) .NET Applications Developer
7 2 (6.061%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.030%) Consultant
8 1 (3.030%) Technical Architect
8 1 (3.030%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Mathematics
2 1 (3.030%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.030%) Device Driver
2 1 (3.030%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 19 (57.58%) Windows
2 15 (45.45%) Windows CE
3 1 (3.030%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (3.030%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (18.18%) Multithreading
3 4 (12.12%) MVC
3 4 (12.12%) Web Application Development
3 4 (12.12%) Data Analysis
4 3 (9.091%) Software Engineering
4 3 (9.091%) Web Development
4 3 (9.091%) OO
4 3 (9.091%) OOD
5 2 (6.061%) Embedded Software Development
5 2 (6.061%) UML
6 1 (3.030%) OOP
6 1 (3.030%) OOA/OOD
6 1 (3.030%) Data Modelling
6 1 (3.030%) CAD
6 1 (3.030%) Image Processing
Programming Languages
1 33 (100.00%) C++
2 25 (75.76%) C#
3 18 (54.55%) C
4 12 (36.36%) VC++
5 6 (18.18%) Fortran
6 4 (12.12%) SQL
6 4 (12.12%) XPath
7 3 (9.091%) Java
7 3 (9.091%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.030%) Embedded C
8 1 (3.030%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) PhD
2 1 (3.030%) Degree
2 1 (3.030%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.030%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.030%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.030%) Perforce
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