Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for MVC skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MVC over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category.

LinkModel-View-Controller (MVC)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank155270363
Rank change year-on-year
Up+115Up+93
Matching contract IT job ads515175256
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK1.066 %0.444 %0.311 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category1.811 %0.837 %0.626 %
Daily rates quoted25888105
Average daily rate£325£300£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.330 %-20.00 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£200£280
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£458£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£283£248£345
% change year-on-year
+14.14 %-28.26 %
Hourly rates quoted125
Average hourly rate£34.50£33.25£40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.750 %-16.87 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate-£27.50£40.00
% change year-on-year
--31.25 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
284392091640911
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK58.87 %53.02 %49.77 %
Daily rates quoted13684739614067
Average daily rate£410£400£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.500 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£235£263
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£360£375
% change year-on-year
-2.770 %-4.000 %
Hourly rates quoted114812112463
Average hourly rate£25.00£27.50£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.090 %-8.330 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.21£13.00£13.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£42.50£44.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£27.50£30.00
% change year-on-year
-10.90 %-8.330 %

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.

MVC
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MVC within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

MVC Demand Trend

MVC
Daily Rate Trend

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

MVC Daily Rate Trend

MVC
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MVC within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

MVC Daily Rate Histogram

MVC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MVC Hourly Rate Trend

MVC
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MVC within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+117490£325+8.33 %
LondonUp+45335£350+3.70 %
City of LondonDown-1188£475+15.15 %
South EastUp+2041£350+40.00 %
East of EnglandUp+3228£263-10.63 %
North WestUp+2128£279-
ManchesterUp+1523£275-
ScotlandUp+123£288+17.34 %
SurreyDown-123£388+72.22 %
YorkshireUp+2522£268-
West MidlandsUp+2315£263-34.37 %
South WestUp+714£350+7.69 %
LeedsUp+1813£200-
GlasgowUp+313£300+22.44 %
West YorkshireUp+313£200-
Canary WharfDown-1912--
CoventryNew entry-8£325-
HertfordshireNew entry-8£288-
CambridgeshireUp+77£243-19.16 %
EdinburghDown-157£158-
South YorkshireNew entry-7£283-
StainesNew entry-6£375-
SheffieldNew entry-6£283-
UxbridgeNew entry-6£400-
WatfordNew entry-6--
WiltshireUp+115£225-30.76 %
MiddlesexNew entry-5£350-
BirminghamUp+64£175-56.25 %
HampshireNo change04£213-15.00 %
East MidlandsDown-24£315+85.29 %

MVC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing MVC 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 MVC.

1424 (48.90 %).NET
2385 (44.41 %)C#
3343 (39.56 %)ASP.NET
4298 (34.37 %)JavaScript
5285 (32.87 %)Java
6283 (32.64 %)CSS
7249 (28.72 %)SQL Server
8245 (28.26 %)Spring
9239 (27.57 %)SQL
9239 (27.57 %)HTML
10220 (25.37 %)AJAX
11201 (23.18 %)XML
12200 (23.07 %)Hibernate
13199 (22.95 %)OO
14182 (20.99 %)TDD
15171 (19.72 %)Agile Software Development
16160 (18.45 %)Web Services
17158 (18.22 %)ASP.NET MVC
18144 (16.61 %).NET Framework
19139 (16.03 %)SQL Server 2005
20138 (15.92 %)WCF
21137 (15.80 %)J2EE
22135 (15.57 %)jQuery
23134 (15.46 %)XHTML
24123 (14.19 %)PHP
24123 (14.19 %)Subversion
25119 (13.73 %)Spring MVC
26115 (13.26 %)Oracle
27112 (12.92 %)Unit Testing
28100 (11.53 %)JUnit

MVC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing MVC 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 MVC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1424 (48.90 %).NET
2343 (39.56 %)ASP.NET
3283 (32.64 %)CSS
4245 (28.26 %)Spring
5239 (27.57 %)HTML
6220 (25.37 %)AJAX
7201 (23.18 %)XML
8200 (23.07 %)Hibernate
9160 (18.45 %)Web Services
10158 (18.22 %)ASP.NET MVC
11144 (16.61 %).NET Framework
12138 (15.92 %)WCF
13137 (15.80 %)J2EE
14135 (15.57 %)jQuery
15134 (15.46 %)XHTML
16119 (13.73 %)Spring MVC
1793 (10.73 %)NHibernate
1883 (9.573 %)Struts
1973 (8.420 %)WPF
2063 (7.266 %)JSP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
190 (10.38 %)Tomcat
237 (4.268 %)Apache
333 (3.806 %)CMS
432 (3.691 %)SharePoint
432 (3.691 %)WebLogic
524 (2.768 %)Drupal
622 (2.537 %)IIS
713 (1.499 %)MQSeries
713 (1.499 %)WebSphere Application Server
811 (1.269 %)Umbraco
811 (1.269 %)ESB
910 (1.153 %)WebLogic Portal
910 (1.153 %)Joomla!
108 (0.923 %)Liferay
117 (0.807 %)GlassFish
126 (0.692 %)WebSphere Portal
135 (0.577 %)SharePoint Server 2007
135 (0.577 %)Mule
135 (0.577 %)Jetty
135 (0.577 %)Oracle Service Bus
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
120 (2.307 %)Photoshop
218 (2.076 %)MS Excel
38 (0.923 %)MS Visio
45 (0.577 %)MS Office
45 (0.577 %)Adobe Illustrator
54 (0.461 %)MS PowerPoint
61 (0.115 %)Adobe After Effects
61 (0.115 %)Fireworks
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (0.346 %)AquaLogic BPM
21 (0.115 %)Google Analytics
21 (0.115 %)Oracle Financials
21 (0.115 %)Pivotal CRM
21 (0.115 %)SAP CRM
21 (0.115 %)BusinessWorks
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
155 (6.344 %)HTTP
230 (3.460 %)Internet
34 (0.461 %)Intranet
34 (0.461 %)LDAP
43 (0.346 %)Broadband
43 (0.346 %)ISDN
43 (0.346 %)PSTN
51 (0.115 %)SNMP
51 (0.115 %)TCP/IP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1249 (28.72 %)SQL Server
2139 (16.03 %)SQL Server 2005
383 (9.573 %)MySQL
460 (6.920 %)SQL Server 2008
525 (2.884 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
622 (2.537 %)SQL Server Integration Services
716 (1.845 %)Oracle 10g
815 (1.730 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
815 (1.730 %)SQL Server 2000
914 (1.615 %)OLAP
1013 (1.499 %)Datawarehouse
1112 (1.384 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1211 (1.269 %)DB2
139 (1.038 %)RDBMS
148 (0.923 %)ETL
156 (0.692 %)Oracle 8/8i
156 (0.692 %)Oracle 11g
163 (0.346 %)DTS
171 (0.115 %)Oracle 9i
171 (0.115 %)MS Access
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1123 (14.19 %)Subversion
2100 (11.53 %)JUnit
370 (8.074 %)NUnit
466 (7.612 %)Maven
564 (7.382 %)Visual Studio
659 (6.805 %)Ant
751 (5.882 %)Eclipse
828 (3.230 %)TeamCity
924 (2.768 %)Team Foundation Server
1023 (2.653 %)IntelliJ
1121 (2.422 %)CruiseControl
1218 (2.076 %)ClearCase
1218 (2.076 %)Selenium
1317 (1.961 %)JIRA
1416 (1.845 %)jMock
1416 (1.845 %)NCover
1512 (1.384 %)ReSharper
169 (1.038 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
178 (0.923 %)VSS/SourceSafe
178 (0.923 %)EasyMock
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
189 (10.27 %)Banking
266 (7.612 %)Finance
352 (5.998 %)Investment Banking
425 (2.884 %)Government
524 (2.768 %)Insurance
623 (2.653 %)Publishing
718 (2.076 %)Marketing
814 (1.615 %)Back Office
911 (1.269 %)Retail
109 (1.038 %)Games
109 (1.038 %)Advertising
109 (1.038 %)Health
118 (0.923 %)Education
118 (0.923 %)Telecoms
118 (0.923 %)Front Office
125 (0.577 %)Online Games
125 (0.577 %)Law
134 (0.461 %)Automotive
134 (0.461 %)Pensions
143 (0.346 %)Electric
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1777 (89.62 %)Developer
2217 (25.03 %).NET Developer
3190 (21.91 %)Java Developer
4159 (18.34 %)C# Developer
582 (9.458 %)Senior Developer
677 (8.881 %)ASP.NET Developer
773 (8.420 %)PHP Developer
862 (7.151 %)Web Developer
956 (6.459 %)J2EE Developer
1052 (5.998 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
1144 (5.075 %)Software Developer
1232 (3.691 %)Java/J2EE Developer
1330 (3.460 %)Flex Developer
1429 (3.345 %)Designer
1528 (3.230 %)Senior .NET Developer
1627 (3.114 %)Team Leader
1726 (2.999 %)Senior C# Developer
1824 (2.768 %)Agile Java Developer
1923 (2.653 %)Flash Developer
2021 (2.422 %)Senior Java Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
133 (3.806 %)N-Tier
227 (3.114 %)Open Source
326 (2.999 %)Dependency Injection
414 (1.615 %)Client/Server
513 (1.499 %)Market Risk
612 (1.384 %)NHS
710 (1.153 %)Web 2.0
89 (1.038 %)Derivative
89 (1.038 %)Multithreading
98 (0.923 %)W3C
98 (0.923 %)Social Network
98 (0.923 %)Computer Science
106 (0.692 %)Fixed Income
106 (0.692 %)Data Protection Act
115 (0.577 %)SaaS
124 (0.461 %)Amazon EC2
124 (0.461 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
124 (0.461 %)RIA
133 (0.346 %)Streaming Media
142 (0.231 %)Inversion of Control
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
169 (7.958 %)Windows
268 (7.843 %)Linux
362 (7.151 %)UNIX
48 (0.923 %)Solaris
56 (0.692 %)Windows XP
64 (0.461 %)Windows Server 2003
64 (0.461 %)Windows Server 2008
73 (0.346 %)CentOS
73 (0.346 %)Red Hat Linux
81 (0.115 %)Windows Vista
81 (0.115 %)Windows Mobile
81 (0.115 %)MVS
81 (0.115 %)Windows 7
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1199 (22.95 %)OO
2182 (20.99 %)TDD
3171 (19.72 %)Agile Software Development
4112 (12.92 %)Unit Testing
595 (10.96 %)Scrum
677 (8.881 %)Web Development
756 (6.459 %)Continuous Integration
847 (5.421 %)OOP
946 (5.306 %)SOA
1045 (5.190 %)E-Commerce
1141 (4.729 %)OOD
1234 (3.922 %)UML
1234 (3.922 %)Web Design
1324 (2.768 %)Workflow
1421 (2.422 %)AOP
1421 (2.422 %)CRM
1519 (2.191 %)Regression Testing
1617 (1.961 %)Business Intelligence
1716 (1.845 %)Content Management
1815 (1.730 %)Pair Programming
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1385 (44.41 %)C#
2298 (34.37 %)JavaScript
3285 (32.87 %)Java
4239 (27.57 %)SQL
5123 (14.19 %)PHP
652 (5.998 %)T-SQL
744 (5.075 %)ActionScript
744 (5.075 %)PHP5
843 (4.960 %)PL/SQL
937 (4.268 %)ActionScript 3.0
1022 (2.537 %)C
1118 (2.076 %)Perl
1215 (1.730 %)ActionScript 2.0
1312 (1.384 %)VB.NET
1312 (1.384 %)Groovy
1411 (1.269 %)C++
1510 (1.153 %)Shell Script
1510 (1.153 %)XQuery
1510 (1.153 %)Ruby
167 (0.807 %)VB
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
138 (4.383 %)Security Cleared
217 (1.961 %)CTC Cleared
312 (1.384 %)SC Cleared
411 (1.269 %)Degree
53 (0.346 %)DV Cleared
53 (0.346 %)Microsoft Certification
53 (0.346 %)Sun Certification
53 (0.346 %)MCAD
62 (0.231 %)ISEB
62 (0.231 %)MCP
71 (0.115 %)BC Cleared
71 (0.115 %)MCSE
71 (0.115 %)HND
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
16 (0.692 %)QA
16 (0.692 %)WCAG
16 (0.692 %)WAI
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14 (0.461 %)MSMQ
22 (0.231 %)Active Directory
31 (0.115 %)OpenSSO
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
15 (0.577 %)MOM
15 (0.577 %)CONTROL-M
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1115 (13.26 %)Oracle
265 (7.497 %)Microsoft
329 (3.345 %)Sybase
428 (3.230 %)Mercator
523 (2.653 %)IBM
622 (2.537 %)Zend
717 (1.961 %)Adobe
811 (1.269 %)JBoss
811 (1.269 %)TIBCO
811 (1.269 %)Terracotta
910 (1.153 %)Google
107 (0.807 %)Perforce
115 (0.577 %)BEA
115 (0.577 %)SAP
124 (0.461 %)Algorithmics
124 (0.461 %)Sun
133 (0.346 %)Dundas
133 (0.346 %)Red Hat
142 (0.231 %)Sony
142 (0.231 %)Infragistics