The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wakefield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Visual Studio 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 Development Applications category for the Wakefield 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wakefield - - -
As % of the Development Applications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
All Development Applications
Wakefield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wakefield - 11.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio
West Yorkshire

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wakefield Visual Studio Jobs Demand Trend

Visual Studio
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wakefield 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Web Application Development

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wakefield 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Silverlight
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) ClearCase
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft