The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warrington region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 22 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 Warrington 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 18 17 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 5 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 3.876% 1.010% -
As % of the Development Applications category 38.46% 6.667% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
All Development Applications
Warrington
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
13 15 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 10.08% 15.15% 7.500%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 3
Average daily rate £356 £305 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.72% +3.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £294 £277 £267
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £355 £359
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio
Cheshire

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington Visual Studio Jobs Demand Trend

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Visual Studio across the Warrington region.

Warrington Visual Studio Daily Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Visual Studio across the Warrington region.

Warrington Visual Studio Hourly Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 6 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 6 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (50.00%) Java EE
2 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) WCF
2 3 (50.00%) WPF
2 3 (50.00%) LINQ
2 3 (50.00%) jQuery
2 3 (50.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 3 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 3 (50.00%) Data Management
2 3 (50.00%) Contact Management
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Maximo
2 3 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 3 (50.00%) SAP
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (50.00%) Web Services

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (50.00%) Java EE
2 3 (50.00%) WCF
2 3 (50.00%) WPF
2 3 (50.00%) LINQ
2 3 (50.00%) jQuery
2 3 (50.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 3 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (50.00%) Web Services
2 3 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Photoshop
1 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Maximo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (50.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 3 (50.00%) Data Management
2 3 (50.00%) Contact Management
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Feature Driven Development
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
1 3 (50.00%) SAP
1 3 (50.00%) IBM
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft