The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire 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 - 26 26
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 0 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire - 0.800% 1.402%
As % of the Development Applications category - 14.29% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £263
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
All Development Applications
Warwickshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
11 14 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 5.340% 5.600% 4.673%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 5
Average daily rate £325 £400 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% +40.35%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £24.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio
West Midlands

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire region.

Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire region.

Warwickshire Visual Studio Hourly Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) NUnit
2 1 (50.00%) NHibernate
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) WatiN
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (50.00%) NMock
2 1 (50.00%) Moq
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) NHibernate
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) WatiN
1 1 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (50.00%) NMock
1 1 (50.00%) Moq
1 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL