Watford Visual Studio Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Studio skills within the Watford region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Studio
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Rank	-	33
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	6.977 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£463
Average daily rate	-	£463
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£463
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£345
% change on same period last year	-12.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.64	£32.88
% change on same period last year	+5.37 %
Development Applications Watford
Matching contract IT job ads	30	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.040 %	0.044 %
Daily rates quoted	8	23
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£281
Average daily rate	£329	£286
% change on same period last year	+15.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£292
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£331
% change on same period last year	-0.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.89	£34.13
% change on same period last year	-3.63 %
Visual Studio Hertfordshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Visual Studio
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Visual Studio across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Trend

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

Visual Studio
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 %) C++ 1 2 (100.00 %) .NET 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows 1 2 (100.00 %) VC++ 1 2 (100.00 %) LabVIEW 1 2 (100.00 %) Military 1 2 (100.00 %) .NET Framework 1 2 (100.00 %) Security Cleared

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 1 2 (100.00 %) .NET Framework	Development Applications 1 2 (100.00 %) LabVIEW
General 1 2 (100.00 %) Military	Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Developer 1 2 (100.00 %) Applications Developer
Operating Systems 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 2 (100.00 %) C++ 1 2 (100.00 %) VC++