The first table below looks at the demand for ASP.NET MVC skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP.NET MVC over the 3 months to 24 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 Application Development category for the West Midlands 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Framework
Rank 55 87 96
Rank change year-on-year
+32 +9
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET MVC 40 16 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 2.449% 0.714% 0.317%
As % of the Application Development category 10.36% 2.974% 1.274%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 12 4
Average daily rate £300 £242 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+24.09% -21.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £211 £274
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £322
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 £32.50 £23.88 £32.00
% change year-on-year
+36.12% -25.39%
All Application Development
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
386 538 471
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 23.64% 24.00% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 293 255
Average daily rate £300 £300 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 22
Average hourly rate £28.50 £17.50 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+62.85% -4.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £12.50 £11.63
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £40.00 £25.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ASP.NET MVC
England

ASP.NET MVC
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ASP.NET MVC across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

West Midlands ASP.NET MVC Jobs Demand Trend

ASP.NET MVC
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ASP.NET MVC across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands ASP.NET MVC Daily Rate Trend

ASP.NET MVC
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET MVC across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands ASP.NET MVC Daily Rate Histogram

ASP.NET MVC
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASP.NET MVC within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank 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
Birmingham +20 10 £300 -20.00%
Worcestershire - 10 £300 -
Warwickshire +2 7 £375 +50.00%
Staffordshire +17 3 £240 -
Herefordshire 0 2 £255 +17.24%
Coventry -2 1 - -
Wolverhampton -3 1 £263 +22.09%
ASP.NET MVC
England

ASP.NET MVC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing ASP.NET 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 ASP.NET MVC.

1 71 (100.00%) .NET
1 71 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 67 (94.37%) C#
3 55 (77.46%) SQL Server
4 54 (76.06%) MVC
5 36 (50.70%) .NET Framework
6 33 (46.48%) SQL
7 30 (42.25%) JavaScript
7 30 (42.25%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 26 (36.62%) jQuery
8 26 (36.62%) SQL Server 2008
9 20 (28.17%) HTML
9 20 (28.17%) CSS
10 16 (22.54%) Web Services
10 16 (22.54%) TDD
11 15 (21.13%) Agile Software Development
11 15 (21.13%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 13 (18.31%) Web Development
12 13 (18.31%) XML
12 13 (18.31%) OO
12 13 (18.31%) Visual Studio
13 12 (16.90%) SQL Server 2005
13 12 (16.90%) WCF
14 11 (15.49%) Ajax
14 11 (15.49%) E-Commerce
14 11 (15.49%) Microsoft
15 10 (14.08%) N-Tier
15 10 (14.08%) UML
15 10 (14.08%) ASP.NET MVC 2
16 8 (11.27%) HTML5

ASP.NET MVC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing ASP.NET 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 ASP.NET MVC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 71 (100.00%) .NET
1 71 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 36 (50.70%) .NET Framework
3 30 (42.25%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 26 (36.62%) jQuery
5 20 (28.17%) HTML
5 20 (28.17%) CSS
6 16 (22.54%) Web Services
7 15 (21.13%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 13 (18.31%) XML
9 12 (16.90%) WCF
10 11 (15.49%) Ajax
11 10 (14.08%) ASP.NET MVC 2
12 8 (11.27%) HTML5
12 8 (11.27%) LINQ
12 8 (11.27%) XSLT
13 6 (8.451%) CSS3
13 6 (8.451%) ASP.NET MVC 4
14 5 (7.042%) Razor View Engine
15 4 (5.634%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 5 (7.042%) CMS
2 2 (2.817%) IIS
2 2 (2.817%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (2.817%) Amazon AWS
2 2 (2.817%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.408%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 1 (1.408%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.225%) Internet
2 1 (1.408%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (77.46%) SQL Server
2 26 (36.62%) SQL Server 2008
3 12 (16.90%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (7.042%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (5.634%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.408%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (1.408%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (18.31%) Visual Studio
2 6 (8.451%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (5.634%) Subversion
4 2 (2.817%) Moq
4 2 (2.817%) Mercurial
5 1 (1.408%) WatiN
5 1 (1.408%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (1.408%) NMock
5 1 (1.408%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.408%) NUnit
General
1 2 (2.817%) Marketing
2 1 (1.408%) Finance
2 1 (1.408%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 68 (95.77%) Developer
2 52 (73.24%) .NET Developer
3 23 (32.39%) C# Developer
4 20 (28.17%) ASP.NET Developer
5 18 (25.35%) C# .NET Developer
6 13 (18.31%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 12 (16.90%) Web Developer
8 5 (7.042%) .NET Web Developer
8 5 (7.042%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.634%) Agile .NET Developer
10 3 (4.225%) Agile C# Developer
10 3 (4.225%) Web Applications Developer
10 3 (4.225%) Applications Developer
11 2 (2.817%) Senior C# Developer
11 2 (2.817%) Senior .NET Developer
11 2 (2.817%) Senior Web Developer
11 2 (2.817%) Front-End Developer
12 1 (1.408%) Designer
12 1 (1.408%) User Experience Designer
12 1 (1.408%) CMS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) N-Tier
2 1 (1.408%) Open Source
2 1 (1.408%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.408%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.817%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (76.06%) MVC
2 16 (22.54%) TDD
3 15 (21.13%) Agile Software Development
4 13 (18.31%) Web Development
4 13 (18.31%) OO
5 11 (15.49%) E-Commerce
6 10 (14.08%) UML
7 6 (8.451%) PRINCE2
8 5 (7.042%) SEO
8 5 (7.042%) Scrum
9 4 (5.634%) Migration
9 4 (5.634%) Web Analytics
9 4 (5.634%) Content Management
9 4 (5.634%) Analytics
9 4 (5.634%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (4.225%) Incident Management
10 3 (4.225%) Data Protection
10 3 (4.225%) BDD
10 3 (4.225%) Disaster Recovery
11 2 (2.817%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 67 (94.37%) C#
2 33 (46.48%) SQL
3 30 (42.25%) JavaScript
4 7 (9.859%) VB.NET
5 6 (8.451%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.817%) VB
6 2 (2.817%) XAML
6 2 (2.817%) J#
7 1 (1.408%) PHP
7 1 (1.408%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.225%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.225%) Sitecore
2 3 (4.225%) Oracle
3 2 (2.817%) Adobe
3 2 (2.817%) Macromedia
3 2 (2.817%) Apple
4 1 (1.408%) EPiServer
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