The first table below looks at the demand for 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 MVC 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Rank 39 47 82
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +35
Contract jobs citing MVC 64 67 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 3.816% 2.932% 0.920%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.699% 4.614% 1.453%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 42 11
Average daily rate £293 £268 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.34% -9.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £216 £227
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £349 £444
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £300
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £21.00 £37.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £23.88 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+42.40% -43.82%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1123 1452 1170
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 66.96% 63.54% 63.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 680 543
Average daily rate £333 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.75% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £234 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £523 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 72 71
Average hourly rate £37.80 £20.26 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+86.62% -18.98%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
MVC
England

MVC
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MVC across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

West Midlands MVC Jobs Demand Trend

MVC
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands MVC Daily Rate Trend

MVC
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MVC across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Midlands MVC Daily Rate Histogram

MVC
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MVC across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands MVC Hourly Rate Trend

MVC
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MVC within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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 +6 18 £300 +9.09%
Warwickshire +4 15 £245 -5.76%
Worcestershire - 11 £330 -
Coventry -1 4 £300 +28.47%
Staffordshire +19 3 £240 -
Wolverhampton -3 1 £263 +22.09%
Solihull - 1 - -
MVC
England

MVC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing 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 MVC.

1 94 (85.45%) .NET
2 89 (80.91%) C#
3 75 (68.18%) ASP.NET
4 74 (67.27%) SQL Server
5 56 (50.91%) ASP.NET MVC
6 53 (48.18%) JavaScript
7 45 (40.91%) .NET Framework
8 43 (39.09%) jQuery
9 42 (38.18%) SQL
10 40 (36.36%) HTML
11 38 (34.55%) CSS
12 31 (28.18%) SQL Server 2008
13 27 (24.55%) Web Services
14 23 (20.91%) ASP.NET MVC 3
15 22 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
16 20 (18.18%) TDD
17 19 (17.27%) Agile Software Development
17 19 (17.27%) Ajax
18 17 (15.45%) OO
19 16 (14.55%) T-SQL
19 16 (14.55%) HTML5
20 15 (13.64%) Team Foundation Server
20 15 (13.64%) Microsoft
20 15 (13.64%) WCF
21 12 (10.91%) Visual Studio
21 12 (10.91%) CSS3
22 11 (10.00%) CMS
22 11 (10.00%) Web Development
23 10 (9.091%) LINQ
23 10 (9.091%) E-Commerce

MVC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing 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 MVC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 94 (85.45%) .NET
2 75 (68.18%) ASP.NET
3 56 (50.91%) ASP.NET MVC
4 45 (40.91%) .NET Framework
5 43 (39.09%) jQuery
6 40 (36.36%) HTML
7 38 (34.55%) CSS
8 27 (24.55%) Web Services
9 23 (20.91%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 22 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 19 (17.27%) Ajax
12 16 (14.55%) HTML5
13 15 (13.64%) WCF
14 12 (10.91%) CSS3
15 10 (9.091%) LINQ
15 10 (9.091%) XML
16 8 (7.273%) SOAP
17 7 (6.364%) Razor View Engine
18 6 (5.455%) ASP.NET MVC 4
18 6 (5.455%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 11 (10.00%) CMS
2 3 (2.727%) Umbraco
2 3 (2.727%) Adobe CQ
3 2 (1.818%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.909%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.909%) IIS
4 1 (0.909%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (0.909%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 4 (3.636%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.909%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.818%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.909%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.909%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (67.27%) SQL Server
2 31 (28.18%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (7.273%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (4.545%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.727%) MySQL
5 3 (2.727%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.818%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.909%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 15 (13.64%) Team Foundation Server
2 12 (10.91%) Visual Studio
3 4 (3.636%) Subversion
4 2 (1.818%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.909%) Xcode
5 1 (0.909%) Maven
5 1 (0.909%) Moq
5 1 (0.909%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (5.455%) Telecoms
2 3 (2.727%) Finance
3 2 (1.818%) Marketing
4 1 (0.909%) Manufacturing
4 1 (0.909%) Games
Job Titles
1 98 (89.09%) Developer
2 65 (59.09%) .NET Developer
3 31 (28.18%) C# Developer
4 25 (22.73%) ASP.NET Developer
5 24 (21.82%) C# .NET Developer
6 17 (15.45%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 12 (10.91%) Web Developer
8 8 (7.273%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.545%) DBA
9 5 (4.545%) SQL DBA
9 5 (4.545%) SQL Server DBA
9 5 (4.545%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.545%) Senior .NET Developer
9 5 (4.545%) Agile .NET Developer
10 4 (3.636%) Agile C# Developer
10 4 (3.636%) J2EE Developer
10 4 (3.636%) Programmer
11 3 (2.727%) Analyst Programmer
11 3 (2.727%) Analyst
12 2 (1.818%) Senior Analyst Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.636%) N-Tier
2 2 (1.818%) Mobile App
2 2 (1.818%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (1.818%) VLE
3 1 (0.909%) Client/Server
3 1 (0.909%) W3C
3 1 (0.909%) Animation
3 1 (0.909%) Computer Science
3 1 (0.909%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (0.909%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.364%) Windows
2 2 (1.818%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.818%) Linux
3 1 (0.909%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (18.18%) TDD
2 19 (17.27%) Agile Software Development
3 17 (15.45%) OO
4 11 (10.00%) Web Development
5 10 (9.091%) E-Commerce
6 8 (7.273%) Workflow
7 7 (6.364%) Scrum
8 5 (4.545%) PRINCE2
8 5 (4.545%) Content Management
9 4 (3.636%) BDD
9 4 (3.636%) UML
9 4 (3.636%) Migration
10 3 (2.727%) SEO
10 3 (2.727%) OOP
10 3 (2.727%) Web Application Development
11 2 (1.818%) Analytics
11 2 (1.818%) Continuous Improvement
11 2 (1.818%) Unit Testing
11 2 (1.818%) Web Analytics
11 2 (1.818%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 89 (80.91%) C#
2 53 (48.18%) JavaScript
3 42 (38.18%) SQL
4 16 (14.55%) T-SQL
5 7 (6.364%) VB.NET
6 6 (5.455%) Java
7 3 (2.727%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.818%) J#
8 2 (1.818%) Python
8 2 (1.818%) VB
8 2 (1.818%) PHP
9 1 (0.909%) VBScript
9 1 (0.909%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 2 (1.818%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.909%) QA
Vendors
1 15 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.545%) Mercator
3 4 (3.636%) Oracle
4 3 (2.727%) Adobe
4 3 (2.727%) Alterian
4 3 (2.727%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.818%) Macromedia
5 2 (1.818%) Apple
6 1 (0.909%) FatWire
6 1 (0.909%) SAP
6 1 (0.909%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.909%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.909%) Facebook
West Midlands
These will all be web based - some standard ASP.NET Web forms and some will be written in MVC so MVC is a desirable skill but not essential.
Real Staffing
Rate: £200 - £300 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Warwickshire, West Midlands
Essential: - 2 years C# experience Desirable skill set: - ASP.NET - Winforms - MVC - Entity Frameworks - T-SQL - HTML5 - Javascript - Jquery - Ajax - Agile - TDD - N-Unit This is an excellent...
Computer Futures
Rate: £200 - £230 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Warwickshire, West Midlands
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Computer Futures
Rate: £200 - £230 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Warwickshire, West Midlands
ASP.Net C# Developer ( ASP.Net, C#, SQL Server ) - West Midlands , Warwickshire£200- £250 Per Day3 Months +The Role:My client are a leading software house based in...
IT Ventures Ltd
Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 10 May 2013
West Midlands
C# ASP.NET MVC Developer - West Midlands - I require a C# ASP.NET MVC Developer for a 3 month contract based in the West midlands. You will work...
Mortimer Spinks
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Warwickshire
Technical Skills - Mandatory *Microsoft .NET Web development (including AJAX) *Proficiency in an object oriented language (preferably C#) *Database programming (preferably Microsoft SQL Server / T-SQL) *HTML, CSS Technical...
Roc Search
Posted: 17 May 2013
Warwickshire
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Senitor Associates
Rate: £200 - £240 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Wolverhampton, West Midlands
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OPUS
Rate: GBP225 to GBP300 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
ASP.Net Developer (ASP.NET/SQL/MVC) - Stoke-on-Trent... Your primary focus will be on building a new application for online reporting using ASP.Net with Visual...
Ashdown IT
Rate: £230 - £250 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
West Midlands
Required experience: *Designing software solutions to meet business needs *Creating technical design documentation / specifications *Good written and personal communication skills *ASP.NET, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, *MS...
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Rate: £400 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
The developer will use agile practises including pair programming, estimating, planning, design and TDD... The technical requirements of the Developer should possess a minimum of 5 years; Java,...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + DOE
Posted: 21 May 2013
West Midlands
Experience of the following is required: Java J2SE 6.0 Spring Hibernate JavaScript HTML JSP Build tools including Ant or Maven Unit Testing (JUnit/TestNG) You will also...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 15 May 2013
West Midlands
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Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + DOE
Posted: 15 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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Birmingham City University
Rate: £38,326 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013