Visual Studio Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio 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 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 66 62 72
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +10
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 29 41 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.757% 1.838% 1.161%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.32% 20.10% 18.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 25 14
Average daily rate £300 £275 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -18.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £202 £274
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £25.00 - £18.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
All Development Applications
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 136 204 120
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 8.237% 9.144% 6.332%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 108 68
Average daily rate £325 £325 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +14.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £352
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 9
Average hourly rate £37.80 £35.00 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% +32.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio
England

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands Visual Studio Daily Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

West Midlands Visual Studio Daily Rate Histogram

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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands Visual Studio Hourly Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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 +16 9 £313 -3.84%
Worcestershire - 6 £475 -
Solihull - 4 £276 -
Staffordshire +3 2 £240 -31.42%
Coventry -3 2 - -
Herefordshire - 2 £255 -
Visual Studio
England

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 50 (83.33%) .NET
2 46 (76.67%) C#
3 34 (56.67%) SQL Server
4 33 (55.00%) ASP.NET
5 32 (53.33%) JavaScript
6 27 (45.00%) SQL
7 24 (40.00%) WCF
8 20 (33.33%) .NET Framework
9 19 (31.67%) HTML
9 19 (31.67%) Microsoft
10 18 (30.00%) XML
11 16 (26.67%) jQuery
12 15 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
13 14 (23.33%) MVC
13 14 (23.33%) SQL Server 2008
13 14 (23.33%) Team Foundation Server
13 14 (23.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 11 (18.33%) CSS
15 10 (16.67%) Windows
16 9 (15.00%) SharePoint
17 8 (13.33%) Web Services
17 8 (13.33%) TDD
17 8 (13.33%) Ajax
17 8 (13.33%) Silverlight
18 7 (11.67%) VB.NET
18 7 (11.67%) IIS
18 7 (11.67%) Agile Software Development
18 7 (11.67%) SQL Server 2005
18 7 (11.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
19 6 (10.00%) UML

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 50 (83.33%) .NET
2 33 (55.00%) ASP.NET
3 24 (40.00%) WCF
4 20 (33.33%) .NET Framework
5 19 (31.67%) HTML
6 18 (30.00%) XML
7 16 (26.67%) jQuery
8 15 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
9 14 (23.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 11 (18.33%) CSS
11 8 (13.33%) Web Services
11 8 (13.33%) Ajax
11 8 (13.33%) Silverlight
12 7 (11.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
13 6 (10.00%) LINQ
14 5 (8.333%) XSLT
15 4 (6.667%) ASP
15 4 (6.667%) Managed Extensibility Framework
16 3 (5.000%) WPF
16 3 (5.000%) WF
Application Platforms
1 9 (15.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (11.67%) IIS
3 4 (6.667%) ArcGIS
3 4 (6.667%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (3.333%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (1.667%) MQSeries
5 1 (1.667%) SharePoint Foundation
5 1 (1.667%) CMS
5 1 (1.667%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (6.667%) MS Office
1 4 (6.667%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.333%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.667%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (1.667%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.667%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (56.67%) SQL Server
2 14 (23.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (11.67%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (1.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.667%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (1.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.667%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (23.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (10.00%) Moq
3 4 (6.667%) MSTest
4 3 (5.000%) MSBuild
5 2 (3.333%) Expression Blend
5 2 (3.333%) Mercurial
5 2 (3.333%) NUnit
6 1 (1.667%) CruiseControl
6 1 (1.667%) JIRA
6 1 (1.667%) Selenium
6 1 (1.667%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (1.667%) WatiN
6 1 (1.667%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.667%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.667%) Rhino Mocks
6 1 (1.667%) NMock
6 1 (1.667%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (6.667%) Telecoms
2 2 (3.333%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.667%) Billing
Job Titles
1 47 (78.33%) Developer
2 21 (35.00%) .NET Developer
3 18 (30.00%) C# Developer
4 11 (18.33%) C# .NET Developer
5 10 (16.67%) Programmer
6 8 (13.33%) Web Developer
6 8 (13.33%) ASP.NET Developer
7 5 (8.333%) Software Engineer
7 5 (8.333%) Senior Developer
8 4 (6.667%) Applications Developer
8 4 (6.667%) Software Developer
8 4 (6.667%) C# Programmer
8 4 (6.667%) Software Programmer
8 4 (6.667%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 4 (6.667%) Silverlight Developer
9 3 (5.000%) .NET Software Engineer
9 3 (5.000%) .NET Programmer
10 2 (3.333%) Senior .NET Developer
10 2 (3.333%) C# Software Engineer
10 2 (3.333%) Senior Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.333%) Client/Server
2 4 (6.667%) RIA
3 2 (3.333%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.667%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.667%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (6.667%) Windows 7
3 2 (3.333%) Windows 8
3 2 (3.333%) Windows Mobile
4 1 (1.667%) Windows Vista
4 1 (1.667%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.667%) Linux
4 1 (1.667%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.667%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (23.33%) MVC
2 8 (13.33%) TDD
3 7 (11.67%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (10.00%) Unit Testing
4 6 (10.00%) UML
4 6 (10.00%) CRM
5 5 (8.333%) BDD
6 4 (6.667%) Web Development
7 3 (5.000%) Release Management
7 3 (5.000%) Code Coverage
8 2 (3.333%) Workflow
8 2 (3.333%) OOD
8 2 (3.333%) OO
8 2 (3.333%) Scrum
8 2 (3.333%) MVVM
9 1 (1.667%) User Stories
9 1 (1.667%) Unified Process
9 1 (1.667%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (1.667%) Time Management
9 1 (1.667%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 46 (76.67%) C#
2 32 (53.33%) JavaScript
3 27 (45.00%) SQL
4 7 (11.67%) VB.NET
5 5 (8.333%) T-SQL
6 4 (6.667%) VBA
7 3 (5.000%) Java
7 3 (5.000%) VB
8 2 (3.333%) VBScript
9 1 (1.667%) Perl
9 1 (1.667%) C++
9 1 (1.667%) Embedded C++
9 1 (1.667%) XAML
9 1 (1.667%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (8.333%) MCAD
1 5 (8.333%) MCSD
1 5 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (8.333%) DV Cleared
1 5 (8.333%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.000%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.667%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.667%) Degree
3 1 (1.667%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.667%) QA
Vendors
1 19 (31.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.333%) Oracle
3 4 (6.667%) ESRI
4 3 (5.000%) SAP
4 3 (5.000%) DevExpress
5 1 (1.667%) Telerik
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Rate: £1 per annum
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