West Sussex Visual Studio Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Studio skills within the West Sussex 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Studio
Location Avon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Ceredigion Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Kendal Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	39
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	6	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	20.69 %	19.05 %
Daily rates quoted	1	7
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£381
Average daily rate	£475	£400
% change on same period last year	+18.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£419
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£339
% change on same period last year	-12.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.55	£34.60
% change on same period last year	-3.01 %
Development Applications West Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	29	63
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.063 %
Daily rates quoted	10	13
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£336
Average daily rate	£329	£355
% change on same period last year	-7.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.86	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£37.00	£21.88
% change on same period last year	+69.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.14	£23.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.63	£33.53
% change on same period last year	+0.31 %
Visual Studio South East

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 West Sussex 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 West Sussex region.

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Visual Studio across the West Sussex region.

Visual Studio
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Crawley	+1	3	-	-

Visual Studio South East

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 13 (76.47 %) .NET 2 9 (52.94 %) C# 3 7 (41.18 %) C++ 3 7 (41.18 %) Perl 3 7 (41.18 %) SQL Server 3 7 (41.18 %) ASP.NET 3 7 (41.18 %) Windows 4 6 (35.29 %) Linux 5 5 (29.41 %) Java 5 5 (29.41 %) UNIX 6 4 (23.53 %) SQL 6 4 (23.53 %) VB 6 4 (23.53 %) Systems Analysis 7 3 (17.65 %) Security Cleared 7 3 (17.65 %) VB.NET

7 3 (17.65 %) JavaScript 7 3 (17.65 %) XML 7 3 (17.65 %) SharePoint 7 3 (17.65 %) Microsoft 7 3 (17.65 %) MSI 7 3 (17.65 %) InstallShield 8 2 (11.76 %) Configuration Management 8 2 (11.76 %) Oracle Forms 8 2 (11.76 %) Intranet 8 2 (11.76 %) Extranet 8 2 (11.76 %) WebServices 8 2 (11.76 %) Crystal Reports 8 2 (11.76 %) Oracle 8 2 (11.76 %) SAP 8 2 (11.76 %) C

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 13 (76.47 %) .NET 2 7 (41.18 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (17.65 %) XML 4 2 (11.76 %) WebServices 4 2 (11.76 %) ASP 4 2 (11.76 %) .NET Framework 5 1 (5.882 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 1 (5.882 %) Application Packaging 5 1 (5.882 %) ADO.NET 5 1 (5.882 %) HTML 5 1 (5.882 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 3 (17.65 %) SharePoint 2 1 (5.882 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 1 (5.882 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 2 (11.76 %) Intranet 1 2 (11.76 %) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (41.18 %) SQL Server 2 2 (11.76 %) Crystal Reports 2 2 (11.76 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (5.882 %) SQL Server 2008 3 1 (5.882 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 3 (17.65 %) MSI 1 3 (17.65 %) InstallShield 2 2 (11.76 %) Oracle Forms 3 1 (5.882 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (5.882 %) CruiseControl
General 1 1 (5.882 %) Pensions 1 1 (5.882 %) Back Office 1 1 (5.882 %) Finance 1 1 (5.882 %) Government 1 1 (5.882 %) Military	Job Titles 1 7 (41.18 %) Developer 2 4 (23.53 %) Systems Engineer 3 3 (17.65 %) .NET Developer 3 3 (17.65 %) SQL Developer 4 2 (11.76 %) Development Team Leader 4 2 (11.76 %) SQL Server Developer 4 2 (11.76 %) .NET Architect 4 2 (11.76 %) C# Developer 4 2 (11.76 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 2 (11.76 %) Team Leader 4 2 (11.76 %) Software Developer 4 2 (11.76 %) Architect 4 2 (11.76 %) Senior Developer 4 2 (11.76 %) Configuration Management Engineer 4 2 (11.76 %) .NET Team Leader 4 2 (11.76 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (5.882 %) Deployment Specialist 5 1 (5.882 %) Senior .NET Developer 5 1 (5.882 %) Senior Analyst Developer 5 1 (5.882 %) VB6 Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (5.882 %) Data Integration	Operating Systems 1 7 (41.18 %) Windows 2 6 (35.29 %) Linux 3 5 (29.41 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (23.53 %) Systems Analysis 2 3 (17.65 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (11.76 %) Configuration Management 3 2 (11.76 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (5.882 %) Release Management 4 1 (5.882 %) Time Management 4 1 (5.882 %) Business Analysis 4 1 (5.882 %) OOP 4 1 (5.882 %) OO 4 1 (5.882 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (5.882 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 9 (52.94 %) C# 2 7 (41.18 %) C++ 2 7 (41.18 %) Perl 3 5 (29.41 %) Java 4 4 (23.53 %) SQL 4 4 (23.53 %) VB 5 3 (17.65 %) VB.NET 5 3 (17.65 %) JavaScript 6 2 (11.76 %) C 7 1 (5.882 %) Ruby 7 1 (5.882 %) VBA 7 1 (5.882 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (5.882 %) VC++ 7 1 (5.882 %) Python 7 1 (5.882 %) VB6
Vendors 1 3 (17.65 %) Microsoft 2 2 (11.76 %) Oracle 2 2 (11.76 %) SAP 3 1 (5.882 %) Macrovision 3 1 (5.882 %) ProClarity