West Yorkshire Visual Studio Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Studio skills within the West Yorkshire 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 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Studio
Location Avon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Ceredigion Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kendal Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	70
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	39	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.052 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	24.22 %	13.33 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£235	£250
Average daily rate	£235	£275
% change on same period last year	-14.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£235	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£301	£343
% change on same period last year	-12.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.50	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£26.25	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-12.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.62	£32.87
% change on same period last year	+5.31 %
Development Applications West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	161	180
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.214 %	0.182 %
Daily rates quoted	36	30
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£286
Average daily rate	£291	£300
% change on same period last year	-2.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£331
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.33	£23.13
Average hourly rate	£21.42	£24.30
% change on same period last year	-11.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.50	£25.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.15	£33.95
% change on same period last year	-2.37 %
Visual Studio Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 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
Leeds	+9	29	£235	-
Bradford	+9	4	-	-
Otley	-	1	-	-
Halifax	-	1	-	-

Visual Studio Yorkshire

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 93 (96.88 %) .NET 2 65 (67.71 %) C# 2 65 (67.71 %) ASP.NET 3 52 (54.17 %) SQL Server 4 39 (40.63 %) XML 5 37 (38.54 %) HTML 6 35 (36.46 %) SQL Server 2005 7 33 (34.38 %) CSS 8 30 (31.25 %) SQL 9 26 (27.08 %) JavaScript 10 25 (26.04 %) WebServices 11 23 (23.96 %) Microsoft 12 17 (17.71 %) XSLT 12 17 (17.71 %) Windows 12 17 (17.71 %) VB

13 15 (15.63 %) XHTML 14 14 (14.58 %) IIS 15 13 (13.54 %) VB.NET 15 13 (13.54 %) ASP 15 13 (13.54 %) SharePoint 15 13 (13.54 %) Visual Studio Team System 16 11 (11.46 %) .NET Framework 16 11 (11.46 %) OO 17 10 (10.42 %) VBScript 17 10 (10.42 %) Finance 17 10 (10.42 %) Web Development 18 9 (9.375 %) E-Commerce 18 9 (9.375 %) SQL Server 2000 18 9 (9.375 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 18 9 (9.375 %) ASP.NET 2.0

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 93 (96.88 %) .NET 2 65 (67.71 %) ASP.NET 3 39 (40.63 %) XML 4 37 (38.54 %) HTML 5 33 (34.38 %) CSS 6 25 (26.04 %) WebServices 7 17 (17.71 %) XSLT 8 15 (15.63 %) XHTML 9 13 (13.54 %) ASP 10 11 (11.46 %) .NET Framework 11 9 (9.375 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 11 9 (9.375 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 5 (5.208 %) XSL 13 4 (4.167 %) COM+ 13 4 (4.167 %) AJAX 14 3 (3.125 %) DCOM 14 3 (3.125 %) ADO.NET 15 2 (2.083 %) SOAP 15 2 (2.083 %) XSD 15 2 (2.083 %) WSDL	Application Platforms 1 14 (14.58 %) IIS 2 13 (13.54 %) SharePoint 3 4 (4.167 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 2 (2.083 %) Lotus Notes 4 2 (2.083 %) BizTalk Server 5 1 (1.042 %) ArcGIS 5 1 (1.042 %) CMS 5 1 (1.042 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 1 (1.042 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 1 (1.042 %) Lotus Domino 5 1 (1.042 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 7 (7.292 %) Photoshop 2 2 (2.083 %) MS Project 2 2 (2.083 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.042 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 1 (1.042 %) ArcView	Communications & Networking 1 5 (5.208 %) Internet 2 1 (1.042 %) VoIP 2 1 (1.042 %) DHCP 2 1 (1.042 %) HTTP 2 1 (1.042 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (1.042 %) DNS 2 1 (1.042 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 52 (54.17 %) SQL Server 2 35 (36.46 %) SQL Server 2005 3 9 (9.375 %) SQL Server 2000 4 7 (7.292 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 4 (4.167 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 2 (2.083 %) Oracle 10g 6 2 (2.083 %) SQL Server 7 7 1 (1.042 %) GIS	Development Applications 1 13 (13.54 %) Visual Studio Team System 2 5 (5.208 %) NUnit 2 5 (5.208 %) Dreamweaver 3 3 (3.125 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 1 (1.042 %) Flash 4 1 (1.042 %) InstallShield 4 1 (1.042 %) Subversion
General 1 10 (10.42 %) Finance 2 5 (5.208 %) Telecoms 2 5 (5.208 %) Health 3 3 (3.125 %) Banking 3 3 (3.125 %) Insurance 4 2 (2.083 %) Government 5 1 (1.042 %) Education 5 1 (1.042 %) Legal 5 1 (1.042 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (1.042 %) Games 5 1 (1.042 %) International Banking 5 1 (1.042 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 79 (82.29 %) Developer 2 46 (47.92 %) .NET Developer 3 22 (22.92 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 16 (16.67 %) C# Developer 5 15 (15.63 %) Web Developer 6 7 (7.292 %) Senior Developer 6 7 (7.292 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 6 (6.250 %) Architect 7 6 (6.250 %) Technical Architect 7 6 (6.250 %) Team Leader 7 6 (6.250 %) .NET Web Developer 8 3 (3.125 %) Senior .NET Developer 8 3 (3.125 %) .NET Team Leader 8 3 (3.125 %) SharePoint Developer 9 2 (2.083 %) Lotus Notes Developer 9 2 (2.083 %) Technical Team Leader 9 2 (2.083 %) Applications Developer 10 1 (1.042 %) C++ Developer 10 1 (1.042 %) Web Applications Developer 10 1 (1.042 %) GIS Developer
Miscellaneous 1 7 (7.292 %) W3C 2 2 (2.083 %) Computer Science 2 2 (2.083 %) NHS 3 1 (1.042 %) Fat Client 3 1 (1.042 %) Thin Client 3 1 (1.042 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 17 (17.71 %) Windows 2 3 (3.125 %) Windows NT 3 1 (1.042 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (11.46 %) OO 2 10 (10.42 %) Web Development 3 9 (9.375 %) E-Commerce 4 4 (4.167 %) Test Management 5 3 (3.125 %) OOD 5 3 (3.125 %) SOA 6 2 (2.083 %) UML 6 2 (2.083 %) OOP 6 2 (2.083 %) Configuration Management 6 2 (2.083 %) Regression Testing 6 2 (2.083 %) Agile Software Development 6 2 (2.083 %) Software Engineering 6 2 (2.083 %) Software Testing 6 2 (2.083 %) Incident Management 6 2 (2.083 %) Time Management 6 2 (2.083 %) Data Modelling 6 2 (2.083 %) Unit Testing 7 1 (1.042 %) Problem Management 7 1 (1.042 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 1 (1.042 %) Performance Management	Programming Languages 1 65 (67.71 %) C# 2 30 (31.25 %) SQL 3 26 (27.08 %) JavaScript 4 17 (17.71 %) VB 5 13 (13.54 %) VB.NET 6 10 (10.42 %) VBScript 7 7 (7.292 %) C++ 8 6 (6.250 %) VB6 9 3 (3.125 %) DHTML 9 3 (3.125 %) C 10 2 (2.083 %) Transact-SQL 11 1 (1.042 %) XPath 11 1 (1.042 %) VBA 11 1 (1.042 %) VC++ 11 1 (1.042 %) LotusScript
Qualifications 1 2 (2.083 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.083 %) QA 2 1 (1.042 %) HL7
System Software 1 5 (5.208 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 23 (23.96 %) Microsoft 2 8 (8.333 %) Oracle 3 2 (2.083 %) Lotus 4 1 (1.042 %) IBM 4 1 (1.042 %) Adobe