Visual Studio Contracts in Wiltshire
 
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 Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 23 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 Wiltshire 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 42 38 40
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +2
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 10 16 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 2.232% 2.589% 2.500%
As % of the Development Applications category 23.26% 28.07% 19.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 8
Average daily rate £525 £263 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% -38.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £212 £378
10% offered a daily rate of more than £700 £415 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £23.88 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
All Development Applications
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 43 57 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 9.598% 9.223% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 39 34
Average daily rate £425 £330 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.78% -22.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £261 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £700 £450 £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
Average hourly rate - £23.88 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -40.31%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio
South West

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Swindon +1 10 £425 +100.00%
Corsham - 3 £600 -
Visual Studio
South West

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 18 (78.26%) C#
2 13 (56.52%) Web Services
2 13 (56.52%) WCF
2 13 (56.52%) Unit Testing
2 13 (56.52%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 12 (52.17%) Security Cleared
3 12 (52.17%) Team Foundation Server
3 12 (52.17%) .NET
3 12 (52.17%) SQL Server
3 12 (52.17%) UML
4 11 (47.83%) .NET Framework
5 10 (43.48%) DV Cleared
5 10 (43.48%) Silverlight
5 10 (43.48%) Windows
6 9 (39.13%) Client/Server
6 9 (39.13%) SQL Server 2008
7 8 (34.78%) Windows 7
7 8 (34.78%) RIA
7 8 (34.78%) ESRI
7 8 (34.78%) ArcGIS
7 8 (34.78%) IIS
7 8 (34.78%) Managed Extensibility Framework
7 8 (34.78%) MSTest
7 8 (34.78%) Moq
8 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
9 6 (26.09%) SQL
9 6 (26.09%) XML
9 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
10 5 (21.74%) jQuery
10 5 (21.74%) JSON

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 (56.52%) Web Services
1 13 (56.52%) WCF
1 13 (56.52%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 12 (52.17%) .NET
3 11 (47.83%) .NET Framework
4 10 (43.48%) Silverlight
5 8 (34.78%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 6 (26.09%) XML
7 5 (21.74%) jQuery
7 5 (21.74%) JSON
7 5 (21.74%) XSLT
8 4 (17.39%) ASP.NET
9 3 (13.04%) HTML
9 3 (13.04%) WinForms
10 2 (8.696%) Ajax
10 2 (8.696%) CSS
11 1 (4.348%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 8 (34.78%) ArcGIS
1 8 (34.78%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (8.696%) MS Office
2 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (52.17%) SQL Server
2 9 (39.13%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (4.348%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 12 (52.17%) Team Foundation Server
2 8 (34.78%) MSTest
2 8 (34.78%) Moq
3 2 (8.696%) NetBeans
General
1 2 (8.696%) Military
2 1 (4.348%) Finance
2 1 (4.348%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (78.26%) Developer
2 11 (47.83%) Software Developer
3 10 (43.48%) Software Engineer
3 10 (43.48%) .NET Developer
4 8 (34.78%) Software Programmer
4 8 (34.78%) C# Developer
4 8 (34.78%) Programmer
5 7 (30.43%) C# Programmer
6 5 (21.74%) .NET Programmer
6 5 (21.74%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (13.04%) Consultant
8 2 (8.696%) C# Software Developer
8 2 (8.696%) Silverlight Developer
8 2 (8.696%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (8.696%) .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (8.696%) .NET Software Developer
9 1 (4.348%) C++ Software Engineer
9 1 (4.348%) Senior Developer
9 1 (4.348%) SQL Developer
9 1 (4.348%) Senior Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) Client/Server
2 8 (34.78%) RIA
3 1 (4.348%) EPoS
3 1 (4.348%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Windows
2 8 (34.78%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Unit Testing
2 12 (52.17%) UML
3 5 (21.74%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (17.39%) Scrum
5 2 (8.696%) Software Engineering
6 1 (4.348%) Database Security
6 1 (4.348%) Security Management
6 1 (4.348%) MVC
6 1 (4.348%) Migration
6 1 (4.348%) Information Management
6 1 (4.348%) Web Development
6 1 (4.348%) Parallel Programming
6 1 (4.348%) Data Migration
6 1 (4.348%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) C#
2 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
3 6 (26.09%) SQL
4 2 (8.696%) Java
4 2 (8.696%) C++
4 2 (8.696%) C
5 1 (4.348%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (52.17%) Security Cleared
2 10 (43.48%) DV Cleared
3 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) ESRI
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.348%) Twitter
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