Yorkshire Visual Studio Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Studio skills within the 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Studio
Location Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Crawley Crewe Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnham Gateshead Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Woodstock Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	89
Rank change on same period last year	+38
Matching contract IT job ads	77	51
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.109 %	0.052 %
As % of the category below	23.12 %	14.83 %
Daily rates quoted	3	7
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£236
Average daily rate	£350	£239
% change on same period last year	+46.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£243
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£337
% change on same period last year	-11.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.83	£30.83
Average hourly rate	£32.96	£33.33
% change on same period last year	-1.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.08	£35.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.05	£35.28
% change on same period last year	-6.29 %
Development Applications Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	333	344
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.471 %	0.348 %
Daily rates quoted	47	76
Average minimum daily rate	£270	£283
Average daily rate	£284	£290
% change on same period last year	-1.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£299	£297
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£327
% change on same period last year	-1.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	37	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.12	£22.19
Average hourly rate	£25.92	£23.74
% change on same period last year	+9.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.72	£25.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.43	£31.25
% change on same period last year	+3.75 %
Visual Studio England

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 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 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 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 Yorkshire region.

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 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
West Yorkshire	+33	52	£400	+77.12 %
North Yorkshire	+7	7	-	-
South Yorkshire	0	6	£400	-
East Yorkshire	-1	2	-	-

Visual Studio England

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 121 (84.03 %) .NET 2 105 (72.92 %) C# 3 100 (69.44 %) SQL Server 4 86 (59.72 %) ASP.NET 5 59 (40.97 %) XML 6 58 (40.28 %) SQL Server 2005 7 49 (34.03 %) HTML 8 46 (31.94 %) JavaScript 9 42 (29.17 %) CSS 9 42 (29.17 %) WebServices 10 40 (27.78 %) SQL 11 35 (24.31 %) Microsoft 12 31 (21.53 %) Windows 13 26 (18.06 %) SQL Server 2000 14 24 (16.67 %) XSLT

15 21 (14.58 %) VB.NET 15 21 (14.58 %) SharePoint 15 21 (14.58 %) .NET Framework 16 18 (12.50 %) AJAX 17 16 (11.11 %) ASP 17 16 (11.11 %) IIS 18 14 (9.722 %) XHTML 18 14 (9.722 %) MS Excel 19 13 (9.028 %) C 19 13 (9.028 %) Oracle 19 13 (9.028 %) ASP.NET 2.0 20 12 (8.333 %) OO 20 12 (8.333 %) CMS 21 11 (7.639 %) E-Commerce 21 11 (7.639 %) VB

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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 1 121 (84.03 %) .NET 2 86 (59.72 %) ASP.NET 3 59 (40.97 %) XML 4 49 (34.03 %) HTML 5 42 (29.17 %) CSS 5 42 (29.17 %) WebServices 6 24 (16.67 %) XSLT 7 21 (14.58 %) .NET Framework 8 18 (12.50 %) AJAX 9 16 (11.11 %) ASP 10 14 (9.722 %) XHTML 11 13 (9.028 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 10 (6.944 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 13 6 (4.167 %) WCF 13 6 (4.167 %) Middleware 14 4 (2.778 %) Windows SharePoint Services 14 4 (2.778 %) XSL 14 4 (2.778 %) WinForms 15 2 (1.389 %) WSE 15 2 (1.389 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 21 (14.58 %) SharePoint 2 16 (11.11 %) IIS 3 12 (8.333 %) CMS 4 10 (6.944 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 4 (2.778 %) BizTalk Server 6 2 (1.389 %) Lotus Notes 7 1 (0.694 %) Lotus Domino 7 1 (0.694 %) MS Exchange 7 1 (0.694 %) Content Management Server 7 1 (0.694 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 1 (0.694 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 1 (0.694 %) Community Server
Applications 1 14 (9.722 %) MS Excel 2 2 (1.389 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.694 %) Photoshop 3 1 (0.694 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 1 (0.694 %) WebTrends
Communications & Networking 1 8 (5.556 %) Internet 2 5 (3.472 %) DHCP 2 5 (3.472 %) TCP/IP 2 5 (3.472 %) DNS 3 1 (0.694 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 100 (69.44 %) SQL Server 2 58 (40.28 %) SQL Server 2005 3 26 (18.06 %) SQL Server 2000 4 10 (6.944 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 8 (5.556 %) MySQL 6 6 (4.167 %) DTS 6 6 (4.167 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 5 (3.472 %) MS Access 8 3 (2.083 %) SQL Server 2008 9 2 (1.389 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 2 (1.389 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 2 (1.389 %) Oracle 10g 9 2 (1.389 %) Oracle 9i 10 1 (0.694 %) BusinessObjects 10 1 (0.694 %) Crystal Reports 10 1 (0.694 %) Oracle Reports 10 1 (0.694 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 10 (6.944 %) Visual Studio Team System 2 5 (3.472 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 4 (2.778 %) NUnit 4 1 (0.694 %) CruiseControl 4 1 (0.694 %) Flash 4 1 (0.694 %) ERwin	General 1 10 (6.944 %) Finance 2 8 (5.556 %) Marketing 3 5 (3.472 %) Telecoms 3 5 (3.472 %) Health 4 4 (2.778 %) Government 5 3 (2.083 %) Publishing 6 2 (1.389 %) Legal 6 2 (1.389 %) Graphic Design 6 2 (1.389 %) Insurance 7 1 (0.694 %) Local Government 7 1 (0.694 %) Games 7 1 (0.694 %) Banking 7 1 (0.694 %) Financial Institution 7 1 (0.694 %) Education
Job Titles 1 112 (77.78 %) Developer 2 48 (33.33 %) .NET Developer 3 29 (20.14 %) C# Developer 4 25 (17.36 %) Web Developer 5 17 (11.81 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 13 (9.028 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 11 (7.639 %) .NET Web Developer 7 11 (7.639 %) Software Developer 8 8 (5.556 %) Senior Developer 9 7 (4.861 %) DBA 9 7 (4.861 %) SQL DBA 9 7 (4.861 %) C++ Developer 9 7 (4.861 %) C# Web Developer 9 7 (4.861 %) SharePoint Developer 10 6 (4.167 %) Applications Developer 11 5 (3.472 %) SQL Developer 11 5 (3.472 %) Real Time Developer 11 5 (3.472 %) SQL Server Developer 12 4 (2.778 %) Senior .NET Developer 12 4 (2.778 %) VB.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 7 (4.861 %) W3C 2 6 (4.167 %) Replication 3 3 (2.083 %) N-Tier 3 3 (2.083 %) Computer Science 4 2 (1.389 %) NHS 4 2 (1.389 %) Web 2.0 5 1 (0.694 %) Data Extraction
Operating Systems 1 31 (21.53 %) Windows 2 8 (5.556 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (4.861 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (8.333 %) OO 2 11 (7.639 %) E-Commerce 3 10 (6.944 %) Web Development 4 8 (5.556 %) Time Management 5 7 (4.861 %) Content Management 6 5 (3.472 %) SOA 6 5 (3.472 %) Software Engineering 7 4 (2.778 %) Unit Testing 7 4 (2.778 %) PRINCE2 7 4 (2.778 %) OOP 7 4 (2.778 %) Security Cleared 8 3 (2.083 %) ITIL 8 3 (2.083 %) UML 8 3 (2.083 %) Project Management 8 3 (2.083 %) B2B 8 3 (2.083 %) Agile Software Development 9 2 (1.389 %) Document Management 9 2 (1.389 %) Configuration Management 9 2 (1.389 %) DSDM 9 2 (1.389 %) OOD
Programming Languages 1 105 (72.92 %) C# 2 46 (31.94 %) JavaScript 3 40 (27.78 %) SQL 4 21 (14.58 %) VB.NET 5 13 (9.028 %) C 6 11 (7.639 %) VB 6 11 (7.639 %) C++ 7 10 (6.944 %) Transact-SQL 8 8 (5.556 %) DHTML 9 7 (4.861 %) Java 10 6 (4.167 %) VC++ 11 2 (1.389 %) VB6 11 2 (1.389 %) VBA 11 2 (1.389 %) VBScript 11 2 (1.389 %) PHP 12 1 (0.694 %) XPath 12 1 (0.694 %) FoxPro (VFP) 12 1 (0.694 %) LotusScript	Qualifications 1 4 (2.778 %) Degree 2 1 (0.694 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.389 %) QA 1 2 (1.389 %) HIPAA	System Software 1 9 (6.250 %) Active Directory 2 4 (2.778 %) VMware ESX 2 4 (2.778 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 35 (24.31 %) Microsoft 2 13 (9.028 %) Oracle 3 4 (2.778 %) VMware 4 3 (2.083 %) Tridion 5 2 (1.389 %) Lotus 5 2 (1.389 %) telerik 6 1 (0.694 %) Business Objects 6 1 (0.694 %) IBM 6 1 (0.694 %) Adobe 6 1 (0.694 %) Macromedia