MVC Contract Job Trends in England

Model-View-Controller (MVC)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring MVC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 438 360 376
Rank change year-on-year -78 +16 -77
Contract jobs citing MVC 106 149 197
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.49% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.56% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 97 163
10th Percentile £325 £351 £325
25th Percentile £375 £422 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £543 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.75% +20.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £526 £600 £575
90th Percentile £604 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

MVC falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,655 26,658 34,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.31% 87.92% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,614 16,424 23,309
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,796 941 1,445
10th Percentile £14.92 £15.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

MVC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MVC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

MVC job vacancy trend in England

MVC
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MVC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MVC

MVC
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MVC in England over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MVC in England

MVC
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MVC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MVC

MVC
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MVC within the England region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -36 37 £469 -18.48% 10
North of England -14 35 £475 -16.23% 37
North West +1 20 £450 +26.76% 21
Midlands -36 14 £550 +15.79% 26
Yorkshire -31 13 £494 -13.29% 12
South West -11 7 £505 +42.66% 19
East Midlands -14 7 £600 +67.83% 13
West Midlands -32 7 £406 -23.85% 12
South East -39 5 £316 -29.78% 41
North East -2 2 £500 - 4
East of England -24 1 - - 17
MVC
UK

MVC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (9.43%) CMS
2 7 (6.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 6 (5.66%) Umbraco
4 5 (4.72%) Headless CMS
4 5 (4.72%) Sitecore CMS
4 5 (4.72%) SugarCRM
5 4 (3.77%) Confluence
6 2 (1.89%) Moodle
7 1 (0.94%) CICS
7 1 (0.94%) JBoss
7 1 (0.94%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.94%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (44.34%) Azure
2 28 (26.42%) AWS
3 22 (20.75%) GitHub
4 13 (12.26%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (10.38%) Serverless
6 8 (7.55%) AWS Step Functions
6 8 (7.55%) GCP
7 7 (6.60%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (6.60%) Kontent
8 6 (5.66%) Azure AKS
9 5 (4.72%) Contentful
9 5 (4.72%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.77%) Amazon EventBridge
10 4 (3.77%) Apigee
10 4 (3.77%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.77%) Datadog
10 4 (3.77%) Loggly
10 4 (3.77%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.83%) DHCP
1 3 (2.83%) DNS
1 3 (2.83%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (31.13%) Relational Database
2 23 (21.70%) MySQL
3 22 (20.75%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (15.09%) SQL Server
5 11 (10.38%) Redis
6 10 (9.43%) NoSQL
7 9 (8.49%) MongoDB
8 8 (7.55%) DynamoDB
9 5 (4.72%) Oracle Database
9 5 (4.72%) RDBMS
10 4 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (3.77%) BigQuery
11 3 (2.83%) SQLite
12 2 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.89%) Power BI
12 2 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.94%) DB2
13 1 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 58 (54.72%) Git
2 18 (16.98%) JIRA
3 16 (15.09%) Jenkins
4 13 (12.26%) JUnit
5 11 (10.38%) Postman
6 10 (9.43%) Maven
7 9 (8.49%) SonarQube
8 7 (6.60%) Mockito
8 7 (6.60%) Xcode
9 6 (5.66%) GitLab
10 5 (4.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (4.72%) Gradle
10 5 (4.72%) REST Assured
10 5 (4.72%) SoapUI
10 5 (4.72%) Subversion
10 5 (4.72%) XCTest
11 4 (3.77%) Bitbucket
11 4 (3.77%) SonarLint
12 3 (2.83%) Jasmine
13 2 (1.89%) fastlane
General
1 35 (33.02%) Social Skills
2 26 (24.53%) Public Sector
3 20 (18.87%) Finance
4 8 (7.55%) Banking
5 3 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.83%) Marketing
6 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.89%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.94%) Games
7 1 (0.94%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.94%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 69 (65.09%) Developer
2 24 (22.64%) Full-Stack Developer
3 19 (17.92%) Java Developer
4 17 (16.04%) Senior
5 14 (13.21%) .NET Developer
5 14 (13.21%) Senior Developer
6 10 (9.43%) Architect
7 8 (7.55%) C# Developer
7 8 (7.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (6.60%) CMS Developer
9 6 (5.66%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (4.72%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 5 (4.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 5 (4.72%) Java Architect
10 5 (4.72%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (4.72%) Lead
10 5 (4.72%) React Developer
10 5 (4.72%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.72%) Technical Architect
10 5 (4.72%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (48.11%) RESTful
2 47 (44.34%) CSS
3 45 (42.45%) .NET
3 45 (42.45%) HTML
4 38 (35.85%) Spring
4 38 (35.85%) Spring Boot
5 36 (33.96%) AngularJS
6 32 (30.19%) React
7 25 (23.58%) .NET Framework
8 24 (22.64%) Spring MVC
9 21 (19.81%) ASP.NET Web API
10 20 (18.87%) SOAP
11 19 (17.92%) Web Services
12 18 (16.98%) ASP.NET
12 18 (16.98%) jQuery
12 18 (16.98%) REST
13 17 (16.04%) ASP.NET MVC
14 16 (15.09%) Hibernate
15 14 (13.21%) HTML5
16 12 (11.32%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.32%) Mobile App
2 10 (9.43%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.43%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (8.49%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.60%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (5.66%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.77%) Credit Risk
6 4 (3.77%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.77%) Market Risk
6 4 (3.77%) N-Tier
7 3 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.83%) e-Learning
7 3 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.89%) Animation
8 2 (1.89%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.89%) SCORM
9 1 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.94%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.55%) Windows
2 7 (6.60%) Unix
3 5 (4.72%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.77%) Linux
5 3 (2.83%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.89%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (57.55%) Agile
2 48 (45.28%) CI/CD
3 43 (40.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 39 (36.79%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (32.08%) DevOps
6 28 (26.42%) Microservices
7 26 (24.53%) OOP
8 25 (23.58%) Test Automation
9 24 (22.64%) Containerisation
10 23 (21.70%) Mentoring
10 23 (21.70%) TDD
11 22 (20.75%) Design Patterns
12 21 (19.81%) Code Quality
13 19 (17.92%) Scrum
14 16 (15.09%) Front End Development
14 16 (15.09%) OO
15 15 (14.15%) Unit Testing
15 15 (14.15%) User Experience
16 14 (13.21%) Continuous Integration
16 14 (13.21%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 50 (47.17%) JavaScript
2 42 (39.62%) C#
2 42 (39.62%) Java
3 32 (30.19%) SQL
4 8 (7.55%) PHP
4 8 (7.55%) TypeScript
5 7 (6.60%) Python
6 6 (5.66%) Shell Script
7 5 (4.72%) Groovy
8 4 (3.77%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.83%) Swift
10 2 (1.89%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.94%) Bash
11 1 (0.94%) COBOL
11 1 (0.94%) JCL
Qualifications
1 14 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (3.77%) Degree
2 4 (3.77%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.83%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.94%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.94%) PMP
4 1 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.09%) Accessibility
2 10 (9.43%) QA
System Software
1 35 (33.02%) Docker
2 6 (5.66%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.89%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (21.70%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.55%) Terraform
3 3 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.94%) Consul
4 1 (0.94%) Control-M
Vendors
1 18 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 16 (15.09%) Oracle
3 8 (7.55%) Adobe
3 8 (7.55%) GoldenSource
3 8 (7.55%) Sitecore
4 7 (6.60%) Splunk
5 5 (4.72%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (4.72%) Dynatrace
5 5 (4.72%) Google
6 4 (3.77%) Gigya
7 3 (2.83%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.83%) Marketo
7 3 (2.83%) OneTrust
7 3 (2.83%) VMware
8 2 (1.89%) Apple
8 2 (1.89%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.94%) Databricks
9 1 (0.94%) SAP