MVC Contracts in the UK excluding London

Model-View-Controller (MVC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring MVC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MVC over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 307 270
Rank change year-on-year +21 -37 -95
Contract jobs citing MVC 50 92 199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.44% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.52% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 76 151
10th Percentile £281 £275 £320
25th Percentile £345 £313 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £378 £435
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% -13.22% -0.57%
75th Percentile £488 £475 £500
90th Percentile £524 £538 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £468 £475
% change year-on-year +6.84% -1.47% +2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £52.50
25th Percentile - £22.75 £56.25
Median hourly rate £29.25 £24.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.39% -62.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile - £26.25 £76.25
90th Percentile - - £81.50
UK median hourly rate £29.25 £24.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +19.39% -69.38% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

MVC
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MVC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MVC in the UK excluding London

MVC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MVC in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for MVC in the UK excluding London

MVC
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MVC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MVC in the UK excluding London

MVC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MVC in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for MVC in the UK excluding London

MVC
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MVC within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +43 17 £475 +18.75% 59
Midlands +23 14 £363 +7.56% 39
West Midlands +19 11 £537 +38.58% 22
Scotland +3 7 £400 -12.85% 8
North West +9 5 £358 -10.50% 37
North of England +8 5 £358 -10.50% 67
South West +31 3 £354 +1.14% 26
East Midlands +5 2 £326 +8.67% 15
Wales - 2 £160 - 2
East of England +22 1 £515 +37.33% 35
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3
MVC
UK

MVC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (14.00%) CMS
1 7 (14.00%) Confluence
2 6 (12.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (10.00%) Apache
4 4 (8.00%) Drupal
4 4 (8.00%) WordPress
5 2 (4.00%) Umbraco
6 1 (2.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (2.00%) JBoss
6 1 (2.00%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (2.00%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (2.00%) Tomcat
6 1 (2.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (10.00%) InfoPath
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.00%) Azure
2 9 (18.00%) Dynamics 365
3 8 (16.00%) Power Platform
3 8 (16.00%) PowerApps
4 6 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (12.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (10.00%) Azure Functions
5 5 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 5 (10.00%) Serverless
6 4 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (6.00%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.00%) AWS
8 2 (4.00%) SaaS
9 1 (2.00%) dbt
9 1 (2.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (26.00%) Relational Database
2 12 (24.00%) SQL Server
3 11 (22.00%) MySQL
3 11 (22.00%) NoSQL
4 7 (14.00%) MongoDB
5 5 (10.00%) Power BI
5 5 (10.00%) RDBMS
6 4 (8.00%) Redis
7 3 (6.00%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (36.00%) Git
2 9 (18.00%) JIRA
2 9 (18.00%) Subversion
3 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.00%) Postman
4 4 (8.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (8.00%) CA Release Automation
4 4 (8.00%) Gradle
4 4 (8.00%) HP UFT
4 4 (8.00%) IntelliJ
4 4 (8.00%) JUnit
4 4 (8.00%) Maven
4 4 (8.00%) NetBeans
4 4 (8.00%) Selenium
5 3 (6.00%) Xcode
6 2 (4.00%) Codeception
7 1 (2.00%) Hudson
7 1 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (2.00%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (12.00%) Finance
1 6 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.00%) Automotive
4 1 (2.00%) Billing
4 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (60.00%) Developer
2 10 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 9 (18.00%) .NET Developer
3 9 (18.00%) Architect
4 6 (12.00%) C# Developer
4 6 (12.00%) Software Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 5 (10.00%) PHP Developer
5 5 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (8.00%) Automation Architect
6 4 (8.00%) PHP Software Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Java Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Mobile Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) SAP Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Senior
7 3 (6.00%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Power Apps Developer
8 2 (4.00%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (52.00%) HTML
2 25 (50.00%) CSS
3 22 (44.00%) .NET
4 17 (34.00%) Web Services
5 15 (30.00%) ASP.NET
6 14 (28.00%) HTML5
7 13 (26.00%) jQuery
8 11 (22.00%) AngularJS
8 11 (22.00%) CSS3
8 11 (22.00%) REST
9 10 (20.00%) .NET Framework
9 10 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
9 10 (20.00%) Laravel
10 9 (18.00%) React
11 8 (16.00%) Ajax
11 8 (16.00%) ASP.NET Web API
11 8 (16.00%) HTML5 Canvas
11 8 (16.00%) Kafka
12 6 (12.00%) Blazor
13 5 (10.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (8.00%) Data Structures
3 4 (8.00%) Legacy Code
4 3 (6.00%) Credit Risk
4 3 (6.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (6.00%) iPad
4 3 (6.00%) iPhone
4 3 (6.00%) Mainframe
4 3 (6.00%) Mobile App
4 3 (6.00%) NHS
4 3 (6.00%) Virtual Team
5 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.00%) N-Tier
5 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.00%) Wiki
6 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.00%) Unix
2 4 (8.00%) Linux
3 3 (6.00%) Android
3 3 (6.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (56.00%) Agile
2 22 (44.00%) Scrum
3 15 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 15 (30.00%) OO
4 14 (28.00%) CI/CD
5 12 (24.00%) Design Patterns
5 12 (24.00%) Software Engineering
6 10 (20.00%) CRM
6 10 (20.00%) DevOps
6 10 (20.00%) Microservices
6 10 (20.00%) Workflow
7 9 (18.00%) OO PHP
7 9 (18.00%) TDD
8 8 (16.00%) Code Quality
8 8 (16.00%) User Experience
9 7 (14.00%) API Development
9 7 (14.00%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (14.00%) SDLC
9 7 (14.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (74.00%) JavaScript
2 22 (44.00%) C#
3 14 (28.00%) PHP
3 14 (28.00%) SQL
4 9 (18.00%) Java
5 5 (10.00%) ABAP
5 5 (10.00%) COBOL
6 3 (6.00%) Objective-C
6 3 (6.00%) Swift
6 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Degree
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.00%) Docker
3 1 (2.00%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (2.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.00%) Progress Chef
2 4 (8.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (20.00%) Zend
3 7 (14.00%) SAP
4 4 (8.00%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.00%) Adobe
5 1 (2.00%) IBM
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) Rackspace
5 1 (2.00%) Sitecore