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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 312 263
Rank change year-on-year +36 -49 -94
Contract jobs citing MVC 54 83 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.41% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.49% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 65 129
10th Percentile £290 £275 £331
25th Percentile £334 £306 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £430
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.79% -4.44%
75th Percentile £488 £475 £500
90th Percentile £563 £538 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £468 £475
% change year-on-year +6.84% -1.47% -
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% +3.67%
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% +28.72%

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 11,596 17,041 20,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.69% 84.15% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,235 10,189 14,096
10th Percentile £231 £250 £259
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,063 1,256
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.34 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.73
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

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 22 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 22 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 +44 16 £475 +18.75% 244
Midlands +12 13 £363 +7.56% 166
West Midlands +17 10 £537 +34.25% 92
North of England +16 10 £375 -6.25% 218
Scotland +6 10 £400 -8.83% 35
North West +8 7 £358 -1.24% 114
South West +19 2 £384 +9.64% 91
Wales +4 2 £160 - 18
East Midlands -2 2 £326 +8.67% 63
North East - 2 £625 - 30
East of England +18 1 £515 +37.33% 122
Yorkshire +9 1 £600 +47.24% 75
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 8 (14.81%) Confluence
2 7 (12.96%) CMS
3 5 (9.26%) Apache
4 4 (7.41%) Drupal
4 4 (7.41%) SharePoint
4 4 (7.41%) WordPress
5 2 (3.70%) JBoss
5 2 (3.70%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (1.85%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (1.85%) Umbraco
6 1 (1.85%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (7.41%) InfoPath
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (33.33%) Azure
2 8 (14.81%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (12.96%) Power Platform
3 7 (12.96%) PowerApps
4 6 (11.11%) AWS
5 5 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (7.41%) Azure Functions
6 4 (7.41%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (7.41%) Power Automate
6 4 (7.41%) Serverless
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.56%) GCP
8 2 (3.70%) SaaS
9 1 (1.85%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.85%) dbt
9 1 (1.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.93%) MySQL
2 12 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 11 (20.37%) NoSQL
3 11 (20.37%) Relational Database
4 10 (18.52%) MongoDB
5 4 (7.41%) Power BI
5 4 (7.41%) RDBMS
5 4 (7.41%) Redis
6 3 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (37.04%) Git
2 11 (20.37%) JIRA
3 9 (16.67%) Subversion
4 8 (14.81%) Jenkins
5 7 (12.96%) Gradle
5 7 (12.96%) JUnit
5 7 (12.96%) Maven
6 5 (9.26%) Postman
7 4 (7.41%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (7.41%) CA Release Automation
7 4 (7.41%) HP UFT
7 4 (7.41%) IntelliJ
7 4 (7.41%) NetBeans
7 4 (7.41%) Selenium
7 4 (7.41%) Xcode
8 2 (3.70%) Codeception
8 2 (3.70%) GitLab
8 2 (3.70%) Mockito
9 1 (1.85%) Hudson
9 1 (1.85%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (20.37%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.11%) Finance
4 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.85%) Automotive
5 1 (1.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Billing
5 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Games
5 1 (1.85%) Legal
5 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Retail
5 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (61.11%) Developer
2 10 (18.52%) Full-Stack Developer
3 8 (14.81%) .NET Developer
3 8 (14.81%) Architect
4 7 (12.96%) C# Developer
4 7 (12.96%) Java Developer
5 6 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (9.26%) Senior
7 4 (7.41%) Mobile Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) PHP Software Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Senior Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.56%) Automation Architect
8 3 (5.56%) PHP Developer
8 3 (5.56%) SAP Architect
9 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Power Apps Developer
9 2 (3.70%) SAP Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (42.59%) HTML
2 22 (40.74%) CSS
3 21 (38.89%) .NET
4 17 (31.48%) Web Services
5 14 (25.93%) ASP.NET
5 14 (25.93%) jQuery
6 13 (24.07%) AngularJS
6 13 (24.07%) React
7 11 (20.37%) HTML5
7 11 (20.37%) Kafka
7 11 (20.37%) REST
8 10 (18.52%) Spring
8 10 (18.52%) Spring MVC
9 9 (16.67%) .NET Framework
9 9 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
9 9 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
9 9 (16.67%) RESTful
9 9 (16.67%) Spring Boot
10 8 (14.81%) Ajax
10 8 (14.81%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (9.26%) Mobile App
2 5 (9.26%) Virtual Team
3 4 (7.41%) Credit Risk
3 4 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 4 (7.41%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (7.41%) iPad
3 4 (7.41%) iPhone
3 4 (7.41%) Legacy Code
4 3 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (5.56%) Mainframe
4 3 (5.56%) NHS
4 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.70%) N-Tier
5 2 (3.70%) Wiki
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.11%) Unix
2 5 (9.26%) Apple iOS
2 5 (9.26%) Linux
3 4 (7.41%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (61.11%) Agile
2 26 (48.15%) Scrum
3 17 (31.48%) CI/CD
4 15 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (25.93%) Microservices
6 13 (24.07%) Software Engineering
7 12 (22.22%) Design Patterns
7 12 (22.22%) DevOps
7 12 (22.22%) OO
8 11 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (20.37%) TDD
9 10 (18.52%) User Experience
10 9 (16.67%) Code Quality
10 9 (16.67%) Workflow
11 8 (14.81%) CRM
11 8 (14.81%) Test Automation
12 7 (12.96%) API Development
12 7 (12.96%) Deployment Automation
12 7 (12.96%) Migration
12 7 (12.96%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 35 (64.81%) JavaScript
2 21 (38.89%) C#
3 15 (27.78%) SQL
4 14 (25.93%) Java
5 11 (20.37%) PHP
6 5 (9.26%) ABAP
6 5 (9.26%) COBOL
6 5 (9.26%) Swift
7 4 (7.41%) Objective-C
8 3 (5.56%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.70%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) Degree
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.85%) ISO 22301
2 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.85%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (9.26%) Docker
2 3 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.85%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.41%) Progress Chef
2 4 (7.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 10 (18.52%) Zend
3 7 (12.96%) SAP
4 4 (7.41%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (3.70%) Oracle
6 1 (1.85%) Adobe
6 1 (1.85%) IBM
6 1 (1.85%) Sitecore