MVC Contracts

Model-View-Controller (MVC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 420 349 350
Rank change year-on-year -71 +1 -115
Contract jobs citing MVC 100 241 411
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.55% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.64% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 193 300
10th Percentile £329 £306 £348
25th Percentile £400 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% -1.47% +2.43%
75th Percentile £615 £545 £575
90th Percentile £664 £650 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £378 £435
% change year-on-year +5.96% -13.22% -0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £47.20
25th Percentile - £22.75 £62.50
Median hourly rate £29.25 £24.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.39% -69.38% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £26.25 £85.00
90th Percentile - - £87.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.25 £24.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.39% -62.31% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

MVC
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MVC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MVC in the UK

MVC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MVC.

Daily rate trend for MVC in the UK

MVC
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for MVC in the UK

MVC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MVC.

Hourly rate trend for MVC in the UK

MVC
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 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
England -56 83 £508 +8.44% 262
UK excluding London +21 50 £400 +5.96% 215
London -27 41 £552 +5.95% 65
Work from Home -40 35 £475 - 212
South East +43 17 £475 +18.75% 57
Midlands +23 14 £363 +7.56% 37
West Midlands +19 11 £537 +38.58% 20
Scotland +3 7 £400 -12.85% 9
North West +9 5 £358 -10.50% 32
North of England +8 5 £358 -10.50% 61
South West +31 3 £354 +1.14% 20
East Midlands +5 2 £326 +8.67% 15
Wales - 2 £160 - 2
East of England +22 1 £515 +37.33% 33
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

MVC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (7.00%) CMS
1 7 (7.00%) Confluence
2 6 (6.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.00%) Apache
4 4 (4.00%) Drupal
4 4 (4.00%) WordPress
5 3 (3.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (3.00%) Umbraco
6 1 (1.00%) ArcGIS
6 1 (1.00%) IIS
6 1 (1.00%) JBoss
6 1 (1.00%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (1.00%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (1.00%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (5.00%) InfoPath
2 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (11.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (47.00%) Azure
2 15 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (11.00%) Dynamics 365
3 11 (11.00%) Power Platform
4 10 (10.00%) AWS
4 10 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 9 (9.00%) PowerApps
6 7 (7.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 7 (7.00%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (6.00%) Azure Functions
7 6 (6.00%) Entra ID
7 6 (6.00%) GCP
7 6 (6.00%) Serverless
8 5 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (5.00%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.00%) GitHub
9 3 (3.00%) SaaS
10 2 (2.00%) Boomi
10 2 (2.00%) PaaS
11 1 (1.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.00%) Internet
2 2 (2.00%) DHCP
2 2 (2.00%) DNS
2 2 (2.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (2.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (38.00%) SQL Server
2 22 (22.00%) Relational Database
3 17 (17.00%) NoSQL
4 15 (15.00%) MySQL
5 10 (10.00%) MongoDB
6 7 (7.00%) Redis
7 5 (5.00%) Power BI
7 5 (5.00%) RDBMS
8 4 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (3.00%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (2.00%) Hadoop
10 2 (2.00%) Oracle Database
11 1 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (1.00%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 33 (33.00%) Git
2 13 (13.00%) JIRA
3 11 (11.00%) Maven
3 11 (11.00%) Subversion
4 9 (9.00%) Jenkins
5 8 (8.00%) Postman
6 7 (7.00%) Gradle
6 7 (7.00%) JUnit
7 5 (5.00%) NUnit
7 5 (5.00%) Xcode
8 4 (4.00%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (4.00%) CA Release Automation
8 4 (4.00%) HP UFT
8 4 (4.00%) IntelliJ
8 4 (4.00%) NetBeans
8 4 (4.00%) Selenium
8 4 (4.00%) Visual Studio
9 3 (3.00%) Ant
9 3 (3.00%) Mockito
10 2 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 18 (18.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.00%) Finance
3 8 (8.00%) Banking
3 8 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.00%) Billing
6 2 (2.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.00%) Automotive
7 1 (1.00%) Aviation
7 1 (1.00%) Back Office
7 1 (1.00%) Front Office
7 1 (1.00%) Marketing
7 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Retail
7 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (62.00%) Developer
2 26 (26.00%) .NET Developer
3 17 (17.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (15.00%) Architect
5 14 (14.00%) Lead
6 13 (13.00%) C# Developer
7 12 (12.00%) C# .NET Developer
8 11 (11.00%) Senior
9 9 (9.00%) Lead Developer
10 8 (8.00%) Senior Developer
11 7 (7.00%) Lead .NET Developer
11 7 (7.00%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (6.00%) Lead C# Developer
12 6 (6.00%) Software Engineer
13 5 (5.00%) Data Engineer
13 5 (5.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 5 (5.00%) PHP Developer
13 5 (5.00%) Senior .NET Developer
13 5 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (61.00%) .NET
2 44 (44.00%) HTML
3 42 (42.00%) ASP.NET
3 42 (42.00%) CSS
4 38 (38.00%) .NET Framework
5 32 (32.00%) Web Services
6 30 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 27 (27.00%) AngularJS
8 24 (24.00%) REST
9 22 (22.00%) .NET Core
9 22 (22.00%) Entity Framework
10 21 (21.00%) ASP.NET Web API
11 20 (20.00%) jQuery
12 19 (19.00%) HTML5
12 19 (19.00%) React
13 14 (14.00%) CSS3
13 14 (14.00%) Vue
14 13 (13.00%) Spring
15 12 (12.00%) RESTful
15 12 (12.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (7.00%) N-Tier
3 5 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (5.00%) Legacy Code
3 5 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (4.00%) Mainframe
4 4 (4.00%) Market Risk
4 4 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.00%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.00%) Credit Risk
5 3 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.00%) iPad
5 3 (3.00%) iPhone
5 3 (3.00%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.00%) NHS
6 2 (2.00%) Reinsurance
6 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.00%) Linux
1 9 (9.00%) Unix
2 7 (7.00%) Windows
3 4 (4.00%) Android
3 4 (4.00%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (52.00%) Agile
2 35 (35.00%) Scrum
3 29 (29.00%) CI/CD
4 28 (28.00%) Design Patterns
4 28 (28.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (25.00%) DevOps
6 23 (23.00%) OO
7 21 (21.00%) TDD
8 18 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (18.00%) Web Development
9 17 (17.00%) OOP
10 16 (16.00%) CRM
10 16 (16.00%) Microservices
10 16 (16.00%) Unit Testing
11 14 (14.00%) Software Engineering
12 12 (12.00%) API Development
12 12 (12.00%) Code Quality
13 11 (11.00%) MVVM
13 11 (11.00%) SDLC
13 11 (11.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 62 (62.00%) JavaScript
2 54 (54.00%) C#
3 37 (37.00%) SQL
4 20 (20.00%) Java
5 15 (15.00%) PHP
6 9 (9.00%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.00%) COBOL
7 6 (6.00%) Python
7 6 (6.00%) T-SQL
8 5 (5.00%) ABAP
9 4 (4.00%) Objective-C
9 4 (4.00%) Swift
10 3 (3.00%) Shell Script
11 2 (2.00%) Groovy
11 2 (2.00%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.00%) VB
12 1 (1.00%) JCL
12 1 (1.00%) Ruby
12 1 (1.00%) VBA
12 1 (1.00%) XAML
Qualifications
1 11 (11.00%) Degree
2 9 (9.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (5.00%) MCPD
3 5 (5.00%) MCSD
4 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.00%) MCAD
5 1 (1.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.00%) WCAG
3 2 (2.00%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (2.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 2 (2.00%) SLA
4 1 (1.00%) EMIR
4 1 (1.00%) HL7
4 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 8 (8.00%) Docker
2 7 (7.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (1.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.00%) Progress Chef
2 4 (4.00%) Puppet
3 1 (1.00%) QRadar
3 1 (1.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (34.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.00%) Zend
3 8 (8.00%) SAP
4 6 (6.00%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (4.00%) Oracle
6 3 (3.00%) Cisco
7 2 (2.00%) Adobe
7 2 (2.00%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.00%) IBM
7 2 (2.00%) Sitecore
7 2 (2.00%) Splunk
7 2 (2.00%) Sun
7 2 (2.00%) VMware
8 1 (1.00%) Apple
8 1 (1.00%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.00%) Google
8 1 (1.00%) ION Trading
8 1 (1.00%) Rackspace
8 1 (1.00%) Reuters
8 1 (1.00%) Salesforce