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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 418 357 378
Rank change year-on-year -61 +21 -150
Contract jobs citing MVC 112 238 336
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.55% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.64% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 184 243
10th Percentile £328 £306 £350
25th Percentile £380 £380 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -2.56%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £575
90th Percentile £625 £663 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £380 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% -15.56% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £41.60
25th Percentile - £22.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £29.25 £24.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.39% -69.38% +29.82%
75th Percentile - £26.25 £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.25 £24.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.39% -62.31% +2.77%

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 28,184 37,006 49,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.85% 85.27% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,766 23,597 34,412
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% -4.55% +1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,384 2,548 1,711
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.88 £61.30 £64.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%

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 2 July 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 16 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 2 July 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 -41 90 £500 +4.55% 751
UK excluding London +15 55 £400 +5.26% 550
London -26 48 £525 -8.70% 236
Work from Home -43 37 £455 -5.70% 498
North of England +11 16 £400 +3.23% 155
South East +45 13 £475 +18.75% 160
Scotland 0 12 £400 -8.10% 36
North West +9 9 £367 +12.92% 86
Midlands -1 6 £288 -17.86% 71
South West +30 5 £393 +14.18% 47
North East +3 5 £525 - 9
West Midlands +8 4 £256 -36.06% 45
Wales +7 2 £160 - 11
East Midlands -2 2 £326 +8.67% 26
Yorkshire -3 2 £575 +43.75% 60
East of England +13 1 £350 -6.67% 74

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 11 (9.82%) Confluence
2 8 (7.14%) CMS
3 5 (4.46%) Apache
4 4 (3.57%) Drupal
4 4 (3.57%) JBoss
4 4 (3.57%) Tomcat
4 4 (3.57%) WordPress
5 3 (2.68%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.79%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.89%) IIS
7 1 (0.89%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.89%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) InfoPath
1 1 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.89%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 53 (47.32%) Azure
2 23 (20.54%) AWS
3 15 (13.39%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.93%) Azure Service Bus
5 8 (7.14%) GCP
5 8 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 7 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (6.25%) Entra ID
7 6 (5.36%) PowerApps
8 5 (4.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.68%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.68%) GitHub
9 3 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.68%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.68%) SaaS
10 2 (1.79%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.79%) Boomi
10 2 (1.79%) PaaS
10 2 (1.79%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.57%) Internet
2 2 (1.79%) DHCP
2 2 (1.79%) DNS
2 2 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (30.36%) SQL Server
2 19 (16.96%) NoSQL
3 16 (14.29%) MySQL
4 15 (13.39%) Relational Database
5 14 (12.50%) MongoDB
6 12 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.46%) Redis
8 3 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.68%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.79%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.79%) Power BI
9 2 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.89%) MS Access
10 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.89%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 38 (33.93%) Git
2 22 (19.64%) JIRA
3 16 (14.29%) Maven
4 15 (13.39%) Jenkins
5 13 (11.61%) JUnit
6 12 (10.71%) Gradle
7 9 (8.04%) Subversion
7 9 (8.04%) Xcode
8 6 (5.36%) Mockito
8 6 (5.36%) NUnit
8 6 (5.36%) Visual Studio
9 4 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (3.57%) CA Release Automation
9 4 (3.57%) GitLab
9 4 (3.57%) HP UFT
9 4 (3.57%) IntelliJ
9 4 (3.57%) NetBeans
9 4 (3.57%) Selenium
10 3 (2.68%) Ant
10 3 (2.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 27 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.07%) Finance
3 16 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.36%) Banking
6 4 (3.57%) Legal
7 3 (2.68%) Billing
8 2 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Automotive
9 1 (0.89%) Back Office
9 1 (0.89%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.89%) Front Office
9 1 (0.89%) Games
9 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Local Government
9 1 (0.89%) Marketing
9 1 (0.89%) Retail
9 1 (0.89%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (58.04%) Developer
2 20 (17.86%) .NET Developer
3 15 (13.39%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (12.50%) Lead
4 14 (12.50%) Senior
5 11 (9.82%) Architect
5 11 (9.82%) C# Developer
6 9 (8.04%) Technical Leader
7 8 (7.14%) Java Developer
7 8 (7.14%) Senior Developer
8 7 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
9 6 (5.36%) Data Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Mobile Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Software Developer
9 6 (5.36%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (3.57%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 4 (3.57%) PHP Software Engineer
11 4 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
12 3 (2.68%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (52.68%) .NET
2 41 (36.61%) HTML
3 38 (33.93%) CSS
4 37 (33.04%) ASP.NET
5 35 (31.25%) .NET Framework
6 33 (29.46%) Web Services
7 30 (26.79%) REST
7 30 (26.79%) Spring
8 29 (25.89%) AngularJS
9 25 (22.32%) ASP.NET MVC
10 24 (21.43%) React
10 24 (21.43%) Spring Boot
11 23 (20.54%) .NET Core
11 23 (20.54%) Entity Framework
12 22 (19.64%) ASP.NET Web API
12 22 (19.64%) RESTful
13 20 (17.86%) Spring MVC
14 17 (15.18%) jQuery
14 17 (15.18%) SOAP
15 15 (13.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.04%) Enterprise Software
1 9 (8.04%) Mobile App
2 8 (7.14%) Virtual Team
3 7 (6.25%) N-Tier
4 6 (5.36%) Credit Risk
4 6 (5.36%) iPad
4 6 (5.36%) iPhone
5 5 (4.46%) Legacy Code
5 5 (4.46%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.57%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.57%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.68%) NHS
8 2 (1.79%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.79%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.79%) PKI
8 2 (1.79%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.79%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.61%) Unix
2 12 (10.71%) Linux
3 10 (8.93%) Apple iOS
4 9 (8.04%) Android
5 7 (6.25%) Windows
6 3 (2.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (58.04%) Agile
2 43 (38.39%) Scrum
3 36 (32.14%) Design Patterns
4 33 (29.46%) CI/CD
5 31 (27.68%) DevOps
6 27 (24.11%) TDD
7 23 (20.54%) Full-Stack Development
8 21 (18.75%) Microservices
8 21 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (16.07%) OOP
9 18 (16.07%) Software Engineering
9 18 (16.07%) Unit Testing
10 17 (15.18%) Web Development
11 16 (14.29%) MVVM
11 16 (14.29%) OO
12 14 (12.50%) BDD
13 12 (10.71%) CRM
13 12 (10.71%) SDLC
13 12 (10.71%) Test Automation
13 12 (10.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 54 (48.21%) JavaScript
2 49 (43.75%) C#
3 44 (39.29%) SQL
4 36 (32.14%) Java
5 9 (8.04%) PHP
5 9 (8.04%) Swift
5 9 (8.04%) TypeScript
6 7 (6.25%) Objective-C
6 7 (6.25%) Python
6 7 (6.25%) Shell Script
7 6 (5.36%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.68%) Groovy
9 2 (1.79%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.79%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.79%) VB
10 1 (0.89%) COBOL
10 1 (0.89%) JCL
10 1 (0.89%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.89%) VBA
10 1 (0.89%) XAML
Qualifications
1 10 (8.93%) Degree
2 9 (8.04%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (8.04%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.46%) MCPD
4 5 (4.46%) MCSD
5 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.89%) MCAD
6 1 (0.89%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.93%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.57%) QA
3 2 (1.79%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (1.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 2 (1.79%) WCAG
4 1 (0.89%) EMIR
4 1 (0.89%) HL7
4 1 (0.89%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.89%) MiFID
4 1 (0.89%) NIST
4 1 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (9.82%) Docker
2 9 (8.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.89%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.57%) Progress Chef
2 4 (3.57%) Puppet
3 1 (0.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.04%) Oracle
3 7 (6.25%) CA Agile Central
4 6 (5.36%) Zend
5 4 (3.57%) Cisco
6 3 (2.68%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.68%) Splunk
7 2 (1.79%) Google
7 2 (1.79%) VMware
8 1 (0.89%) Adobe
8 1 (0.89%) Apple
8 1 (0.89%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.89%) CQG
8 1 (0.89%) IBM
8 1 (0.89%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.89%) Reuters
8 1 (0.89%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.89%) Sun