MVC Contracts

Model-View-Controller (MVC)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MVC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MVC over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 370 226
Rank change year-on-year +8 -144 -22
Contract jobs citing MVC 222 354 1,128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.63% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.70% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 260 898
10th Percentile £301 £350 £356
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £627 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £380 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -10.59% -5.56% +18.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 15
10th Percentile - £41.60 £49.00
25th Percentile £22.75 £50.00 £60.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £80.00 £62.15
Median % change year-on-year -69.38% +28.72% +40.45%
75th Percentile £26.25 £85.00 £66.50
90th Percentile - - £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 £65.00 £63.25
% change year-on-year -62.31% +2.77% +75.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

MVC is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 June 2024.

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 June 2024. 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 -11 179 £468 -1.47% 412
Work from Home +69 112 £475 -5.00% 304
London +58 97 £525 -2.78% 121
UK excluding London -32 84 £380 -10.59% 317
South East -1 19 £390 -5.45% 64
South West +10 16 £350 -31.71% 41
Scotland +32 15 £438 -7.89% 15
North of England -3 13 £388 -24.39% 98
Midlands 0 12 £350 -4.76% 71
North West +9 10 £325 -41.15% 57
East of England -1 9 £375 +11.11% 17
East Midlands -4 7 £300 -16.67% 25
West Midlands +8 5 £400 -10.21% 46
Yorkshire +4 3 £400 -20.00% 29
Wales +15 1 - - 7

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 27 (12.16%) CMS
2 6 (2.70%) Umbraco
3 5 (2.25%) IIS
4 4 (1.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.35%) Kentico
6 2 (0.90%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.90%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.90%) Confluence
6 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.90%) WordPress
7 1 (0.45%) CoreMedia CMS
7 1 (0.45%) Drupal
7 1 (0.45%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.45%) nginx
7 1 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 8 (3.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.35%) Shopify
3 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.45%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.45%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 95 (42.79%) Azure
2 51 (22.97%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (13.51%) AWS
4 20 (9.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 18 (8.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 18 (8.11%) Serverless
6 13 (5.86%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (5.41%) Azure Pipelines
7 12 (5.41%) GitHub
8 10 (4.50%) Azure Functions
9 9 (4.05%) PaaS
10 8 (3.60%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.70%) OpenShift
12 5 (2.25%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (2.25%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.25%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.80%) NuGet
14 3 (1.35%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.35%) Firewall
1 3 (1.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (39.19%) SQL Server
2 21 (9.46%) NoSQL
3 18 (8.11%) MySQL
4 13 (5.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (4.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (4.05%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (4.05%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.70%) Oracle Database
9 5 (2.25%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (2.25%) Redis
10 4 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.80%) Power BI
11 3 (1.35%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.90%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.90%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.90%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 40 (18.02%) Git
2 13 (5.86%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.86%) TeamCity
3 12 (5.41%) Maven
3 12 (5.41%) Team Foundation Server
4 10 (4.50%) Visual Studio
5 8 (3.60%) Mockito
5 8 (3.60%) NUnit
5 8 (3.60%) Octopus Deploy
6 7 (3.15%) JIRA
6 7 (3.15%) Selenium
7 5 (2.25%) Jasmine
8 4 (1.80%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.80%) Gatling
8 4 (1.80%) JUnit
8 4 (1.80%) ScalaTest
9 3 (1.35%) Moq
9 3 (1.35%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.35%) TestNG
9 3 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (20.72%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.32%) Finance
3 28 (12.61%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.31%) Banking
5 13 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.05%) Back Office
7 6 (2.70%) Tech for Good
8 4 (1.80%) Retail
9 3 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.35%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.35%) Marketing
10 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) French Language
11 1 (0.45%) Games
11 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Local Government
11 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 182 (81.98%) Developer
2 51 (22.97%) .NET Developer
3 39 (17.57%) Full Stack Developer
4 34 (15.32%) Senior
5 32 (14.41%) C# Developer
6 30 (13.51%) Senior Developer
7 21 (9.46%) Architect
8 16 (7.21%) Applications Developer
9 15 (6.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 14 (6.31%) Software Developer
11 12 (5.41%) C# .NET Developer
11 12 (5.41%) Technical Architect
12 11 (4.95%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 10 (4.50%) Java Developer
14 9 (4.05%) Full Stack .NET Developer
15 7 (3.15%) Software Engineer
16 6 (2.70%) PHP Developer
16 6 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
16 6 (2.70%) SSIS Developer
16 6 (2.70%) SSRS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (69.37%) .NET
2 90 (40.54%) CSS
3 85 (38.29%) HTML
4 78 (35.14%) ASP.NET
5 66 (29.73%) React
6 55 (24.77%) .NET Core
7 51 (22.97%) AngularJS
8 49 (22.07%) REST
9 45 (20.27%) .NET Framework
10 42 (18.92%) ASP.NET MVC
10 42 (18.92%) jQuery
11 38 (17.12%) Entity Framework
11 38 (17.12%) Web Services
12 35 (15.77%) Spring
13 26 (11.71%) Spring MVC
14 25 (11.26%) WCF
15 22 (9.91%) Vue
16 21 (9.46%) Node.js
16 21 (9.46%) RESTful
16 21 (9.46%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.86%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.60%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.15%) Reinsurance
4 3 (1.35%) N-Tier
5 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.90%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.45%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.45%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.45%) Derivative
6 1 (0.45%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.45%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.95%) Linux
2 10 (4.50%) Unix
3 7 (3.15%) Android
3 7 (3.15%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (43.24%) Agile
2 81 (36.49%) DevOps
3 51 (22.97%) Full Stack Development
4 45 (20.27%) OO
5 38 (17.12%) TDD
6 35 (15.77%) Design Patterns
6 35 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (14.41%) Scrum
8 31 (13.96%) Web Development
9 29 (13.06%) Front End Development
10 28 (12.61%) Unit Testing
11 26 (11.71%) OOP
12 24 (10.81%) Microservices
12 24 (10.81%) SOLID
13 22 (9.91%) CI/CD
14 20 (9.01%) OOD
15 18 (8.11%) Clean Code
15 18 (8.11%) Software Engineering
16 16 (7.21%) Continuous Integration
17 15 (6.76%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 133 (59.91%) C#
2 121 (54.50%) JavaScript
3 82 (36.94%) SQL
4 45 (20.27%) TypeScript
5 41 (18.47%) Java
6 15 (6.76%) Bicep
7 10 (4.50%) PowerShell
8 9 (4.05%) T-SQL
9 8 (3.60%) PHP
10 7 (3.15%) Python
11 6 (2.70%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.25%) Ruby
12 5 (2.25%) Scala
13 3 (1.35%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.90%) C
15 1 (0.45%) C++
15 1 (0.45%) Perl
15 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.45%) Swift
15 1 (0.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (7.66%) Security Cleared
2 15 (6.76%) Degree
3 11 (4.95%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.25%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.26%) Accessibility
2 17 (7.66%) WCAG
3 13 (5.86%) QA
4 3 (1.35%) SLA
5 2 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.45%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 23 (10.36%) Docker
2 19 (8.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (6.31%) Terraform
2 12 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.05%) Grafana
4 4 (1.80%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.90%) Kibana
6 1 (0.45%) Ansible
6 1 (0.45%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.45%) Packer
6 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 47 (21.17%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.21%) Oracle
3 8 (3.60%) SAP
4 5 (2.25%) Optimizely
5 4 (1.80%) Adobe
5 4 (1.80%) Google
5 4 (1.80%) Sitecore
6 3 (1.35%) Dell
6 3 (1.35%) Intel
6 3 (1.35%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.90%) IBM
7 2 (0.90%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.45%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.45%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.45%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.45%) Nintex
8 1 (0.45%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.45%) Tradeweb