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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 375 220
Rank change year-on-year -2 -155 -21
Contract jobs citing MVC 230 351 1,148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.63% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.70% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 259 911
10th Percentile £306 £350 £356
25th Percentile £385 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £628 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% +16.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 15
10th Percentile - £41.60 £33.30
25th Percentile £22.75 £50.00 £57.50
Median hourly rate £24.50 £80.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.38% +33.33% +37.93%
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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 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 9 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 +14 188 £475 - 387
Work from Home +74 117 £478 -4.35% 308
London +55 106 £550 +2.33% 93
UK excluding London -22 84 £400 -5.88% 323
South East +3 20 £400 -3.03% 65
Scotland +35 15 £438 -7.89% 13
South West +16 14 £450 -14.29% 30
Midlands +1 13 £350 -2.78% 74
North of England -1 13 £388 -24.39% 105
North West +1 10 £325 -41.15% 67
East of England -2 9 £375 +11.11% 20
East Midlands -3 7 £300 -16.67% 25
West Midlands +8 6 £400 -10.21% 49
Yorkshire -2 3 £400 -20.00% 25
Wales +19 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 26 (11.30%) CMS
2 6 (2.61%) Umbraco
3 5 (2.17%) IIS
4 4 (1.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.30%) Kentico
6 2 (0.87%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.87%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.87%) Confluence
6 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.87%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.87%) WordPress
7 1 (0.43%) CoreMedia CMS
7 1 (0.43%) Drupal
7 1 (0.43%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.43%) nginx
7 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 18 (7.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.30%) Shopify
3 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.43%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.43%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 105 (45.65%) Azure
2 58 (25.22%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (12.61%) AWS
4 23 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
5 19 (8.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 18 (7.83%) Serverless
7 17 (7.39%) Azure Service Bus
8 12 (5.22%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (5.22%) Azure Pipelines
8 12 (5.22%) GitHub
9 10 (4.35%) Azure Functions
9 10 (4.35%) Power Platform
10 8 (3.48%) PaaS
11 6 (2.61%) OpenShift
12 5 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (2.17%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.17%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.74%) NuGet
14 3 (1.30%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.30%) Firewall
1 3 (1.30%) HTTP
2 1 (0.43%) 4G
2 1 (0.43%) 5G
2 1 (0.43%) Broadband
2 1 (0.43%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (42.61%) SQL Server
2 21 (9.13%) NoSQL
3 19 (8.26%) MySQL
4 13 (5.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (5.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (3.48%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.61%) Oracle Database
9 5 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.17%) Redis
10 4 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.74%) Power BI
11 3 (1.30%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.87%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.87%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.87%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 40 (17.39%) Git
2 18 (7.83%) Visual Studio
3 13 (5.65%) TeamCity
4 12 (5.22%) Jenkins
4 12 (5.22%) Maven
5 11 (4.78%) Team Foundation Server
6 9 (3.91%) Visual Studio Team System
7 8 (3.48%) Mockito
7 8 (3.48%) NUnit
7 8 (3.48%) Octopus Deploy
8 7 (3.04%) JIRA
8 7 (3.04%) Selenium
9 5 (2.17%) Jasmine
10 4 (1.74%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.74%) Gatling
10 4 (1.74%) JUnit
10 4 (1.74%) ScalaTest
11 3 (1.30%) Moq
11 3 (1.30%) SpecFlow
11 3 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (21.30%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.22%) Finance
3 26 (11.30%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.52%) Banking
5 11 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.91%) Back Office
7 6 (2.61%) Tech for Good
8 5 (2.17%) Retail
9 3 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.30%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.30%) Marketing
10 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) French Language
11 1 (0.43%) Games
11 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.43%) Local Government
11 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 189 (82.17%) Developer
2 50 (21.74%) .NET Developer
3 40 (17.39%) Senior
4 39 (16.96%) Full Stack Developer
5 36 (15.65%) Senior Developer
6 33 (14.35%) C# Developer
7 23 (10.00%) Architect
8 15 (6.52%) Applications Developer
8 15 (6.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 13 (5.65%) Software Developer
10 12 (5.22%) C# .NET Developer
10 12 (5.22%) Technical Architect
11 11 (4.78%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.78%) Microsoft Developer
11 11 (4.78%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 9 (3.91%) Full Stack .NET Developer
13 8 (3.48%) Software Engineer
13 8 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (3.04%) Dynamics 365 Architect
14 7 (3.04%) Senior Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (69.57%) .NET
2 94 (40.87%) HTML
3 91 (39.57%) CSS
4 85 (36.96%) ASP.NET
5 67 (29.13%) React
6 55 (23.91%) .NET Core
7 54 (23.48%) .NET Framework
8 51 (22.17%) REST
9 50 (21.74%) AngularJS
10 42 (18.26%) jQuery
11 41 (17.83%) ASP.NET MVC
11 41 (17.83%) Entity Framework
12 40 (17.39%) Web Services
13 37 (16.09%) Spring
14 27 (11.74%) WCF
15 26 (11.30%) Spring MVC
16 22 (9.57%) Vue
17 21 (9.13%) ASP.NET Web API
17 21 (9.13%) Node.js
17 21 (9.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.65%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.48%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.04%) Reinsurance
4 3 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.30%) N-Tier
5 2 (0.87%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
5 2 (0.87%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.43%) Derivative
6 1 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.43%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.43%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.22%) Linux
2 11 (4.78%) Unix
3 7 (3.04%) Android
3 7 (3.04%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (42.17%) Agile
2 86 (37.39%) DevOps
3 51 (22.17%) Full Stack Development
4 44 (19.13%) OO
5 38 (16.52%) TDD
6 35 (15.22%) Design Patterns
6 35 (15.22%) Unit Testing
7 33 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (14.35%) Web Development
8 32 (13.91%) Scrum
9 29 (12.61%) Front End Development
10 24 (10.43%) CI/CD
10 24 (10.43%) OOP
11 23 (10.00%) Microservices
11 23 (10.00%) SOLID
12 22 (9.57%) CRM
13 20 (8.70%) OOD
14 19 (8.26%) Software Engineering
15 18 (7.83%) Clean Code
16 15 (6.52%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 141 (61.30%) C#
2 131 (56.96%) JavaScript
3 89 (38.70%) SQL
4 45 (19.57%) TypeScript
5 42 (18.26%) Java
6 18 (7.83%) T-SQL
7 15 (6.52%) Bicep
8 11 (4.78%) VB.NET
9 10 (4.35%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.91%) PHP
11 6 (2.61%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.61%) Python
12 5 (2.17%) Ruby
12 5 (2.17%) Scala
13 2 (0.87%) C
14 1 (0.43%) C++
14 1 (0.43%) Perl
14 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.43%) Swift
14 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (8.26%) Degree
2 17 (7.39%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.78%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.17%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.87%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.43%) Accessibility
2 16 (6.96%) WCAG
3 13 (5.65%) QA
4 3 (1.30%) SLA
5 2 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 23 (10.00%) Docker
2 19 (8.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (5.65%) Terraform
2 12 (5.22%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.91%) Grafana
4 4 (1.74%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.87%) Kibana
6 1 (0.43%) Ansible
6 1 (0.43%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.43%) Packer
6 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 57 (24.78%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.39%) Oracle
3 8 (3.48%) SAP
4 5 (2.17%) Optimizely
5 4 (1.74%) Adobe
5 4 (1.74%) Google
5 4 (1.74%) Sitecore
6 3 (1.30%) Dell
6 3 (1.30%) Intel
6 3 (1.30%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.87%) IBM
7 2 (0.87%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.43%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.43%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.43%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.43%) Nintex
8 1 (0.43%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.43%) Tradeweb
8 1 (0.43%) Virgin Media