VB Contracts in Bedfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 29 33 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Contract jobs citing VB 1 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.532% 0.704% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.852% 2.941% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £26.14 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+30.06% -12.86%
All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 54 68 89
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 28.72% 23.94% 30.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 32 36
Average daily rate £338 £325 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% +62.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 8
Average hourly rate £24.38 £40.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.06% -15.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VB
East of England

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VB across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Bedfordshire VB Jobs Demand Trend

VB
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VB across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire VB Daily Rate Trend

VB
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VB across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire VB Hourly Rate Trend

VB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton - 1 £350 -
VB
East of England

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing VB also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VB.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VBA
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) VB6
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WF
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Web Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2012

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing VB also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WF
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VBA
1 1 (100.00%) VB6
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
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