The first table below looks at the demand for VB6 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 VB6 over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VB6 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.508% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.887% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £300
% change year-on-year
-2.25% +10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.75 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.38% -
All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
53 62 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 26.90% 23.66% 29.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 31 29
Average daily rate £350 £325 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +44.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 5
Average hourly rate £34.13 £35.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -26.31%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
VB6
East of England

VB6
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VB6 across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Bedfordshire VB6 Jobs Demand Trend

VB6
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VB6 across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire VB6 Daily Rate Trend

VB6
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VB6 across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire VB6 Hourly Rate Trend

VB6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing VB6 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 VB6.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
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%) 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

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing VB6 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 VB6. 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%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VBA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft