Berkshire VB.NET Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VB.NET over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darwen Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Hampshire Haslemere Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horley Hounslow Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Wokingham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	94	103
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	23	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.042 %
As % of the category below	3.469 %	3.311 %
Daily rates quoted	9	12
Average minimum daily rate	£259	£344
Average daily rate	£267	£349
% change on same period last year	-23.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£276	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£326
% change on same period last year	-10.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.00	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£19.83	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-43.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.67	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.50	£31.33
% change on same period last year	-15.40 %
Programming Languages Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	663	1178
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.044 %	1.262 %
Daily rates quoted	171	286
Average minimum daily rate	£308	£331
Average daily rate	£326	£351
% change on same period last year	-7.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£332
% change on same period last year	-4.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	50	158
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.85	£36.05
Average hourly rate	£31.89	£37.89
% change on same period last year	-15.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.92	£39.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.21	£32.89
% change on same period last year	-5.10 %
VB.NET South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

VB.NET
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VB.NET across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VB.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

VB.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

VB.NET
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	+14	7	£293	-23.36 %
Slough	+4	3	£200	-
Wokingham	-	1	-	-

VB.NET South East

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing VB.NET 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.NET.

1 79 (100.00 %) .NET 2 62 (78.48 %) ASP.NET 3 56 (70.89 %) SQL Server 4 53 (67.09 %) SQL 5 39 (49.37 %) HTML 5 39 (49.37 %) XML 6 37 (46.84 %) JavaScript 7 36 (45.57 %) Transact-SQL 8 33 (41.77 %) DHTML 9 32 (40.51 %) XSL 10 29 (36.71 %) InterDev 11 28 (35.44 %) ASP 12 25 (31.65 %) VB 13 22 (27.85 %) COM+ 13 22 (27.85 %) Microsoft

14 20 (25.32 %) C# 15 19 (24.05 %) N-Tier 16 18 (22.78 %) SQL Server 2000 16 18 (22.78 %) SQL Server 2005 17 11 (13.92 %) VB6 18 10 (12.66 %) User Acceptance Testing 18 10 (12.66 %) System Testing 19 8 (10.13 %) CSS 20 6 (7.595 %) WebServices 20 6 (7.595 %) Web Development 21 5 (6.329 %) OO 22 4 (5.063 %) Oracle 23 3 (3.797 %) Configuration Management 23 3 (3.797 %) BizTalk Server 23 3 (3.797 %) SharePoint

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing VB.NET 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.NET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 79 (100.00 %) .NET 2 62 (78.48 %) ASP.NET 3 39 (49.37 %) HTML 3 39 (49.37 %) XML 4 32 (40.51 %) XSL 5 28 (35.44 %) ASP 6 22 (27.85 %) COM+ 7 8 (10.13 %) CSS 8 6 (7.595 %) WebServices 9 3 (3.797 %) XHTML 10 2 (2.532 %) WinForms 10 2 (2.532 %) AJAX 11 1 (1.266 %) .NET Framework 11 1 (1.266 %) ArcObjects 11 1 (1.266 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 1 (1.266 %) XSLT 11 1 (1.266 %) SOAP 11 1 (1.266 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 3 (3.797 %) IIS 1 3 (3.797 %) SharePoint 1 3 (3.797 %) BizTalk Server 2 2 (2.532 %) ArcGIS 3 1 (1.266 %) ArcSDE 3 1 (1.266 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 2 (2.532 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.266 %) AutoCAD 2 1 (1.266 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (1.266 %) Dynamics NAV 1 1 (1.266 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.266 %) SMS 1 1 (1.266 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 56 (70.89 %) SQL Server 2 18 (22.78 %) SQL Server 2000 2 18 (22.78 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (2.532 %) GIS 4 1 (1.266 %) MS Access 4 1 (1.266 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (1.266 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 29 (36.71 %) InterDev 2 1 (1.266 %) Subversion 2 1 (1.266 %) Visual Studio	General 1 3 (3.797 %) Retail 2 2 (2.532 %) Pensions 2 2 (2.532 %) Automotive 2 2 (2.532 %) Government 2 2 (2.532 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (1.266 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (1.266 %) Telecoms 3 1 (1.266 %) Finance 3 1 (1.266 %) Marketing 3 1 (1.266 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 66 (83.54 %) Developer 2 41 (51.90 %) .NET Developer 3 29 (36.71 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 28 (35.44 %) VB.NET Developer 5 22 (27.85 %) Applications Developer 5 22 (27.85 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 6 12 (15.19 %) .NET Applications Developer 6 12 (15.19 %) SQL Developer 7 9 (11.39 %) SQL Server Developer 8 7 (8.861 %) Analyst 8 7 (8.861 %) Web Developer 9 5 (6.329 %) Microsoft Developer 10 4 (5.063 %) Programmer 11 3 (3.797 %) .NET Programmer 11 3 (3.797 %) C# Developer 12 2 (2.532 %) GIS Developer 12 2 (2.532 %) Graduate Developer 12 2 (2.532 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 12 2 (2.532 %) Development Specialist 12 2 (2.532 %) Analyst Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 19 (24.05 %) N-Tier 2 2 (2.532 %) EPoS 2 2 (2.532 %) NHS 3 1 (1.266 %) Blackberry 3 1 (1.266 %) APACS 3 1 (1.266 %) Web 2.0 3 1 (1.266 %) Chip and PIN 3 1 (1.266 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 2 (2.532 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (12.66 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 10 (12.66 %) System Testing 2 6 (7.595 %) Web Development 3 5 (6.329 %) OO 4 3 (3.797 %) Configuration Management 5 2 (2.532 %) Project Management 5 2 (2.532 %) CRM 5 2 (2.532 %) E-Commerce 5 2 (2.532 %) Systems Analysis 5 2 (2.532 %) Business Analysis 6 1 (1.266 %) Statistical Analysis 6 1 (1.266 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (1.266 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (1.266 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (1.266 %) RUP 6 1 (1.266 %) GAP Analysis 6 1 (1.266 %) Validation 6 1 (1.266 %) Migration 6 1 (1.266 %) Scrum 6 1 (1.266 %) Data Management
Programming Languages 1 53 (67.09 %) SQL 2 37 (46.84 %) JavaScript 3 36 (45.57 %) Transact-SQL 4 33 (41.77 %) DHTML 5 25 (31.65 %) VB 6 20 (25.32 %) C# 7 11 (13.92 %) VB6 8 2 (2.532 %) PL/SQL 8 2 (2.532 %) VBA 8 2 (2.532 %) Java 9 1 (1.266 %) PHP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.532 %) HL7
Systems Management 1 1 (1.266 %) ServiceCenter	Vendors 1 22 (27.85 %) Microsoft 2 4 (5.063 %) Oracle 3 2 (2.532 %) Sage 4 1 (1.266 %) Primavera 4 1 (1.266 %) ESRI 4 1 (1.266 %) MKS 4 1 (1.266 %) Siebel 4 1 (1.266 %) IBM 4 1 (1.266 %) Adobe 4 1 (1.266 %) HP