VB Contracts in Birmingham
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB over the 3 months to 21 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 Birmingham 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 48 33 20
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -13
Contract jobs citing VB 1 21 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.222% 3.376% 5.112%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.709% 8.607% 17.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 13
Average daily rate £250 £375 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +33.92%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £15.25 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £26.14 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+30.06% -12.86%
All Programming Languages
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 141 244 141
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 31.33% 39.23% 28.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 137 87
Average daily rate £325 £301 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.15% +7.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £442 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
Average hourly rate £37.00 £31.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.35% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VB
West Midlands

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham VB Hourly Rate Trend

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 5 (62.50%) MS Excel
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (50.00%) C
2 4 (50.00%) C#
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) Banking
3 3 (37.50%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) Clustering
3 3 (37.50%) Investment Banking
3 3 (37.50%) Fund Management
3 3 (37.50%) Wealth Management
3 3 (37.50%) Problem Management
3 3 (37.50%) Corporate Banking
3 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (37.50%) Visual Studio
3 3 (37.50%) HP
3 3 (37.50%) Citrix
3 3 (37.50%) NetApp
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (37.50%) DHCP
3 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
3 3 (37.50%) DNS
3 3 (37.50%) ITIL
3 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 3 (37.50%) Windows 2000
3 3 (37.50%) Business Transformation
4 2 (25.00%) MS Office
4 2 (25.00%) SAP

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 (12.50%) .NET Framework
1 1 (12.50%) Ajax
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) ASP
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) DHTML
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) IIS
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
1 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (62.50%) MS Excel
2 2 (25.00%) MS Office
2 2 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
1 3 (37.50%) Investment Banking
1 3 (37.50%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Excel Developer
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Excel VBA Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) VB Developer
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
2 1 (12.50%) SQL DBA
2 1 (12.50%) VBA Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
2 1 (12.50%) DBA
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
1 3 (37.50%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Fund Management
1 3 (37.50%) Wealth Management
1 3 (37.50%) Problem Management
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
1 3 (37.50%) Business Transformation
2 1 (12.50%) Web Development
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded Software Development
2 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (12.50%) Document Management
2 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C
1 4 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) VBA
3 1 (12.50%) VB6
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) VBScript
3 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded C
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded C++
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) HP
2 3 (37.50%) Citrix
2 3 (37.50%) NetApp
3 2 (25.00%) SAP
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