VB Contracts in Bournemouth
 
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 Bournemouth region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB over the 3 months to 22 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 Bournemouth 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 16 23 29
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +6
Contract jobs citing VB 9 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bournemouth 7.563% 1.316% 0.617%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.00% 4.348% 1.515%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
Average daily rate £345 - £238
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 £33.75 £26.28 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.42% -12.40%
All Programming Languages
Bournemouth
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 50 46 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bournemouth 42.02% 30.26% 40.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 38 38
Average daily rate £350 £380 £329
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% +15.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £363 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £415 £459
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 £9.56 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+240.13% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
VB
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VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bournemouth 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 Bournemouth region.

Bournemouth 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 Bournemouth region.

Bournemouth VB Hourly Rate Trend

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bournemouth 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 8 (88.89%) .NET
2 6 (66.67%) .NET Framework
3 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 5 (55.56%) MS Excel
3 5 (55.56%) C++
4 4 (44.44%) HTML
4 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
4 4 (44.44%) VB.NET
4 4 (44.44%) VBA
4 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
4 4 (44.44%) Visual Studio
4 4 (44.44%) ASP.NET
4 4 (44.44%) CSS
4 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
4 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (44.44%) SharePoint 2010
4 4 (44.44%) Web Development
5 3 (33.33%) MS Office
5 3 (33.33%) Workflow
5 3 (33.33%) Banking
5 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (33.33%) Web Services
5 3 (33.33%) TeamSite
6 2 (22.22%) SQL
7 1 (11.11%) Java
7 1 (11.11%) C
7 1 (11.11%) C#
7 1 (11.11%) JDBC
7 1 (11.11%) WebLogic
7 1 (11.11%) Oracle

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bournemouth 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 8 (88.89%) .NET
2 6 (66.67%) .NET Framework
3 4 (44.44%) HTML
3 4 (44.44%) ASP.NET
3 4 (44.44%) CSS
4 3 (33.33%) Web Services
5 1 (11.11%) JDBC
5 1 (11.11%) Middleware
5 1 (11.11%) ODBC
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
1 4 (44.44%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (33.33%) TeamSite
3 1 (11.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) MS Excel
2 3 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) FTP
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
1 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (11.11%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Visual Studio
2 1 (11.11%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (11.11%) LoadRunner
2 1 (11.11%) JProbe
2 1 (11.11%) Introscope
2 1 (11.11%) JProfiler
General
1 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) SharePoint Developer
3 3 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
4 1 (11.11%) QA Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) UNIX
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Solaris
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Web Development
2 3 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Test Management
3 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C++
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) VB.NET
2 4 (44.44%) VBA
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) C
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) ISEB
1 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (11.11%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) HP
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