VB Contracts in Bristol
 
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 Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB over the 3 months to 24 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 Bristol 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 47 62 44
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -18
Contract jobs citing VB 3 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.581% 0.239% 0.929%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.829% 0.816% 3.614%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
Average daily rate £325 £213 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+52.94% -22.72%
UK excluding London average daily rate £336 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.07% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+25.92% -10.00%
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All Programming Languages
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 164 245 166
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 31.78% 29.31% 25.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 154 85
Average daily rate £310 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £405 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 19 12
Average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -14.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.97 £22.80 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £44.60 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VB
South West

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol VB Hourly Rate Trend

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 11 (64.71%) .NET
2 10 (58.82%) C#
2 10 (58.82%) MS Excel
2 10 (58.82%) .NET Framework
3 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
3 9 (52.94%) ASP.NET
3 9 (52.94%) SQL
3 9 (52.94%) SQL Server
4 8 (47.06%) VB6
5 5 (29.41%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (29.41%) Finance
5 5 (29.41%) Oracle
5 5 (29.41%) Delphi
5 5 (29.41%) Oracle 10g
5 5 (29.41%) OO
5 5 (29.41%) Oracle 11g
5 5 (29.41%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (23.53%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 4 (23.53%) Refactoring
6 4 (23.53%) ASP.NET MVC
6 4 (23.53%) Oracle 8/8i
6 4 (23.53%) VBA
6 4 (23.53%) Business Objects
6 4 (23.53%) Change Management
6 4 (23.53%) ETL
6 4 (23.53%) MVC
6 4 (23.53%) Business Analysis
6 4 (23.53%) Subversion
7 3 (17.65%) ASP
7 3 (17.65%) Windows

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 11 (64.71%) .NET
2 10 (58.82%) .NET Framework
3 9 (52.94%) ASP.NET
4 4 (23.53%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (17.65%) ASP
6 2 (11.76%) RESTful
6 2 (11.76%) JSON
6 2 (11.76%) jQuery
6 2 (11.76%) LINQ
6 2 (11.76%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 2 (11.76%) OAuth
6 2 (11.76%) CSS
6 2 (11.76%) XML
6 2 (11.76%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (58.82%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.882%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Visualfiles
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) SQL Server
2 5 (29.41%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle 10g
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (29.41%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (23.53%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 4 (23.53%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (5.882%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (5.882%) MS Access
4 1 (5.882%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Subversion
2 3 (17.65%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (11.76%) ReSharper
3 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.882%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Legal
3 1 (5.882%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.882%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) .NET Developer
3 4 (23.53%) C# Developer
4 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET Programmer
4 2 (11.76%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (11.76%) C# Programmer
4 2 (11.76%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Programmer
5 1 (5.882%) Business Objects Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Business Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Information Architect
5 1 (5.882%) Report Developer
5 1 (5.882%) MI Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Crystal Reports Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Inversion of Control
1 2 (11.76%) Social Media
2 1 (5.882%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.882%) Reference Data
2 1 (5.882%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) OO
2 4 (23.53%) Refactoring
2 4 (23.53%) Change Management
2 4 (23.53%) ETL
2 4 (23.53%) MVC
2 4 (23.53%) Business Analysis
3 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (11.76%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) Unit Testing
4 2 (11.76%) UML
4 2 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (11.76%) Data Security
5 1 (5.882%) Service Delivery
5 1 (5.882%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.882%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) C#
2 9 (52.94%) SQL
3 8 (47.06%) VB6
4 5 (29.41%) Delphi
5 4 (23.53%) VBA
6 2 (11.76%) VBScript
6 2 (11.76%) C++
6 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.882%) PHP
7 1 (5.882%) T-SQL
7 1 (5.882%) Java
7 1 (5.882%) VB.NET
7 1 (5.882%) MATLAB
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle
3 4 (23.53%) Business Objects
4 2 (11.76%) Facebook
4 2 (11.76%) Twitter
5 1 (5.882%) IBM
5 1 (5.882%) Cognos
Controls Engineer
Bristol, South West
PLC Programmer- Bristol- 9 Months- £32 p/h DOE My Bristol based client is urgently seeking a PLC programming engineer to assist them on a very important project...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £30 - £35 per hour
Posted: 23 May 2013
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