VB.NET Contracts in Bristol
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VB.NET 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.NET over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Rank 47 58 49
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -9
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 5 7 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.978% 0.837% 1.070%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.165% 2.811% 4.167%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
Average daily rate £265 £213 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+24.70% -29.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.72% +6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £45.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +13.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.18% -2.14%
All Programming Languages
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 158 249 168
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 30.92% 29.78% 25.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 157 86
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 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £415 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 21 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 £21.50 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £42.80 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VB.NET
South West

VB.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol VB.NET Jobs Demand Trend

VB.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bristol VB.NET Daily Rate Trend

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bristol VB.NET Hourly Rate Trend

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) C#
3 4 (66.67%) WinForms
4 3 (50.00%) Finance
4 3 (50.00%) Law
4 3 (50.00%) TDD
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) NHibernate
4 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
4 3 (50.00%) jQuery
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (50.00%) BDD
5 2 (33.33%) WCF
5 2 (33.33%) WPF
5 2 (33.33%) Open Source
5 2 (33.33%) Oracle
5 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
5 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (33.33%) Ruby
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
6 1 (16.67%) Change Management
6 1 (16.67%) MVC
6 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
6 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (16.67%) Banking
6 1 (16.67%) VB6
6 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) WinForms
3 3 (50.00%) NHibernate
3 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (50.00%) jQuery
4 2 (33.33%) WCF
4 2 (33.33%) WPF
5 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
5 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
5 1 (16.67%) Web Services
5 1 (16.67%) XML
5 1 (16.67%) XSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
1 1 (16.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) TDD
1 3 (50.00%) Scrum
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) MVC
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) UML
2 1 (16.67%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Ruby
4 1 (16.67%) VB6
4 1 (16.67%) VB
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
VB.NET Developer
Bristol, South West
As a VB.NET Developer you will be working on a number of projects, producing market leading software for financial and insurance markets. You will need a sound...
Computer Futures
Rate: £200 - £320 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
VB.NET/C# Winforms Developer
Bristol, South West
As a VB.NEt C# Developer you will be working alongside the development team updating a windows based application, working on technical specifications and meeting deadlines. Skills *VB...
Computer Futures
Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
.Net Developer - ASP.Net, Winforms, C# or VB.Net, Oracle
Bristol, South West
They appreciate this is hard to find and therefore willing to flex if someone is more experienced in one as the team are mixed, however the opportunity to...
NFP Group Ltd
Rate: £250 - £280 per day + extension
Posted: 16 May 2013
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