Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for VBScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VBScript over the 3 months to 12 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Buckinghamshire region.

 Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Location
3 months to
12 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank374667
Rank change year-on-year
Up+9Up+21
Matching contract IT job ads17418
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire2.418 %0.671 %1.265 %
As % of the Programming Languages category9.605 %2.941 %4.157 %
Daily rates quoted434
Average daily rate£358£324£278
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.33 %+16.75 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£231£313£233
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£390£324£319
UK excluding London average daily rate£320£300£300
% change year-on-year
+6.660 %-
Hourly rates quoted200
Average hourly rate£20.44--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.00£18.00£33.50
% change year-on-year
+11.11 %-46.26 %
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
177136433
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire25.18 %22.82 %30.43 %
Daily rates quoted563679
Average daily rate£255£324£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.29 %-0.300 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£165£264£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£388£450£425
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted34911
Average hourly rate£21.12£15.00£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+40.76 %-53.12 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£10.50£13.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.00£34.90£41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£31.50£35.00
% change year-on-year
-9.520 %-10.00 %
VBScript South EastVBScript
South East

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.

VBScript
Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire VBScript Demand Trend

VBScript
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire VBScript Daily Rate Trend

VBScript
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VBScript across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 12 March 2010.

Buckinghamshire VBScript Daily Rate Histogram

VBScript
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire VBScript Hourly Rate Trend

VBScript
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 12 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton KeynesUp+66£365+12.65 %
BeaconsfieldNew entry-1--
VBScript South EastVBScript
South East

VBScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing VBScript 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 VBScript.

119 (82.61 %)Windows
216 (69.57 %)Microsoft
315 (65.22 %)JavaScript
413 (56.52 %)Active Directory
511 (47.83 %)SCCM
69 (39.13 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
78 (34.78 %)Windows Server 2003
78 (34.78 %)Finance
86 (26.09 %)MSI
86 (26.09 %)MS Excel
86 (26.09 %)VB
86 (26.09 %)Software Packaging
86 (26.09 %)PowerShell
95 (21.74 %)C
95 (21.74 %)HTML
95 (21.74 %)Shell Script
95 (21.74 %)WMI
104 (17.39 %)Incident Management
104 (17.39 %)Migration
104 (17.39 %)Project Management
104 (17.39 %).NET
104 (17.39 %)ASP.NET
104 (17.39 %)SQL Server
104 (17.39 %)HP
104 (17.39 %)SC Cleared
104 (17.39 %)Security Cleared
113 (13.04 %)Citrix
113 (13.04 %)MS Exchange
113 (13.04 %)FTP
113 (13.04 %)IIS

VBScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing VBScript 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 VBScript. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
16 (26.09 %)Software Packaging
25 (21.74 %)HTML
25 (21.74 %)WMI
34 (17.39 %).NET
34 (17.39 %)ASP.NET
42 (8.696 %)CSS
42 (8.696 %)ASP
42 (8.696 %)ADSI
51 (4.348 %)XML
51 (4.348 %)Spring
51 (4.348 %)Application Packaging
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13 (13.04 %)MS Exchange
13 (13.04 %)IIS
13 (13.04 %)Apache
22 (8.696 %)Exchange Server 2003
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
16 (26.09 %)MS Excel
21 (4.348 %)MS Office
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (4.348 %)SoftGrid
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
13 (13.04 %)FTP
21 (4.348 %)SNMP
21 (4.348 %)Firewall
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
14 (17.39 %)SQL Server
21 (4.348 %)SQL Server 2008
21 (4.348 %)MySQL
21 (4.348 %)SQL Server 2000
21 (4.348 %)SQL Server 2005
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12 (8.696 %)AdminStudio
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
18 (34.78 %)Finance
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
13 (13.04 %)Developer
13 (13.04 %)Analyst
13 (13.04 %)Consultant
22 (8.696 %)Technical Specialist
22 (8.696 %)Systems Engineer
22 (8.696 %)Virtualisation Specialist
22 (8.696 %)Applications Packager
31 (4.348 %)DBA
31 (4.348 %)Test Analyst
31 (4.348 %)Web Developer
31 (4.348 %)C# Web Developer
31 (4.348 %)Migration Consultant
31 (4.348 %)C# Developer
31 (4.348 %)ASP Developer
31 (4.348 %)Operations Analyst
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (8.696 %)Replication
21 (4.348 %)Fat Client
21 (4.348 %)Thin Client
21 (4.348 %)Client/Server
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
119 (82.61 %)Windows
28 (34.78 %)Windows Server 2003
33 (13.04 %)UNIX
42 (8.696 %)Windows Server 2008
51 (4.348 %)Windows XP
51 (4.348 %)Windows 2000
51 (4.348 %)Windows Vista
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
14 (17.39 %)Incident Management
14 (17.39 %)Migration
14 (17.39 %)Project Management
23 (13.04 %)Disaster Recovery
23 (13.04 %)Validation
32 (8.696 %)Web Development
41 (4.348 %)Data Migration
41 (4.348 %)Integration Testing
41 (4.348 %)ITIL
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
115 (65.22 %)JavaScript
26 (26.09 %)VB
26 (26.09 %)PowerShell
35 (21.74 %)C
35 (21.74 %)Shell Script
43 (13.04 %)Java
43 (13.04 %)Perl
43 (13.04 %)PHP
51 (4.348 %)VBA
51 (4.348 %)SQL
51 (4.348 %)C#
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
14 (17.39 %)SC Cleared
14 (17.39 %)Security Cleared
22 (8.696 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
22 (8.696 %)MCITP
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
113 (56.52 %)Active Directory
22 (8.696 %)VMware Infrastructure
22 (8.696 %)Hyper-V
22 (8.696 %)Citrix Presentation Server
31 (4.348 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
111 (47.83 %)SCCM
29 (39.13 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
36 (26.09 %)MSI
42 (8.696 %)OpenView Configuration Management
42 (8.696 %)SCOM
51 (4.348 %)Tivoli
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
116 (69.57 %)Microsoft
24 (17.39 %)HP
33 (13.04 %)Citrix
42 (8.696 %)VMware