VB Contracts in Cambridgeshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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 49 53 37
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -16
Contract jobs citing VB 2 12 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.365% 1.714% 2.124%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.787% 3.150% 4.120%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 6
Average daily rate £343 £383 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.45% -4.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £277 £175 £363
10% offered a daily rate of more than £409 £493 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.75 £26.28 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.42% -12.40%
All Programming Languages
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 254 381 267
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 46.35% 54.43% 51.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 197 121
Average daily rate £303 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.20% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 38 38
Average hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +15.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.35 £32.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £60.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
VB
East of England

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire VB Daily Rate Trend

VB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire VB Daily Rate Histogram

VB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire VB Hourly Rate Trend

VB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank 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
Cambridge +11 2 £343 +174.00%
VB
East of England

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 16 (64.00%) Windows
2 14 (56.00%) VMware
3 13 (52.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 13 (52.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (52.00%) Microsoft
3 13 (52.00%) VBScript
3 13 (52.00%) MSI
4 12 (48.00%) InstallShield
4 12 (48.00%) SLA
5 11 (44.00%) Validation
6 9 (36.00%) VB6
6 9 (36.00%) NHibernate
6 9 (36.00%) WCF
6 9 (36.00%) C#
6 9 (36.00%) DHTML
6 9 (36.00%) .NET
6 9 (36.00%) Oracle
6 9 (36.00%) ASP.NET
7 8 (32.00%) Citrix
8 7 (28.00%) LINQ
8 7 (28.00%) SCCM
8 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (28.00%) Terminal Services
8 7 (28.00%) Remedy
8 7 (28.00%) Finance
8 7 (28.00%) COM+
8 7 (28.00%) MCSE
8 7 (28.00%) ASP
9 5 (20.00%) Investment Management
9 5 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 9 (36.00%) NHibernate
1 9 (36.00%) WCF
1 9 (36.00%) DHTML
1 9 (36.00%) .NET
1 9 (36.00%) ASP.NET
2 7 (28.00%) LINQ
2 7 (28.00%) COM+
2 7 (28.00%) ASP
Applications
1 1 (4.000%) Adobe Captivate
1 1 (4.000%) FrameMaker
1 1 (4.000%) RoboHelp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.000%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 13 (52.00%) MSI
2 12 (48.00%) InstallShield
3 5 (20.00%) AdminStudio
General
1 7 (28.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.000%) Banking
3 1 (4.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Applications Packager
2 9 (36.00%) Developer
3 8 (32.00%) .NET Developer
4 6 (24.00%) ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (16.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (16.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Software Packager
5 4 (16.00%) C# Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Analyst
7 2 (8.000%) Analyst Developer
8 1 (4.000%) Citrix Architect
8 1 (4.000%) Implementation Analyst
8 1 (4.000%) Technical Architect
8 1 (4.000%) Architect
8 1 (4.000%) Author
8 1 (4.000%) Technical Author
Operating Systems
1 16 (64.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.000%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (4.000%) Windows 7
2 1 (4.000%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Validation
2 5 (20.00%) Investment Management
2 5 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (16.00%) Risk Management
3 4 (16.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (8.000%) Asset Management
5 1 (4.000%) ITIL V3
5 1 (4.000%) Compatibility Testing
5 1 (4.000%) Data Migration
5 1 (4.000%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (4.000%) Business Development
5 1 (4.000%) Software Testing
5 1 (4.000%) Migration
5 1 (4.000%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (4.000%) Project Management
5 1 (4.000%) PRINCE
5 1 (4.000%) ITIL
5 1 (4.000%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) VBScript
2 9 (36.00%) VB6
2 9 (36.00%) C#
3 2 (8.000%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 7 (28.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (48.00%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 13 (52.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (28.00%) Terminal Services
3 1 (4.000%) XenDesktop
3 1 (4.000%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (56.00%) VMware
2 13 (52.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (36.00%) Oracle
4 8 (32.00%) Citrix
5 7 (28.00%) Remedy
6 1 (4.000%) LANDesk
6 1 (4.000%) AppSense
6 1 (4.000%) Adobe
6 1 (4.000%) Sybase
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