Cambridgeshire VB.NET Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the VB.NET Developer role in IT contracts within the Cambridgeshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VB.NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

VB.NET Developer
Location Alderley Edge Banbury Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Carlisle Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire Kendal Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Scotland Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Surrey Sussex Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	32
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	15	44
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.044 %
As % of the category below	2.269 %	4.593 %
Daily rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£340
Average daily rate	£320	£345
% change on same period last year	-7.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£289	£298
% change on same period last year	-3.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£33.50	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-16.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£42.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.08	£33.32
% change on same period last year	-3.72 %
Job Titles Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	661	958
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.881 %	0.956 %
Daily rates quoted	135	198
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£314
Average daily rate	£322	£330
% change on same period last year	-2.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	115	153
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.28	£26.03
Average hourly rate	£19.94	£27.48
% change on same period last year	-27.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.60	£28.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
VB.NET Developer East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

VB.NET Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VB.NET Developer across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

VB.NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

VB.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VB.NET Developer
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET Developer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Peterborough	-7	11	£320	-
Cambridge	+11	3	-	-

VB.NET Developer East of England

VB.NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region that cited VB.NET Developer in their job title 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 with VB.NET Developer in their job title.

1 34 (100.00 %) VB.NET 1 34 (100.00 %) .NET 2 29 (85.29 %) SQL Server 3 24 (70.59 %) ASP.NET 4 23 (67.65 %) XML 5 19 (55.88 %) WCF 6 18 (52.94 %) WPF 6 18 (52.94 %) OO 6 18 (52.94 %) SQL 7 17 (50.00 %) CSS 8 16 (47.06 %) VB 8 16 (47.06 %) JavaScript 8 16 (47.06 %) CRM 9 15 (44.12 %) Finance 9 15 (44.12 %) UML

9 15 (44.12 %) Transact-SQL 9 15 (44.12 %) Agile Software Development 9 15 (44.12 %) ASP 10 14 (41.18 %) VB6 10 14 (41.18 %) SQL Server 2005 10 14 (41.18 %) WinForms 11 13 (38.24 %) XSLT 12 12 (35.29 %) Banking 13 9 (26.47 %) C# 14 7 (20.59 %) N-Tier 15 5 (14.71 %) Visual Studio 16 4 (11.76 %) TDD 16 4 (11.76 %) Microsoft 16 4 (11.76 %) SQL Server 2000 17 3 (8.824 %) OOD

VB.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region that cited VB.NET Developer in their job title 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 with VB.NET Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 34 (100.00 %) .NET 2 24 (70.59 %) ASP.NET 3 23 (67.65 %) XML 4 19 (55.88 %) WCF 5 18 (52.94 %) WPF 6 17 (50.00 %) CSS 7 15 (44.12 %) ASP 8 14 (41.18 %) WinForms 9 13 (38.24 %) XSLT 10 3 (8.824 %) WebServices 10 3 (8.824 %) .NET Framework 11 1 (2.941 %) HTML 11 1 (2.941 %) COM+	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.941 %) IIS
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.941 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 29 (85.29 %) SQL Server 2 14 (41.18 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (11.76 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 5 (14.71 %) Visual Studio	General 1 15 (44.12 %) Finance 2 12 (35.29 %) Banking 3 2 (5.882 %) Telecoms 4 1 (2.941 %) Animation
Miscellaneous 1 7 (20.59 %) N-Tier 2 2 (5.882 %) Arabic Language	Operating Systems 1 2 (5.882 %) Windows 2 1 (2.941 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (52.94 %) OO 2 16 (47.06 %) CRM 3 15 (44.12 %) UML 3 15 (44.12 %) Agile Software Development 4 4 (11.76 %) TDD 5 3 (8.824 %) OOD 5 3 (8.824 %) Performance Testing 6 2 (5.882 %) Web Development 7 1 (2.941 %) OOA/OOD 7 1 (2.941 %) SOA	Programming Languages 1 34 (100.00 %) VB.NET 2 18 (52.94 %) SQL 3 16 (47.06 %) JavaScript 3 16 (47.06 %) VB 4 15 (44.12 %) Transact-SQL 5 14 (41.18 %) VB6 6 9 (26.47 %) C# 7 1 (2.941 %) C++ 7 1 (2.941 %) C
Vendors 1 4 (11.76 %) Microsoft