VB Contracts in Canary Wharf
 
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 Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB over the 3 months to 20 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 Canary Wharf 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 53 43 40
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -3
Contract jobs citing VB 1 4 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 0.253% 1.072% 3.607%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.602% 2.198% 7.725%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 10
Average daily rate £355 £525 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.38% -12.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £26.14 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+30.06% -12.86%
All Programming Languages
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 166 182 233
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 41.92% 48.79% 46.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 132 185
Average daily rate £600 £550 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VB
London

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf VB Hourly Rate Trend

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 8 (100.00%) HTML
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (87.50%) VBScript
3 6 (75.00%) VBA
3 6 (75.00%) C#
3 6 (75.00%) Finance
3 6 (75.00%) MS Excel
3 6 (75.00%) VB6
4 5 (62.50%) Business Analysis
4 5 (62.50%) Banking
4 5 (62.50%) Degree
4 5 (62.50%) Market Risk
4 5 (62.50%) MS Access
4 5 (62.50%) RAD
5 2 (25.00%) XML
5 2 (25.00%) XSD
5 2 (25.00%) HTTP
5 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (25.00%) Oracle
5 2 (25.00%) IIS
5 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (12.50%) Reverse Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (12.50%) Hudson
6 1 (12.50%) ASP
6 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
6 1 (12.50%) JSP
6 1 (12.50%) Struts
6 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
6 1 (12.50%) Ant

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 8 (100.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) XML
2 2 (25.00%) XSD
3 1 (12.50%) XSL
3 1 (12.50%) ActiveX
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) JSP
3 1 (12.50%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (75.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) MS Access
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Ant
1 1 (12.50%) JUnit
1 1 (12.50%) Eclipse
1 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (12.50%) Hudson
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) C# Developer
2 5 (62.50%) VBA Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Excel Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Excel VBA Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Applications Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Applications Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) RAD
1 5 (62.50%) Business Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (87.50%) VBScript
3 6 (75.00%) VBA
3 6 (75.00%) VB6
3 6 (75.00%) C#
4 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (12.50%) Java
5 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) JBoss
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
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