Cardiff VB Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the Cardiff region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Aberdeen Amersham Banbury Barking Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bootle Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guernsey Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdon Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Rochdale Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Royston Rugby Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	18
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	14	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	16.09 %	11.29 %
Daily rates quoted	10	3
Average minimum daily rate	£308	£300
Average daily rate	£323	£350
% change on same period last year	-7.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£339	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£298	£319
% change on same period last year	-6.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.33	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£13.67	£31.50
% change on same period last year	-56.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.00	£33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£28.85
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Programming Languages Cardiff
Matching contract IT job ads	87	62
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.123 %	0.063 %
Daily rates quoted	31	14
Average minimum daily rate	£276	£245
Average daily rate	£297	£346
% change on same period last year	-14.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£447
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.97	£29.77
Average hourly rate	£25.60	£30.43
% change on same period last year	-15.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.22	£31.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.17	£32.72
% change on same period last year	-1.67 %
VB South Wales

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the Cardiff region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the Cardiff region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 19 (65.52 %) .NET 2 10 (34.48 %) C# 2 10 (34.48 %) ASP.NET 3 9 (31.03 %) SQL Server 3 9 (31.03 %) XML 3 9 (31.03 %) Microsoft 4 8 (27.59 %) SQL 4 8 (27.59 %) AJAX 5 7 (24.14 %) SOAP 5 7 (24.14 %) WebServices 5 7 (24.14 %) IIS 5 7 (24.14 %) PRINCE2 6 6 (20.69 %) Workflow 6 6 (20.69 %) Workflow Management 6 6 (20.69 %) Software Engineering

7 5 (17.24 %) Finance 7 5 (17.24 %) VB6 7 5 (17.24 %) VBA 7 5 (17.24 %) Transact-SQL 8 4 (13.79 %) JavaScript 8 4 (13.79 %) MS Project 8 4 (13.79 %) CSS 8 4 (13.79 %) DTS 8 4 (13.79 %) Metastorm 8 4 (13.79 %) Health 8 4 (13.79 %) Requirements Analysis 8 4 (13.79 %) Project Planning 8 4 (13.79 %) telerik 9 3 (10.34 %) SQL Server 2005 9 3 (10.34 %) Law

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 19 (65.52 %) .NET 2 10 (34.48 %) ASP.NET 3 9 (31.03 %) XML 4 8 (27.59 %) AJAX 5 7 (24.14 %) SOAP 5 7 (24.14 %) WebServices 6 4 (13.79 %) CSS 7 2 (6.897 %) .NET Framework 7 2 (6.897 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 2 (6.897 %) HTML 8 1 (3.448 %) JSP 8 1 (3.448 %) ASP 8 1 (3.448 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 7 (24.14 %) IIS 2 1 (3.448 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (3.448 %) Tomcat 2 1 (3.448 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 4 (13.79 %) MS Project 2 2 (6.897 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (3.448 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.448 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (31.03 %) SQL Server 2 4 (13.79 %) DTS 3 3 (10.34 %) MS Access 3 3 (10.34 %) Crystal Reports 3 3 (10.34 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 1 (3.448 %) Oracle Reports 5 1 (3.448 %) Oracle 9i 5 1 (3.448 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (3.448 %) Oracle Discoverer 5 1 (3.448 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 2 (6.897 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (3.448 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 5 (17.24 %) Finance 2 4 (13.79 %) Health 3 3 (10.34 %) Law 4 1 (3.448 %) Legal 4 1 (3.448 %) Government
Job Titles 1 13 (44.83 %) Developer 2 7 (24.14 %) Project Manager 3 5 (17.24 %) Software Developer 3 5 (17.24 %) .NET Developer 4 4 (13.79 %) Analyst 4 4 (13.79 %) Programmer 5 3 (10.34 %) C# Developer 6 2 (6.897 %) Consultant 6 2 (6.897 %) Analyst Programmer 6 2 (6.897 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 7 1 (3.448 %) Lotus Notes Consultant 7 1 (3.448 %) Financial Analyst 7 1 (3.448 %) Applications Project Manager 7 1 (3.448 %) Lead Project Manager 7 1 (3.448 %) Process Analyst 7 1 (3.448 %) Oracle Developer 7 1 (3.448 %) Applications Developer 7 1 (3.448 %) Senior Developer 7 1 (3.448 %) Test Analyst 7 1 (3.448 %) Systems Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.897 %) N-Tier 2 1 (3.448 %) NHS 2 1 (3.448 %) AS400 2 1 (3.448 %) Welsh Language
Operating Systems 1 2 (6.897 %) Windows 2 1 (3.448 %) AIX 2 1 (3.448 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (24.14 %) PRINCE2 2 6 (20.69 %) Workflow 2 6 (20.69 %) Workflow Management 2 6 (20.69 %) Software Engineering 3 4 (13.79 %) Requirements Analysis 3 4 (13.79 %) Project Planning 4 2 (6.897 %) Resource Management 4 2 (6.897 %) Risk Management 4 2 (6.897 %) Software Testing 4 2 (6.897 %) CRM 4 2 (6.897 %) Project Management 5 1 (3.448 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (3.448 %) UML 5 1 (3.448 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (3.448 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (3.448 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 10 (34.48 %) C# 2 8 (27.59 %) SQL 3 5 (17.24 %) Transact-SQL 3 5 (17.24 %) VBA 3 5 (17.24 %) VB6 4 4 (13.79 %) JavaScript 5 3 (10.34 %) Java 6 2 (6.897 %) VB.NET 6 2 (6.897 %) PHP 7 1 (3.448 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (3.448 %) Perl 7 1 (3.448 %) C	Qualifications 1 1 (3.448 %) ISEB 1 1 (3.448 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Vendors 1 9 (31.03 %) Microsoft 2 4 (13.79 %) Metastorm 2 4 (13.79 %) telerik 3 1 (3.448 %) Lotus 3 1 (3.448 %) Oracle 3 1 (3.448 %) Sybase 3 1 (3.448 %) Business Objects 3 1 (3.448 %) SAP