The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Cardiff 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 28 - 31
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VB 3 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 1.442% - 0.844%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.317% - 2.500%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £400 - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +3.17%
All Programming Languages
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
41 64 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 19.71% 31.22% 33.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 45 46
Average daily rate £310 £340 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.82% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £201 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £402 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
Average hourly rate £36.25 £23.75 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.63% +25.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
VB
South Wales

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff VB Hourly Rate Trend

VB
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
1 2 (50.00%) Solaris
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) SAS
1 2 (50.00%) Tcl
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
1 2 (50.00%) VB6
1 2 (50.00%) Retail Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
2 1 (25.00%) ProC

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 2 (50.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) ProC
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
1 2 (50.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Pick Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
1 2 (50.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
1 2 (50.00%) Tcl
1 2 (50.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
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