Devon VBScript Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) skills within the Devon region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VBScript over the 3 months to 20 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Location Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bolton Bracknell Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Darwen Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle North East North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Reigate Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Tiverton Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	4	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	5.405 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£264	£309
% change on same period last year	-14.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.75	-
Average hourly rate	£19.88	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.70	£32.99
% change on same period last year	-28.17 %
Programming Languages Devon
Matching contract IT job ads	74	168
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.116 %	0.183 %
Daily rates quoted	17	61
Average minimum daily rate	£277	£326
Average daily rate	£293	£337
% change on same period last year	-13.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£309	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£332
% change on same period last year	-4.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.93	£30.77
Average hourly rate	£20.16	£32.82
% change on same period last year	-38.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.39	£34.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.20	£32.90
% change on same period last year	-5.15 %
VBScript South West

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.

VBScript
Demand Trend

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

VBScript
Daily Rate Trend

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

VBScript
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VBScript
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VBScript across the Devon region over the 3 months to 20 November 2008.

VBScript
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the Devon region over the 3 months to 20 November 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
Exeter	-	3	-	-
Tiverton	-	1	-	-

VBScript South West

VBScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon region citing VBScript 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 VBScript.

1 6 (85.71 %) VB 2 4 (57.14 %) JavaScript 2 4 (57.14 %) SQL 3 3 (42.86 %) HTML 3 3 (42.86 %) Perl 3 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 3 3 (42.86 %) IIS 3 3 (42.86 %) Visual Studio 3 3 (42.86 %) ASP 3 3 (42.86 %) ODBC 3 3 (42.86 %) UNIX 3 3 (42.86 %) Windows 3 3 (42.86 %) MS Access 3 3 (42.86 %) Windows XP 3 3 (42.86 %) SMTP

3 3 (42.86 %) FTP 3 3 (42.86 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (42.86 %) Microsoft 3 3 (42.86 %) Active Directory 3 3 (42.86 %) HP 3 3 (42.86 %) Intel 3 3 (42.86 %) Terminal Services 3 3 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (42.86 %) Tivoli 3 3 (42.86 %) Tivoli Remote Control 3 3 (42.86 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 3 (42.86 %) McAfee Security 3 3 (42.86 %) VB6 3 3 (42.86 %) Web Development 3 3 (42.86 %) Data Protection

VBScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon region citing VBScript 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 VBScript. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (42.86 %) HTML 1 3 (42.86 %) ASP 1 3 (42.86 %) ODBC	Application Platforms 1 3 (42.86 %) IIS
Communications & Networking 1 3 (42.86 %) SMTP 1 3 (42.86 %) FTP 1 3 (42.86 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 1 3 (42.86 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 3 (42.86 %) Visual Studio	General 1 1 (14.29 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) Developer 1 3 (42.86 %) Systems Administrator 1 3 (42.86 %) Administrator 1 3 (42.86 %) VB Developer 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL Developer 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server Developer 2 1 (14.29 %) Technical Support Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Technical Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Technical Support 2 1 (14.29 %) Analyst	Operating Systems 1 3 (42.86 %) UNIX 1 3 (42.86 %) Windows 1 3 (42.86 %) Windows XP 1 3 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 1 3 (42.86 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (42.86 %) Web Development 1 3 (42.86 %) Data Protection 2 1 (14.29 %) CRM	Programming Languages 1 6 (85.71 %) VB 2 4 (57.14 %) JavaScript 2 4 (57.14 %) SQL 3 3 (42.86 %) Perl 3 3 (42.86 %) VB6
System Software 1 3 (42.86 %) Active Directory 1 3 (42.86 %) Terminal Services 1 3 (42.86 %) VMware ESX 1 3 (42.86 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 3 (42.86 %) Tivoli 1 3 (42.86 %) Tivoli Remote Control 1 3 (42.86 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) Microsoft 1 3 (42.86 %) HP 1 3 (42.86 %) Intel 1 3 (42.86 %) McAfee Security 1 3 (42.86 %) VMware 2 1 (14.29 %) Metastorm