Docklands, London VB Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the VB Developer role in IT contracts within the Docklands, London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited VB Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield City of London Darlington Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Fareham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds London Manchester Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot North East North West North Yorkshire Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	68	86
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	3	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.328 %	0.427 %
Daily rates quoted	3	5
Average minimum daily rate	£433	£432
Average daily rate	£467	£472
% change on same period last year	-1.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£512
UK excluding London average daily rate	£302	£287
% change on same period last year	+5.05 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.39	£30.21
% change on same period last year	+10.50 %
Job Titles Docklands, London
Matching contract IT job ads	916	1405
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.208 %	1.490 %
Daily rates quoted	526	645
Average minimum daily rate	£478	£467
Average daily rate	£516	£501
% change on same period last year	+2.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£553	£536
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.27	£21.32
Average hourly rate	£28.55	£21.64
% change on same period last year	+31.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.83	£21.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
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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 Developer across the Docklands, London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Developer across the Docklands, London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB Developer across the Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 Developer across the Docklands, London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London region that cited VB 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 Developer in their job title.

1 16 (100.00 %) VB 2 11 (68.75 %) ASP 3 10 (62.50 %) VB6 4 9 (56.25 %) XML 5 8 (50.00 %) Oracle 9i 5 8 (50.00 %) VBA 5 8 (50.00 %) Oracle 5 8 (50.00 %) JavaScript 6 7 (43.75 %) ActiveX 7 6 (37.50 %) SQL 7 6 (37.50 %) HTML 7 6 (37.50 %) DCOM 7 6 (37.50 %) CSS 7 6 (37.50 %) IIS 8 5 (31.25 %) PL/SQL

8 5 (31.25 %) UML 9 4 (25.00 %) OO 9 4 (25.00 %) .NET 9 4 (25.00 %) OOD 9 4 (25.00 %) AJAX 10 3 (18.75 %) MS Office 10 3 (18.75 %) Visual Studio 10 3 (18.75 %) VSS/SourceSafe 10 3 (18.75 %) ADO 10 3 (18.75 %) VBScript 10 3 (18.75 %) DHTML 10 3 (18.75 %) Banking 10 3 (18.75 %) ODBC 10 3 (18.75 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 3 (18.75 %) Investment Banking

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London region that cited VB 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 11 (68.75 %) ASP 2 9 (56.25 %) XML 3 7 (43.75 %) ActiveX 4 6 (37.50 %) DCOM 4 6 (37.50 %) CSS 4 6 (37.50 %) HTML 5 4 (25.00 %) .NET 5 4 (25.00 %) AJAX 6 3 (18.75 %) ODBC 6 3 (18.75 %) ADO 7 1 (6.250 %) ASP.NET 7 1 (6.250 %) XSL 7 1 (6.250 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 6 (37.50 %) IIS 2 2 (12.50 %) Documentum
Applications 1 3 (18.75 %) MS Office 2 2 (12.50 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 2 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (12.50 %) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (50.00 %) Oracle 9i 2 3 (18.75 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 2 (12.50 %) TOAD 3 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 3 (18.75 %) Visual Studio 1 3 (18.75 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 2 (12.50 %) Rational Rose 2 2 (12.50 %) RequisitePro 2 2 (12.50 %) ClearQuest
General 1 3 (18.75 %) Banking 1 3 (18.75 %) Investment Banking 2 1 (6.250 %) Back Office 2 1 (6.250 %) Finance	Miscellaneous 1 2 (12.50 %) W3C 1 2 (12.50 %) Credit Risk 1 2 (12.50 %) Market Risk 2 1 (6.250 %) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (31.25 %) UML 2 4 (25.00 %) OO 2 4 (25.00 %) OOD 3 2 (12.50 %) RUP 4 1 (6.250 %) Business Analysis 4 1 (6.250 %) Performance Testing 4 1 (6.250 %) RAD	Programming Languages 1 16 (100.00 %) VB 2 10 (62.50 %) VB6 3 8 (50.00 %) VBA 3 8 (50.00 %) JavaScript 4 6 (37.50 %) SQL 5 5 (31.25 %) PL/SQL 6 3 (18.75 %) VBScript 6 3 (18.75 %) DHTML 7 2 (12.50 %) C++ 8 1 (6.250 %) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (12.50 %) ISO9001 2 1 (6.250 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (6.250 %) MiFID	Vendors 1 8 (50.00 %) Oracle 2 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft 2 2 (12.50 %) Macromedia 2 2 (12.50 %) Reuters 2 2 (12.50 %) Algorithmics 2 2 (12.50 %) Altova 3 1 (6.250 %) IBM