Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Docklands, London region.

 Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank463446
Rank change year-on-year
Down-12Up+12
Matching contract IT job ads71338
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London1.367 %3.385 %2.966 %
As % of the Programming Languages category3.097 %5.778 %5.564 %
Daily rates quoted5214
Average daily rate£500£513£263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.430 %+95.23 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£370£483£253
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£538£543£480
UK excluding London average daily rate£290£300£300
% change year-on-year
-3.330 %-
Hourly rates quoted001
Average hourly rate--£24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£26.50£24.75£30.00
% change year-on-year
+7.070 %-17.50 %
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
226225683
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London44.14 %58.59 %53.32 %
Daily rates quoted10195450
Average daily rate£463£475£600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.630 %-20.83 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£325£375£270
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£650£750£700
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted135
Average hourly rate£19.00£65.00£26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-70.76 %+150.00 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£30.25£35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.780 %-13.57 %
VB LondonVB
London

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.

VB
Demand Trend

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

Docklands, London VB Demand Trend

VB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Docklands, London VB Daily Rate Trend

VB
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Docklands, London VB Daily Rate Histogram

VB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Docklands, London VB Hourly Rate Trend

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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.

115 (75.00 %)Banking
214 (70.00 %)Investment Banking
312 (60.00 %)SQL
411 (55.00 %)Java
58 (40.00 %)Oracle
58 (40.00 %)Finance
67 (35.00 %)C++
76 (30.00 %)Perl
76 (30.00 %)Solaris
76 (30.00 %)Linux
85 (25.00 %)SQL Server
85 (25.00 %)OO
94 (20.00 %)Business Intelligence
94 (20.00 %)Boost C++ Libraries
103 (15.00 %)Microsoft
103 (15.00 %)ETL
103 (15.00 %)Sybase
103 (15.00 %)C#
103 (15.00 %)VBA
103 (15.00 %).NET
103 (15.00 %)UNIX
103 (15.00 %)WebLogic
103 (15.00 %)XML
112 (10.00 %)Windows
112 (10.00 %)Web Services
112 (10.00 %)OOP
112 (10.00 %)HTML
112 (10.00 %)PHP
112 (10.00 %)OLAP
112 (10.00 %)T-SQL

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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.

Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
14 (20.00 %)Boost C++ Libraries
23 (15.00 %).NET
23 (15.00 %)XML
32 (10.00 %)Web Services
32 (10.00 %)HTML
32 (10.00 %)MDX
41 (5.000 %)JBoss Seam
41 (5.000 %)WebSphere
41 (5.000 %)Spring
41 (5.000 %)JSF
41 (5.000 %)AJAX
41 (5.000 %)CGI
41 (5.000 %)CPAN
41 (5.000 %)XHTML
41 (5.000 %)WML
41 (5.000 %)J2EE
41 (5.000 %)XSLT
41 (5.000 %)ODBC
41 (5.000 %)ASP.NET
41 (5.000 %)JDBC
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13 (15.00 %)WebLogic
21 (5.000 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
21 (5.000 %)Lotus Domino
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12 (10.00 %)Spreadsheet
21 (5.000 %)MATLAB
21 (5.000 %)MS Excel
21 (5.000 %)MS Office
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12 (10.00 %)Firewall
21 (5.000 %)Wi-Fi
21 (5.000 %)LDAP
21 (5.000 %)LAN
21 (5.000 %)WAN
21 (5.000 %)DHCP
21 (5.000 %)HTTP
21 (5.000 %)SNMP
21 (5.000 %)TCP/IP
21 (5.000 %)VPN
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
15 (25.00 %)SQL Server
23 (15.00 %)ETL
32 (10.00 %)OLAP
32 (10.00 %)MS Access
32 (10.00 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
32 (10.00 %)SQL Server 2005
32 (10.00 %)SQL Server Integration Services
32 (10.00 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
41 (5.000 %)BusinessObjects XI
41 (5.000 %)Oracle 10g
41 (5.000 %)BusinessObjects
41 (5.000 %)RDBMS
41 (5.000 %)SQL Server 2000
41 (5.000 %)Datawarehouse
41 (5.000 %)Oracle 8/8i
41 (5.000 %)TOAD
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12 (10.00 %)ClearCase
21 (5.000 %)JIRA
21 (5.000 %)Subversion
21 (5.000 %)ClearQuest
21 (5.000 %)Eclipse
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
115 (75.00 %)Banking
214 (70.00 %)Investment Banking
38 (40.00 %)Finance
42 (10.00 %)Front Office
42 (10.00 %)Private Banking
51 (5.000 %)Insurance
51 (5.000 %)Back Office
51 (5.000 %)Financial Institution
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
115 (75.00 %)Developer
24 (20.00 %)C++ Developer
33 (15.00 %)Java Developer
33 (15.00 %)Analyst
33 (15.00 %)VB Developer
42 (10.00 %)SQL Developer
51 (5.000 %)Java/J2EE Developer
51 (5.000 %)Credit Risk Analyst
51 (5.000 %)Investment Banking Business Analyst
51 (5.000 %)3rd Line Support Analyst
51 (5.000 %)Banking Business Analyst
51 (5.000 %)Sybase Developer
51 (5.000 %)Quantitative Developer
51 (5.000 %)Credit Analyst
51 (5.000 %)Credit Risk Business Analyst
51 (5.000 %)Risk Analyst
51 (5.000 %)VBA Developer
51 (5.000 %)Technical Test Analyst
51 (5.000 %)Excel Developer
51 (5.000 %)Excel VBA Developer
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (10.00 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
21 (5.000 %)Credit Risk
21 (5.000 %)Derivative
21 (5.000 %)Equity Derivative
21 (5.000 %)Equities
21 (5.000 %)Blackberry
21 (5.000 %)N-Tier
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16 (30.00 %)Solaris
16 (30.00 %)Linux
23 (15.00 %)UNIX
32 (10.00 %)Windows
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15 (25.00 %)OO
24 (20.00 %)Business Intelligence
32 (10.00 %)OOP
32 (10.00 %)Change Management
32 (10.00 %)Asset Management
41 (5.000 %)Data Protection
41 (5.000 %)Agile Software Development
41 (5.000 %)Software Engineering
41 (5.000 %)Systems Analysis
41 (5.000 %)Knowledge Management
41 (5.000 %)Workflow
41 (5.000 %)Migration
41 (5.000 %)Configuration Management
41 (5.000 %)Project Management
41 (5.000 %)UML
41 (5.000 %)ITIL
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
112 (60.00 %)SQL
211 (55.00 %)Java
37 (35.00 %)C++
46 (30.00 %)Perl
53 (15.00 %)C#
53 (15.00 %)VBA
62 (10.00 %)PHP
62 (10.00 %)T-SQL
62 (10.00 %)VB6
62 (10.00 %)Bash shell
71 (5.000 %)Korn
71 (5.000 %)Ruby
71 (5.000 %)VC++
71 (5.000 %)VB.NET
71 (5.000 %)PL/SQL
71 (5.000 %)JavaScript
71 (5.000 %)C
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (10.00 %)MCTS
12 (10.00 %)MCITP
21 (5.000 %)Degree
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (5.000 %)Active Directory
11 (5.000 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (5.000 %)Tivoli
11 (5.000 %)Tivoli Configuration Manager
11 (5.000 %)Tivoli Monitoring
11 (5.000 %)Tivoli NetView
11 (5.000 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
11 (5.000 %)MSI
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
18 (40.00 %)Oracle
23 (15.00 %)Microsoft
23 (15.00 %)Sybase
31 (5.000 %)Infragistics
31 (5.000 %)Lotus
31 (5.000 %)IBM
31 (5.000 %)Business Objects