East Midlands VBScript Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) skills within the East Midlands 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London County Antrim Crawley Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Huntingdon Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leek Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Preston Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Tonbridge Twickenham UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Wokingham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	88	70
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching contract IT job ads	5	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	0.867 %	2.857 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£267	£200
Average daily rate	£292	£225
% change on same period last year	+29.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£311
% change on same period last year	-3.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£35.00
Average hourly rate	-	£36.25
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.45	£27.16
% change on same period last year	+8.42 %
Programming Languages East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	577	630
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.761 %	0.627 %
Daily rates quoted	130	80
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£286
Average daily rate	£314	£301
% change on same period last year	+4.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£332	£316
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	46	74
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.76	£26.33
Average hourly rate	£34.08	£28.20
% change on same period last year	+20.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.39	£30.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.40	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
VBScript England

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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

VBScript
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VBScript across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

VBScript
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VBScript
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Nottinghamshire	-5	4	£292	+29.62 %
Derbyshire	-3	1	-	-

VBScript England

VBScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 8 (50.00 %) SQL 2 7 (43.75 %) VB 3 6 (37.50 %) JavaScript 4 4 (25.00 %) HTML 4 4 (25.00 %) UNIX 4 4 (25.00 %) Microsoft 4 4 (25.00 %) BizTalk Server 5 3 (18.75 %) WinRunner 5 3 (18.75 %) QuickTest Pro 5 3 (18.75 %) ISTQB 5 3 (18.75 %) Test Scripting 5 3 (18.75 %) Windows Server 2003 5 3 (18.75 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 3 (18.75 %) Shell Script 5 3 (18.75 %) MSI

5 3 (18.75 %) Mainframe 5 3 (18.75 %) ISEB 5 3 (18.75 %) Windows 5 3 (18.75 %) SOA 5 3 (18.75 %) SLA 5 3 (18.75 %) C 5 3 (18.75 %) Perl 5 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server 5 3 (18.75 %) .NET 5 3 (18.75 %) ITIL 6 2 (12.50 %) MCP 6 2 (12.50 %) C# 6 2 (12.50 %) Java 6 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 6 2 (12.50 %) WSUS

VBScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 4 (25.00 %) HTML 2 3 (18.75 %) .NET 3 2 (12.50 %) WMI 4 1 (6.250 %) XHTML 4 1 (6.250 %) ASP 4 1 (6.250 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (6.250 %) WebServices 4 1 (6.250 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 4 (25.00 %) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2 1 (6.250 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 3 (18.75 %) WinRunner 1 3 (18.75 %) QuickTest Pro 1 3 (18.75 %) MSI
General 1 2 (12.50 %) Finance 2 1 (6.250 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 4 (25.00 %) Developer 2 3 (18.75 %) Tester 3 2 (12.50 %) Software Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Applications Support 3 2 (12.50 %) Consultant 3 2 (12.50 %) Support Consultant 4 1 (6.250 %) VB Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) C# Software Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) SQL Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) Applications Support Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Deployment Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Server Support Technician 4 1 (6.250 %) .NET Software Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Applications Support Consultant 4 1 (6.250 %) Server Support 4 1 (6.250 %) Support Technician 4 1 (6.250 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Applications Packager 4 1 (6.250 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 3 (18.75 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 4 (25.00 %) UNIX 2 3 (18.75 %) Windows Server 2003 2 3 (18.75 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (18.75 %) Test Scripting 1 3 (18.75 %) SOA 1 3 (18.75 %) ITIL 2 2 (12.50 %) Business Desktop Deployment 3 1 (6.250 %) Software Testing	Programming Languages 1 8 (50.00 %) SQL 2 7 (43.75 %) VB 3 6 (37.50 %) JavaScript 4 3 (18.75 %) Shell Script 4 3 (18.75 %) C 4 3 (18.75 %) Perl 5 2 (12.50 %) C# 5 2 (12.50 %) Java 6 1 (6.250 %) VB6 6 1 (6.250 %) C++ 6 1 (6.250 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 3 (18.75 %) ISTQB 1 3 (18.75 %) ISEB 2 2 (12.50 %) MCP 2 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (6.250 %) ISEB Practitioner 3 1 (6.250 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (18.75 %) SLA
System Software 1 1 (6.250 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 3 (18.75 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (12.50 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 4 (25.00 %) Microsoft 2 2 (12.50 %) VMware 3 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 3 1 (6.250 %) Business Objects