East of England VB Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the last 3 months to 22 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Amersham Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Falkirk Farnborough Farnham Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grangemouth Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak Highland Hitchin Hungerford Huntingdon Inverness Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Rochdale Rochester Ruislip Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stanmore Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 22 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	45
Rank change on same period last year	-34
Matching contract IT job ads	77	119
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.100 %	0.134 %
As % of the category below	4.780 %	7.732 %
Daily rates quoted	22	49
Average minimum daily rate	£262	£295
Average daily rate	£278	£311
% change on same period last year	-10.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£293	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£295	£315
% change on same period last year	-6.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.26	£27.53
Average hourly rate	£32.66	£29.23
% change on same period last year	+11.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.06	£30.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.18	£30.33
% change on same period last year	+2.82 %
Programming Languages East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	1611	1539
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.089 %	1.729 %
Daily rates quoted	531	413
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£310
Average daily rate	£347	£334
% change on same period last year	+3.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£332
% change on same period last year	+2.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	178	199
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.56	£29.89
Average hourly rate	£34.43	£31.63
% change on same period last year	+8.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.30	£33.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.24	£32.68
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
VB 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing VB across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing VB across the East of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the East of England region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing VB across the East of England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the East of England region over the past 3 months.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the East of England region over the past 3 months.

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
Hertfordshire	-29	27	£316	+2.49 %
Cambridgeshire	-10	25	£342	+16.80 %
Essex	-22	12	£229	-38.22 %
Norfolk	+8	5	£150	-30.23 %
East Anglia	+4	5	-	-
Bedfordshire	+4	3	£263	-8.69 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England region citing VB also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing VB.

1 101 (61.21 %) .NET 2 78 (47.27 %) SQL Server 3 67 (40.61 %) VB6 4 60 (36.36 %) SQL 5 59 (35.76 %) VB.NET 6 52 (31.52 %) ASP 7 51 (30.91 %) JavaScript 8 42 (25.45 %) XML 9 38 (23.03 %) ASP.NET 10 36 (21.82 %) Microsoft 11 34 (20.61 %) C# 11 34 (20.61 %) SQL Server 2005 12 31 (18.79 %) Windows 13 26 (15.76 %) HTML 13 26 (15.76 %) Visual Studio

13 26 (15.76 %) Finance 14 23 (13.94 %) SQL Server 2000 14 23 (13.94 %) VBScript 15 22 (13.33 %) Transact-SQL 16 21 (12.73 %) CRM 17 19 (11.52 %) Java 17 19 (11.52 %) CSS 17 19 (11.52 %) UML 18 18 (10.91 %) OO 18 18 (10.91 %) XSLT 19 16 (9.697 %) Oracle 19 16 (9.697 %) Agile Software Development 20 15 (9.091 %) C++ 21 14 (8.485 %) Internet 22 13 (7.879 %) Active Directory

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England region citing VB also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing VB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 101 (61.21 %) .NET 2 52 (31.52 %) ASP 3 42 (25.45 %) XML 4 38 (23.03 %) ASP.NET 5 26 (15.76 %) HTML 6 19 (11.52 %) CSS 7 18 (10.91 %) XSLT 8 13 (7.879 %) WPF 9 12 (7.273 %) WCF 10 11 (6.667 %) WinForms 11 8 (4.848 %) WebServices 12 7 (4.242 %) XSL 13 6 (3.636 %) ADO 14 5 (3.030 %) AJAX 14 5 (3.030 %) .NET Framework 14 5 (3.030 %) JSP 15 4 (2.424 %) COM+ 15 4 (2.424 %) ADSI 15 4 (2.424 %) WMI 16 3 (1.818 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 13 (7.879 %) IIS 2 9 (5.455 %) MS Exchange 3 6 (3.636 %) BizTalk Server 4 4 (2.424 %) Lotus Domino 5 1 (0.606 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 1 (0.606 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 1 (0.606 %) MQSeries 5 1 (0.606 %) SharePoint 5 1 (0.606 %) CICS 5 1 (0.606 %) Commerce Server 5 1 (0.606 %) JBoss 5 1 (0.606 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 12 (7.273 %) MS Excel 2 10 (6.061 %) MS Office 3 3 (1.818 %) MS Visio 3 3 (1.818 %) Photoshop 4 2 (1.212 %) MS PowerPoint 5 1 (0.606 %) NASTRAN 5 1 (0.606 %) Adobe Illustrator 5 1 (0.606 %) Paint Shop Pro 5 1 (0.606 %) Fireworks	Business Applications 1 2 (1.212 %) e-Work 2 1 (0.606 %) Oracle Financial Analyzer 2 1 (0.606 %) Line 100 2 1 (0.606 %) Sage MMS 2 1 (0.606 %) Oracle CRM 2 1 (0.606 %) Dynamics AX 2 1 (0.606 %) Axapta
Communications & Networking 1 14 (8.485 %) Internet 2 9 (5.455 %) DHCP 2 9 (5.455 %) WINS 2 9 (5.455 %) DNS 3 7 (4.242 %) Firewall 4 5 (3.030 %) Intranet 5 4 (2.424 %) SAN 6 3 (1.818 %) DSL 7 2 (1.212 %) Extranet 8 1 (0.606 %) RIP 8 1 (0.606 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 78 (47.27 %) SQL Server 2 34 (20.61 %) SQL Server 2005 3 23 (13.94 %) SQL Server 2000 4 11 (6.667 %) Datawarehouse 5 10 (6.061 %) Crystal Reports 6 9 (5.455 %) MS Access 7 7 (4.242 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 6 (3.636 %) InterSystems Cache 9 4 (2.424 %) BusinessObjects 9 4 (2.424 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 3 (1.818 %) Oracle Discoverer 10 3 (1.818 %) Oracle 10g 10 3 (1.818 %) DTS 10 3 (1.818 %) Oracle Reports 10 3 (1.818 %) MySQL 11 2 (1.212 %) OLAP 11 2 (1.212 %) SQL Server 7 11 2 (1.212 %) Oracle 9i 11 2 (1.212 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 11 2 (1.212 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 26 (15.76 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (1.818 %) MSI 2 3 (1.818 %) NUnit 2 3 (1.818 %) LoadRunner 2 3 (1.818 %) Oracle Forms 3 1 (0.606 %) FrontPage 3 1 (0.606 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (0.606 %) Flash 3 1 (0.606 %) QuickTest Pro 3 1 (0.606 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 26 (15.76 %) Finance 2 9 (5.455 %) Banking 3 7 (4.242 %) Government 4 5 (3.030 %) Retail 5 4 (2.424 %) Insurance 6 3 (1.818 %) Manufacturing 6 3 (1.818 %) Back Office 7 2 (1.212 %) Billing 7 2 (1.212 %) Pensions 7 2 (1.212 %) Automotive 7 2 (1.212 %) Front Office 8 1 (0.606 %) Construction 8 1 (0.606 %) Telecoms 8 1 (0.606 %) Pharmaceutical 8 1 (0.606 %) Local Government 8 1 (0.606 %) Marketing 8 1 (0.606 %) Animation 8 1 (0.606 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 106 (64.24 %) Developer 2 54 (32.73 %) .NET Developer 3 38 (23.03 %) VB.NET Developer 4 20 (12.12 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 16 (9.697 %) VB Developer 5 16 (9.697 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 6 14 (8.485 %) Analyst 7 12 (7.273 %) C# Developer 8 11 (6.667 %) SQL Developer 9 10 (6.061 %) Programmer 10 8 (4.848 %) SQL Server Developer 10 8 (4.848 %) VB6 Developer 10 8 (4.848 %) Software Developer 11 7 (4.242 %) Web Developer 11 7 (4.242 %) Server Engineer 12 6 (3.636 %) Team Leader 12 6 (3.636 %) Software Engineer 13 5 (3.030 %) Server Support 13 5 (3.030 %) Analyst Programmer 13 5 (3.030 %) Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (1.818 %) N-Tier 2 2 (1.212 %) NHS 3 1 (0.606 %) Management Information System 3 1 (0.606 %) Smartphone 3 1 (0.606 %) PDA 3 1 (0.606 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 31 (18.79 %) Windows 2 9 (5.455 %) Windows NT 3 8 (4.848 %) Linux 4 7 (4.242 %) Unix 5 6 (3.636 %) Windows 2000 5 6 (3.636 %) NetWare 6 5 (3.030 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (0.606 %) Windows XP 7 1 (0.606 %) AIX 7 1 (0.606 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (12.73 %) CRM 2 19 (11.52 %) UML 3 18 (10.91 %) OO 4 16 (9.697 %) Agile Software Development 5 6 (3.636 %) OOD 5 6 (3.636 %) Business Analysis 5 6 (3.636 %) Project Management 5 6 (3.636 %) Security Cleared 6 5 (3.030 %) Unit Testing 6 5 (3.030 %) OOA/OOD 7 4 (2.424 %) TDD 7 4 (2.424 %) Scrum 7 4 (2.424 %) Web Design 7 4 (2.424 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 3 (1.818 %) Volume Testing 8 3 (1.818 %) Time Management 8 3 (1.818 %) Technical Architecture 9 2 (1.212 %) ITIL 9 2 (1.212 %) CAE 9 2 (1.212 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 67 (40.61 %) VB6 2 60 (36.36 %) SQL 3 59 (35.76 %) VB.NET 4 51 (30.91 %) JavaScript 5 34 (20.61 %) C# 6 23 (13.94 %) VBScript 7 22 (13.33 %) Transact-SQL 8 19 (11.52 %) Java 9 15 (9.091 %) C++ 10 10 (6.061 %) C 11 9 (5.455 %) VBA 12 5 (3.030 %) DHTML 13 4 (2.424 %) PHP 14 3 (1.818 %) VC++ 14 3 (1.818 %) COBOL 15 2 (1.212 %) PL/SQL 15 2 (1.212 %) Fortran 15 2 (1.212 %) XPath 15 2 (1.212 %) AWK 16 1 (0.606 %) Embedded C	Qualifications 1 12 (7.273 %) Microsoft Certification 1 12 (7.273 %) Degree 2 7 (4.242 %) MCP 3 6 (3.636 %) MCSA 4 5 (3.030 %) MCSD 5 2 (1.212 %) MCSE 6 1 (0.606 %) CCNA 6 1 (0.606 %) Cisco Certification 6 1 (0.606 %) ITIL Certification 6 1 (0.606 %) ISEB 6 1 (0.606 %) CCA 6 1 (0.606 %) Citrix Certification 6 1 (0.606 %) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.606 %) QA 1 1 (0.606 %) ISO9000 1 1 (0.606 %) SLA	System Software 1 13 (7.879 %) Active Directory 2 2 (1.212 %) MetaFrame 3 1 (0.606 %) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management 1 5 (3.030 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 3 (1.818 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (1.818 %) OpenView 3 1 (0.606 %) SCCM	Vendors 1 36 (21.82 %) Microsoft 2 16 (9.697 %) Oracle 3 9 (5.455 %) InterSystems 4 6 (3.636 %) Citrix 5 4 (2.424 %) Business Objects 5 4 (2.424 %) IBM 5 4 (2.424 %) Lotus 6 3 (1.818 %) Northgate 6 3 (1.818 %) HP 6 3 (1.818 %) Remedy 7 2 (1.212 %) Sybase 7 2 (1.212 %) Metastorm 8 1 (0.606 %) Adobe 8 1 (0.606 %) Sage 8 1 (0.606 %) SAP