VB Contracts in the East of England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the East of England region.

Note that 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.

Location
 3 months to
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 88 61 67
Rank change year-on-year
-27 +6
Contract jobs citing VB 28 79 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 1.321% 2.678% 2.128%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.193% 6.340% 5.632%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 26 22
Average daily rate £338 £265 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.35% -11.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £155 £241
10% offered a daily rate of more than £528 £350 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.12% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 15
Average hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £31.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% -5.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £26.25 £21.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £56.25 £36.40 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £26.28 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+29.37% -12.40%
All Programming Languages
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 877 1246 1012
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 41.37% 42.24% 37.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 604 431
Average daily rate £315 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 107 127
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.22 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.47% +3.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £26.22 £21.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.75 £50.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VB
England

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VB across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

East of England VB Jobs Demand Trend

VB
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England VB Daily Rate Trend

VB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the East of England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

East of England VB Daily Rate Histogram

VB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England VB Hourly Rate Trend

VB
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the East of England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

East of England VB Hourly Rate Histogram

VB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the East of England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Essex -11 10 £413 +55.66%
Hertfordshire -14 9 £275 +10.00%
Suffolk - 4 £475 -
Cambridgeshire +2 2 £343 -10.45%
Norfolk +1 2 - -
Bedfordshire +7 1 £350 -
VB
England

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

1 32 (47.76%) Windows
2 27 (40.30%) Microsoft
3 26 (38.81%) .NET
4 24 (35.82%) C#
5 22 (32.84%) SQL
6 21 (31.34%) VBScript
7 20 (29.85%) SQL Server
8 18 (26.87%) Oracle
9 17 (25.37%) ASP.NET
10 15 (22.39%) VMware
10 15 (22.39%) VB6
11 14 (20.90%) VMware Infrastructure
11 14 (20.90%) ASP
12 13 (19.40%) SLA
12 13 (19.40%) Microsoft App-V
12 13 (19.40%) MSI
12 13 (19.40%) SQL Server 2008
13 12 (17.91%) SQL Server 2005
13 12 (17.91%) InstallShield
13 12 (17.91%) Finance
13 12 (17.91%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (16.42%) MCSE
14 11 (16.42%) DHTML
14 11 (16.42%) Validation
14 11 (16.42%) WCF
15 10 (14.93%) NHibernate
15 10 (14.93%) Active Directory
16 9 (13.43%) Windows Server 2008
17 8 (11.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 8 (11.94%) LINQ

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

Application Development
1 26 (38.81%) .NET
2 17 (25.37%) ASP.NET
3 14 (20.90%) ASP
4 11 (16.42%) DHTML
4 11 (16.42%) WCF
5 10 (14.93%) NHibernate
6 8 (11.94%) LINQ
6 8 (11.94%) HTML
7 7 (10.45%) COM+
7 7 (10.45%) XML
8 6 (8.955%) jQuery
9 5 (7.463%) CSS
10 4 (5.970%) Silverlight
10 4 (5.970%) XSLT
11 3 (4.478%) Web Services
12 2 (2.985%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 2 (2.985%) WebSphere
12 2 (2.985%) .NET Framework
12 2 (2.985%) Ajax
13 1 (1.493%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (7.463%) IIS
2 4 (5.970%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (5.970%) SharePoint 2010
2 4 (5.970%) Exchange Server 2007
2 4 (5.970%) Exchange Server 2003
2 4 (5.970%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.970%) MS Exchange
3 3 (4.478%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.493%) ColdFusion
4 1 (1.493%) TeamSite
4 1 (1.493%) Apache
4 1 (1.493%) CMS
4 1 (1.493%) LiveSite
Applications
1 7 (10.45%) MS Office
2 5 (7.463%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.493%) MS Project
3 1 (1.493%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.493%) FrameMaker
3 1 (1.493%) RoboHelp
3 1 (1.493%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (1.493%) Adobe Captivate
3 1 (1.493%) PowerPivot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.970%) TCP/IP
1 4 (5.970%) SAN
2 1 (1.493%) DNS
2 1 (1.493%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (29.85%) SQL Server
2 13 (19.40%) SQL Server 2008
3 12 (17.91%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (11.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (10.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (8.955%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (7.463%) SQL Server 2000
8 4 (5.970%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (4.478%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (4.478%) MS Access
10 2 (2.985%) DB2
11 1 (1.493%) MySQL
11 1 (1.493%) DTS
11 1 (1.493%) Data Mining
11 1 (1.493%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 1 (1.493%) QlikView
11 1 (1.493%) SQL Server 2012
11 1 (1.493%) PerformancePoint
Development Applications
1 13 (19.40%) MSI
2 12 (17.91%) InstallShield
3 5 (7.463%) AdminStudio
4 3 (4.478%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.985%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.493%) QuickTest Pro
6 1 (1.493%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.493%) LabVIEW
6 1 (1.493%) NUnit
6 1 (1.493%) FrontPage
6 1 (1.493%) Selenium
6 1 (1.493%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (17.91%) Finance
2 2 (2.985%) Banking
2 2 (2.985%) Retail
2 2 (2.985%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.493%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.493%) Publishing
3 1 (1.493%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 22 (32.84%) Developer
2 13 (19.40%) Applications Packager
3 11 (16.42%) .NET Developer
4 9 (13.43%) Analyst
5 7 (10.45%) ASP.NET Developer
6 5 (7.463%) Consultant
7 4 (5.970%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (5.970%) Software Packager
7 4 (5.970%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 4 (5.970%) Technical Architect
7 4 (5.970%) Architect
7 4 (5.970%) C# Developer
8 3 (4.478%) Web Developer
8 3 (4.478%) Test Analyst
9 2 (2.985%) Junior DBA
9 2 (2.985%) DBA
9 2 (2.985%) 1st Line Support
9 2 (2.985%) Technical Consultant
9 2 (2.985%) 2nd Line Support
9 2 (2.985%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.970%) PACS
1 4 (5.970%) Clustering
2 1 (1.493%) NHS
2 1 (1.493%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.493%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.493%) Mathematics
2 1 (1.493%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 32 (47.76%) Windows
2 9 (13.43%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (7.463%) Windows 7
4 4 (5.970%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (2.985%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.493%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (16.42%) Validation
2 6 (8.955%) Test Scripting
2 6 (8.955%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (8.955%) Investment Management
2 6 (8.955%) Risk Management
3 5 (7.463%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (5.970%) Performance Management
4 4 (5.970%) Technical Architecture
4 4 (5.970%) Asset Management
4 4 (5.970%) Project Management
4 4 (5.970%) Service Delivery
5 3 (4.478%) ITIL
5 3 (4.478%) Business Analysis
5 3 (4.478%) Web Development
5 3 (4.478%) Time Management
6 2 (2.985%) Problem Management
6 2 (2.985%) Performance Testing
6 2 (2.985%) Software Testing
6 2 (2.985%) Scrum
6 2 (2.985%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 24 (35.82%) C#
2 22 (32.84%) SQL
3 21 (31.34%) VBScript
4 15 (22.39%) VB6
5 8 (11.94%) T-SQL
6 7 (10.45%) JavaScript
7 6 (8.955%) Java
7 6 (8.955%) VBA
8 3 (4.478%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.985%) PL/1
9 2 (2.985%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.493%) C
10 1 (1.493%) C++
10 1 (1.493%) PHP
10 1 (1.493%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.493%) F#
Qualifications
1 12 (17.91%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (16.42%) MCSE
3 4 (5.970%) Degree
4 1 (1.493%) ISEB
4 1 (1.493%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.493%) MCITP
4 1 (1.493%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.493%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.40%) SLA
2 1 (1.493%) QA
System Software
1 14 (20.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (19.40%) Microsoft App-V
3 10 (14.93%) Active Directory
4 7 (10.45%) Terminal Services
5 4 (5.970%) Forefront TMG
5 4 (5.970%) ISA Server
6 1 (1.493%) VMware ESX
6 1 (1.493%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (11.94%) SCCM
2 4 (5.970%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 27 (40.30%) Microsoft
2 18 (26.87%) Oracle
3 15 (22.39%) VMware
4 8 (11.94%) Citrix
5 7 (10.45%) HP
5 7 (10.45%) Remedy
6 4 (5.970%) Compaq
6 4 (5.970%) Dell
6 4 (5.970%) Veritas
6 4 (5.970%) ADIC
6 4 (5.970%) CommVault
7 3 (4.478%) Business Objects
8 2 (2.985%) Adobe
9 1 (1.493%) Sybase
9 1 (1.493%) ATG
9 1 (1.493%) AppSense
9 1 (1.493%) Omniture
9 1 (1.493%) LANDesk
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