East of England VB6 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) 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 VB6 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Location Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Londonderry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	120	88
Rank change on same period last year	-32
Matching contract IT job ads	27	66
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.067 %
As % of the category below	1.865 %	3.735 %
Daily rates quoted	4	12
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£368
Average daily rate	£318	£377
% change on same period last year	-15.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£343	£387
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£315
% change on same period last year	-8.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	18
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£27.61
Average hourly rate	-	£28.33
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£29.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.78	£33.01
% change on same period last year	+2.32 %
Programming Languages East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	1448	1767
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.930 %	1.788 %
Daily rates quoted	437	504
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£320
Average daily rate	£357	£340
% change on same period last year	+5.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	138	234
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.55	£29.86
Average hourly rate	£33.35	£31.52
% change on same period last year	+5.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.15	£33.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
VB6 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.

VB6
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VB6 across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VB6
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VB6 across the East of England region.

VB6
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB6 across the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

VB6
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VB6 across the East of England region.

VB6
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB6 within the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Cambridgeshire	-20	11	£320	+1.12 %
Essex	-3	9	£300	-35.13 %
Hertfordshire	+4	6	-	-
East Anglia	-2	1	£350	-

VB6 England

VB6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing VB6 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 VB6.

1 71 (100.00 %) VB 2 66 (92.96 %) .NET 3 46 (64.79 %) VB.NET 4 43 (60.56 %) SQL Server 5 34 (47.89 %) ASP.NET 6 31 (43.66 %) C# 6 31 (43.66 %) SQL 7 30 (42.25 %) ASP 8 27 (38.03 %) JavaScript 9 25 (35.21 %) XML 10 23 (32.39 %) UML 10 23 (32.39 %) Agile Software Development 11 22 (30.99 %) OO 12 21 (29.58 %) CSS 13 19 (26.76 %) SQL Server 2005

14 18 (25.35 %) Finance 15 16 (22.54 %) Transact-SQL 16 14 (19.72 %) XSLT 16 14 (19.72 %) CRM 16 14 (19.72 %) WPF 17 13 (18.31 %) WCF 17 13 (18.31 %) Oracle 18 10 (14.08 %) SQL Server 2000 18 10 (14.08 %) Microsoft 19 9 (12.68 %) Banking 20 8 (11.27 %) WinForms 20 8 (11.27 %) Windows 20 8 (11.27 %) Crystal Reports 21 7 (9.859 %) WebServices 21 7 (9.859 %) Linux

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing VB6 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 VB6. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 66 (92.96 %) .NET 2 34 (47.89 %) ASP.NET 3 30 (42.25 %) ASP 4 25 (35.21 %) XML 5 21 (29.58 %) CSS 6 14 (19.72 %) XSLT 6 14 (19.72 %) WPF 7 13 (18.31 %) WCF 8 8 (11.27 %) WinForms 9 7 (9.859 %) WebServices 10 6 (8.451 %) XSL 10 6 (8.451 %) J2EE 11 5 (7.042 %) HTML 11 5 (7.042 %) JSP 11 5 (7.042 %) Servlets 11 5 (7.042 %) JRules 11 5 (7.042 %) JavaBeans 11 5 (7.042 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 3 (4.225 %) .NET Framework 12 3 (4.225 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 6 (8.451 %) IIS 2 4 (5.634 %) Oracle HTTP Server 2 4 (5.634 %) IBM HTTP Server 3 1 (1.408 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (1.408 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (1.408 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 4 (5.634 %) MS Excel 2 2 (2.817 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (1.408 %) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking 1 4 (5.634 %) HTTP 2 3 (4.225 %) DSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 43 (60.56 %) SQL Server 2 19 (26.76 %) SQL Server 2005 3 10 (14.08 %) SQL Server 2000 4 8 (11.27 %) Crystal Reports 5 7 (9.859 %) Oracle 10g 6 6 (8.451 %) Oracle 9i 6 6 (8.451 %) Oracle Reports 7 4 (5.634 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 3 (4.225 %) MS Access 8 3 (4.225 %) MySQL 8 3 (4.225 %) SQL Server 7 9 1 (1.408 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 1 (1.408 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 1 (1.408 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 1 (1.408 %) Oracle Discoverer 9 1 (1.408 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 4 (5.634 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (4.225 %) NUnit 3 2 (2.817 %) Oracle Forms 4 1 (1.408 %) Flash 4 1 (1.408 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 18 (25.35 %) Finance 2 9 (12.68 %) Banking 3 5 (7.042 %) Retail 4 3 (4.225 %) Marketing 5 1 (1.408 %) Pharmaceutical 5 1 (1.408 %) Telecoms 5 1 (1.408 %) Insurance 5 1 (1.408 %) Local Government 5 1 (1.408 %) Automotive 5 1 (1.408 %) Government 5 1 (1.408 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 62 (87.32 %) Developer 2 37 (52.11 %) .NET Developer 3 26 (36.62 %) VB.NET Developer 4 15 (21.13 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 13 (18.31 %) C# Developer 6 11 (15.49 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 9 (12.68 %) VB Developer 8 8 (11.27 %) Software Developer 9 7 (9.859 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 10 6 (8.451 %) VB6 Developer 11 4 (5.634 %) Software Engineer 11 4 (5.634 %) SQL Developer 11 4 (5.634 %) SQL Server Developer 11 4 (5.634 %) Senior Developer 12 3 (4.225 %) Analyst 12 3 (4.225 %) VB Software Engineer 13 2 (2.817 %) .NET Software Engineer 13 2 (2.817 %) Enterprise Architect 13 2 (2.817 %) Senior .NET Developer 13 2 (2.817 %) ASP Developer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (8.451 %) N-Tier 2 1 (1.408 %) Management Information System 2 1 (1.408 %) Smartphone 2 1 (1.408 %) PDA 2 1 (1.408 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 8 (11.27 %) Windows 2 7 (9.859 %) Linux 3 5 (7.042 %) Windows NT 3 5 (7.042 %) UNIX 4 2 (2.817 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (1.408 %) AIX 5 1 (1.408 %) HPUX 5 1 (1.408 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (32.39 %) UML 1 23 (32.39 %) Agile Software Development 2 22 (30.99 %) OO 3 14 (19.72 %) CRM 4 4 (5.634 %) TDD 4 4 (5.634 %) OOD 5 3 (4.225 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 3 (4.225 %) Performance Testing 5 3 (4.225 %) Unit Testing 5 3 (4.225 %) Scrum 6 2 (2.817 %) Project Management 6 2 (2.817 %) Web Development 7 1 (1.408 %) Use Case 7 1 (1.408 %) E-Commerce 7 1 (1.408 %) Zachman Framework 7 1 (1.408 %) TOGAF 7 1 (1.408 %) Logistics 7 1 (1.408 %) Incident Management 7 1 (1.408 %) Enterprise Architecture 7 1 (1.408 %) Service Management
Programming Languages 1 71 (100.00 %) VB 2 46 (64.79 %) VB.NET 3 31 (43.66 %) C# 3 31 (43.66 %) SQL 4 27 (38.03 %) JavaScript 5 16 (22.54 %) Transact-SQL 6 6 (8.451 %) VBScript 7 5 (7.042 %) Java 8 3 (4.225 %) C 8 3 (4.225 %) PHP 9 2 (2.817 %) VBA 10 1 (1.408 %) Embedded C 10 1 (1.408 %) PL/SQL 10 1 (1.408 %) C++	Qualifications 1 2 (2.817 %) MCSD 1 2 (2.817 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (2.817 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (4.225 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	Systems Management 1 2 (2.817 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 13 (18.31 %) Oracle 2 10 (14.08 %) Microsoft 3 5 (7.042 %) ILOG 3 5 (7.042 %) IBM 4 3 (4.225 %) Remedy 5 1 (1.408 %) Lotus 5 1 (1.408 %) Business Objects