East Sussex VB Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the East Sussex 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 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Aberdeen Addlestone Amersham Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clapham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hayes Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Huntingdon Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Royston Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	33
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	3	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	3.659 %	4.861 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£380
Average daily rate	£250	£380
% change on same period last year	-34.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£250	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£313
% change on same period last year	-0.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£20.00	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-33.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.89	£29.82
% change on same period last year	+10.26 %
Programming Languages East Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	82	144
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.108 %	0.143 %
Daily rates quoted	16	52
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£277
Average daily rate	£324	£291
% change on same period last year	+11.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£304
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.86	£29.93
Average hourly rate	£28.54	£32.60
% change on same period last year	-12.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.21	£35.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.40	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
VB South East

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.

VB
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VB across the East Sussex 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 IT contract jobs citing VB across the East Sussex region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the East Sussex 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
Brighton	+6	1	£200	-47.36 %

VB South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 12 (66.67 %) VB6 2 11 (61.11 %) .NET 3 9 (50.00 %) Migration 3 9 (50.00 %) Data Migration 4 8 (44.44 %) SQL 4 8 (44.44 %) VB.NET 4 8 (44.44 %) SQL Server 5 6 (33.33 %) DTS 5 6 (33.33 %) ETL 5 6 (33.33 %) Banking 6 5 (27.78 %) Datawarehouse 6 5 (27.78 %) Data Cleansing 7 4 (22.22 %) MS Access 7 4 (22.22 %) Finance 8 3 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2000

8 3 (16.67 %) Windows 8 3 (16.67 %) VBA 8 3 (16.67 %) Oracle 8 3 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 3 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2005 9 2 (11.11 %) Matrix Management 9 2 (11.11 %) Crystal Reports 10 1 (5.556 %) CMS 10 1 (5.556 %) Hyperion Essbase 10 1 (5.556 %) E-Learning 10 1 (5.556 %) MS Excel 10 1 (5.556 %) Microsoft 10 1 (5.556 %) Hyperion 10 1 (5.556 %) TestDirector 10 1 (5.556 %) Web Development

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 11 (61.11 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (5.556 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (5.556 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (44.44 %) SQL Server 2 6 (33.33 %) DTS 2 6 (33.33 %) ETL 3 5 (27.78 %) Datawarehouse 3 5 (27.78 %) Data Cleansing 4 4 (22.22 %) MS Access 5 3 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2000 5 3 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2005 6 2 (11.11 %) Crystal Reports 7 1 (5.556 %) Hyperion Essbase
Development Applications 1 1 (5.556 %) TestDirector	General 1 6 (33.33 %) Banking 2 4 (22.22 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 11 (61.11 %) Developer 2 6 (33.33 %) SQL Developer 2 6 (33.33 %) SQL Server Developer 3 5 (27.78 %) .NET Developer 4 4 (22.22 %) VB.NET Developer 4 4 (22.22 %) VB Developer 5 3 (16.67 %) Analyst 5 3 (16.67 %) Analyst Programmer 5 3 (16.67 %) Programmer 5 3 (16.67 %) Project Manager 6 2 (11.11 %) VB6 Developer 6 2 (11.11 %) VBA Developer 7 1 (5.556 %) Crystal Reports Developer 7 1 (5.556 %) Administrator 7 1 (5.556 %) Report Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (5.556 %) E-Learning
Operating Systems 1 3 (16.67 %) Windows 1 3 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (50.00 %) Migration 1 9 (50.00 %) Data Migration 2 2 (11.11 %) Matrix Management 3 1 (5.556 %) Web Development 3 1 (5.556 %) Content Management
Programming Languages 1 12 (66.67 %) VB6 2 8 (44.44 %) SQL 2 8 (44.44 %) VB.NET 3 3 (16.67 %) VBA	Vendors 1 3 (16.67 %) Oracle 2 1 (5.556 %) Microsoft 2 1 (5.556 %) Hyperion