VB Contracts in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB over the 3 months to 24 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 Edinburgh 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 49 54 55
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +1
Contract jobs citing VB 8 9 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.960% 0.828% 1.004%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.433% 4.712% 4.779%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 5
Average daily rate £250 £330 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.24% +65.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £336 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.07% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+25.92% -10.00%
Search 1 VB jobs in Edinburgh
All Programming Languages
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 233 191 272
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 27.97% 17.57% 21.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 77 103
Average daily rate £325 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £221 £237 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 2
Average hourly rate £12.71 £32.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-60.28% +52.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VB
Scotland

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh VB Daily Rate Trend

VB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh VB Hourly Rate Trend

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) .NET
3 7 (43.75%) Migration
4 6 (37.50%) Banking
5 5 (31.25%) ASP
5 5 (31.25%) C#
6 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (25.00%) Windows
6 4 (25.00%) VB6
6 4 (25.00%) Financial Modelling
6 4 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (25.00%) Software Deployment
7 3 (18.75%) Wise Package Studio
7 3 (18.75%) XenApp
7 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
7 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
7 3 (18.75%) SCCM
7 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (18.75%) VMware
7 3 (18.75%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (18.75%) Windows XP
7 3 (18.75%) Citrix
7 3 (18.75%) Novell
7 3 (18.75%) ZENworks
7 3 (18.75%) MSI
7 3 (18.75%) InstallShield
7 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
7 3 (18.75%) Oracle
7 3 (18.75%) VBScript
8 2 (12.50%) CSS

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 8 (50.00%) .NET
2 5 (31.25%) ASP
3 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
4 2 (12.50%) CSS
4 2 (12.50%) XML
4 2 (12.50%) XSL
4 2 (12.50%) XHTML
5 1 (6.250%) .NET Framework
5 1 (6.250%) HTML
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (12.50%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.250%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Wise Package Studio
1 3 (18.75%) MSI
1 3 (18.75%) InstallShield
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Banking
3 1 (6.250%) Retail
3 1 (6.250%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) .NET Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Excel Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Applications Packager
3 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Excel VBA Developer
3 2 (12.50%) VBA Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Developer Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Process Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Web Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Developer
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
2 3 (18.75%) Windows XP
3 1 (6.250%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Migration
2 4 (25.00%) Financial Modelling
2 4 (25.00%) Software Deployment
3 2 (12.50%) Data Management
3 2 (12.50%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) C#
2 4 (25.00%) VB6
3 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 3 (18.75%) VBScript
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) Perl
4 2 (12.50%) VBA
5 1 (6.250%) ALGOL
5 1 (6.250%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.250%) PHP
5 1 (6.250%) SQL
5 1 (6.250%) T-SQL
5 1 (6.250%) COBOL
5 1 (6.250%) Java
5 1 (6.250%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) XenApp
1 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) SCCM
1 3 (18.75%) ZENworks
2 1 (6.250%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) VMware
1 3 (18.75%) Citrix
1 3 (18.75%) Novell
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 1 (6.250%) Unisys
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