The first table below looks at the demand for the VB.NET Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB.NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised for the 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VB.NET Developer
Rank 443 426 443
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +17
Contract jobs requiring a VB.NET Developer 67 132 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.161% 0.247% 0.229%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.174% 0.267% 0.246%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 79 66
Average daily rate £325 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 2
Average hourly rate £15.00 £32.50 £34.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.84% -5.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £21.75 £27.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £36.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £34.25
% change year-on-year
+11.53% -5.10%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38474 49443 52336
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.56% 92.67% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 22637 27972 29016
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2002 2393 2764
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
VB.NET Developer
UK

VB.NET Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VB.NET Developer across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England VB.NET Developer Jobs Demand Trend

VB.NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England VB.NET Developer Daily Rate Trend

VB.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England VB.NET Developer Daily Rate Histogram

VB.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England VB.NET Developer Hourly Rate Trend

VB.NET Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
South East +6 14 £350 -
West Midlands -2 12 £325 -
London +10 11 £375 -28.57%
Yorkshire +6 11 £270 -
East Midlands -5 11 £325 +18.18%
East of England +10 4 - -
South West +24 3 £325 +52.94%
North West -3 2 £290 +3.57%
North East +12 1 - -
VB.NET Developer
UK

VB.NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited VB.NET Developer in their job title 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 with VB.NET Developer in their job title.

1 181 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 181 (100.00%) .NET
2 101 (55.80%) SQL Server
3 100 (55.25%) ASP.NET
4 96 (53.04%) SQL
5 62 (34.25%) C#
6 53 (29.28%) JavaScript
7 52 (28.73%) CSS
8 45 (24.86%) XML
9 39 (21.55%) Visual Studio
10 38 (20.99%) jQuery
11 36 (19.89%) XSLT
11 36 (19.89%) Microsoft
12 31 (17.13%) Windows
13 30 (16.57%) Ajax
14 28 (15.47%) Finance
14 28 (15.47%) HTML
14 28 (15.47%) E-Commerce
14 28 (15.47%) N-Tier
15 27 (14.92%) VB
16 26 (14.36%) XHTML
17 25 (13.81%) WCF
17 25 (13.81%) SQL Server 2008
18 23 (12.71%) Unit Testing
19 22 (12.15%) Oracle
19 22 (12.15%) T-SQL
20 21 (11.60%) Degree
21 20 (11.05%) SOA
21 20 (11.05%) WinForms
22 18 (9.945%) CSS3

VB.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited VB.NET Developer in their job title 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 with VB.NET Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 181 (100.00%) .NET
2 100 (55.25%) ASP.NET
3 52 (28.73%) CSS
4 45 (24.86%) XML
5 38 (20.99%) jQuery
6 36 (19.89%) XSLT
7 30 (16.57%) Ajax
8 28 (15.47%) HTML
9 26 (14.36%) XHTML
10 25 (13.81%) WCF
11 20 (11.05%) WinForms
12 18 (9.945%) HTML5
12 18 (9.945%) CSS3
13 17 (9.392%) Web Services
14 13 (7.182%) WF
15 5 (2.762%) WPF
15 5 (2.762%) Highcharts JS
16 4 (2.210%) LINQ
16 4 (2.210%) .NET Framework
17 3 (1.657%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 15 (8.287%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.867%) IIS
3 5 (2.762%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.552%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (0.552%) CMS
4 1 (0.552%) DotNetNuke
Applications
1 14 (7.735%) MS Excel
2 9 (4.972%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 13 (7.182%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.552%) Aligne
2 1 (0.552%) Endur
2 1 (0.552%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.552%) ZaiNet
2 1 (0.552%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.657%) Intranet
2 2 (1.105%) Internet
3 1 (0.552%) FTP
3 1 (0.552%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (55.80%) SQL Server
2 25 (13.81%) SQL Server 2008
3 15 (8.287%) SQL Server 2005
4 11 (6.077%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (3.315%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.657%) SQL Server 2000
6 3 (1.657%) MS Access
7 2 (1.105%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.552%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.552%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.552%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 39 (21.55%) Visual Studio
2 8 (4.420%) NUnit
3 6 (3.315%) JIRA
4 5 (2.762%) JSUnit
4 5 (2.762%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 5 (2.762%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (1.657%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.552%) Git (software)
General
1 28 (15.47%) Finance
2 7 (3.867%) Retail
3 5 (2.762%) Games
4 2 (1.105%) Banking
4 2 (1.105%) Law
4 2 (1.105%) Marketing
4 2 (1.105%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.552%) Polish Language
5 1 (0.552%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.552%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (0.552%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.552%) Electronics
5 1 (0.552%) Billing
5 1 (0.552%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.47%) N-Tier
2 9 (4.972%) Client/Server
3 8 (4.420%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.420%) Graphic Design
4 5 (2.762%) Tandem
5 3 (1.657%) Blackberry
5 3 (1.657%) WURFL
6 2 (1.105%) Mathematics
7 1 (0.552%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.552%) Derivative
7 1 (0.552%) DTV
7 1 (0.552%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.13%) Windows
2 3 (1.657%) Windows Mobile
2 3 (1.657%) Android
2 3 (1.657%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.657%) BlackBerry OS
3 2 (1.105%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.552%) UNIX
4 1 (0.552%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.552%) Linux
4 1 (0.552%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (15.47%) E-Commerce
2 23 (12.71%) Unit Testing
3 20 (11.05%) SOA
4 18 (9.945%) SEO
5 16 (8.840%) CRM
5 16 (8.840%) MVC
5 16 (8.840%) Web Application Development
6 15 (8.287%) OO
7 14 (7.735%) TDD
8 13 (7.182%) Workflow
9 12 (6.630%) Scrum
10 11 (6.077%) Web Development
10 11 (6.077%) Agile Software Development
11 7 (3.867%) Asset Management
12 6 (3.315%) Document Management
12 6 (3.315%) OOD
13 5 (2.762%) UML
14 4 (2.210%) Data Security
14 4 (2.210%) Release Management
15 2 (1.105%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 181 (100.00%) VB.NET
2 96 (53.04%) SQL
3 62 (34.25%) C#
4 53 (29.28%) JavaScript
5 27 (14.92%) VB
6 22 (12.15%) T-SQL
7 9 (4.972%) PL/SQL
8 8 (4.420%) VBA
8 8 (4.420%) VB6
9 2 (1.105%) XPath
9 2 (1.105%) XQuery
9 2 (1.105%) XAML
9 2 (1.105%) Java
10 1 (0.552%) C++
Qualifications
1 21 (11.60%) Degree
2 6 (3.315%) MCAD
2 6 (3.315%) MCSD
2 6 (3.315%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (2.762%) MCTS
3 5 (2.762%) MCP
4 1 (0.552%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.552%) BC Cleared
4 1 (0.552%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.105%) QA
Vendors
1 36 (19.89%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.15%) Oracle
3 6 (3.315%) AccuRev
4 5 (2.762%) Telerik
4 5 (2.762%) Aquila
5 2 (1.105%) Sybase
5 2 (1.105%) Business Objects
6 1 (0.552%) SAP
6 1 (0.552%) JBoss
6 1 (0.552%) SunGard
6 1 (0.552%) HP
6 1 (0.552%) Citrix
6 1 (0.552%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.552%) VMware
6 1 (0.552%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.552%) Trayport
6 1 (0.552%) Cadis
London
A leading City of London Insurance Solutions consultancy seek an experienced VB.net Developer with experience of working within the London Markets arena and strong SQL skills. You...
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £350 to £400 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
Manchester, North West
My online retailing client are currently expanding and are looking for a VB.NET/ASP.NET developer to join their development and support team on a contract basis...
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Brentford, Middlesex
My client has an immediate requirement for a .Net Developer to specifically work in VB.Net. As well as being proficient with VB.Net also any commercial experience...
Senitor Associates
Rate: £10 - £15 per hour
Posted: 14 May 2013
Bristol, South West
As a VB.NEt C# Developer you will be working alongside the development team updating a windows based application, working on technical specifications and meeting deadlines. Skills *VB...
Computer Futures
Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Kettering, East Midlands
Contractor developer required for a project implementing upgrades to internal systems. This role would suit someone with strong design and technical architecture experience , strong coding experience and good...
Rate: £300.00 - £350.00 per day
Posted: 26 April 2013
West Yorkshire
VB.NET developer required for a large organisation based in West Yorkshire for a 9 month contract... Skills required: VB.NET ASP.NET SQL SOAP Desirable: MVC MDS...
Spring Technology
Rate: £250.00 - £325.00 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
BackgroundWe are currently recruiting for a VB.Net Developer... The programme focuses on the development of SQL databases, user interface tools, CRM and SharePoint to support their business...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 9 May 2013