Essex VB.NET Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the Essex 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.NET over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aldershot Banbury Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Ceredigion Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dumbarton Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Hastings Hertfordshire Hitchin Horsham Hove Hull Huntingdon Kendal Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Drayton West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	41
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	20	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	11.17 %	6.840 %
Daily rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£400
Average daily rate	£331	£400
% change on same period last year	-17.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£304	£314
% change on same period last year	-3.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£24.67
Average hourly rate	-	£27.17
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£29.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.52	£33.59
% change on same period last year	-3.15 %
Programming Languages Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	179	307
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.239 %	0.306 %
Daily rates quoted	58	73
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£373
Average daily rate	£360	£393
% change on same period last year	-8.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£413
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	75
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.36	£32.89
Average hourly rate	£34.05	£33.65
% change on same period last year	+1.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.74	£34.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.25	£32.93
% change on same period last year	+0.99 %
VB.NET East of 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.

VB.NET
Demand Trend

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

VB.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

VB.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Essex region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VB.NET
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the Essex region over the 3 months to 29 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
Colchester	-	9	-	-
Basildon	-2	2	-	-
Chelmsford	-	1	-	-

VB.NET East of England

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing VB.NET 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.NET.

1 34 (100.00 %) .NET 2 26 (76.47 %) C# 3 24 (70.59 %) ASP.NET 4 16 (47.06 %) HTML 5 15 (44.12 %) CSS 6 14 (41.18 %) JavaScript 7 13 (38.24 %) VB 7 13 (38.24 %) VB6 8 12 (35.29 %) SQL Server 9 11 (32.35 %) SQL 10 9 (26.47 %) N-Tier 11 8 (23.53 %) XML 11 8 (23.53 %) Web Development 12 7 (20.59 %) JRules 12 7 (20.59 %) Oracle

12 7 (20.59 %) JSP 12 7 (20.59 %) Servlets 12 7 (20.59 %) J2EE 12 7 (20.59 %) Crystal Reports 12 7 (20.59 %) Java 12 7 (20.59 %) Oracle 9i 12 7 (20.59 %) Linux 12 7 (20.59 %) JavaBeans 12 7 (20.59 %) Oracle 10g 12 7 (20.59 %) ILOG 13 6 (17.65 %) Oracle Reports 13 6 (17.65 %) ASP 14 5 (14.71 %) UNIX 14 5 (14.71 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 5 (14.71 %) Oracle HTTP Server

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing VB.NET 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.NET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 34 (100.00 %) .NET 2 24 (70.59 %) ASP.NET 3 16 (47.06 %) HTML 4 15 (44.12 %) CSS 5 8 (23.53 %) XML 6 7 (20.59 %) JRules 6 7 (20.59 %) JSP 6 7 (20.59 %) Servlets 6 7 (20.59 %) J2EE 6 7 (20.59 %) JavaBeans 7 6 (17.65 %) ASP 8 5 (14.71 %) AJAX 9 4 (11.76 %) WebServices 9 4 (11.76 %) WinForms 10 2 (5.882 %) WebSphere 10 2 (5.882 %) WCF 10 2 (5.882 %) WSE 10 2 (5.882 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 2 (5.882 %) DOM 10 2 (5.882 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 5 (14.71 %) Oracle HTTP Server 1 5 (14.71 %) IBM HTTP Server 2 3 (8.824 %) CMS 3 2 (5.882 %) SharePoint 3 2 (5.882 %) DotNetNuke 4 1 (2.941 %) SharePoint Portal Server 4 1 (2.941 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (2.941 %) Content Management Server 4 1 (2.941 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 1 (2.941 %) IIS 4 1 (2.941 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 1 (2.941 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 5 (14.71 %) HTTP 2 1 (2.941 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (2.941 %) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (35.29 %) SQL Server 2 7 (20.59 %) Crystal Reports 2 7 (20.59 %) Oracle 9i 2 7 (20.59 %) Oracle 10g 3 6 (17.65 %) Oracle Reports 4 5 (14.71 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 2 (5.882 %) SQL Server 2005 6 1 (2.941 %) MySQL 6 1 (2.941 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (2.941 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 3 (8.824 %) Visual Studio
General 1 4 (11.76 %) Finance 1 4 (11.76 %) Marketing 2 1 (2.941 %) Automotive 2 1 (2.941 %) Electronics 2 1 (2.941 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 32 (94.12 %) Developer 2 16 (47.06 %) .NET Developer 3 13 (38.24 %) VB.NET Developer 4 12 (35.29 %) Web Developer 5 10 (29.41 %) .NET Web Developer 6 8 (23.53 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 8 (23.53 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 5 (14.71 %) ASP Developer 8 2 (5.882 %) C# Developer 8 2 (5.882 %) Applications Developer 9 1 (2.941 %) Applications Support 9 1 (2.941 %) J2EE Developer 9 1 (2.941 %) Applications Specialist 9 1 (2.941 %) Software Developer 9 1 (2.941 %) Software Engineer 9 1 (2.941 %) MySQL Developer 9 1 (2.941 %) BizTalk Developer 9 1 (2.941 %) SQL Developer 9 1 (2.941 %) SQL Server Developer 9 1 (2.941 %) Web Applications Developer
Miscellaneous 1 9 (26.47 %) N-Tier 2 1 (2.941 %) NHS 2 1 (2.941 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 7 (20.59 %) Linux 2 5 (14.71 %) UNIX 3 1 (2.941 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (23.53 %) Web Development 2 4 (11.76 %) OO 3 1 (2.941 %) Service Management 3 1 (2.941 %) Migration 3 1 (2.941 %) Content Management 3 1 (2.941 %) Document Management	Programming Languages 1 26 (76.47 %) C# 2 14 (41.18 %) JavaScript 3 13 (38.24 %) VB 3 13 (38.24 %) VB6 4 11 (32.35 %) SQL 5 7 (20.59 %) Java 6 3 (8.824 %) Transact-SQL 7 2 (5.882 %) C 7 2 (5.882 %) DHTML 7 2 (5.882 %) ECMAScript 8 1 (2.941 %) C++ 8 1 (2.941 %) VBScript 8 1 (2.941 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 1 (2.941 %) MCSD 1 1 (2.941 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (11.76 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 1 (2.941 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 7 (20.59 %) Oracle 1 7 (20.59 %) ILOG 2 5 (14.71 %) IBM 3 4 (11.76 %) Microsoft 4 1 (2.941 %) Lotus