Essex VBScript Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) skills within the Essex region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited VBScript over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Location Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheshire City of London County Antrim Crawley Darlington Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Romford Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stroud Suffolk Surrey Swindon Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wigan Wiltshire Wokingham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	59	55
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	2	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.935 %	1.399 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£240
Average daily rate	£338	£260
% change on same period last year	+29.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£280
UK excluding London average daily rate	£306	£324
% change on same period last year	-5.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.26	£26.78
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
Programming Languages Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	214	286
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.282 %	0.303 %
Daily rates quoted	82	79
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£412
Average daily rate	£340	£431
% change on same period last year	-21.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£451
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£332
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	72
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.88	£31.17
Average hourly rate	£36.30	£31.97
% change on same period last year	+13.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.72	£32.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.13	£33.16
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
VBScript 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.

VBScript
Demand Trend

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

VBScript
Daily Rate Trend

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

VBScript
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VBScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing VBScript 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 VBScript.

1 18 (100.00 %) SQL 1 18 (100.00 %) ASP 2 17 (94.44 %) IIS 3 16 (88.89 %) CSS 4 14 (77.78 %) Microsoft 5 12 (66.67 %) MS Access 6 11 (61.11 %) Graphic Design 7 9 (50.00 %) Internet 8 7 (38.89 %) Extranet 8 7 (38.89 %) Intranet 9 6 (33.33 %) JavaScript 9 6 (33.33 %) Web Development 10 4 (22.22 %) Web Design 10 4 (22.22 %) Linux 10 4 (22.22 %) XML

10 4 (22.22 %) VB 10 4 (22.22 %) .NET 11 3 (16.67 %) MS Office 11 3 (16.67 %) Content Management 12 2 (11.11 %) MAPI 12 2 (11.11 %) C 12 2 (11.11 %) Unix 12 2 (11.11 %) Project Management 13 1 (5.556 %) Windows 13 1 (5.556 %) Flash 13 1 (5.556 %) SMS 13 1 (5.556 %) DHTML 13 1 (5.556 %) HTML 13 1 (5.556 %) Java 13 1 (5.556 %) SSL

VBScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing VBScript 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 VBScript. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 18 (100.00 %) ASP 2 16 (88.89 %) CSS 3 4 (22.22 %) XML 3 4 (22.22 %) .NET 4 2 (11.11 %) MAPI 5 1 (5.556 %) WMI 5 1 (5.556 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 17 (94.44 %) IIS
Applications 1 3 (16.67 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 9 (50.00 %) Internet 2 7 (38.89 %) Extranet 2 7 (38.89 %) Intranet 3 1 (5.556 %) SMS 3 1 (5.556 %) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (66.67 %) MS Access	Development Applications 1 1 (5.556 %) Flash 1 1 (5.556 %) InstallShield
General 1 11 (61.11 %) Graphic Design 2 1 (5.556 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 17 (94.44 %) Developer 1 17 (94.44 %) Web Developer 2 1 (5.556 %) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (5.556 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 4 (22.22 %) Linux 2 2 (11.11 %) Unix 3 1 (5.556 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (33.33 %) Web Development 2 4 (22.22 %) Web Design 3 3 (16.67 %) Content Management 4 2 (11.11 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 18 (100.00 %) SQL 2 6 (33.33 %) JavaScript 3 4 (22.22 %) VB 4 2 (11.11 %) C 5 1 (5.556 %) DHTML 5 1 (5.556 %) Java
System Software 1 1 (5.556 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (5.556 %) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors 1 14 (77.78 %) Microsoft