Halifax VB Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the Halifax 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Addlestone Amersham Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenford Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Inverness Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire 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 Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Rochdale Royston Ruislip Scotland 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 Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	5
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	3	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	10.34 %	33.33 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£250
Average daily rate	-	£275
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£310	£310
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
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	£32.84	£30.29
% change on same period last year	+8.43 %
Programming Languages Halifax
Matching contract IT job ads	29	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.012 %
Daily rates quoted	12	4
Average minimum daily rate	£302	£258
Average daily rate	£303	£283
% change on same period last year	+7.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£304	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
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	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
VB West Yorkshire

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 Halifax region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VB
Daily Rate Trend

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

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 13 (92.86 %) .NET 2 12 (85.71 %) C# 3 10 (71.43 %) ASP 3 10 (71.43 %) ASP.NET 3 10 (71.43 %) XML 4 9 (64.29 %) SQL Server 5 8 (57.14 %) VB6 5 8 (57.14 %) HTML 6 7 (50.00 %) JavaScript 6 7 (50.00 %) Oracle 6 7 (50.00 %) Finance 7 6 (42.86 %) VBScript 7 6 (42.86 %) IIS 7 6 (42.86 %) Visual Studio 7 6 (42.86 %) XSL

8 4 (28.57 %) COM+ 8 4 (28.57 %) SQL 8 4 (28.57 %) Insurance 8 4 (28.57 %) ADO.NET 8 4 (28.57 %) .NET Framework 9 3 (21.43 %) Unit Testing 9 3 (21.43 %) CSS 9 3 (21.43 %) WebServices 9 3 (21.43 %) ADO 10 2 (14.29 %) XSLT 10 2 (14.29 %) OO 10 2 (14.29 %) XHTML 10 2 (14.29 %) OOD 10 2 (14.29 %) SOA 10 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 13 (92.86 %) .NET 2 10 (71.43 %) ASP 2 10 (71.43 %) ASP.NET 2 10 (71.43 %) XML 3 8 (57.14 %) HTML 4 6 (42.86 %) XSL 5 4 (28.57 %) .NET Framework 5 4 (28.57 %) ADO.NET 5 4 (28.57 %) COM+ 6 3 (21.43 %) CSS 6 3 (21.43 %) WebServices 6 3 (21.43 %) ADO 7 2 (14.29 %) XSLT 7 2 (14.29 %) XHTML 7 2 (14.29 %) XML Messaging	Application Platforms 1 6 (42.86 %) IIS 2 1 (7.143 %) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (64.29 %) SQL Server 2 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 10g 2 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (7.143 %) Base SAS 3 1 (7.143 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 6 (42.86 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (14.29 %) NUnit 3 1 (7.143 %) InstallShield
General 1 7 (50.00 %) Finance 2 4 (28.57 %) Insurance 3 1 (7.143 %) International Banking 3 1 (7.143 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (7.143 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 13 (92.86 %) Developer 2 9 (64.29 %) .NET Developer 3 6 (42.86 %) C# Developer 3 6 (42.86 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 4 (28.57 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 2 (14.29 %) Systems Developer 6 1 (7.143 %) SAS Programmer 6 1 (7.143 %) Programmer 6 1 (7.143 %) VB.NET Developer 6 1 (7.143 %) VB Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.143 %) Thin Client 1 1 (7.143 %) Fat Client	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (21.43 %) Unit Testing 2 2 (14.29 %) Web Development 2 2 (14.29 %) OO 2 2 (14.29 %) OOD 2 2 (14.29 %) SOA 3 1 (7.143 %) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages 1 12 (85.71 %) C# 2 8 (57.14 %) VB6 3 7 (50.00 %) JavaScript 4 6 (42.86 %) VBScript 5 4 (28.57 %) SQL 6 1 (7.143 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (7.143 %) VB.NET	Vendors 1 7 (50.00 %) Oracle 2 2 (14.29 %) Microsoft 3 1 (7.143 %) Business Objects