Hampshire VB Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the Hampshire 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Aberdeen Amersham Banbury Barking Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bootle Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guernsey Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdon Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Rochdale Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Royston Rugby Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	61	46
Rank change on same period last year	-15
Matching contract IT job ads	39	93
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.055 %	0.094 %
As % of the category below	5.263 %	10.48 %
Daily rates quoted	10	27
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£297
Average daily rate	£328	£310
% change on same period last year	+5.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£322
UK excluding London average daily rate	£298	£319
% change on same period last year	-6.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.85	£33.11
Average hourly rate	£36.54	£37.61
% change on same period last year	-2.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.23	£42.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£28.85
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Programming Languages Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	741	887
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.048 %	0.898 %
Daily rates quoted	202	233
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£314
Average daily rate	£343	£326
% change on same period last year	+5.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	156	145
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£33.97
Average hourly rate	£36.75	£36.64
% change on same period last year	+0.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.50	£39.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.17	£32.72
% change on same period last year	-1.67 %
VB South East

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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

VB
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

VB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VB
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

VB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 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
Basingstoke	-1	6	£382	+11.88 %
Portsmouth	-	6	-	-
Winchester	-	2	£375	-
Southampton	+10	2	-	-

VB South East

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 54 (54.00 %) .NET 2 49 (49.00 %) SQL 3 35 (35.00 %) SQL Server 4 34 (34.00 %) VB6 5 31 (31.00 %) C# 5 31 (31.00 %) XML 6 28 (28.00 %) VB.NET 7 26 (26.00 %) Visual Studio 7 26 (26.00 %) ASP 8 21 (21.00 %) Microsoft 9 19 (19.00 %) C++ 9 19 (19.00 %) Windows 9 19 (19.00 %) UML 10 18 (18.00 %) ASP.NET 11 17 (17.00 %) Security Cleared

12 16 (16.00 %) Oracle 13 15 (15.00 %) HTML 14 14 (14.00 %) Telecoms 15 12 (12.00 %) IIS 16 11 (11.00 %) MS Office 16 11 (11.00 %) Java 16 11 (11.00 %) PL/SQL 16 11 (11.00 %) .NET Framework 17 9 (9.000 %) Transact-SQL 17 9 (9.000 %) MS Excel 18 8 (8.000 %) MS Access 18 8 (8.000 %) N-Tier 18 8 (8.000 %) WebServices 18 8 (8.000 %) C 18 8 (8.000 %) ASP.NET 2.0

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 54 (54.00 %) .NET 2 31 (31.00 %) XML 3 26 (26.00 %) ASP 4 18 (18.00 %) ASP.NET 5 15 (15.00 %) HTML 6 11 (11.00 %) .NET Framework 7 8 (8.000 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 8 (8.000 %) WebServices 8 7 (7.000 %) XML Schema 8 7 (7.000 %) Middleware 9 5 (5.000 %) WinForms 10 4 (4.000 %) CSS 10 4 (4.000 %) XHTML 11 3 (3.000 %) ADO.NET 12 2 (2.000 %) AJAX 12 2 (2.000 %) SOAP 12 2 (2.000 %) ActiveX 13 1 (1.000 %) EDI 13 1 (1.000 %) Application Packaging 13 1 (1.000 %) WPF	Application Platforms 1 12 (12.00 %) IIS 2 7 (7.000 %) BizTalk Server 3 4 (4.000 %) CMS 4 3 (3.000 %) SAS 5 2 (2.000 %) Lotus Notes 6 1 (1.000 %) Apache 6 1 (1.000 %) Tomcat 6 1 (1.000 %) Tuxedo 6 1 (1.000 %) SharePoint 6 1 (1.000 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 11 (11.00 %) MS Office 2 9 (9.000 %) MS Excel 3 4 (4.000 %) Photoshop 4 3 (3.000 %) SPSS 5 2 (2.000 %) Spreadsheet 6 1 (1.000 %) MS Project 6 1 (1.000 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 1 (1.000 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 5 (5.000 %) Internet 2 4 (4.000 %) Intranet 2 4 (4.000 %) Broadband 3 2 (2.000 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 35 (35.00 %) SQL Server 2 8 (8.000 %) MS Access 3 7 (7.000 %) Crystal Reports 3 7 (7.000 %) SQL Server 2005 4 5 (5.000 %) Oracle Reports 5 4 (4.000 %) BusinessObjects 6 3 (3.000 %) Oracle 10g 7 2 (2.000 %) SQL Server 2000 8 1 (1.000 %) Oracle OWB 8 1 (1.000 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 1 (1.000 %) DataStage 8 1 (1.000 %) DTS 8 1 (1.000 %) Ingres 8 1 (1.000 %) TOAD 8 1 (1.000 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 26 (26.00 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (5.000 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 3 (3.000 %) NUnit 4 2 (2.000 %) LabVIEW 4 2 (2.000 %) QuickTest Pro 5 1 (1.000 %) PowerBuilder 5 1 (1.000 %) MSI 5 1 (1.000 %) InstallShield 5 1 (1.000 %) Rational Functional Tester	General 1 14 (14.00 %) Telecoms 2 7 (7.000 %) Finance 3 6 (6.000 %) Government 4 4 (4.000 %) Multimedia 4 4 (4.000 %) Insurance 4 4 (4.000 %) Pensions 5 3 (3.000 %) Health 5 3 (3.000 %) Banking 5 3 (3.000 %) Aerospace 6 2 (2.000 %) Retail 6 2 (2.000 %) Back Office 7 1 (1.000 %) Retail Banking 7 1 (1.000 %) Marketing 7 1 (1.000 %) Education
Job Titles 1 56 (56.00 %) Developer 2 18 (18.00 %) Analyst 3 15 (15.00 %) .NET Developer 4 14 (14.00 %) Software Engineer 5 11 (11.00 %) Programmer 6 9 (9.000 %) VB Developer 6 9 (9.000 %) Analyst Programmer 7 5 (5.000 %) Support Analyst 7 5 (5.000 %) Systems Designer 7 5 (5.000 %) VB6 Developer 8 4 (4.000 %) Software Designer 8 4 (4.000 %) Software Developer 8 4 (4.000 %) Analyst Developer 8 4 (4.000 %) Systems Developer 9 3 (3.000 %) VB.NET Developer 9 3 (3.000 %) Systems Support 9 3 (3.000 %) Applications Support 9 3 (3.000 %) C# Developer 9 3 (3.000 %) Project Manager 9 3 (3.000 %) Business Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 8 (8.000 %) N-Tier 2 7 (7.000 %) Replication 3 2 (2.000 %) Statistics 4 1 (1.000 %) Mathematics 4 1 (1.000 %) VAX 4 1 (1.000 %) Biometrics 4 1 (1.000 %) DTV 4 1 (1.000 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 19 (19.00 %) Windows 2 2 (2.000 %) Windows 2000 2 2 (2.000 %) Windows XP 2 2 (2.000 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (1.000 %) UNIX 3 1 (1.000 %) VMS 3 1 (1.000 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (1.000 %) Tru64 3 1 (1.000 %) Windows Vista 3 1 (1.000 %) Windows NT 3 1 (1.000 %) Solaris 3 1 (1.000 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (19.00 %) UML 2 17 (17.00 %) Security Cleared 3 8 (8.000 %) SC Cleared 4 7 (7.000 %) SSADM 4 7 (7.000 %) Validation 4 7 (7.000 %) Web Development 5 6 (6.000 %) Unit Testing 5 6 (6.000 %) Data Modelling 5 6 (6.000 %) QMS 6 5 (5.000 %) BC Cleared 6 5 (5.000 %) Data Analysis 7 3 (3.000 %) Test Scripting 7 3 (3.000 %) Agile Software Development 7 3 (3.000 %) Content Management 7 3 (3.000 %) RAD 7 3 (3.000 %) E-Commerce 8 2 (2.000 %) PRINCE2 8 2 (2.000 %) DSDM 8 2 (2.000 %) OOD 8 2 (2.000 %) e-GIF
Programming Languages 1 49 (49.00 %) SQL 2 34 (34.00 %) VB6 3 31 (31.00 %) C# 4 28 (28.00 %) VB.NET 5 19 (19.00 %) C++ 6 11 (11.00 %) Java 6 11 (11.00 %) PL/SQL 7 9 (9.000 %) Transact-SQL 8 8 (8.000 %) C 9 7 (7.000 %) VBScript 10 6 (6.000 %) VBA 11 3 (3.000 %) JavaScript 12 2 (2.000 %) Perl 13 1 (1.000 %) PHP 13 1 (1.000 %) Pascal 13 1 (1.000 %) SQR 13 1 (1.000 %) DCL 13 1 (1.000 %) PowerShell	Qualifications 1 4 (4.000 %) Degree 2 2 (2.000 %) ISEB 2 2 (2.000 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (1.000 %) MCSE 3 1 (1.000 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (5.000 %) ISO12207 2 3 (3.000 %) QA	System Software 1 2 (2.000 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.000 %) VMware Workstation
Systems Management 1 1 (1.000 %) Tivoli 1 1 (1.000 %) OpenView Configuration Management 1 1 (1.000 %) SCCM	Vendors 1 21 (21.00 %) Microsoft 2 16 (16.00 %) Oracle 3 4 (4.000 %) Business Objects 4 2 (2.000 %) Lotus 5 1 (1.000 %) VMware 5 1 (1.000 %) Google 5 1 (1.000 %) PeopleSoft 5 1 (1.000 %) IBM 5 1 (1.000 %) Adobe 5 1 (1.000 %) Citrix 5 1 (1.000 %) BEA 5 1 (1.000 %) BMC 5 1 (1.000 %) CA 5 1 (1.000 %) Tridion