Hampshire VB6 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) 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 VB6 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Location Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Londonderry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	84	95
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	22	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	2.953 %	2.541 %
Daily rates quoted	3	23
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£306
Average daily rate	£322	£314
% change on same period last year	+2.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£343	£321
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£315
% change on same period last year	-8.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.50	-
Average hourly rate	£40.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£42.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.78	£33.01
% change on same period last year	+2.32 %
Programming Languages Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	745	1220
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.993 %	1.234 %
Daily rates quoted	131	264
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£302
Average daily rate	£353	£323
% change on same period last year	+9.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	160	247
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.29	£33.84
Average hourly rate	£36.97	£36.09
% change on same period last year	+2.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.66	£38.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
VB6 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.

VB6
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VB6 across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VB6
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VB6 across the Hampshire region.

VB6
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB6 across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

VB6
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VB6 across the Hampshire region.

VB6
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB6 within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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	+13	5	£363	+5.83 %
Gosport	-	4	-	-
Fareham	-	2	-	-
Portsmouth	-3	1	-	-
Southampton	+6	1	-	-

VB6 South East

VB6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing VB6 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 VB6.

1 43 (100.00 %) VB 2 34 (79.07 %) .NET 3 23 (53.49 %) VB.NET 3 23 (53.49 %) C# 3 23 (53.49 %) SQL 4 22 (51.16 %) XML 5 20 (46.51 %) ASP 6 18 (41.86 %) ASP.NET 6 18 (41.86 %) SQL Server 7 15 (34.88 %) Windows 8 13 (30.23 %) UML 9 11 (25.58 %) PL/SQL 9 11 (25.58 %) Java 10 10 (23.26 %) Crystal Reports 10 10 (23.26 %) IIS

10 10 (23.26 %) SQL Server 2005 11 9 (20.93 %) Security Cleared 11 9 (20.93 %) Microsoft 12 8 (18.60 %) N-Tier 12 8 (18.60 %) QMS 13 7 (16.28 %) Web Development 13 7 (16.28 %) Replication 14 6 (13.95 %) WebServices 14 6 (13.95 %) Insurance 15 5 (11.63 %) Visual Studio 16 4 (9.302 %) Quality Management 16 4 (9.302 %) Finance 16 4 (9.302 %) Internet 16 4 (9.302 %) MS Office 16 4 (9.302 %) VBScript

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing VB6 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 VB6. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 34 (79.07 %) .NET 2 22 (51.16 %) XML 3 20 (46.51 %) ASP 4 18 (41.86 %) ASP.NET 5 6 (13.95 %) WebServices 6 3 (6.977 %) WinForms 6 3 (6.977 %) HTML 7 2 (4.651 %) .NET Framework 8 1 (2.326 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 10 (23.26 %) IIS 2 1 (2.326 %) CICS
Applications 1 4 (9.302 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 4 (9.302 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (41.86 %) SQL Server 2 10 (23.26 %) Crystal Reports 2 10 (23.26 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (6.977 %) SQL Server 7 3 3 (6.977 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 5 (11.63 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (6.977 %) NUnit
General 1 6 (13.95 %) Insurance 2 4 (9.302 %) Finance 3 3 (6.977 %) Pensions 3 3 (6.977 %) Government 4 1 (2.326 %) Marketing 4 1 (2.326 %) Construction 4 1 (2.326 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (2.326 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 35 (81.40 %) Developer 2 10 (23.26 %) VB Developer 3 7 (16.28 %) VB6 Developer 3 7 (16.28 %) Analyst 3 7 (16.28 %) .NET Developer 4 6 (13.95 %) C# Developer 5 5 (11.63 %) Systems Support 5 5 (11.63 %) Support Analyst 5 5 (11.63 %) Systems Developer 6 4 (9.302 %) SQL Developer 6 4 (9.302 %) Programmer 6 4 (9.302 %) Applications Developer 6 4 (9.302 %) Analyst Programmer 7 3 (6.977 %) Applications Support 7 3 (6.977 %) VB.NET Developer 8 2 (4.651 %) Web Analyst 8 2 (4.651 %) SQL Server Developer 8 2 (4.651 %) Applications Support Analyst 8 2 (4.651 %) Software Developer 9 1 (2.326 %) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 8 (18.60 %) N-Tier 2 7 (16.28 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 15 (34.88 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (30.23 %) UML 2 9 (20.93 %) Security Cleared 3 8 (18.60 %) QMS 4 7 (16.28 %) Web Development 5 4 (9.302 %) Quality Management 5 4 (9.302 %) BC Cleared 6 3 (6.977 %) SC Cleared 6 3 (6.977 %) Unit Testing 7 1 (2.326 %) System Testing 7 1 (2.326 %) Business Development 7 1 (2.326 %) SEO 7 1 (2.326 %) Migration 7 1 (2.326 %) SSADM 7 1 (2.326 %) E-Commerce 7 1 (2.326 %) Data Migration	Programming Languages 1 43 (100.00 %) VB 2 23 (53.49 %) VB.NET 2 23 (53.49 %) C# 2 23 (53.49 %) SQL 3 11 (25.58 %) PL/SQL 3 11 (25.58 %) Java 4 4 (9.302 %) VBScript 5 2 (4.651 %) C 5 2 (4.651 %) C++ 6 1 (2.326 %) COBOL 6 1 (2.326 %) JavaScript
Vendors 1 9 (20.93 %) Microsoft 2 2 (4.651 %) Oracle