Hertfordshire VB Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the Hertfordshire 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 VB over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Amersham Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby 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 Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Inverness Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London 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 Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Rochdale Rochester Ruislip Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	61	47
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	38	51
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.050 %	0.053 %
As % of the category below	6.003 %	9.659 %
Daily rates quoted	8	29
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£315
Average daily rate	£324	£333
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£351	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£306	£314
% change on same period last year	-2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.71	£24.57
Average hourly rate	£32.29	£28.14
% change on same period last year	+14.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.87	£31.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.76	£30.45
% change on same period last year	+7.56 %
Programming Languages Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	633	528
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.835 %	0.552 %
Daily rates quoted	272	236
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£301
Average daily rate	£369	£326
% change on same period last year	+13.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£396	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£333
% change on same period last year	+1.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	45
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.41	£26.55
Average hourly rate	£31.84	£28.58
% change on same period last year	+11.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.26	£30.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.21	£33.14
% change on same period last year	+0.18 %
VB 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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VB across the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

VB
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 July 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 Hertfordshire region.

VB
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

VB
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing VB within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 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
St Albans	+4	6	£275	+37.50 %
Watford	0	2	£350	-24.73 %
Hitchin	-	2	-	-
Ware	0	1	-	-
Potters Bar	-	1	-	-

VB East of England

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 29 (52.73 %) .NET 2 24 (43.64 %) SQL Server 3 22 (40.00 %) SQL 4 21 (38.18 %) VB6 5 20 (36.36 %) C# 6 16 (29.09 %) JavaScript 6 16 (29.09 %) VB.NET 7 14 (25.45 %) VBScript 7 14 (25.45 %) SQL Server 2005 8 13 (23.64 %) Visual Studio 8 13 (23.64 %) ASP.NET 8 13 (23.64 %) Microsoft 9 11 (20.00 %) ASP 9 11 (20.00 %) XML 9 11 (20.00 %) Windows

10 9 (16.36 %) SQL Server 2000 11 8 (14.55 %) OpenView Configuration Management 11 8 (14.55 %) HTML 11 8 (14.55 %) Java 11 8 (14.55 %) Security Cleared 12 7 (12.73 %) XSL 12 7 (12.73 %) Lotus 12 7 (12.73 %) Citrix 12 7 (12.73 %) Windows Server 2003 12 7 (12.73 %) Lotus Domino 12 7 (12.73 %) MS Access 12 7 (12.73 %) ADSI 12 7 (12.73 %) WMI 13 6 (10.91 %) Retail 13 6 (10.91 %) InterSystems

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 29 (52.73 %) .NET 2 13 (23.64 %) ASP.NET 3 11 (20.00 %) ASP 3 11 (20.00 %) XML 4 8 (14.55 %) HTML 5 7 (12.73 %) XSL 5 7 (12.73 %) ADSI 5 7 (12.73 %) WMI 6 6 (10.91 %) ADO 7 4 (7.273 %) WebServices 8 3 (5.455 %) CSS 8 3 (5.455 %) XSD 8 3 (5.455 %) .NET Framework 8 3 (5.455 %) WinForms 9 1 (1.818 %) WPF 9 1 (1.818 %) Silverlight 9 1 (1.818 %) ADO.NET 9 1 (1.818 %) CGI 9 1 (1.818 %) ActiveX 9 1 (1.818 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 7 (12.73 %) Lotus Domino 2 6 (10.91 %) IIS 3 4 (7.273 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 2 (3.636 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.818 %) Photoshop 2 1 (1.818 %) Fireworks 2 1 (1.818 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 1 (1.818 %) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking 1 4 (7.273 %) SAN 1 4 (7.273 %) DNS 1 4 (7.273 %) DHCP 1 4 (7.273 %) WINS 2 3 (5.455 %) DSL 3 2 (3.636 %) Internet 4 1 (1.818 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (43.64 %) SQL Server 2 14 (25.45 %) SQL Server 2005 3 9 (16.36 %) SQL Server 2000 4 7 (12.73 %) MS Access 5 6 (10.91 %) Datawarehouse 6 3 (5.455 %) InterSystems Cache 6 3 (5.455 %) SQL Server 7 6 3 (5.455 %) FileMaker 7 2 (3.636 %) OLAP 8 1 (1.818 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 8 1 (1.818 %) Crystal Reports 8 1 (1.818 %) BusinessObjects 8 1 (1.818 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 13 (23.64 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (5.455 %) NUnit 3 1 (1.818 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (1.818 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 6 (10.91 %) Retail 2 5 (9.091 %) Government 3 2 (3.636 %) Finance 3 2 (3.636 %) Insurance 3 2 (3.636 %) Pensions 4 1 (1.818 %) Multimedia 4 1 (1.818 %) Marketing 4 1 (1.818 %) Animation
Job Titles 1 38 (69.09 %) Developer 2 12 (21.82 %) .NET Developer 3 6 (10.91 %) VB Developer 3 6 (10.91 %) C# Developer 4 5 (9.091 %) Programmer 4 5 (9.091 %) Software Engineer 4 5 (9.091 %) Software Developer 5 4 (7.273 %) VB.NET Developer 6 3 (5.455 %) VB Software Engineer 6 3 (5.455 %) VB6 Developer 6 3 (5.455 %) .NET Software Engineer 6 3 (5.455 %) Senior Developer 6 3 (5.455 %) Analyst 6 3 (5.455 %) Web Developer 7 2 (3.636 %) Analyst Programmer 7 2 (3.636 %) Datawarehouse Developer 7 2 (3.636 %) Database Developer 7 2 (3.636 %) Senior .NET Developer 7 2 (3.636 %) SQL Developer 7 2 (3.636 %) SQL Server Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.818 %) Smartphone 1 1 (1.818 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 11 (20.00 %) Windows 2 7 (12.73 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (3.636 %) Windows XP 4 1 (1.818 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (14.55 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (7.273 %) Scrum 2 4 (7.273 %) Agile Software Development 2 4 (7.273 %) OO 2 4 (7.273 %) BC Cleared 2 4 (7.273 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 3 (5.455 %) Unit Testing 4 2 (3.636 %) Project Management 4 2 (3.636 %) UML 4 2 (3.636 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (1.818 %) Use Case 5 1 (1.818 %) Internet Marketing 5 1 (1.818 %) Integration Testing 5 1 (1.818 %) Performance Management 5 1 (1.818 %) CRM 5 1 (1.818 %) RAD 5 1 (1.818 %) PRINCE 5 1 (1.818 %) TDD 5 1 (1.818 %) Web Development 5 1 (1.818 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 22 (40.00 %) SQL 2 21 (38.18 %) VB6 3 20 (36.36 %) C# 4 16 (29.09 %) JavaScript 4 16 (29.09 %) VB.NET 5 14 (25.45 %) VBScript 6 8 (14.55 %) Java 7 4 (7.273 %) Transact-SQL 8 2 (3.636 %) DHTML 8 2 (3.636 %) VBA 9 1 (1.818 %) Perl 9 1 (1.818 %) PHP 9 1 (1.818 %) C++ 9 1 (1.818 %) COBOL	Qualifications 1 3 (5.455 %) MCSD 1 3 (5.455 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (3.636 %) Degree 3 1 (1.818 %) MCP 3 1 (1.818 %) MCAD 3 1 (1.818 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.818 %) QA	System Software 1 5 (9.091 %) Active Directory 2 3 (5.455 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 8 (14.55 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 4 (7.273 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 13 (23.64 %) Microsoft 2 7 (12.73 %) Lotus 2 7 (12.73 %) Citrix 3 6 (10.91 %) InterSystems 4 5 (9.091 %) IBM 5 4 (7.273 %) HP 5 4 (7.273 %) Oracle 6 3 (5.455 %) Remedy 7 1 (1.818 %) Business Objects 7 1 (1.818 %) Adobe