VB Contracts in Hertfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Hertfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 54 38 28
Rank change year-on-year
-16 -10
Contract jobs citing VB 9 32 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.413% 3.275% 4.224%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.409% 7.637% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 11
Average daily rate £275 £250 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £138 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £320 £363
UK excluding London average daily rate £336 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.07% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 9
Average hourly rate £20.00 £36.00 £31.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.44% +12.94%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+25.92% -10.00%
All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 264 419 308
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 41.44% 42.89% 35.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 168 111
Average daily rate £375 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 39 53
Average hourly rate £20.00 £36.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.44% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £26.00 £30.19
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.80 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VB
East of England

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VB across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Hertfordshire VB Jobs Demand Trend

VB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire VB Daily Rate Trend

VB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hertfordshire VB Daily Rate Histogram

VB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire VB Hourly Rate Trend

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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Watford - 2 £225 -
Rickmansworth - 1 - -
St Albans - 1 £400 -
VB
East of England

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 10 (58.82%) .NET
2 9 (52.94%) SQL Server
2 9 (52.94%) C#
3 8 (47.06%) SQL
4 7 (41.18%) Windows
5 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
5 5 (29.41%) ASP
5 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET
5 5 (29.41%) T-SQL
5 5 (29.41%) VBA
6 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (23.53%) HTML
6 4 (23.53%) Java
6 4 (23.53%) IIS
6 4 (23.53%) XML
7 3 (17.65%) XSLT
7 3 (17.65%) MS Office
7 3 (17.65%) Visual Studio
7 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
7 3 (17.65%) VBScript
7 3 (17.65%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (17.65%) Oracle
7 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2005
7 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
7 3 (17.65%) Time Management
7 3 (17.65%) Finance
7 3 (17.65%) VB6
7 3 (17.65%) Business Analysis
7 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 10 (58.82%) .NET
2 5 (29.41%) ASP
2 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET
3 4 (23.53%) HTML
3 4 (23.53%) XML
4 3 (17.65%) XSLT
5 2 (11.76%) Ajax
5 2 (11.76%) jQuery
5 2 (11.76%) DHTML
5 2 (11.76%) CSS
5 2 (11.76%) Web Services
6 1 (5.882%) XHTML
6 1 (5.882%) LINQ
6 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (5.882%) HTML5
6 1 (5.882%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 1 (5.882%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.882%) WCF
6 1 (5.882%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) IIS
2 1 (5.882%) TeamSite
2 1 (5.882%) Apache
2 1 (5.882%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.882%) LiveSite
2 1 (5.882%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (5.882%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) MS Office
2 1 (5.882%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.882%) PowerPivot
2 1 (5.882%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) SQL Server
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (17.65%) Crystal Reports
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (11.76%) MS Access
4 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (5.882%) Data Mining
5 1 (5.882%) DTS
5 1 (5.882%) PerformancePoint
5 1 (5.882%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.882%) LoadRunner
2 1 (5.882%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (5.882%) WebDriver
2 1 (5.882%) LabVIEW
2 1 (5.882%) FrontPage
2 1 (5.882%) Selenium
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Retail
3 1 (5.882%) Electronics
3 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.882%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.882%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) .NET Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Junior DBA
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Tester
3 2 (11.76%) Junior
3 2 (11.76%) DBA
4 1 (5.882%) Applications Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Applications Support
4 1 (5.882%) Test Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Web Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Web Tester
4 1 (5.882%) Web Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Automated Test Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) SCCM Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) Mathematics
1 1 (5.882%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
2 1 (5.882%) Windows XP
2 1 (5.882%) Linux
2 1 (5.882%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
1 3 (17.65%) Time Management
1 3 (17.65%) Business Analysis
2 2 (11.76%) Scrum
2 2 (11.76%) Problem Management
2 2 (11.76%) ITIL
2 2 (11.76%) OO
2 2 (11.76%) E-Commerce
2 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
3 1 (5.882%) Service Management
3 1 (5.882%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (5.882%) MVC
3 1 (5.882%) Project Management
3 1 (5.882%) ETL
3 1 (5.882%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (5.882%) OOP
3 1 (5.882%) Performance Testing
3 1 (5.882%) Web Testing
3 1 (5.882%) Automated Testing
3 1 (5.882%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) C#
2 8 (47.06%) SQL
3 5 (29.41%) T-SQL
3 5 (29.41%) VBA
4 4 (23.53%) Java
5 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 3 (17.65%) VBScript
5 3 (17.65%) VB6
6 2 (11.76%) VB.NET
7 1 (5.882%) C
7 1 (5.882%) C++
7 1 (5.882%) PL/SQL
7 1 (5.882%) PowerShell
7 1 (5.882%) F#
Qualifications
1 1 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.882%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (5.882%) MCITP
1 1 (5.882%) MCTS
1 1 (5.882%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle
3 1 (5.882%) Adobe
3 1 (5.882%) VMware
3 1 (5.882%) ATG
3 1 (5.882%) Omniture
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