Hertfordshire VB.NET Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the Hertfordshire 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.NET over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aldershot Avon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Ceredigion Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire Hitchin Horsham Hull Kendal Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	71	69
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	18	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	3.082 %	4.167 %
Daily rates quoted	10	9
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£353
Average daily rate	£297	£369
% change on same period last year	-19.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£307	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£305	£313
% change on same period last year	-2.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£36.67
Average hourly rate	-	£37.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£38.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.21	£34.57
% change on same period last year	-3.94 %
Programming Languages Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	584	600
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.778 %	0.607 %
Daily rates quoted	236	247
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£307
Average daily rate	£366	£331
% change on same period last year	+10.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	44	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.05	£28.13
Average hourly rate	£32.54	£30.42
% change on same period last year	+6.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.03	£32.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
VB.NET 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.NET
Demand Trend

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

VB.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

VB.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

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

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VB.NET
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the Hertfordshire 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
Potters Bar	-	1	-	-
Hitchin	-	1	-	-

VB.NET East of England

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing VB.NET 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.NET.

1 38 (100.00 %) .NET 2 27 (71.05 %) SQL Server 3 20 (52.63 %) SQL Server 2000 4 18 (47.37 %) C# 5 17 (44.74 %) SQL Server 2005 5 17 (44.74 %) VB 6 14 (36.84 %) SQL 6 14 (36.84 %) ASP.NET 7 13 (34.21 %) VB6 8 11 (28.95 %) XML 9 10 (26.32 %) Windows 9 10 (26.32 %) HTML 9 10 (26.32 %) JavaScript 10 9 (23.68 %) ASP 10 9 (23.68 %) QuickTest Pro

10 9 (23.68 %) Microsoft 11 8 (21.05 %) WebServices 11 8 (21.05 %) Microsoft Certification 12 7 (18.42 %) Transact-SQL 13 6 (15.79 %) VBScript 13 6 (15.79 %) Remedy 14 5 (13.16 %) Windows XP 14 5 (13.16 %) DHTML 14 5 (13.16 %) MCAD 14 5 (13.16 %) MCSD 15 4 (10.53 %) XSLT 15 4 (10.53 %) MCP 15 4 (10.53 %) C++ 15 4 (10.53 %) Java 15 4 (10.53 %) VSS/SourceSafe

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 38 (100.00 %) .NET 2 14 (36.84 %) ASP.NET 3 11 (28.95 %) XML 4 10 (26.32 %) HTML 5 9 (23.68 %) ASP 6 8 (21.05 %) WebServices 7 4 (10.53 %) XSLT 8 3 (7.895 %) CSS 9 2 (5.263 %) XSL 9 2 (5.263 %) WinForms 9 2 (5.263 %) .NET Framework 10 1 (2.632 %) WPF 10 1 (2.632 %) Silverlight 10 1 (2.632 %) AJAX 10 1 (2.632 %) XHTML 10 1 (2.632 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 4 (10.53 %) BizTalk Server 2 3 (7.895 %) IIS
Applications 1 4 (10.53 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.632 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (2.632 %) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.632 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 27 (71.05 %) SQL Server 2 20 (52.63 %) SQL Server 2000 3 17 (44.74 %) SQL Server 2005 4 4 (10.53 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 4 (10.53 %) DTS 5 2 (5.263 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 9 (23.68 %) QuickTest Pro 2 4 (10.53 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 2 (5.263 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (2.632 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 4 (10.53 %) Retail 2 3 (7.895 %) Telecoms 3 2 (5.263 %) Finance 4 1 (2.632 %) Education 4 1 (2.632 %) Insurance 4 1 (2.632 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 30 (78.95 %) Developer 2 18 (47.37 %) .NET Developer 3 14 (36.84 %) VB.NET Developer 4 7 (18.42 %) Web Developer 5 4 (10.53 %) Software Engineer 5 4 (10.53 %) VB Developer 5 4 (10.53 %) .NET Software Engineer 5 4 (10.53 %) BizTalk Developer 6 3 (7.895 %) SQL Developer 6 3 (7.895 %) SQL Server Developer 6 3 (7.895 %) Software Developer 7 2 (5.263 %) Analyst 7 2 (5.263 %) Analyst Programmer 7 2 (5.263 %) Programmer 7 2 (5.263 %) VB6 Developer 7 2 (5.263 %) VB Software Engineer 8 1 (2.632 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 8 1 (2.632 %) SQL DBA 8 1 (2.632 %) Senior Web Developer 8 1 (2.632 %) ASP Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.632 %) Smartphone 1 1 (2.632 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 10 (26.32 %) Windows 2 5 (13.16 %) Windows XP 3 1 (2.632 %) Mac OS X 3 1 (2.632 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (2.632 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (10.53 %) Automated Testing 2 3 (7.895 %) OO 3 2 (5.263 %) RAD 3 2 (5.263 %) Service Management 3 2 (5.263 %) UML 3 2 (5.263 %) ERD 4 1 (2.632 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (2.632 %) Migration 4 1 (2.632 %) CRM 4 1 (2.632 %) CAD 4 1 (2.632 %) Project Management 4 1 (2.632 %) Web Development 4 1 (2.632 %) Use Case 4 1 (2.632 %) Internet Marketing 4 1 (2.632 %) Integration Testing 4 1 (2.632 %) Performance Management
Programming Languages 1 18 (47.37 %) C# 2 17 (44.74 %) VB 3 14 (36.84 %) SQL 4 13 (34.21 %) VB6 5 10 (26.32 %) JavaScript 6 7 (18.42 %) Transact-SQL 7 6 (15.79 %) VBScript 8 5 (13.16 %) DHTML 9 4 (10.53 %) Java 9 4 (10.53 %) C++ 9 4 (10.53 %) XPath 10 1 (2.632 %) C	Qualifications 1 8 (21.05 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (13.16 %) MCAD 2 5 (13.16 %) MCSD 3 4 (10.53 %) MCP 4 2 (5.263 %) Degree
Systems Management 1 2 (5.263 %) ServiceCenter	Vendors 1 9 (23.68 %) Microsoft 2 6 (15.79 %) Remedy 3 2 (5.263 %) Oracle 3 2 (5.263 %) HP 4 1 (2.632 %) Epicor