The first table below looks at the demand for VB6 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 VB6 over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Rank 61 69 58
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -11
Contract jobs citing VB6 3 6 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.461% 0.614% 0.703%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.107% 1.439% 2.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
Average daily rate £250 - £288
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 - £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £270 - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £288
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+27.27% -21.42%
All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
271 417 298
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 41.63% 42.68% 34.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 166 109
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 40 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 £19.84 £30.19
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.80 £42.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
VB6
East of England

VB6
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VB6 across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Hertfordshire VB6 Jobs Demand Trend

VB6
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire VB6 Daily Rate Trend

VB6
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire VB6 Hourly Rate Trend

VB6
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB6 within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 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 -
VB6
East of England

VB6
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) VB
2 2 (66.67%) VB.NET
2 2 (66.67%) VBA
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (33.33%) ASP
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) DTS
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) DNS

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) ASP
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) DTS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Junior
1 2 (66.67%) DBA
1 2 (66.67%) Junior DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) VB
2 2 (66.67%) VB.NET
2 2 (66.67%) VBA
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL