Home Counties VB Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the Home Counties 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 over the 3 months to 28 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Aberdeen Addlestone Amersham Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clapham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hayes Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Huntingdon Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Royston Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 28 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	27
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	3.571 %	1.163 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£310	£312
% change on same period last year	-0.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.99	£29.59
% change on same period last year	+11.50 %
Programming Languages Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	28	86
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.086 %
Daily rates quoted	2	26
Average minimum daily rate	£210	£356
Average daily rate	£210	£362
% change on same period last year	-41.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£210	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	12
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£37.33
Average hourly rate	-	£38.26
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£39.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.33	£32.92
% change on same period last year	+1.22 %
VB 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 1 (100.00 %) MS Access 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (100.00 %) FileMaker 1 1 (100.00 %) Government 1 1 (100.00 %) Migration 1 1 (100.00 %) BC Cleared 1 1 (100.00 %) Security Cleared

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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.

Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Access 1 1 (100.00 %) FileMaker	General 1 1 (100.00 %) Government
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) Migration 1 1 (100.00 %) BC Cleared 1 1 (100.00 %) Security Cleared	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft