The first table below looks at the demand for VB.NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Huddersfield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB.NET over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Huddersfield 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Rank 10 - 8
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Huddersfield 7.407% - 7.143%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.50% - 7.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £250 - £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £315 £320
% change year-on-year
-3.17% -1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+13.33% -7.69%
All Programming Languages
Huddersfield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
16 7 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Huddersfield 59.26% 31.82% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 11
Average daily rate £313 £300 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% +0.84%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
VB.NET
West Yorkshire

VB.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Huddersfield VB.NET Jobs Demand Trend

VB.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

Huddersfield VB.NET Daily Rate Trend

VB.NET
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Huddersfield 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) SQL

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Huddersfield 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) System Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle