Lancashire VB.NET Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the Lancashire 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aldershot Avon Banbury Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Ceredigion Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dumbarton Dundee 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 Hastings Hertfordshire Hitchin Horsham Hove Hull Huntingdon Kendal Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwickshire West Drayton West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	12
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	14	51
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.051 %
As % of the category below	10.45 %	26.56 %
Daily rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum daily rate	-	£294
Average daily rate	-	£348
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£401
UK excluding London average daily rate	£306	£314
% change on same period last year	-2.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.50	£22.36
Average hourly rate	£27.00	£26.39
% change on same period last year	+2.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.50	£30.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.69	£33.60
% change on same period last year	-2.70 %
Programming Languages Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	134	192
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.177 %	0.191 %
Daily rates quoted	19	21
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£303
Average daily rate	£312	£337
% change on same period last year	-7.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	39	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.01	£23.09
Average hourly rate	£28.26	£27.07
% change on same period last year	+4.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.51	£31.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.40	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
VB.NET North West

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 Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

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 Lancashire region.

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Blackburn	+1	3	-	-
Burnley	-	1	-	-
Preston	-3	1	-	-
Lancaster	0	1	-	-
Blackpool	-	1	-	-

VB.NET North West

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 32 (100.00 %) .NET 2 24 (75.00 %) SQL Server 3 22 (68.75 %) ASP.NET 4 14 (43.75 %) VB6 4 14 (43.75 %) VB 5 12 (37.50 %) SQL 5 12 (37.50 %) XML 5 12 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2005 6 9 (28.13 %) ASP 6 9 (28.13 %) CSS 6 9 (28.13 %) JavaScript 7 8 (25.00 %) VBScript 7 8 (25.00 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 8 (25.00 %) DTS 7 8 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2000

8 7 (21.88 %) SOAP 8 7 (21.88 %) IIS 8 7 (21.88 %) Transact-SQL 8 7 (21.88 %) DHTML 9 4 (12.50 %) Service Delivery 9 4 (12.50 %) Health 9 4 (12.50 %) C# 9 4 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 9 4 (12.50 %) ITIL 10 3 (9.375 %) Windows 10 3 (9.375 %) Oracle 10 3 (9.375 %) Security Cleared 11 2 (6.250 %) Web Development 11 2 (6.250 %) Retail 11 2 (6.250 %) SQL Server Reporting Services

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 32 (100.00 %) .NET 2 22 (68.75 %) ASP.NET 3 12 (37.50 %) XML 4 9 (28.13 %) ASP 4 9 (28.13 %) CSS 5 7 (21.88 %) SOAP 6 2 (6.250 %) HTML 6 2 (6.250 %) WebServices 7 1 (3.125 %) XSLT 7 1 (3.125 %) XHTML 7 1 (3.125 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 7 (21.88 %) IIS
Applications 1 2 (6.250 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (75.00 %) SQL Server 2 12 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2005 3 8 (25.00 %) DTS 3 8 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2000 4 4 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 5 2 (6.250 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 2 (6.250 %) TOAD 6 1 (3.125 %) MS Access 6 1 (3.125 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (3.125 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 8 (25.00 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 2 (6.250 %) Visual Studio	General 1 4 (12.50 %) Health 2 2 (6.250 %) Retail 3 1 (3.125 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (3.125 %) Police
Job Titles 1 26 (81.25 %) Developer 2 23 (71.88 %) .NET Developer 3 15 (46.88 %) VB.NET Developer 4 10 (31.25 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 6 (18.75 %) Analyst 5 6 (18.75 %) Analyst Programmer 5 6 (18.75 %) Programmer 5 6 (18.75 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 6 3 (9.375 %) C# Developer 7 2 (6.250 %) VB.NET Programmer 7 2 (6.250 %) VB.NET Analyst Programmer 7 2 (6.250 %) VB6 Analyst Programmer 7 2 (6.250 %) SQL Developer 7 2 (6.250 %) SQL Server Developer 7 2 (6.250 %) .NET Web Developer 7 2 (6.250 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 7 2 (6.250 %) ASP Developer 7 2 (6.250 %) .NET Programmer 7 2 (6.250 %) VB Analyst Programmer 7 2 (6.250 %) Web Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.125 %) N-Tier 1 1 (3.125 %) W3C
Operating Systems 1 3 (9.375 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (12.50 %) Service Delivery 1 4 (12.50 %) ITIL 2 3 (9.375 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (6.250 %) Web Development 3 2 (6.250 %) Web Design 3 2 (6.250 %) SEO 3 2 (6.250 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (6.250 %) ERP 4 1 (3.125 %) OOD 4 1 (3.125 %) OO
Programming Languages 1 14 (43.75 %) VB6 1 14 (43.75 %) VB 2 12 (37.50 %) SQL 3 9 (28.13 %) JavaScript 4 8 (25.00 %) VBScript 5 7 (21.88 %) Transact-SQL 5 7 (21.88 %) DHTML 6 4 (12.50 %) C# 7 1 (3.125 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (3.125 %) XPath	Vendors 1 3 (9.375 %) Oracle 2 1 (3.125 %) Microsoft