Lancashire VBScript Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) 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 VBScript over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Location Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Channel Islands Cheshire City of London County Antrim Crawley Darlington Devon Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Home Counties Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leek Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Preston Reading Romford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stroud Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Tonbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Wokingham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	36
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	7	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	5.385 %	5.525 %
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	£305	£319
% change on same period last year	-4.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.40	£19.78
Average hourly rate	£20.30	£25.67
% change on same period last year	-20.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.20	£31.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.86	£27.89
% change on same period last year	-0.12 %
Programming Languages Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	130	181
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.173 %	0.183 %
Daily rates quoted	15	27
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£312
Average daily rate	£328	£342
% change on same period last year	-4.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	29	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.50	£23.38
Average hourly rate	£27.47	£27.33
% change on same period last year	+0.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.45	£31.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
VBScript 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.

VBScript
Demand Trend

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

VBScript
Daily Rate Trend

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

VBScript
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VBScript
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VBScript across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

VBScript
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the Lancashire 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
Preston	+3	4	-	-

VBScript North West

VBScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing VBScript 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 VBScript.

1 22 (95.65 %) JavaScript 2 21 (91.30 %) CSS 2 21 (91.30 %) .NET 2 21 (91.30 %) ASP 3 15 (65.22 %) SQL 4 14 (60.87 %) Oracle 5 13 (56.52 %) Oracle Reports 5 13 (56.52 %) Crystal Reports 5 13 (56.52 %) PL/SQL 6 10 (43.48 %) VB 6 10 (43.48 %) Visual Studio 6 10 (43.48 %) InterDev 7 9 (39.13 %) e-GIF 8 8 (34.78 %) Microsoft 8 8 (34.78 %) ASP.NET

8 8 (34.78 %) SQL Server 8 8 (34.78 %) VB.NET 9 7 (30.43 %) DHTML 9 7 (30.43 %) IIS 9 7 (30.43 %) Government 9 7 (30.43 %) SOAP 9 7 (30.43 %) XML 9 7 (30.43 %) VB6 9 7 (30.43 %) Local Government 10 6 (26.09 %) DTS 10 6 (26.09 %) VSS/SourceSafe 11 2 (8.696 %) Summit 11 2 (8.696 %) Transact-SQL 11 2 (8.696 %) Windows 11 2 (8.696 %) Health

VBScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 21 (91.30 %) .NET 1 21 (91.30 %) ASP 1 21 (91.30 %) CSS 2 8 (34.78 %) ASP.NET 3 7 (30.43 %) SOAP 3 7 (30.43 %) XML 4 1 (4.348 %) XHTML 4 1 (4.348 %) HTML 4 1 (4.348 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 7 (30.43 %) IIS 2 1 (4.348 %) SharePoint 2 1 (4.348 %) CMS
Business Applications 1 2 (8.696 %) Summit	Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.348 %) Intranet 1 1 (4.348 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (56.52 %) Crystal Reports 1 13 (56.52 %) Oracle Reports 2 8 (34.78 %) SQL Server 3 6 (26.09 %) DTS 4 2 (8.696 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 10 (43.48 %) Visual Studio 1 10 (43.48 %) InterDev 2 6 (26.09 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 7 (30.43 %) Government 1 7 (30.43 %) Local Government 2 2 (8.696 %) Health 3 1 (4.348 %) Police	Job Titles 1 22 (95.65 %) Developer 2 14 (60.87 %) Web Developer 3 9 (39.13 %) .NET Developer 4 7 (30.43 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 5 (21.74 %) VB.NET Developer 6 4 (17.39 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 3 (13.04 %) ASP Developer 8 1 (4.348 %) .NET Web Developer 8 1 (4.348 %) JavaScript Developer 8 1 (4.348 %) C# Developer 8 1 (4.348 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer
Operating Systems 1 2 (8.696 %) Windows 2 1 (4.348 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (39.13 %) e-GIF 2 1 (4.348 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (4.348 %) BC Cleared 2 1 (4.348 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 22 (95.65 %) JavaScript 2 15 (65.22 %) SQL 3 13 (56.52 %) PL/SQL 4 10 (43.48 %) VB 5 8 (34.78 %) VB.NET 6 7 (30.43 %) VB6 6 7 (30.43 %) DHTML 7 2 (8.696 %) Transact-SQL 8 1 (4.348 %) C#	Vendors 1 14 (60.87 %) Oracle 2 8 (34.78 %) Microsoft