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VB Contracts in Leeds
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB 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 Leeds 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 (VB)
Rank 71 62 57
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -5
Contract jobs citing VB 7 11 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.884% 1.088% 0.736%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.011% 2.600% 1.887%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 1
Average daily rate £681 £403 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+69.25% +49.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +3.17%
All Programming Languages
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 348 423 265
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 43.94% 41.84% 39.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 281 143
Average daily rate £275 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £226 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £380 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 12
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.57% -22.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.70 £11.95 £21.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.05 £58.75 £29.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
VB
West Yorkshire

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds VB Jobs Demand Trend

VB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds VB Daily Rate Trend

VB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Leeds VB Daily Rate Histogram

VB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds VB Hourly Rate Trend

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 17 (73.91%) SQL
2 14 (60.87%) .NET
3 13 (56.52%) VB6
4 12 (52.17%) SQL Server
4 12 (52.17%) ASP
5 11 (47.83%) C#
5 11 (47.83%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (34.78%) JIRA
6 8 (34.78%) SQL Server 2008
6 8 (34.78%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 7 (30.43%) SQL Server 2000
7 7 (30.43%) COM+
7 7 (30.43%) MTS
7 7 (30.43%) MSMQ
7 7 (30.43%) Subversion
8 6 (26.09%) Windows
8 6 (26.09%) VB.NET
9 5 (21.74%) Oracle
9 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
9 5 (21.74%) SOA
9 5 (21.74%) MSI
9 5 (21.74%) Scrum
9 5 (21.74%) QA
10 4 (17.39%) Selenium
10 4 (17.39%) Software Testing
10 4 (17.39%) Automated Testing
10 4 (17.39%) TeamCity
10 4 (17.39%) Cucumber
10 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (17.39%) Manual Testing

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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.

Application Development
1 14 (60.87%) .NET
2 12 (52.17%) ASP
3 7 (30.43%) COM+
3 7 (30.43%) MSMQ
4 4 (17.39%) Gherkin
4 4 (17.39%) Web Services
4 4 (17.39%) XML
4 4 (17.39%) HTML
5 3 (13.04%) WPF
6 2 (8.696%) ASP.NET
7 1 (4.348%) CSS
7 1 (4.348%) HTML5
7 1 (4.348%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (4.348%) CSS3
7 1 (4.348%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 7 (30.43%) MTS
2 1 (4.348%) IIS
2 1 (4.348%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.348%) BASE24
1 1 (4.348%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.348%) ATM
1 1 (4.348%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (52.17%) SQL Server
2 8 (34.78%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (30.43%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (8.696%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (4.348%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) JIRA
1 8 (34.78%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 7 (30.43%) Subversion
3 5 (21.74%) MSI
4 4 (17.39%) Selenium
4 4 (17.39%) TeamCity
4 4 (17.39%) Cucumber
4 4 (17.39%) WebDriver
4 4 (17.39%) SpecFlow
4 4 (17.39%) Visual Studio
5 2 (8.696%) NUnit
6 1 (4.348%) PVCS
6 1 (4.348%) WebSpeed
General
1 1 (4.348%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Technical Leader
2 4 (17.39%) Agile Tester
2 4 (17.39%) .NET Developer
2 4 (17.39%) SQL Developer
2 4 (17.39%) VB Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Tester
2 4 (17.39%) Senior Developer
3 3 (13.04%) VB.NET Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior SQL Developer
4 2 (8.696%) Senior VB.NET Developer
4 2 (8.696%) VB6 Developer
4 2 (8.696%) Technical Developer
4 2 (8.696%) Software Developer
4 2 (8.696%) ASP Developer
4 2 (8.696%) Senior .NET Developer
4 2 (8.696%) Lead Developer
4 2 (8.696%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Support Specialist
5 1 (4.348%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (21.74%) SOA
2 5 (21.74%) Scrum
3 4 (17.39%) Software Testing
3 4 (17.39%) Automated Testing
3 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (17.39%) Manual Testing
3 4 (17.39%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (17.39%) Agile Testing
4 3 (13.04%) Performance Testing
5 2 (8.696%) Unit Testing
5 2 (8.696%) Service Delivery
5 2 (8.696%) Configuration Management
6 1 (4.348%) OO
6 1 (4.348%) CRM
6 1 (4.348%) Service Management
6 1 (4.348%) Regression Testing
6 1 (4.348%) Test Strategy
6 1 (4.348%) Software Deployment
6 1 (4.348%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) SQL
2 13 (56.52%) VB6
3 11 (47.83%) C#
4 6 (26.09%) VB.NET
5 3 (13.04%) Java
6 2 (8.696%) VBA
7 1 (4.348%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.348%) T-SQL
7 1 (4.348%) VBScript
7 1 (4.348%) C++
7 1 (4.348%) COBOL
7 1 (4.348%) Delphi
7 1 (4.348%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.348%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (4.348%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.348%) BC Cleared
1 1 (4.348%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) QA
2 1 (4.348%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.348%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) VMware
3 3 (13.04%) Sybase
4 1 (4.348%) Progress
4 1 (4.348%) HP
4 1 (4.348%) Sculptor
4 1 (4.348%) LANDesk
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