The first table below looks at the demand for VB.NET 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.NET over the 3 months to 24 May 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Rank 65 51 52
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +1
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 9 16 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 1.218% 1.841% 0.314%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.903% 4.790% 0.943%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 1
Average daily rate £325 £365 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.95% +32.72%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
All Programming Languages
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
310 334 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 41.95% 38.43% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 218 112
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 £225 £221 £221
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £390 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 8
Average hourly rate £33.00 £27.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.22% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.10 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £61.25 £33.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
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 Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds VB.NET Daily Rate Trend

VB.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Leeds VB.NET Daily Rate Histogram

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds VB.NET Hourly Rate Trend

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 34 (100.00%) .NET
2 25 (73.53%) SQL
3 24 (70.59%) SQL Server
4 21 (61.76%) C#
5 13 (38.24%) ASP.NET
6 11 (32.35%) WinForms
7 10 (29.41%) Oracle
8 9 (26.47%) PL/SQL
9 8 (23.53%) Visual Studio
10 7 (20.59%) VB
10 7 (20.59%) Finance
10 7 (20.59%) BizTalk Server
10 7 (20.59%) SQL Server 2005
10 7 (20.59%) Web Development
11 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
11 6 (17.65%) Web Services
11 6 (17.65%) Windows
11 6 (17.65%) SharePoint
12 5 (14.71%) MS Excel
12 5 (14.71%) VBA
12 5 (14.71%) HTML
12 5 (14.71%) Agile Software Development
12 5 (14.71%) WCF
12 5 (14.71%) WPF
12 5 (14.71%) VB6
12 5 (14.71%) Ajax
13 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (11.76%) OO
13 4 (11.76%) XML
13 4 (11.76%) VSS/SourceSafe

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 34 (100.00%) .NET
2 13 (38.24%) ASP.NET
3 11 (32.35%) WinForms
4 6 (17.65%) Web Services
5 5 (14.71%) HTML
5 5 (14.71%) WCF
5 5 (14.71%) WPF
5 5 (14.71%) Ajax
6 4 (11.76%) XML
7 3 (8.824%) CSS
7 3 (8.824%) XSLT
7 3 (8.824%) jQuery
8 2 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC 2
8 2 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 2 (5.882%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 2 (5.882%) ADO.NET
8 2 (5.882%) XSL
9 1 (2.941%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 7 (20.59%) BizTalk Server
2 6 (17.65%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.882%) Umbraco
3 2 (5.882%) DotNetNuke
3 2 (5.882%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (5.882%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (14.71%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.882%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.941%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (70.59%) SQL Server
2 7 (20.59%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (8.824%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (5.882%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (5.882%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (5.882%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (5.882%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (5.882%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.941%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.941%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.941%) OLAP
5 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Visual Studio
2 4 (11.76%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (5.882%) Visual Studio Team System
3 2 (5.882%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (5.882%) NUnit
4 1 (2.941%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.941%) PVCS
4 1 (2.941%) WebSpeed
4 1 (2.941%) JIRA
4 1 (2.941%) Oracle APEX
General
1 7 (20.59%) Finance
2 2 (5.882%) Law
3 1 (2.941%) Legal
3 1 (2.941%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 32 (94.12%) Developer
2 20 (58.82%) .NET Developer
3 17 (50.00%) VB.NET Developer
4 5 (14.71%) C# Developer
5 4 (11.76%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Software Developer
6 3 (8.824%) BizTalk Developer
7 2 (5.882%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (5.882%) SharePoint Developer
7 2 (5.882%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (5.882%) Senior VB.NET Developer
7 2 (5.882%) Senior SQL Developer
7 2 (5.882%) .NET Software Developer
7 2 (5.882%) SQL Developer
7 2 (5.882%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.941%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.941%) Analyst
8 1 (2.941%) Test Analyst
8 1 (2.941%) Business Developer
8 1 (2.941%) Progress Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.882%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.59%) Web Development
2 5 (14.71%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (11.76%) OO
4 3 (8.824%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (8.824%) MVC
4 3 (8.824%) Unit Testing
5 2 (5.882%) Software Testing
5 2 (5.882%) Web Application Development
5 2 (5.882%) Scrum
5 2 (5.882%) Service Delivery
5 2 (5.882%) Configuration Management
5 2 (5.882%) Project Management
6 1 (2.941%) CRM
6 1 (2.941%) E-Commerce
6 1 (2.941%) Migration
6 1 (2.941%) Analytics
6 1 (2.941%) Test Automation
6 1 (2.941%) Data Analysis
6 1 (2.941%) System Testing
6 1 (2.941%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 25 (73.53%) SQL
2 21 (61.76%) C#
3 9 (26.47%) PL/SQL
4 7 (20.59%) VB
5 5 (14.71%) VBA
5 5 (14.71%) VB6
6 3 (8.824%) T-SQL
7 2 (5.882%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.941%) Delphi
8 1 (2.941%) XAML
Qualifications
1 3 (8.824%) Degree
2 1 (2.941%) ISEB
2 1 (2.941%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.882%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Oracle
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.882%) EPiServer
3 2 (5.882%) Sitecore
3 2 (5.882%) Sybase
4 1 (2.941%) Progress
4 1 (2.941%) Sculptor