Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for VBScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VBScript over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Leicester region.

 Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank--21
Matching contract IT job ads005
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicester--2.994 %
As % of the Programming Languages category--9.259 %
Daily rates quoted000
Average daily rate---
UK excluding London average daily rate£263£300£294
% change year-on-year
-12.50 %+2.120 %
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.25£17.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+15.71 %-46.15 %
Leicester IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
Leicester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
161454
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicester29.63 %26.42 %32.34 %
Daily rates quoted4510
Average daily rate£295£300£358
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.660 %-16.08 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£225£265
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£358£305£400
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted221
Average hourly rate£35.00£30.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66 %-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£30.00£35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.000 %-14.28 %
VBScript LeicestershireVBScript
Leicestershire

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.

VBScript
Demand Trend

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

Leicester VBScript Demand Trend

VBScript
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leicester VBScript Daily Rate Trend

VBScript
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leicester VBScript Hourly Rate Trend

VBScript
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester 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.

11 (100.00 %)VB
11 (100.00 %)VB.NET
11 (100.00 %).NET
11 (100.00 %)Windows
11 (100.00 %)IBM
11 (100.00 %)MVS
11 (100.00 %)Middleware
11 (100.00 %)Mainframe
11 (100.00 %)IBM Mainframe

VBScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester 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.

Leicester IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11 (100.00 %).NET
11 (100.00 %)Middleware
Leicester IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11 (100.00 %)Graduate
11 (100.00 %)Developer
11 (100.00 %)Graduate Developer
Leicester IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (100.00 %)Mainframe
11 (100.00 %)IBM Mainframe
Leicester IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (100.00 %)Windows
11 (100.00 %)MVS
Leicester IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11 (100.00 %)VB
11 (100.00 %)VB.NET
Leicester IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11 (100.00 %)IBM