Livingston VBScript Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for VBScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Livingston region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VBScript over the 3 months to 19 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 Livingston region.

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Location Abingdon Bath Beaconsfield Berkshire Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Livingston London Loughborough Luton Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Scotland Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 19 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	-	8	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1	0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Livingston	-	4.348 %	-
As % of the Programming Languages category	-	12.50 %	-
Daily rates quoted	0	0	0
Average daily rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£275	£300	£298
% change year-on-year	-8.330 % +0.840 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Average hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.00	£17.50	£32.50
% change year-on-year	+14.28 % -46.15 %
All Programming Languages Livingston
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Programming Languages category	6	8	5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Livingston	46.15 %	34.78 %	14.71 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2	1
Average daily rate	£375	£250	£288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+50.00 % -13.04 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£300	£325
% change year-on-year	- -7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1	0
Average hourly rate	-	£35.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.50	£30.25	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-5.780 % -13.57 %
VBScript West Lothian

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 Livingston region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.