Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for VB.NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB.NET 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 London region.

 Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank170168112
Rank change year-on-year
Down-2Down-56
Matching contract IT job ads253146551
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London0.970 %0.878 %1.508 %
As % of the Programming Languages category2.182 %2.427 %3.745 %
Daily rates quoted13158192
Average daily rate£350£343£388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.180 %-11.61 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£243£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£485£451£625
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£290£300
% change year-on-year
+3.440 %-3.330 %
Hourly rates quoted111735
Average hourly rate£36.50£30.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.66 %-
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£30.00£24.10£27.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£35.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.00£25.00£32.00
% change year-on-year
+20.00 %-21.87 %
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
11593601614713
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London44.44 %36.19 %40.26 %
Daily rates quoted658126226262
Average daily rate£475£400£450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.75 %-11.11 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£280£250£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£650
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted187183513
Average hourly rate£36.00£28.50£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.31 %-5.000 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£17.00£15.87£18.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£42.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£30.00£35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.000 %-14.28 %
VB.NET EnglandVB.NET
England

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.

VB.NET
Demand Trend

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

London VB.NET Demand Trend

VB.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

London VB.NET Daily Rate Trend

VB.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET across the London region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

London VB.NET Daily Rate Histogram

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London VB.NET Hourly Rate Trend

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET across the London region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

London VB.NET Hourly Rate Histogram

VB.NET
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the London region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of LondonDown-5265£400+21.21 %
LutonNew entry-7£214-
CroydonNew entry-4--
Kingston Upon ThamesNew entry-2£450-
Canary WharfNew entry-1--
VB.NET EnglandVB.NET
England

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1419 (100.00 %).NET
2257 (61.34 %)SQL Server
3216 (51.55 %)C#
4175 (41.77 %)SQL
5155 (36.99 %)ASP.NET
6107 (25.54 %)Finance
7105 (25.06 %)Windows
8104 (24.82 %)SQL Server 2005
991 (21.72 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
991 (21.72 %)XML
1090 (21.48 %)Banking
1186 (20.53 %)Microsoft
1282 (19.57 %)T-SQL
1381 (19.33 %)VB
1476 (18.14 %)SQL Server 2008
1570 (16.71 %)Visual Studio
1668 (16.23 %)SQL Server 2000
1762 (14.80 %)VBA
1861 (14.56 %)JavaScript
1954 (12.89 %)Oracle
1954 (12.89 %)SQL Server Integration Services
2053 (12.65 %)HTML
2151 (12.17 %)ASP
2151 (12.17 %)SharePoint
2151 (12.17 %)VB6
2250 (11.93 %)WinForms
2348 (11.46 %)Web Services
2447 (11.22 %)Investment Banking
2546 (10.98 %).NET Framework
2546 (10.98 %)SQL Server Analysis Services

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1419 (100.00 %).NET
2155 (36.99 %)ASP.NET
391 (21.72 %)XML
453 (12.65 %)HTML
551 (12.17 %)ASP
650 (11.93 %)WinForms
748 (11.46 %)Web Services
846 (10.98 %).NET Framework
935 (8.353 %)CSS
1019 (4.535 %)AJAX
1118 (4.296 %)WPF
1118 (4.296 %)XSLT
1217 (4.057 %)XHTML
1315 (3.580 %)ASP.NET 2.0
1315 (3.580 %)jQuery
1413 (3.103 %)MDX
1511 (2.625 %)WMI
1610 (2.387 %)WCF
179 (2.148 %)SOAP
188 (1.909 %)Silverlight
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
151 (12.17 %)SharePoint
222 (5.251 %)SharePoint Server 2007
312 (2.864 %)Exchange Server 2003
312 (2.864 %)Exchange Server 2007
312 (2.864 %)MS Exchange
411 (2.625 %)SharePoint 2010
59 (2.148 %)BizTalk Server
67 (1.671 %)IIS
67 (1.671 %)CMS
75 (1.193 %)Apache
75 (1.193 %)Joomla!
75 (1.193 %)Drupal
84 (0.955 %)LiveLink
93 (0.716 %)Documentum
93 (0.716 %)WordPress
102 (0.477 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
102 (0.477 %)Lotus Domino
111 (0.239 %)MQSeries
111 (0.239 %)SAS
111 (0.239 %)Lotus Notes
London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
142 (10.02 %)MS Excel
212 (2.864 %)MS Office
36 (1.432 %)MATLAB
45 (1.193 %)Photoshop
52 (0.477 %)InfoPath
52 (0.477 %)MS Project
61 (0.239 %)MS Visio
61 (0.239 %)Acrobat
61 (0.239 %)Fireworks
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
19 (2.148 %)Algo Collateral
21 (0.239 %)Microsoft CRM
21 (0.239 %)LongView
21 (0.239 %)Siebel Analytics
21 (0.239 %)Dynamics CRM
21 (0.239 %)SalesLogix
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
113 (3.103 %)DNS
212 (2.864 %)DHCP
212 (2.864 %)SMS
37 (1.671 %)Internet
46 (1.432 %)SSH
46 (1.432 %)TELNET
55 (1.193 %)SAN
55 (1.193 %)iSCSI
64 (0.955 %)HTTP
64 (0.955 %)LDAP
73 (0.716 %)Intranet
82 (0.477 %)Wi-Fi
82 (0.477 %)VPN
91 (0.239 %)TCP/IP
91 (0.239 %)LAN
91 (0.239 %)SMTP
91 (0.239 %)DMZ
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1257 (61.34 %)SQL Server
2104 (24.82 %)SQL Server 2005
391 (21.72 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
476 (18.14 %)SQL Server 2008
568 (16.23 %)SQL Server 2000
654 (12.89 %)SQL Server Integration Services
746 (10.98 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
833 (7.876 %)Datawarehouse
924 (5.728 %)Crystal Reports
1021 (5.012 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1117 (4.057 %)OLAP
1117 (4.057 %)DTS
1216 (3.819 %)ETL
1313 (3.103 %)MS Access
1412 (2.864 %)RDBMS
1412 (2.864 %)Oracle 8/8i
159 (2.148 %)MySQL
159 (2.148 %)PerformancePoint
167 (1.671 %)Data Mining
167 (1.671 %)BusinessObjects
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
170 (16.71 %)Visual Studio
27 (1.671 %)VSS/SourceSafe
27 (1.671 %)Team Foundation Server
35 (1.193 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
44 (0.955 %)Subversion
44 (0.955 %)QuickTest Pro
44 (0.955 %)LoadRunner
53 (0.716 %)Dreamweaver
53 (0.716 %)NUnit
61 (0.239 %)ClearCase
61 (0.239 %)PVCS
61 (0.239 %)ClearQuest
61 (0.239 %)InstallShield
61 (0.239 %)WatiN
61 (0.239 %)FxCop
61 (0.239 %)MSTest
61 (0.239 %)Expression Web
61 (0.239 %)CruiseControl
61 (0.239 %)FrontPage
London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1107 (25.54 %)Finance
290 (21.48 %)Banking
347 (11.22 %)Investment Banking
426 (6.205 %)Government
521 (5.012 %)Health
521 (5.012 %)Front Office
617 (4.057 %)Insurance
78 (1.909 %)Marketing
87 (1.671 %)Education
96 (1.432 %)Retail
96 (1.432 %)Legal
96 (1.432 %)Games
96 (1.432 %)Back Office
105 (1.193 %)Law
114 (0.955 %)Multimedia
114 (0.955 %)Publishing
123 (0.716 %)Financial Institution
123 (0.716 %)Online Games
132 (0.477 %)Construction
141 (0.239 %)Home Office
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1301 (71.84 %)Developer
2122 (29.12 %).NET Developer
366 (15.75 %)Analyst
453 (12.65 %)VB.NET Developer
539 (9.308 %)SQL Developer
632 (7.637 %)Senior Developer
731 (7.399 %)C# Developer
826 (6.205 %)Web Developer
925 (5.967 %)ASP.NET Developer
1024 (5.728 %)Analyst Developer
1121 (5.012 %)Programmer
1220 (4.773 %)Analyst Programmer
1220 (4.773 %)Server Engineer
1316 (3.819 %)SQL Server Developer
1413 (3.103 %)VB Developer
1413 (3.103 %)Senior Analyst
1413 (3.103 %)Business Intelligence (BI) Developer
1512 (2.864 %)Applications Developer
1611 (2.625 %)WinForms Developer
1611 (2.625 %)SharePoint Developer
London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
116 (3.819 %)N-Tier
116 (3.819 %)NHS
215 (3.580 %)Derivative
312 (2.864 %)Credit Risk
312 (2.864 %)Fixed Income
411 (2.625 %)Replication
510 (2.387 %)Clustering
68 (1.909 %)Open Source
68 (1.909 %)Equities
68 (1.909 %)Client/Server
77 (1.671 %)Computer Science
77 (1.671 %)Credit Derivative
86 (1.432 %)Market Risk
86 (1.432 %)Multithreading
86 (1.432 %)Mathematics
95 (1.193 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
104 (0.955 %)iSeries
104 (0.955 %)AS400
113 (0.716 %)Web 2.0
122 (0.477 %)Equity Derivative
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1105 (25.06 %)Windows
233 (7.876 %)Windows Server 2003
322 (5.251 %)UNIX
419 (4.535 %)Windows Server 2008
518 (4.296 %)Linux
68 (1.909 %)Windows XP
77 (1.671 %)Windows 7
77 (1.671 %)Windows Vista
86 (1.432 %)Windows CE
95 (1.193 %)Windows 2000
101 (0.239 %)AIX
101 (0.239 %)Windows 2000 Server
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
145 (10.74 %)OO
232 (7.637 %)Agile Software Development
325 (5.967 %)UML
424 (5.728 %)Migration
522 (5.251 %)Business Intelligence
620 (4.773 %)Asset Management
716 (3.819 %)Web Services Management
716 (3.819 %)Scrum
814 (3.341 %)TDD
814 (3.341 %)RAD
913 (3.103 %)Web Development
1011 (2.625 %)CRM
1011 (2.625 %)E-Commerce
1011 (2.625 %)Investment Management
119 (2.148 %)SOA
119 (2.148 %)OOP
128 (1.909 %)Business Analysis
128 (1.909 %)Workflow
137 (1.671 %)PRINCE2
137 (1.671 %)Configuration Management
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1216 (51.55 %)C#
2175 (41.77 %)SQL
382 (19.57 %)T-SQL
481 (19.33 %)VB
562 (14.80 %)VBA
661 (14.56 %)JavaScript
751 (12.17 %)VB6
834 (8.115 %)Java
929 (6.921 %)C
1023 (5.489 %)PL/SQL
1122 (5.251 %)VBScript
1220 (4.773 %)PowerShell
1316 (3.819 %)PHP
1412 (2.864 %)C++
1511 (2.625 %)Perl
169 (2.148 %)Jython
174 (0.955 %)Python
174 (0.955 %)ABAP
174 (0.955 %)MUMPS
183 (0.716 %)Korn
London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
125 (5.967 %)Degree
210 (2.387 %)Microsoft Certification
35 (1.193 %)MCDBA
44 (0.955 %)Security Cleared
44 (0.955 %)ISEB
52 (0.477 %)MCTS
52 (0.477 %)MCPD
52 (0.477 %)MCSD
52 (0.477 %)PhD
61 (0.239 %)MCSE
61 (0.239 %)SC Cleared
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (0.716 %)QA
London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
115 (3.580 %)Active Directory
211 (2.625 %)Hyper-V
34 (0.955 %)VMware Infrastructure
42 (0.477 %)XenApp
42 (0.477 %)XenDesktop
42 (0.477 %)Terminal Services
51 (0.239 %)VMware ESX
51 (0.239 %)VMware Workstation
London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
112 (2.864 %)SCCM
24 (0.955 %)HP Quality Center
33 (0.716 %)BMC PATROL
33 (0.716 %)CONTROL-M
33 (0.716 %)BMC Performance Manager
42 (0.477 %)AutoSys
London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
186 (20.53 %)Microsoft
254 (12.89 %)Oracle
317 (4.057 %)ProClarity
414 (3.341 %)DevExpress
513 (3.103 %)Sybase
513 (3.103 %)Citrix
612 (2.864 %)Cisco
79 (2.148 %)HP
88 (1.909 %)BladeLogic
97 (1.671 %)Adobe
97 (1.671 %)Business Objects
106 (1.432 %)Bloomberg
106 (1.432 %)Infragistics
106 (1.432 %)Cognos
114 (0.955 %)telerik
114 (0.955 %)Reuters
114 (0.955 %)InterSystems
114 (0.955 %)Kofax
114 (0.955 %)VMware
114 (0.955 %)SAP