M4 Corridor VBScript Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) skills within the M4 Corridor region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VBScript over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London County Antrim Crawley Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Huntingdon Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leek Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Preston Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Tonbridge Twickenham UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Wokingham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	18
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	17.86 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£311
% change on same period last year	-3.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.45	£27.16
% change on same period last year	+8.42 %
Programming Languages M4 Corridor
Matching contract IT job ads	28	56
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.056 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£467	£325
Average daily rate	£467	£338
% change on same period last year	+38.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£467	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£32.22
Average hourly rate	-	£32.22
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£32.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.40	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
VBScript South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily 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 M4 Corridor region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VBScript
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VBScript across the M4 Corridor region.