Manchester VB.NET Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VB.NET over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aldershot Avon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Ceredigion Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire Hitchin Horsham Hull Kendal Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	37
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	71	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.095 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	13.73 %	9.524 %
Daily rates quoted	8	2
Average minimum daily rate	£241	£203
Average daily rate	£259	£209
% change on same period last year	+24.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£277	£215
UK excluding London average daily rate	£305	£313
% change on same period last year	-2.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.00	£27.50
Average hourly rate	£27.00	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-1.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.00	£27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.21	£34.57
% change on same period last year	-3.94 %
Programming Languages Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	517	336
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.689 %	0.340 %
Daily rates quoted	85	54
Average minimum daily rate	£309	£270
Average daily rate	£327	£294
% change on same period last year	+11.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£317
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	50	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.06	£22.91
Average hourly rate	£28.60	£24.31
% change on same period last year	+17.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.14	£25.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
VB.NET North West

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.

VB.NET
Demand Trend

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

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 Manchester region.

VB.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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 Manchester region.

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

VB.NET
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Stockport	+2	5	-	-
Salford	-	2	£240	-
Bury	-	1	£388	-

VB.NET North West

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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.

1 117 (100.00 %) .NET 2 74 (63.25 %) SQL Server 3 71 (60.68 %) ASP.NET 4 51 (43.59 %) SQL 5 50 (42.74 %) C# 6 42 (35.90 %) SQL Server 2005 7 31 (26.50 %) XML 8 21 (17.95 %) WebServices 8 21 (17.95 %) HTML 9 20 (17.09 %) Visual Studio 10 18 (15.38 %) VB 10 18 (15.38 %) SQL Server 2000 11 15 (12.82 %) JavaScript 12 14 (11.97 %) Oracle 12 14 (11.97 %) ASP

12 14 (11.97 %) CSS 13 13 (11.11 %) .NET Framework 13 13 (11.11 %) VB6 14 11 (9.402 %) AJAX 14 11 (9.402 %) XSLT 14 11 (9.402 %) VSS/SourceSafe 15 10 (8.547 %) Transact-SQL 15 10 (8.547 %) N-Tier 16 9 (7.692 %) SQL Server 7 16 9 (7.692 %) PL/SQL 16 9 (7.692 %) XSL 17 8 (6.838 %) RDBMS 17 8 (6.838 %) Oracle Reports 18 7 (5.983 %) Web Design 18 7 (5.983 %) Health

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 1 117 (100.00 %) .NET 2 71 (60.68 %) ASP.NET 3 31 (26.50 %) XML 4 21 (17.95 %) WebServices 4 21 (17.95 %) HTML 5 14 (11.97 %) ASP 5 14 (11.97 %) CSS 6 13 (11.11 %) .NET Framework 7 11 (9.402 %) AJAX 7 11 (9.402 %) XSLT 8 9 (7.692 %) XSL 9 5 (4.274 %) SOAP 10 4 (3.419 %) WinForms 11 3 (2.564 %) SAML 12 2 (1.709 %) XHTML 13 1 (0.855 %) LAMP 13 1 (0.855 %) COM 13 1 (0.855 %) COM+ 13 1 (0.855 %) ADO.NET 13 1 (0.855 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 6 (5.128 %) SharePoint 2 4 (3.419 %) IIS 3 2 (1.709 %) CMS 4 1 (0.855 %) Oracle BPEL 4 1 (0.855 %) Umbraco 4 1 (0.855 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 1 (0.855 %) Photoshop 1 1 (0.855 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (2.564 %) CTI 1 3 (2.564 %) TETRA 2 1 (0.855 %) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 74 (63.25 %) SQL Server 2 42 (35.90 %) SQL Server 2005 3 18 (15.38 %) SQL Server 2000 4 9 (7.692 %) SQL Server 7 5 8 (6.838 %) RDBMS 5 8 (6.838 %) Oracle Reports 6 6 (5.128 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 5 (4.274 %) DTS 8 4 (3.419 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 3 (2.564 %) ETL 9 3 (2.564 %) Datawarehouse 10 1 (0.855 %) MySQL 10 1 (0.855 %) Data Mining 10 1 (0.855 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 1 (0.855 %) MS Access	Development Applications 1 20 (17.09 %) Visual Studio 2 11 (9.402 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 2 (1.709 %) Flash 4 1 (0.855 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 7 (5.983 %) Health 2 6 (5.128 %) Legal 2 6 (5.128 %) Insurance 3 5 (4.274 %) Pensions 3 5 (4.274 %) Finance 4 4 (3.419 %) Marketing 4 4 (3.419 %) Retail 5 3 (2.564 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (0.855 %) Advertising 6 1 (0.855 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (0.855 %) Law	Job Titles 1 111 (94.87 %) Developer 2 83 (70.94 %) .NET Developer 3 63 (53.85 %) VB.NET Developer 4 36 (30.77 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 28 (23.93 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 6 23 (19.66 %) C# Developer 7 18 (15.38 %) SQL Developer 8 17 (14.53 %) Web Developer 9 14 (11.97 %) .NET Web Developer 10 13 (11.11 %) SQL Server Developer 10 13 (11.11 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 11 7 (5.983 %) C# Web Developer 12 3 (2.564 %) Software Developer 12 3 (2.564 %) Software Engineer 13 2 (1.709 %) Applications Developer 13 2 (1.709 %) Lead Developer 13 2 (1.709 %) Database Developer 13 2 (1.709 %) VB Developer 13 2 (1.709 %) ASP Developer 13 2 (1.709 %) SQL Database Developer
Miscellaneous 1 10 (8.547 %) N-Tier 2 5 (4.274 %) E-Learning 3 2 (1.709 %) Data Extraction 4 1 (0.855 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.855 %) Tandem 4 1 (0.855 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 2 (1.709 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (5.983 %) Web Design 2 6 (5.128 %) Web Development 2 6 (5.128 %) E-Commerce 2 6 (5.128 %) Migration 3 5 (4.274 %) Workflow 3 5 (4.274 %) Workflow Management 4 4 (3.419 %) OO 5 3 (2.564 %) UML 5 3 (2.564 %) B2B 5 3 (2.564 %) CRM 5 3 (2.564 %) Content Management 6 2 (1.709 %) SEO 6 2 (1.709 %) OOP 7 1 (0.855 %) RUP 7 1 (0.855 %) Project Management 7 1 (0.855 %) Service Management 7 1 (0.855 %) Logistics 7 1 (0.855 %) Statistical Analysis 7 1 (0.855 %) Requirements Analysis 7 1 (0.855 %) BPEL	Programming Languages 1 51 (43.59 %) SQL 2 50 (42.74 %) C# 3 18 (15.38 %) VB 4 15 (12.82 %) JavaScript 5 13 (11.11 %) VB6 6 10 (8.547 %) Transact-SQL 7 9 (7.692 %) PL/SQL 8 5 (4.274 %) VBA 9 4 (3.419 %) VBScript 10 3 (2.564 %) PHP 10 3 (2.564 %) DHTML 11 2 (1.709 %) C++ 12 1 (0.855 %) Java 12 1 (0.855 %) Perl 12 1 (0.855 %) ActionScript 12 1 (0.855 %) PHP5
Qualifications 1 6 (5.128 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.855 %) ISO9001 1 1 (0.855 %) QA
Vendors 1 14 (11.97 %) Oracle 2 3 (2.564 %) Microsoft 3 1 (0.855 %) Zend