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VB Contracts in the Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Midlands region.

Note that 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.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank - 26 32
Contract jobs citing VB 0 6 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands - 2.429% 0.645%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 7.792% 2.740%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £26.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £30.38
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +6.96%
All Programming Languages
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 66 77 73
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 35.48% 31.17% 23.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 21 14
Average daily rate £363 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £312 £250 £256
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 21
Average hourly rate £37.50 £36.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.73% +46.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
VB
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VB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VB across the Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Midlands VB Jobs Demand Trend

VB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Midlands VB Daily Rate Trend

VB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Midlands VB Hourly Rate Trend

VB
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing VB 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.

1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Client/Server
2 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) MSI
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Vista
2 2 (66.67%) Application Packaging
2 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) Wise Package Studio
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing VB 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) Application Packaging
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MSI
2 1 (33.33%) Wise Package Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Packager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Vista
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
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