Milton Keynes VB.NET Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the Milton Keynes 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	73	53
Rank change on same period last year	-20
Matching contract IT job ads	2	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	1.026 %	5.618 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£277
Average daily rate	£300	£277
% change on same period last year	+8.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£277
UK excluding London average daily rate	£305	£313
% change on same period last year	-2.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£10.00
Average hourly rate	-	£10.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.21	£34.57
% change on same period last year	-3.94 %
Programming Languages Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	195	267
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.260 %	0.270 %
Daily rates quoted	60	52
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£295
Average daily rate	£334	£308
% change on same period last year	+8.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£321
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.76	£24.37
Average hourly rate	£34.89	£25.51
% change on same period last year	+36.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.02	£26.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
VB.NET Buckinghamshire

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 Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

VB.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 33 (100.00 %) .NET 2 24 (72.73 %) Windows 3 22 (66.67 %) SQL Server 4 15 (45.45 %) C# 4 15 (45.45 %) Internet 5 14 (42.42 %) VB 5 14 (42.42 %) ASP 6 13 (39.39 %) XML 6 13 (39.39 %) HTML 6 13 (39.39 %) .NET Framework 7 12 (36.36 %) SC Cleared 7 12 (36.36 %) Security Cleared 7 12 (36.36 %) VB6 7 12 (36.36 %) SQL 7 12 (36.36 %) MS Office

7 12 (36.36 %) Windows NT 8 11 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 8 11 (33.33 %) WinForms 9 10 (30.30 %) Government 9 10 (30.30 %) Extreme Programming 10 6 (18.18 %) SSADM 11 5 (15.15 %) SQL Server 2000 11 5 (15.15 %) Requirements Analysis 12 4 (12.12 %) PRINCE2 12 4 (12.12 %) C++ 13 3 (9.091 %) DSDM 13 3 (9.091 %) SQL Server 7 13 3 (9.091 %) Finance 14 2 (6.061 %) Agile Software Development 14 2 (6.061 %) Data Modelling

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 33 (100.00 %) .NET 2 14 (42.42 %) ASP 3 13 (39.39 %) XML 3 13 (39.39 %) HTML 3 13 (39.39 %) .NET Framework 4 11 (33.33 %) WinForms 5 2 (6.061 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (3.030 %) WebServices 6 1 (3.030 %) ADO.NET 6 1 (3.030 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.030 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 12 (36.36 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 15 (45.45 %) Internet 2 1 (3.030 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 11 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (15.15 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3 (9.091 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (3.030 %) RDBMS	General 1 10 (30.30 %) Government 2 3 (9.091 %) Finance 3 1 (3.030 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 31 (93.94 %) Developer 2 12 (36.36 %) Applications Developer 3 10 (30.30 %) C# Developer 4 9 (27.27 %) .NET Developer 5 8 (24.24 %) Team Leader 6 2 (6.061 %) VB.NET Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) Lead Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) ASP Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) C++ Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) Programmer 7 1 (3.030 %) Consultant 7 1 (3.030 %) SQL Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) Development Team Leader 7 1 (3.030 %) .NET Programmer 7 1 (3.030 %) BizTalk Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) BizTalk Consultant 7 1 (3.030 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) VB.NET Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.030 %) Client/Server 1 1 (3.030 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 24 (72.73 %) Windows 2 12 (36.36 %) Windows NT 3 1 (3.030 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (36.36 %) SC Cleared 1 12 (36.36 %) Security Cleared 2 10 (30.30 %) Extreme Programming 3 6 (18.18 %) SSADM 4 5 (15.15 %) Requirements Analysis 5 4 (12.12 %) PRINCE2 6 3 (9.091 %) DSDM 7 2 (6.061 %) Data Modelling 7 2 (6.061 %) Project Management 7 2 (6.061 %) RAD 7 2 (6.061 %) Agile Software Development 8 1 (3.030 %) Migration 8 1 (3.030 %) DV Cleared
Programming Languages 1 15 (45.45 %) C# 2 14 (42.42 %) VB 3 12 (36.36 %) VB6 3 12 (36.36 %) SQL 4 4 (12.12 %) C++