Norfolk VB.NET Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the Norfolk 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Banbury Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Ceredigion Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dumbarton Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Haslemere Hastings Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Hull Huntingdon Isle of Man Kendal Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tadworth Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	13
Rank change on same period last year	-22
Matching contract IT job ads	13	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	11.82 %	25.69 %
Daily rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum daily rate	£193	-
Average daily rate	£216	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£238	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£304
% change on same period last year	-1.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.00	£32.50
Average hourly rate	£12.00	£33.00
% change on same period last year	-63.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.00	£33.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.72	£33.06
% change on same period last year	-10.09 %
Programming Languages Norfolk
Matching contract IT job ads	110	109
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.155 %	0.110 %
Daily rates quoted	38	16
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£329
Average daily rate	£344	£362
% change on same period last year	-5.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£395
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.75	£30.68
Average hourly rate	£28.83	£32.57
% change on same period last year	-11.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.92	£34.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.24	£32.80
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
VB.NET East of England

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 Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

VB.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Norfolk region.

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 Norfolk region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Norwich	-22	6	-	-
Great Yarmouth	-	1	-	-

VB.NET East of England

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 22 (100.00 %) .NET 2 10 (45.45 %) SQL 3 8 (36.36 %) SQL Server 4 7 (31.82 %) C# 4 7 (31.82 %) ASP.NET 5 6 (27.27 %) PHP 6 5 (22.73 %) VB 7 4 (18.18 %) Microsoft 7 4 (18.18 %) WinForms 8 3 (13.64 %) CMS 8 3 (13.64 %) VB6 8 3 (13.64 %) SalesLogix 8 3 (13.64 %) SQL Server 2005 8 3 (13.64 %) Marketing 8 3 (13.64 %) E-Commerce

8 3 (13.64 %) XML 8 3 (13.64 %) Windows 8 3 (13.64 %) CRM 8 3 (13.64 %) C++ 8 3 (13.64 %) ASP 9 2 (9.091 %) OLAP 9 2 (9.091 %) HTML 9 2 (9.091 %) Datawarehouse 9 2 (9.091 %) WebServices 9 2 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification 9 2 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000 9 2 (9.091 %) Web Development 9 2 (9.091 %) .NET Framework 9 2 (9.091 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 2 (9.091 %) AJAX

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 22 (100.00 %) .NET 2 7 (31.82 %) ASP.NET 3 4 (18.18 %) WinForms 4 3 (13.64 %) ASP 4 3 (13.64 %) XML 5 2 (9.091 %) HTML 5 2 (9.091 %) WebServices 5 2 (9.091 %) AJAX 5 2 (9.091 %) .NET Framework 5 2 (9.091 %) MDX 6 1 (4.545 %) XSL 6 1 (4.545 %) ATL 6 1 (4.545 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 3 (13.64 %) CMS 2 1 (4.545 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (4.545 %) AutoCAD	Business Applications 1 3 (13.64 %) SalesLogix
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (36.36 %) SQL Server 2 3 (13.64 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (9.091 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 2 (9.091 %) OLAP 3 2 (9.091 %) Datawarehouse 3 2 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (9.091 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 4 1 (4.545 %) Crystal Reports	General 1 3 (13.64 %) Marketing 2 2 (9.091 %) Government 3 1 (4.545 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 18 (81.82 %) Developer 2 8 (36.36 %) .NET Developer 3 7 (31.82 %) Software Developer 4 4 (18.18 %) C# Developer 4 4 (18.18 %) VB.NET Developer 5 3 (13.64 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 2 (9.091 %) SQL Developer 6 2 (9.091 %) SQL Server Developer 6 2 (9.091 %) WinForms Developer 6 2 (9.091 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 1 (4.545 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 1 (4.545 %) VBA Developer 7 1 (4.545 %) Senior Software Developer 7 1 (4.545 %) Tester 7 1 (4.545 %) Datawarehouse Developer 7 1 (4.545 %) Web Developer 7 1 (4.545 %) Senior Developer 7 1 (4.545 %) Software Tester	Operating Systems 1 3 (13.64 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (13.64 %) CRM 1 3 (13.64 %) E-Commerce 2 2 (9.091 %) Web Development 2 2 (9.091 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (4.545 %) OOP 3 1 (4.545 %) Unit Testing	Programming Languages 1 10 (45.45 %) SQL 2 7 (31.82 %) C# 3 6 (27.27 %) PHP 4 5 (22.73 %) VB 5 3 (13.64 %) C++ 5 3 (13.64 %) VB6 6 1 (4.545 %) DHTML 6 1 (4.545 %) JavaScript 6 1 (4.545 %) VBA 6 1 (4.545 %) VC++ 6 1 (4.545 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (4.545 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 2 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (4.545 %) Degree	Vendors 1 4 (18.18 %) Microsoft 2 1 (4.545 %) Oracle