North East VB Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the North East 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 over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Ballymena Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnham Filton Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rochdale Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Royston Rugby Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Street Stroud Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	15
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching contract IT job ads	15	59
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.063 %
As % of the category below	8.982 %	21.22 %
Daily rates quoted	6	12
Average minimum daily rate	£228	£284
Average daily rate	£240	£294
% change on same period last year	-18.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£252	£303
UK excluding London average daily rate	£279	£324
% change on same period last year	-14.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£21.00	£31.26
% change on same period last year	-32.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.00	£32.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.78	£30.96
% change on same period last year	-10.28 %
Programming Languages North East
Matching contract IT job ads	167	278
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.268 %	0.299 %
Daily rates quoted	31	79
Average minimum daily rate	£274	£311
Average daily rate	£297	£322
% change on same period last year	-7.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£319	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£331
% change on same period last year	-4.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	35
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.30	£29.98
Average hourly rate	£23.80	£31.22
% change on same period last year	-23.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.30	£32.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.93	£32.68
% change on same period last year	-5.35 %
VB 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
Demand Trend

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

VB
Daily Rate Trend

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

VB
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the North East region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

VB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the North East region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Tyne and Wear	-6	12	£240	-18.29 %
Durham	-12	1	-	-

VB England

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 25 (65.79 %) SQL 2 16 (42.11 %) SQL Server 3 14 (36.84 %) .NET 3 14 (36.84 %) VB6 4 13 (34.21 %) Microsoft 5 10 (26.32 %) Oracle 6 8 (21.05 %) C# 7 7 (18.42 %) UNIX 7 7 (18.42 %) Client/Server 7 7 (18.42 %) SQL Server 2000 8 6 (15.79 %) Release Management 8 6 (15.79 %) BusinessObjects 8 6 (15.79 %) RDBMS 8 6 (15.79 %) MQSeries 8 6 (15.79 %) Business Objects

9 5 (13.16 %) Transact-SQL 9 5 (13.16 %) MS Excel 9 5 (13.16 %) Windows 9 5 (13.16 %) CRM 9 5 (13.16 %) Risk Management 9 5 (13.16 %) Staffware 10 4 (10.53 %) Data Analysis 10 4 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2005 10 4 (10.53 %) Health 10 4 (10.53 %) Data Mining 10 4 (10.53 %) Datawarehouse 10 4 (10.53 %) MS Office 10 4 (10.53 %) ASP 11 3 (7.895 %) ASP.NET 11 3 (7.895 %) MS Access

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 14 (36.84 %) .NET 2 4 (10.53 %) ASP 3 3 (7.895 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (7.895 %) WebServices 4 2 (5.263 %) XML 5 1 (2.632 %) XSL 5 1 (2.632 %) ActiveX 5 1 (2.632 %) AJAX 5 1 (2.632 %) .NET Framework 5 1 (2.632 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 1 (2.632 %) COM+ 5 1 (2.632 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 6 (15.79 %) MQSeries 2 2 (5.263 %) SAS 3 1 (2.632 %) SharePoint 3 1 (2.632 %) IIS 3 1 (2.632 %) MTS
Applications 1 5 (13.16 %) MS Excel 2 4 (10.53 %) MS Office 3 2 (5.263 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 5 (13.16 %) Staffware
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.632 %) DHCP 1 1 (2.632 %) DNS 1 1 (2.632 %) Intranet 1 1 (2.632 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 16 (42.11 %) SQL Server 2 7 (18.42 %) SQL Server 2000 3 6 (15.79 %) RDBMS 3 6 (15.79 %) BusinessObjects 4 4 (10.53 %) Datawarehouse 4 4 (10.53 %) Data Mining 4 4 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2005 5 3 (7.895 %) MS Access 6 1 (2.632 %) Oracle Reports 6 1 (2.632 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 1 (2.632 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (2.632 %) InterDev 1 1 (2.632 %) NUnit 1 1 (2.632 %) Visual Studio Team System	General 1 4 (10.53 %) Health 2 3 (7.895 %) Banking 3 1 (2.632 %) Finance 3 1 (2.632 %) Government
Job Titles 1 16 (42.11 %) Developer 2 7 (18.42 %) Analyst 2 7 (18.42 %) VB Developer 3 5 (13.16 %) Senior Analyst 3 5 (13.16 %) Build Manager 3 5 (13.16 %) VB6 Developer 4 4 (10.53 %) SQL Developer 4 4 (10.53 %) Applications Support 4 4 (10.53 %) Applications Developer 5 3 (7.895 %) DBA 5 3 (7.895 %) SQL DBA 6 2 (5.263 %) Datawarehouse Developer 6 2 (5.263 %) Senior Developer 6 2 (5.263 %) .NET Developer 6 2 (5.263 %) C# Developer 7 1 (2.632 %) SQL Server DBA 7 1 (2.632 %) Data Analyst 7 1 (2.632 %) Analyst Developer 7 1 (2.632 %) Systems Developer 7 1 (2.632 %) ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 7 (18.42 %) Client/Server 2 2 (5.263 %) NHS 3 1 (2.632 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 7 (18.42 %) UNIX 2 5 (13.16 %) Windows 3 2 (5.263 %) Linux 4 1 (2.632 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (2.632 %) Windows NT 4 1 (2.632 %) Windows XP 4 1 (2.632 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (2.632 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (15.79 %) Release Management 2 5 (13.16 %) Risk Management 2 5 (13.16 %) CRM 3 4 (10.53 %) Data Analysis 4 3 (7.895 %) Data Modelling 5 2 (5.263 %) OO 5 2 (5.263 %) ERD 6 1 (2.632 %) Systems Analysis 6 1 (2.632 %) Business Analysis 6 1 (2.632 %) Migration 6 1 (2.632 %) Document Management 6 1 (2.632 %) RAD 6 1 (2.632 %) UML 6 1 (2.632 %) OOP 6 1 (2.632 %) Configuration Management 6 1 (2.632 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 25 (65.79 %) SQL 2 14 (36.84 %) VB6 3 8 (21.05 %) C# 4 5 (13.16 %) Transact-SQL 5 3 (7.895 %) VBScript 6 2 (5.263 %) VB.NET 6 2 (5.263 %) C++ 6 2 (5.263 %) COBOL 6 2 (5.263 %) Java 6 2 (5.263 %) PHP 6 2 (5.263 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (2.632 %) JavaScript 7 1 (2.632 %) VC++	Qualifications 1 1 (2.632 %) Degree
System Software 1 1 (2.632 %) Active Directory 1 1 (2.632 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 1 (2.632 %) ARCserve
Vendors 1 13 (34.21 %) Microsoft 2 10 (26.32 %) Oracle 3 6 (15.79 %) Business Objects 4 1 (2.632 %) Compaq 4 1 (2.632 %) Peregrine 4 1 (2.632 %) VERITAS 4 1 (2.632 %) Remedy