The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB over the 3 months to 17 May 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 North East 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 29 43 42
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -1
Contract jobs citing VB 5 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 1.894% 1.046% 0.897%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.937% 3.012% 2.632%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
Average daily rate £223 £238 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.31% -17.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £211 £148 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £229 £328 £298
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £321 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.40% +6.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £26.28 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+29.37% -12.40%
All Programming Languages
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
63 166 152
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 23.86% 34.73% 34.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 96 80
Average daily rate £275 £338 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.51% +8.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £235 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £425 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 2
Average hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.00% +100.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
VB
England

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region.

North East VB Hourly Rate Trend

VB
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 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Tyne and Wear +13 5 £223 -6.31%
VB
England

VB
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (83.33%) C#
3 4 (66.67%) Ajax
3 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (66.67%) HTML
3 4 (66.67%) CSS
4 3 (50.00%) ASP
4 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
4 3 (50.00%) XHTML
4 3 (50.00%) N-Tier
4 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (33.33%) VB.NET
5 2 (33.33%) VB6
6 1 (16.67%) CMS
6 1 (16.67%) Fireworks
6 1 (16.67%) CRM
6 1 (16.67%) OO
6 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (16.67%) SQL
6 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
6 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) CSS
2 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 4 (66.67%) Ajax
3 3 (50.00%) XHTML
3 3 (50.00%) ASP
3 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
1 1 (16.67%) Fireworks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Programmer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) VB Developer
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) VB6 Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Programmer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) OO
1 1 (16.67%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) VB.NET
2 2 (33.33%) VB6
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
It would also be beneficial but not essential to have experience of VB6, SQL 2008 SSIS, SQL 2000 DTS, VB6 DCOM, VB6 Active-X control development and ASP...
Lorien Resourcing
Rate: Competitive rates on application
Posted: 17 May 2013