North East VB.NET Contracts

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

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darwen Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Hampshire Haslemere Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horley Hounslow Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Wokingham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	31
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	14	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.034 %
As % of the category below	8.383 %	11.51 %
Daily rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum daily rate	£206	£280
Average daily rate	£219	£311
% change on same period last year	-29.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£231	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£292	£331
% change on same period last year	-12.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.50	£31.13
Average hourly rate	£30.50	£32.23
% change on same period last year	-5.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.50	£33.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.13	£31.33
% change on same period last year	-16.61 %
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.NET 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 North East 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 North East region.

VB.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

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

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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 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	-9	5	£150	-51.76 %
Durham	-6	3	-	-
Teesside	-	2	£425	-

VB.NET England

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 34 (100.00 %) .NET 2 20 (58.82 %) SQL Server 3 19 (55.88 %) ASP.NET 4 18 (52.94 %) C# 5 11 (32.35 %) SQL 6 9 (26.47 %) HTML 7 8 (23.53 %) CSS 8 7 (20.59 %) SQL Server 2005 9 6 (17.65 %) Microsoft 9 6 (17.65 %) Visual Studio 10 5 (14.71 %) Intranet 10 5 (14.71 %) OO 11 4 (11.76 %) Content Management 11 4 (11.76 %) WebServices 11 4 (11.76 %) SharePoint

11 4 (11.76 %) ASP 11 4 (11.76 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 3 (8.824 %) Web Development 12 3 (8.824 %) Oracle 12 3 (8.824 %) Internet 12 3 (8.824 %) SQL Server 2000 12 3 (8.824 %) Telecoms 12 3 (8.824 %) NHS 12 3 (8.824 %) Education 13 2 (5.882 %) Health 13 2 (5.882 %) GIS 13 2 (5.882 %) Document Management 13 2 (5.882 %) Windows 13 2 (5.882 %) MS Office 13 2 (5.882 %) VB

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 34 (100.00 %) .NET 2 19 (55.88 %) ASP.NET 3 9 (26.47 %) HTML 4 8 (23.53 %) CSS 5 4 (11.76 %) ASP 5 4 (11.76 %) WebServices 5 4 (11.76 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 2 (5.882 %) WSDL 7 1 (2.941 %) AJAX 7 1 (2.941 %) Windows SharePoint Services 7 1 (2.941 %) XSLT 7 1 (2.941 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 4 (11.76 %) SharePoint 2 2 (5.882 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (2.941 %) Content Management Server 3 1 (2.941 %) CMS
Applications 1 2 (5.882 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.941 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 5 (14.71 %) Intranet 2 3 (8.824 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 20 (58.82 %) SQL Server 2 7 (20.59 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (8.824 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (5.882 %) GIS 5 1 (2.941 %) Oracle 9i 5 1 (2.941 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 6 (17.65 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (2.941 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 3 (8.824 %) Education 1 3 (8.824 %) Telecoms 2 2 (5.882 %) Health 3 1 (2.941 %) Advertising 3 1 (2.941 %) Insurance 3 1 (2.941 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 27 (79.41 %) Developer 2 16 (47.06 %) .NET Developer 3 9 (26.47 %) VB.NET Developer 4 5 (14.71 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 5 (14.71 %) Web Developer 4 5 (14.71 %) C# Developer 5 4 (11.76 %) Applications Developer 6 3 (8.824 %) Software Developer 6 3 (8.824 %) SharePoint Developer 6 3 (8.824 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 6 3 (8.824 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 2 (5.882 %) Senior Developer 7 2 (5.882 %) Analyst Programmer 7 2 (5.882 %) Programmer 7 2 (5.882 %) Analyst 8 1 (2.941 %) Junior 8 1 (2.941 %) Server Support 8 1 (2.941 %) DBA 8 1 (2.941 %) SQL Developer 8 1 (2.941 %) Senior Software Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (8.824 %) NHS 2 1 (2.941 %) SCADA	Operating Systems 1 2 (5.882 %) Windows 2 1 (2.941 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (14.71 %) OO 2 4 (11.76 %) Content Management 3 3 (8.824 %) Web Development 4 2 (5.882 %) Document Management 5 1 (2.941 %) RAD 5 1 (2.941 %) Web Design 5 1 (2.941 %) Integration Testing 5 1 (2.941 %) OOP	Programming Languages 1 18 (52.94 %) C# 2 11 (32.35 %) SQL 3 2 (5.882 %) VB 3 2 (5.882 %) C++ 3 2 (5.882 %) Java 4 1 (2.941 %) JavaScript 4 1 (2.941 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (2.941 %) VB6 4 1 (2.941 %) Transact-SQL
Vendors 1 6 (17.65 %) Microsoft 2 3 (8.824 %) Oracle