North East VB6 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) 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 VB6 over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England England Essex Exeter Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Reading Rickmansworth Ross-on-Wye Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	30
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	10	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	5.988 %	11.87 %
Daily rates quoted	5	7
Average minimum daily rate	£226	£297
Average daily rate	£239	£301
% change on same period last year	-20.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£252	£306
UK excluding London average daily rate	£266	£326
% change on same period last year	-18.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£30.33
Average hourly rate	£21.00	£31.79
% change on same period last year	-33.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.00	£33.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.57	£34.48
% change on same period last year	-22.95 %
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 %
VB6 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.

VB6
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VB6 across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VB6
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VB6 across the North East region.

VB6
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB6 across the North East region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

VB6
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VB6 across the North East region.

VB6
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB6 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	-2	9	£239	-20.71 %

VB6 England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing VB6 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 VB6.

1 14 (100.00 %) VB 2 11 (78.57 %) SQL 3 7 (50.00 %) SQL Server 4 5 (35.71 %) .NET 5 4 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2005 5 4 (28.57 %) Health 6 3 (21.43 %) ASP.NET 6 3 (21.43 %) SQL Server 2000 7 2 (14.29 %) WebServices 7 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 7 2 (14.29 %) C# 7 2 (14.29 %) Windows 8 1 (7.143 %) Migration 8 1 (7.143 %) NUnit 8 1 (7.143 %) Document Management

8 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 1 (7.143 %) UML 8 1 (7.143 %) OO 8 1 (7.143 %) SharePoint 8 1 (7.143 %) N-Tier 8 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft 8 1 (7.143 %) NHS 8 1 (7.143 %) Finance 8 1 (7.143 %) Government 8 1 (7.143 %) COBOL 8 1 (7.143 %) PHP 8 1 (7.143 %) Transact-SQL 8 1 (7.143 %) VB.NET 8 1 (7.143 %) XML 8 1 (7.143 %) XSL

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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 VB6 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 VB6. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (35.71 %) .NET 2 3 (21.43 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (14.29 %) WebServices 4 1 (7.143 %) XML 4 1 (7.143 %) XSL 4 1 (7.143 %) AJAX 4 1 (7.143 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (7.143 %) ASP.NET 2.0 4 1 (7.143 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 1 (7.143 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Office	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 4 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (21.43 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (7.143 %) NUnit 1 1 (7.143 %) Visual Studio Team System	General 1 4 (28.57 %) Health 2 1 (7.143 %) Finance 2 1 (7.143 %) Government
Job Titles 1 9 (64.29 %) Developer 2 6 (42.86 %) VB Developer 3 5 (35.71 %) VB6 Developer 4 4 (28.57 %) Applications Developer 4 4 (28.57 %) Applications Support 5 2 (14.29 %) .NET Developer 5 2 (14.29 %) C# Developer 6 1 (7.143 %) Server Support 6 1 (7.143 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 1 (7.143 %) SQL Developer 6 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server Developer 6 1 (7.143 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.143 %) N-Tier 1 1 (7.143 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 2 (14.29 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (7.143 %) UML 1 1 (7.143 %) OO 1 1 (7.143 %) Migration 1 1 (7.143 %) Document Management
Programming Languages 1 14 (100.00 %) VB 2 11 (78.57 %) SQL 3 2 (14.29 %) C# 4 1 (7.143 %) COBOL 4 1 (7.143 %) PHP 4 1 (7.143 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (7.143 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 1 (7.143 %) Degree
Vendors 1 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 2 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft