North West VB Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the North West 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Addlestone Amersham Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenford Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Inverness Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Rochdale Royston Ruislip Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	54	34
Rank change on same period last year	-20
Matching contract IT job ads	97	148
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.129 %	0.150 %
As % of the category below	7.638 %	12.06 %
Daily rates quoted	10	27
Average minimum daily rate	£278	£290
Average daily rate	£293	£300
% change on same period last year	-2.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£307	£310
UK excluding London average daily rate	£310	£310
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.11	£22.90
Average hourly rate	£28.97	£25.76
% change on same period last year	+12.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.84	£28.62
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.84	£30.29
% change on same period last year	+8.43 %
Programming Languages North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1270	1227
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.693 %	1.241 %
Daily rates quoted	257	204
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£301
Average daily rate	£342	£318
% change on same period last year	+7.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	127	134
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.55	£24.35
Average hourly rate	£29.98	£27.18
% change on same period last year	+10.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.41	£30.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
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 West 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 West region.

VB
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 West region.

VB
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

VB
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Manchester	+2	42	£350	-
Cheshire	-31	17	£200	-39.29 %
Lancashire	-3	14	£350	+9.37 %
Merseyside	-6	12	£286	+14.77 %

VB England

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

1 109 (56.48 %) .NET 2 95 (49.22 %) SQL Server 3 79 (40.93 %) VB6 4 70 (36.27 %) SQL 5 61 (31.61 %) C# 6 54 (27.98 %) ASP.NET 7 52 (26.94 %) VB.NET 8 42 (21.76 %) ASP 9 31 (16.06 %) SQL Server 2005 10 29 (15.03 %) JavaScript 11 28 (14.51 %) CSS 11 28 (14.51 %) XML 12 25 (12.95 %) Oracle 13 22 (11.40 %) VBScript 13 22 (11.40 %) C++

14 19 (9.845 %) HTML 15 18 (9.326 %) SQL Server 2000 16 16 (8.290 %) Transact-SQL 17 15 (7.772 %) DHTML 17 15 (7.772 %) IIS 18 14 (7.254 %) Windows 18 14 (7.254 %) ERP 18 14 (7.254 %) SQL Server 7 18 14 (7.254 %) Migration 19 12 (6.218 %) EDI 19 12 (6.218 %) DTS 19 12 (6.218 %) VSS/SourceSafe 19 12 (6.218 %) Java 19 12 (6.218 %) VBA 20 11 (5.699 %) SOAP

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 1 109 (56.48 %) .NET 2 54 (27.98 %) ASP.NET 3 42 (21.76 %) ASP 4 28 (14.51 %) XML 4 28 (14.51 %) CSS 5 19 (9.845 %) HTML 6 12 (6.218 %) EDI 7 11 (5.699 %) SOAP 8 9 (4.663 %) .NET Framework 9 8 (4.145 %) WebServices 9 8 (4.145 %) XHTML 10 5 (2.591 %) WinForms 11 4 (2.073 %) AJAX 11 4 (2.073 %) WMI 11 4 (2.073 %) ADO.NET 12 3 (1.554 %) J2EE 12 3 (1.554 %) JSP 12 3 (1.554 %) XSLT 12 3 (1.554 %) Spring 12 3 (1.554 %) Hibernate	Application Platforms 1 15 (7.772 %) IIS 2 8 (4.145 %) SharePoint 3 2 (1.036 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (1.036 %) ColdFusion 3 2 (1.036 %) Apache 4 1 (0.518 %) Tomcat 4 1 (0.518 %) CMS 4 1 (0.518 %) Papyrus 4 1 (0.518 %) Oracle BPEL 4 1 (0.518 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 10 (5.181 %) MS Excel 2 2 (1.036 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.518 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 2 (1.036 %) SAP HR 1 2 (1.036 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (0.518 %) SoftGrid 2 1 (0.518 %) Teamcenter 2 1 (0.518 %) Summit 2 1 (0.518 %) LabWindows
Communications & Networking 1 10 (5.181 %) HTTP 2 5 (2.591 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.518 %) Extranet 3 1 (0.518 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 95 (49.22 %) SQL Server 2 31 (16.06 %) SQL Server 2005 3 18 (9.326 %) SQL Server 2000 4 14 (7.254 %) SQL Server 7 5 12 (6.218 %) DTS 6 11 (5.699 %) MS Access 7 10 (5.181 %) Crystal Reports 8 6 (3.109 %) Oracle Reports 9 5 (2.591 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 4 (2.073 %) Datawarehouse 11 3 (1.554 %) Oracle 9i 11 3 (1.554 %) MySQL 11 3 (1.554 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 2 (1.036 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 12 2 (1.036 %) OLAP 12 2 (1.036 %) Informix 12 2 (1.036 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 12 2 (1.036 %) TOAD 12 2 (1.036 %) Oracle 10g 13 1 (0.518 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 12 (6.218 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 10 (5.181 %) Paros 2 10 (5.181 %) Fiddler 3 6 (3.109 %) Visual Studio 4 4 (2.073 %) PowerBuilder 5 3 (1.554 %) LabVIEW 5 3 (1.554 %) Oracle Forms 5 3 (1.554 %) Dreamweaver 5 3 (1.554 %) NUnit 6 1 (0.518 %) WinRunner 6 1 (0.518 %) TestDirector 6 1 (0.518 %) QuickTest Pro 6 1 (0.518 %) LoadRunner 6 1 (0.518 %) Flash 6 1 (0.518 %) InterDev	General 1 10 (5.181 %) Auditing 2 9 (4.663 %) Finance 2 9 (4.663 %) Manufacturing 3 5 (2.591 %) Military 3 5 (2.591 %) Retail 4 4 (2.073 %) Aerospace 5 3 (1.554 %) Automotive 5 3 (1.554 %) Government 5 3 (1.554 %) Health 5 3 (1.554 %) Insurance 5 3 (1.554 %) Electronics 5 3 (1.554 %) Pensions 6 2 (1.036 %) Online Banking 6 2 (1.036 %) Pharmaceutical 6 2 (1.036 %) Local Government 6 2 (1.036 %) Banking 6 2 (1.036 %) Construction 6 2 (1.036 %) Education 7 1 (0.518 %) Law 7 1 (0.518 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 140 (72.54 %) Developer 2 49 (25.39 %) .NET Developer 3 31 (16.06 %) VB Developer 4 30 (15.54 %) Analyst 5 29 (15.03 %) VB.NET Developer 6 20 (10.36 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 17 (8.808 %) VB6 Developer 8 13 (6.736 %) Web Developer 9 12 (6.218 %) SQL Developer 9 12 (6.218 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 10 11 (5.699 %) Analyst Developer 10 11 (5.699 %) Software Developer 11 9 (4.663 %) C# Developer 11 9 (4.663 %) SQL Server Developer 12 8 (4.145 %) Systems Analyst 12 8 (4.145 %) Analyst Programmer 12 8 (4.145 %) Programmer 12 8 (4.145 %) Tester 13 7 (3.627 %) Systems Developer 14 6 (3.109 %) Systems Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (2.073 %) NHS 1 4 (2.073 %) Mainframe 2 2 (1.036 %) VAX 2 2 (1.036 %) Mathematics 2 2 (1.036 %) IBM Mainframe 3 1 (0.518 %) Data Extraction 3 1 (0.518 %) Computer Science 3 1 (0.518 %) Pocket PC 3 1 (0.518 %) Client/Server 3 1 (0.518 %) N-Tier 3 1 (0.518 %) AS400 3 1 (0.518 %) Tandem
Operating Systems 1 14 (7.254 %) Windows 2 4 (2.073 %) Linux 2 4 (2.073 %) UNIX 3 3 (1.554 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (0.518 %) Windows Vista 4 1 (0.518 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (0.518 %) Windows NT 4 1 (0.518 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (7.254 %) ERP 1 14 (7.254 %) Migration 2 10 (5.181 %) Information Security 3 6 (3.109 %) UML 3 6 (3.109 %) OO 4 4 (2.073 %) E-Commerce 4 4 (2.073 %) Content Management 5 3 (1.554 %) Agile Software Development 5 3 (1.554 %) Software Testing 5 3 (1.554 %) System Testing 5 3 (1.554 %) Data Migration 5 3 (1.554 %) Security Cleared 6 2 (1.036 %) Test Scripting 6 2 (1.036 %) BC Cleared 6 2 (1.036 %) Systems Analysis 6 2 (1.036 %) Business Analysis 6 2 (1.036 %) Web Development 6 2 (1.036 %) Risk Analysis 6 2 (1.036 %) Ethical Hacking 6 2 (1.036 %) Data Analysis
Programming Languages 1 79 (40.93 %) VB6 2 70 (36.27 %) SQL 3 61 (31.61 %) C# 4 52 (26.94 %) VB.NET 5 29 (15.03 %) JavaScript 6 22 (11.40 %) C++ 6 22 (11.40 %) VBScript 7 16 (8.290 %) Transact-SQL 8 15 (7.772 %) DHTML 9 12 (6.218 %) Java 9 12 (6.218 %) VBA 10 10 (5.181 %) C 11 5 (2.591 %) Fortran 11 5 (2.591 %) PHP 12 4 (2.073 %) PL/SQL 12 4 (2.073 %) COBOL 13 3 (1.554 %) Uniface 14 1 (0.518 %) PHP5 14 1 (0.518 %) VC++	Qualifications 1 2 (1.036 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (1.036 %) Degree 2 1 (0.518 %) MCSE 2 1 (0.518 %) MCDBA 2 1 (0.518 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (1.554 %) SLA 2 1 (0.518 %) JTAG	System Software 1 3 (1.554 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (0.518 %) Tivoli 1 1 (0.518 %) MOM 1 1 (0.518 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 25 (12.95 %) Oracle 2 11 (5.699 %) Microsoft 3 2 (1.036 %) SAP 3 2 (1.036 %) IBM 3 2 (1.036 %) ProClarity 4 1 (0.518 %) Zend 4 1 (0.518 %) HP 4 1 (0.518 %) Citrix 4 1 (0.518 %) Agresso 4 1 (0.518 %) Kerridge 4 1 (0.518 %) VMware 4 1 (0.518 %) Softricity 4 1 (0.518 %) UGS