VB6 Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VB6 skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB6 over the 3 months to 23 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 West 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Rank 111 112 122
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +10
Contract jobs citing VB6 7 17 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.299% 0.545% 0.161%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.906% 1.611% 0.546%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 0
Average daily rate £213 £305 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.32% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £323 £294
% change year-on-year
+0.77% +9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Programming Languages
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 773 1055 915
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 32.98% 33.79% 29.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 581 506
Average daily rate £314 £315 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.39% -1.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £238 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 56 44
Average hourly rate £34.00 £21.86 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+55.53% -20.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £14.86 £15.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £37.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VB6
England

VB6
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VB6 across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

North West VB6 Jobs Demand Trend

VB6
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West VB6 Daily Rate Trend

VB6
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West VB6 Hourly Rate Trend

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 West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Cheshire +1 3 - -
Manchester +5 2 - -
Lancashire +13 1 £213 -
VB6
England

VB6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 Server
3 8 (57.14%) .NET
4 7 (50.00%) SQL
4 7 (50.00%) C#
5 6 (42.86%) VB.NET
5 6 (42.86%) Visual Studio
6 5 (35.71%) T-SQL
6 5 (35.71%) IIS
6 5 (35.71%) XML
6 5 (35.71%) Windows
6 5 (35.71%) WCF
7 4 (28.57%) WPF
7 4 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
7 4 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
7 4 (28.57%) FinalBuilder
7 4 (28.57%) Change Management
7 4 (28.57%) FoxPro (VFP)
7 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
7 4 (28.57%) ClearQuest
7 4 (28.57%) InstallShield
7 4 (28.57%) UML
7 4 (28.57%) OO
7 4 (28.57%) XSD
7 4 (28.57%) ITIL
7 4 (28.57%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 3 (21.43%) VBA
8 3 (21.43%) SOAP
8 3 (21.43%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (21.43%) WSDL

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 8 (57.14%) .NET
2 5 (35.71%) XML
2 5 (35.71%) WCF
3 4 (28.57%) WPF
3 4 (28.57%) XSD
4 3 (21.43%) SOAP
4 3 (21.43%) WSDL
4 3 (21.43%) .NET Framework
5 2 (14.29%) Ajax
5 2 (14.29%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (14.29%) Ninject
5 2 (14.29%) Web Services
5 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
5 2 (14.29%) HTML
6 1 (7.143%) COM
6 1 (7.143%) DCOM
6 1 (7.143%) XSLT
6 1 (7.143%) ActiveX
6 1 (7.143%) Flash
6 1 (7.143%) .NET Remoting
Application Platforms
1 5 (35.71%) IIS
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (7.143%) MSMQ
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (7.143%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.143%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (78.57%) SQL Server
2 4 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 7
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (7.143%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Visual Studio
2 4 (28.57%) FinalBuilder
2 4 (28.57%) ClearQuest
2 4 (28.57%) InstallShield
2 4 (28.57%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (14.29%) Subversion
4 1 (7.143%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
1 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.143%) Games
2 1 (7.143%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Analyst
3 4 (28.57%) Support Analyst
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (21.43%) .NET Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Support Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (14.29%) C# Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
6 1 (7.143%) Software Engineer
6 1 (7.143%) Java Developer
6 1 (7.143%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (7.143%) Report Analyst
6 1 (7.143%) WPF Developer
6 1 (7.143%) MI Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Mobile App
1 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.143%) Thin Client
2 1 (7.143%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 1 (7.143%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Change Management
1 4 (28.57%) UML
1 4 (28.57%) OO
1 4 (28.57%) ITIL
2 3 (21.43%) MVC
2 3 (21.43%) Mobile Application Development
2 3 (21.43%) Requirements Analysis
2 3 (21.43%) TDD
2 3 (21.43%) Document Management
3 2 (14.29%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (14.29%) Workflow
4 1 (7.143%) PRINCE2
4 1 (7.143%) RAD
4 1 (7.143%) OOP
4 1 (7.143%) E-Commerce
4 1 (7.143%) ETL
4 1 (7.143%) MVVM
4 1 (7.143%) Game Development
4 1 (7.143%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) VB
2 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 7 (50.00%) C#
3 6 (42.86%) VB.NET
4 5 (35.71%) T-SQL
5 4 (28.57%) FoxPro (VFP)
6 3 (21.43%) VBA
7 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
8 1 (7.143%) Java
8 1 (7.143%) C++
8 1 (7.143%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.143%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.143%) JBoss
2 1 (7.143%) Citrix
2 1 (7.143%) VMware
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