The first table below looks at the demand for VB.NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the North Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB.NET 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 Yorkshire 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 .NET (VB .NET)
Rank 24 25 30
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +5
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 3 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 1.935% 0.559% 1.648%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.797% 1.961% 4.762%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
Average daily rate £270 - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
All Programming Languages
North Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
79 51 63
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 50.97% 28.49% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 34 31
Average daily rate £350 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £240 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £371 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
Average hourly rate £42.00 - £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
VB.NET
Yorkshire

VB.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Yorkshire VB.NET Jobs Demand Trend

VB.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

North Yorkshire VB.NET Daily Rate Trend

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North Yorkshire VB.NET Hourly Rate Trend

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 Yorkshire 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
Skipton - 2 £270 -
York - 1 £205 -
VB.NET
Yorkshire

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
3 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
3 4 (57.14%) .NET Framework
4 3 (42.86%) Ajax
4 3 (42.86%) C#
4 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
5 2 (28.57%) HTML
5 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
5 2 (28.57%) VB
5 2 (28.57%) CSS
5 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
5 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
5 2 (28.57%) Content Management
5 2 (28.57%) Degree
5 2 (28.57%) WCF
5 2 (28.57%) WPF
5 2 (28.57%) jQuery
5 2 (28.57%) EPiServer
5 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (14.29%) Open Source
6 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (14.29%) Social Media
6 1 (14.29%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (14.29%) WF
6 1 (14.29%) LINQ
6 1 (14.29%) Computer Science

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
2 4 (57.14%) .NET Framework
3 3 (42.86%) Ajax
4 2 (28.57%) jQuery
4 2 (28.57%) WCF
4 2 (28.57%) WPF
4 2 (28.57%) CSS
4 2 (28.57%) HTML
5 1 (14.29%) DHTML
5 1 (14.29%) ADO.NET
5 1 (14.29%) SOAP
5 1 (14.29%) Web Services
5 1 (14.29%) XML
5 1 (14.29%) XSD
5 1 (14.29%) XSLT
5 1 (14.29%) WF
5 1 (14.29%) LINQ
5 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (14.29%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
2 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) .NET Developer
3 2 (28.57%) VB.NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) N-Tier
1 1 (14.29%) NHS
1 1 (14.29%) Web 2.0
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
1 1 (14.29%) Open Source
1 1 (14.29%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
1 2 (28.57%) Content Management
2 1 (14.29%) AOP
2 1 (14.29%) OO
2 1 (14.29%) OOD
2 1 (14.29%) SOA
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile Commerce
2 1 (14.29%) MVC
2 1 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
3 2 (28.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) EPiServer
3 1 (14.29%) Sybase
3 1 (14.29%) Omniture
Selby, North Yorkshire
Technical Requirements: - C#/ VB.NET Frameworks (3.5, 4.0), Web Services - Good understanding of XML - SSRS Reporting - Visual Studio 2010 - Experience with Microsoft Team Foundation Server - Good...
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Rate: From £260 to £280 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013