Northamptonshire VB Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the Northamptonshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited VB over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Amersham Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Inverness Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Lytham St Annes 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 Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Rochdale Rochester Ruislip Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	28
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	8	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	9.412 %	4.918 %
Daily rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum daily rate	£270	£325
Average daily rate	£289	£375
% change on same period last year	-22.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£308	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£310	£313
% change on same period last year	-0.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£31.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£30.63
% change on same period last year	+5.90 %
Programming Languages Northamptonshire
Matching contract IT job ads	85	61
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.112 %	0.065 %
Daily rates quoted	34	9
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£337
Average daily rate	£311	£359
% change on same period last year	-13.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£332
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£26.18
Average hourly rate	£23.50	£28.41
% change on same period last year	-17.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.00	£30.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.13	£33.16
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
VB East Midlands

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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

VB
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 4 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 Northamptonshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing VB within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 4 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
Northampton	-	7	£283	-
Wellingborough	-	1	£325	-

VB East Midlands

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 16 (66.67 %) SQL 2 15 (62.50 %) .NET 2 15 (62.50 %) SQL Server 3 9 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2005 4 8 (33.33 %) VB.NET 5 7 (29.17 %) Oracle 5 7 (29.17 %) XML 5 7 (29.17 %) SQL Server 2000 6 6 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 7 5 (20.83 %) Crystal Reports 7 5 (20.83 %) ASP 7 5 (20.83 %) Transact-SQL 7 5 (20.83 %) HTML 7 5 (20.83 %) VB6 8 4 (16.67 %) Finance

8 4 (16.67 %) C# 8 4 (16.67 %) VBScript 8 4 (16.67 %) VBA 8 4 (16.67 %) JavaScript 9 3 (12.50 %) BizTalk Server 9 3 (12.50 %) UML 9 3 (12.50 %) SharePoint 9 3 (12.50 %) WinForms 9 3 (12.50 %) Web Development 10 2 (8.333 %) VMware 10 2 (8.333 %) Banking 10 2 (8.333 %) Informix 10 2 (8.333 %) Unix 10 2 (8.333 %) Windows 10 2 (8.333 %) Internet

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 15 (62.50 %) .NET 2 7 (29.17 %) XML 3 6 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 4 5 (20.83 %) ASP 4 5 (20.83 %) HTML 5 3 (12.50 %) WinForms 6 1 (4.167 %) JSP 6 1 (4.167 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 3 (12.50 %) SharePoint 1 3 (12.50 %) BizTalk Server
Communications & Networking 1 2 (8.333 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (62.50 %) SQL Server 2 9 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (29.17 %) SQL Server 2000 4 5 (20.83 %) Crystal Reports 5 2 (8.333 %) Informix 6 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 7 6 1 (4.167 %) MySQL
General 1 4 (16.67 %) Finance 2 2 (8.333 %) Banking 3 1 (4.167 %) Retail 3 1 (4.167 %) Health	Job Titles 1 14 (58.33 %) Developer 2 8 (33.33 %) Analyst 3 5 (20.83 %) Applications Support 4 3 (12.50 %) Lead Developer 4 3 (12.50 %) .NET Developer 4 3 (12.50 %) Analyst Programmer 4 3 (12.50 %) Programmer 4 3 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 4 3 (12.50 %) Applications Support Analyst 4 3 (12.50 %) VB.NET Developer 4 3 (12.50 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 3 (12.50 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 5 2 (8.333 %) Software Engineer 5 2 (8.333 %) C# Software Engineer 5 2 (8.333 %) .NET Software Engineer 6 1 (4.167 %) MI Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) Analyst Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Database Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Applications Support Engineer 6 1 (4.167 %) VB6 Developer
Operating Systems 1 2 (8.333 %) Unix 1 2 (8.333 %) Windows 2 1 (4.167 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (12.50 %) UML 1 3 (12.50 %) Web Development 2 1 (4.167 %) Resource Management 2 1 (4.167 %) Change Management 2 1 (4.167 %) Data Analysis
Programming Languages 1 16 (66.67 %) SQL 2 8 (33.33 %) VB.NET 3 5 (20.83 %) VB6 3 5 (20.83 %) Transact-SQL 4 4 (16.67 %) VBScript 4 4 (16.67 %) C# 4 4 (16.67 %) JavaScript 4 4 (16.67 %) VBA 5 2 (8.333 %) C++ 5 2 (8.333 %) Java	Vendors 1 7 (29.17 %) Oracle 2 2 (8.333 %) VMware 3 1 (4.167 %) Agresso