The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Oxford 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 32 35 22
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -13
Contract jobs citing VB 1 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 0.467% 0.323% 2.273%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.852% 0.840% 5.714%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £275 £550 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +57.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +3.17%
All Programming Languages
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
54 119 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 25.23% 38.39% 39.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 72 46
Average daily rate £323 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.85% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £468 £543 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 4
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £21.86
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +37.23%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
VB
Oxfordshire

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford VB Jobs Demand Trend

VB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxford VB Daily Rate Trend

VB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxford VB Hourly Rate Trend

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (50.00%) Altiris
3 3 (50.00%) Degree
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (50.00%) C#
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) .NET
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (50.00%) DHCP
3 3 (50.00%) NetWare
3 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (50.00%) WSH
3 3 (50.00%) DNS
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco
3 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (50.00%) Tivoli
3 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 3 (50.00%) Nagios
3 3 (50.00%) UNIX
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (33.33%) Web Services
4 2 (33.33%) XML
4 2 (33.33%) XSLT
4 2 (33.33%) WinForms

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) WSH
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) XML
2 2 (33.33%) XSLT
2 2 (33.33%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (50.00%) DHCP
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Administrator
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Administrator
3 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Administrator
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (50.00%) NetWare
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (50.00%) UNIX
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Altiris
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft