Oxfordshire VB6 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) skills within the Oxfordshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VB6 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Location Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Londonderry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	51
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	5	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	1.672 %	1.224 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£325
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£315
% change on same period last year	-8.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£22.50
% change on same period last year	+55.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.78	£33.01
% change on same period last year	+2.32 %
Programming Languages Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	299	245
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.399 %	0.248 %
Daily rates quoted	69	58
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£270
Average daily rate	£311	£293
% change on same period last year	+6.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£316
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	32	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.14	£30.58
Average hourly rate	£29.19	£32.52
% change on same period last year	-10.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.24	£34.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
VB6 South East

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.

VB6
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VB6 across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VB6
Daily Rate Trend

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

VB6
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VB6
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB6 within the Oxfordshire 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
Oxford	0	3	-	-

VB6 South East

VB6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 11 (100.00 %) VB 1 11 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 10 (90.91 %) .NET 3 9 (81.82 %) C# 3 9 (81.82 %) ASP.NET 4 8 (72.73 %) ASP 5 7 (63.64 %) XML 5 7 (63.64 %) XSLT 6 6 (54.55 %) Microsoft 6 6 (54.55 %) Internet 7 5 (45.45 %) Intranet 7 5 (45.45 %) E-Commerce 8 4 (36.36 %) MTS 8 4 (36.36 %) COM 8 4 (36.36 %) DCOM

9 3 (27.27 %) Visual Studio 9 3 (27.27 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 3 (27.27 %) HTML 9 3 (27.27 %) OOA/OOD 9 3 (27.27 %) OO 9 3 (27.27 %) SQL Server 2005 10 2 (18.18 %) .NET Framework 10 2 (18.18 %) RUP 10 2 (18.18 %) UML 10 2 (18.18 %) SQL 10 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2000 10 2 (18.18 %) Configuration Management 11 1 (9.091 %) Process Management 11 1 (9.091 %) Back Office 11 1 (9.091 %) CRM

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 10 (90.91 %) .NET 2 9 (81.82 %) ASP.NET 3 8 (72.73 %) ASP 4 7 (63.64 %) XML 4 7 (63.64 %) XSLT 5 4 (36.36 %) COM 5 4 (36.36 %) DCOM 6 3 (27.27 %) HTML 7 2 (18.18 %) .NET Framework 8 1 (9.091 %) WPF 8 1 (9.091 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 4 (36.36 %) MTS
Communications & Networking 1 6 (54.55 %) Internet 2 5 (45.45 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 3 (27.27 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 3 (27.27 %) Visual Studio 1 3 (27.27 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 1 (9.091 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 7 (63.64 %) Developer 2 4 (36.36 %) Software Engineer 3 3 (27.27 %) Senior Software Engineer 3 3 (27.27 %) VB Developer 4 2 (18.18 %) .NET Developer 4 2 (18.18 %) C# Developer 4 2 (18.18 %) SQL Developer 4 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server Developer 4 2 (18.18 %) VB6 Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) Lead C# Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) Lead Software Engineer 5 1 (9.091 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) Web Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) Lead Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) ASP Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (9.091 %) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (45.45 %) E-Commerce 2 3 (27.27 %) OOA/OOD 2 3 (27.27 %) OO 3 2 (18.18 %) RUP 3 2 (18.18 %) Configuration Management 3 2 (18.18 %) UML 4 1 (9.091 %) Process Management 4 1 (9.091 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (9.091 %) CRM	Programming Languages 1 11 (100.00 %) VB 2 9 (81.82 %) C# 3 2 (18.18 %) SQL
Vendors 1 6 (54.55 %) Microsoft