Ross-on-Wye VB Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the Ross-on-Wye region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Ballymena Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carrickfergus Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Filton Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Port Talbot Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Royston Scotland Sevenoaks Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	1	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	100.00 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£274	£327
% change on same period last year	-16.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
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	£27.00	£31.51
% change on same period last year	-14.31 %
Programming Languages Ross-on-Wye
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£335
% change on same period last year	-5.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
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	£30.87	£32.48
% change on same period last year	-4.96 %
VB Herefordshire

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 Ross-on-Wye region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VB
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VB across the Ross-on-Wye region.

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Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Ross-on-Wye 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 2 (100.00 %) SQL 1 2 (100.00 %) Transact-SQL 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 2 (100.00 %) XML 1 2 (100.00 %) MS Access 1 2 (100.00 %) VB6 1 2 (100.00 %) Marketing 1 2 (100.00 %) Direct Marketing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Ross-on-Wye 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 2 (100.00 %) XML	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 2 (100.00 %) MS Access
General 1 2 (100.00 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Data Manager
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) Direct Marketing	Programming Languages 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL 1 2 (100.00 %) Transact-SQL 1 2 (100.00 %) VB6