VB.NET Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VB.NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB.NET over the 3 months to 20 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 Scotland 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Rank 99 76 87
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +11
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 15 29 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.618% 1.092% 0.872%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.440% 4.455% 2.948%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 15
Average daily rate £360 £303 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.84% +21.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £220 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £350 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.72% +6.50%
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
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 1042 651 814
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 42.92% 24.52% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 298 408
Average daily rate £355 £313 £341
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.60% -8.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 28 21
Average hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £31.44
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -12.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £16.00 £14.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £32.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VB.NET
UK

VB.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland VB.NET Daily Rate Trend

VB.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Scotland VB.NET Daily Rate Histogram

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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 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
Glasgow -18 7 £300 -
Renfrewshire - 3 £370 -
Scottish Borders - 2 £263 -
West Lothian 0 1 £400 -
Edinburgh -5 1 - -
VB.NET
UK

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 50 (100.00%) .NET
2 29 (58.00%) SQL Server
2 29 (58.00%) C#
3 23 (46.00%) ASP.NET
4 20 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 15 (30.00%) Finance
6 13 (26.00%) SQL
6 13 (26.00%) Windows
7 12 (24.00%) Microsoft
7 12 (24.00%) SQL Server 2008
8 9 (18.00%) InfoPath
8 9 (18.00%) .NET Framework
8 9 (18.00%) VB
8 9 (18.00%) XML
9 8 (16.00%) Dependency Injection
9 8 (16.00%) Inversion of Control
10 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (12.00%) Microsoft App-V
11 6 (12.00%) Banking
11 6 (12.00%) Cryptography
11 6 (12.00%) Document Management
11 6 (12.00%) Taxonomies
11 6 (12.00%) Degree
11 6 (12.00%) Windows 7
11 6 (12.00%) SharePoint Server
11 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
11 6 (12.00%) PowerShell
11 6 (12.00%) Windows XP
11 6 (12.00%) XML Schema
11 6 (12.00%) MCSE

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 50 (100.00%) .NET
2 23 (46.00%) ASP.NET
3 9 (18.00%) XML
3 9 (18.00%) .NET Framework
4 6 (12.00%) XML Schema
5 4 (8.000%) DCOM
6 3 (6.000%) HTML
7 2 (4.000%) Spring
7 2 (4.000%) ADO
7 2 (4.000%) CSS
7 2 (4.000%) XSD
7 2 (4.000%) XSLT
7 2 (4.000%) ODBC
7 2 (4.000%) ActiveX
7 2 (4.000%) WPF
8 1 (2.000%) jQuery
8 1 (2.000%) ASP.NET 2.0
8 1 (2.000%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (2.000%) ASP.NET MVC 2
8 1 (2.000%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 6 (12.00%) SharePoint Server
2 5 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.000%) CMS
3 1 (2.000%) IIS
3 1 (2.000%) DotNetNuke
3 1 (2.000%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.000%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (18.00%) InfoPath
2 6 (12.00%) MS Excel
3 3 (6.000%) MS Office
4 1 (2.000%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.000%) HTTP
1 1 (2.000%) Internet
1 1 (2.000%) Softphone
1 1 (2.000%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (58.00%) SQL Server
2 20 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 12 (24.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (4.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (4.000%) DTS
6 1 (2.000%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (2.000%) MS Access
6 1 (2.000%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.000%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.000%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 15 (30.00%) Finance
2 6 (12.00%) Banking
3 5 (10.00%) Investment Banking
4 3 (6.000%) Retail
4 3 (6.000%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.000%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 40 (80.00%) Developer
2 13 (26.00%) .NET Developer
3 7 (14.00%) VB.NET Developer
3 7 (14.00%) Applications Developer
4 6 (12.00%) Senior Developer
4 6 (12.00%) Senior Applications Developer
5 5 (10.00%) SQL Developer
6 4 (8.000%) SQL Server Developer
6 4 (8.000%) Desktop Engineer
6 4 (8.000%) Build Engineer
7 3 (6.000%) Microsoft Developer
7 3 (6.000%) Web Developer
8 2 (4.000%) Analyst
8 2 (4.000%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.000%) Architect
8 2 (4.000%) Analyst Programmer
8 2 (4.000%) Programmer
8 2 (4.000%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (4.000%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.000%) Senior Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Inversion of Control
2 6 (12.00%) Cryptography
2 6 (12.00%) Taxonomies
3 5 (10.00%) NHS
3 5 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.000%) Computer Science
5 1 (2.000%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 13 (26.00%) Windows
2 6 (12.00%) Windows XP
2 6 (12.00%) Windows 7
3 3 (6.000%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (16.00%) Dependency Injection
2 6 (12.00%) Security Architecture
2 6 (12.00%) Document Management
3 5 (10.00%) Migration
3 5 (10.00%) Information Security
4 4 (8.000%) RAD
5 3 (6.000%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (6.000%) Service Management
5 3 (6.000%) Software Engineering
5 3 (6.000%) Unit Testing
5 3 (6.000%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (4.000%) System Testing
6 2 (4.000%) Time Management
6 2 (4.000%) Release Management
7 1 (2.000%) UML
7 1 (2.000%) Software Deployment
7 1 (2.000%) Fund Management
7 1 (2.000%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 29 (58.00%) C#
2 13 (26.00%) SQL
3 9 (18.00%) VB
4 6 (12.00%) VBScript
4 6 (12.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.000%) VB6
5 3 (6.000%) VBA
5 3 (6.000%) Java
6 2 (4.000%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.000%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.000%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.000%) Perl
7 1 (2.000%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (12.00%) Degree
2 6 (12.00%) MCSE
2 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) MCP
3 5 (10.00%) CISSP
4 4 (8.000%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.000%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (2.000%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.000%) DevExpress
3 2 (4.000%) Sybase
4 1 (2.000%) Business Objects
4 1 (2.000%) Oracle
4 1 (2.000%) Citrix
4 1 (2.000%) Genesys
4 1 (2.000%) EPiServer
4 1 (2.000%) Sitecore
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Rate: £275 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013
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Posted: 13 May 2013
Visual Basic Programmer
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