Scotland VB6 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) skills within the Scotland 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Location Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Coventry Crawley Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Street Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	87	76
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	16	52
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.051 %
As % of the category below	2.225 %	4.377 %
Daily rates quoted	7	3
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£275
Average daily rate	£300	£283
% change on same period last year	+5.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£314	£292
UK excluding London average daily rate	£283	£319
% change on same period last year	-11.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£26.67
Average hourly rate	-	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£28.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.85	£32.00
% change on same period last year	+5.78 %
Programming Languages Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	719	1188
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.972 %	1.172 %
Daily rates quoted	147	259
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£314
Average daily rate	£328	£330
% change on same period last year	-0.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£349	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.86 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	44
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.61	£31.23
Average hourly rate	£29.41	£32.67
% change on same period last year	-9.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.21	£34.12
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.30	£32.93
% change on same period last year	+1.13 %
VB6 UK

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 Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

VB6
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB6 across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

VB6
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB6 within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Glasgow	+2	9	£301	+9.33 %
Edinburgh	+3	4	£295	-1.66 %
Falkirk	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 24 (100.00 %) VB 2 13 (54.17 %) SQL 3 11 (45.83 %) Java 4 8 (33.33 %) .NET 5 5 (20.83 %) VB.NET 5 5 (20.83 %) C# 6 4 (16.67 %) SQL Server 6 4 (16.67 %) Banking 7 3 (12.50 %) Investment Banking 7 3 (12.50 %) GIS 7 3 (12.50 %) Finance 7 3 (12.50 %) Sybase 7 3 (12.50 %) DB2 7 3 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 7 3 (12.50 %) J2EE

7 3 (12.50 %) XML 7 3 (12.50 %) WebSphere 8 2 (8.333 %) UNIX 8 2 (8.333 %) Windows 8 2 (8.333 %) ADO 8 2 (8.333 %) ASP 8 2 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 8 2 (8.333 %) OO 8 2 (8.333 %) Visual Studio 8 2 (8.333 %) JUnit 8 2 (8.333 %) UML 8 2 (8.333 %) N-Tier 8 2 (8.333 %) SOA 8 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft 8 2 (8.333 %) JSF

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 8 (33.33 %) .NET 2 3 (12.50 %) J2EE 2 3 (12.50 %) XML 2 3 (12.50 %) WebSphere 3 2 (8.333 %) JSF 3 2 (8.333 %) ADO 3 2 (8.333 %) ASP 3 2 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (4.167 %) COM+ 4 1 (4.167 %) Struts 4 1 (4.167 %) Hibernate	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.167 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 1 (4.167 %) SharePoint 1 1 (4.167 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) MS Office 1 1 (4.167 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2 3 (12.50 %) DB2 2 3 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 2 3 (12.50 %) GIS 3 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (4.167 %) Oracle Reports 3 1 (4.167 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (4.167 %) MS Access 3 1 (4.167 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (4.167 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) JUnit 1 2 (8.333 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (4.167 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (4.167 %) ClearCase	General 1 4 (16.67 %) Banking 2 3 (12.50 %) Investment Banking 2 3 (12.50 %) Finance 3 1 (4.167 %) Health 3 1 (4.167 %) Home Office 3 1 (4.167 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 21 (87.50 %) Developer 2 13 (54.17 %) VB Developer 3 10 (41.67 %) VB6 Developer 4 6 (25.00 %) .NET Developer 5 4 (16.67 %) SQL Developer 5 4 (16.67 %) VB.NET Developer 6 2 (8.333 %) Applications Architect 6 2 (8.333 %) Architect 6 2 (8.333 %) Java Developer 7 1 (4.167 %) Programmer 7 1 (4.167 %) C# Developer 7 1 (4.167 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 1 (4.167 %) Database Developer 7 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server Developer 7 1 (4.167 %) GIS Developer 7 1 (4.167 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) N-Tier 2 1 (4.167 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 2 (8.333 %) UNIX 1 2 (8.333 %) Windows 2 1 (4.167 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (8.333 %) UML 1 2 (8.333 %) OO 1 2 (8.333 %) TDD 1 2 (8.333 %) SOA 2 1 (4.167 %) Project Management 2 1 (4.167 %) Migration 2 1 (4.167 %) Enterprise Architecture 2 1 (4.167 %) Investment Management 2 1 (4.167 %) Data Migration 2 1 (4.167 %) ERP 2 1 (4.167 %) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages 1 24 (100.00 %) VB 2 13 (54.17 %) SQL 3 11 (45.83 %) Java 4 5 (20.83 %) C# 4 5 (20.83 %) VB.NET 5 1 (4.167 %) VBA 5 1 (4.167 %) Shell Script 5 1 (4.167 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (4.167 %) MCAD 1 1 (4.167 %) MCSD 1 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft Certification
Vendors 1 3 (12.50 %) Sybase 2 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft 3 1 (4.167 %) Oracle 3 1 (4.167 %) PeopleSoft 3 1 (4.167 %) Cognos