VB Contracts in Somerset
 
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 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB over the 3 months to 22 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 Somerset 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 25 23 31
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +8
Contract jobs citing VB 11 12 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 5.978% 7.143% 2.454%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.67% 14.29% 5.634%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 4
Average daily rate £373 £320 £261
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.40% +22.48%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £320 £244
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £320 £263
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £19.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.75 £26.28 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.42% -12.40%
All Programming Languages
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 66 84 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 35.87% 50.00% 43.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 50 38
Average daily rate £320 £333 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.75% +14.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £249 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £432 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
Average hourly rate £19.00 - £32.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.05 - £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
VB
South West

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset VB Daily Rate Trend

VB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Somerset VB Daily Rate Histogram

VB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Somerset VB Hourly Rate Trend

VB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 22 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
Taunton -3 5 £458 +43.23%
Bath - 1 - -
Bridgwater - 1 - -
VB
South West

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 36 (97.30%) HTML
1 36 (97.30%) .NET
2 35 (94.59%) C#
2 35 (94.59%) JavaScript
2 35 (94.59%) SQL
2 35 (94.59%) ASP
3 34 (91.89%) XML
4 33 (89.19%) SharePoint
4 33 (89.19%) Java
4 33 (89.19%) Microsoft
5 32 (86.49%) Oracle
5 32 (86.49%) UML
6 30 (81.08%) ASP.NET
6 30 (81.08%) ITIL
6 30 (81.08%) .NET Framework
7 29 (78.38%) VB.NET
8 28 (75.68%) C++
8 28 (75.68%) SQL Server
8 28 (75.68%) IIS
9 27 (72.97%) UNIX
9 27 (72.97%) Ingres
10 23 (62.16%) ISEB
10 23 (62.16%) OpenROAD
11 22 (59.46%) Unit Testing
12 20 (54.05%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (48.65%) Security Cleared
14 16 (43.24%) MSTest
14 16 (43.24%) Subversion
14 16 (43.24%) NUnit
15 15 (40.54%) Service Delivery

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 36 (97.30%) HTML
1 36 (97.30%) .NET
2 35 (94.59%) ASP
3 34 (91.89%) XML
4 30 (81.08%) ASP.NET
4 30 (81.08%) .NET Framework
5 7 (18.92%) CSS
6 5 (13.51%) XSL
7 3 (8.108%) WCF
7 3 (8.108%) WPF
7 3 (8.108%) WF
8 2 (5.405%) Web Services
8 2 (5.405%) J2EE
8 2 (5.405%) Spring MVC
8 2 (5.405%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 33 (89.19%) SharePoint
2 28 (75.68%) IIS
3 23 (62.16%) OpenROAD
4 4 (10.81%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (2.703%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (2.703%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (2.703%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (2.703%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.703%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.703%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (75.68%) SQL Server
2 27 (72.97%) Ingres
3 12 (32.43%) SQLPlus
4 3 (8.108%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (8.108%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (43.24%) MSTest
1 16 (43.24%) Subversion
1 16 (43.24%) NUnit
2 13 (35.14%) TeamCity
2 13 (35.14%) Team Foundation Server
2 13 (35.14%) Jenkins
3 12 (32.43%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 12 (32.43%) CruiseControl
4 5 (13.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (5.405%) Retail
2 1 (2.703%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (78.38%) Developer
2 18 (48.65%) Analyst
3 16 (43.24%) Analyst Developer
4 14 (37.84%) .NET Developer
5 13 (35.14%) C# Developer
5 13 (35.14%) C# .NET Developer
6 12 (32.43%) Senior Developer
6 12 (32.43%) Senior Analyst
7 10 (27.03%) Senior Analyst Developer
8 8 (21.62%) Support Analyst
9 6 (16.22%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 6 (16.22%) ASP.NET Developer
9 6 (16.22%) Senior Support Analyst
10 3 (8.108%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
10 3 (8.108%) Senior C# Developer
10 3 (8.108%) Developer Analyst
10 3 (8.108%) Senior .NET Developer
11 2 (5.405%) Software Engineer
12 1 (2.703%) .NET Software Engineer
12 1 (2.703%) Senior Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.703%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (72.97%) UNIX
2 1 (2.703%) Windows Vista
2 1 (2.703%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (2.703%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.703%) Windows XP
2 1 (2.703%) Windows
2 1 (2.703%) Linux
2 1 (2.703%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (86.49%) UML
2 30 (81.08%) ITIL
3 22 (59.46%) Unit Testing
4 20 (54.05%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (40.54%) Service Delivery
6 13 (35.14%) ITSM
6 13 (35.14%) Service Management
7 5 (13.51%) Waterfall
7 5 (13.51%) RAD
8 4 (10.81%) PRINCE2
8 4 (10.81%) Performance Management
9 3 (8.108%) TOGAF
9 3 (8.108%) TDD
9 3 (8.108%) Pair Programming
9 3 (8.108%) Change Management
9 3 (8.108%) SOA
10 2 (5.405%) MVC
10 2 (5.405%) Scrum
10 2 (5.405%) Product Management
10 2 (5.405%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 35 (94.59%) C#
1 35 (94.59%) JavaScript
1 35 (94.59%) SQL
2 33 (89.19%) Java
3 29 (78.38%) VB.NET
4 28 (75.68%) C++
5 6 (16.22%) C
5 6 (16.22%) VB6
6 5 (13.51%) VBScript
7 1 (2.703%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (62.16%) ISEB
2 18 (48.65%) Security Cleared
3 13 (35.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (24.32%) MCPD
4 9 (24.32%) MCTS
4 9 (24.32%) MCP
5 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
6 4 (10.81%) MCSD
6 4 (10.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 4 (10.81%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (2.703%) BC Cleared
7 1 (2.703%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) ISO 9000
2 4 (10.81%) TickIT
2 4 (10.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (8.108%) COBIT
System Software
1 1 (2.703%) XenApp
1 1 (2.703%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.703%) Terminal Services
Vendors
1 33 (89.19%) Microsoft
2 32 (86.49%) Oracle
3 1 (2.703%) Adobe
3 1 (2.703%) Citrix
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