VB6 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 VB6 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 VB6 over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VB6 6 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 3.279% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.696% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £442 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £280
% change year-on-year
- +16.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+40.00% -28.57%
All Programming Languages
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 69 88 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 37.70% 51.46% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 53 36
Average daily rate £310 £333 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.76% +14.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £248 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £450 £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 £35.00 £35.00
VB6
South West

VB6
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VB6 across the Somerset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Somerset VB6 Jobs Demand Trend

VB6
Daily Rate Trend

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

Somerset VB6 Daily Rate Trend

VB6
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB6 across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Somerset VB6 Daily Rate Histogram

VB6
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Somerset VB6 Hourly Rate Trend

VB6
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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 17 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 - 4 £458 -
VB6
South West

VB6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 6 (100.00%) VB
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) RAD
2 5 (83.33%) SharePoint
2 5 (83.33%) ISO 9000
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) VBScript
2 5 (83.33%) C
2 5 (83.33%) C#
2 5 (83.33%) HTML
2 5 (83.33%) Visual Studio
2 5 (83.33%) ASP
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) XML
2 5 (83.33%) XSL
2 5 (83.33%) .NET Framework
2 5 (83.33%) Waterfall
3 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (66.67%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (66.67%) Performance Management
3 4 (66.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) Subversion
3 4 (66.67%) Service Management
3 4 (66.67%) TickIT
3 4 (66.67%) ISEB Practitioner
3 4 (66.67%) ITIL

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) ASP
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) XML
2 5 (83.33%) XSL
2 5 (83.33%) .NET Framework
2 5 (83.33%) HTML
3 3 (50.00%) WCF
3 3 (50.00%) WPF
3 3 (50.00%) WF
Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (66.67%) SharePoint 2010
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Visual Studio
2 4 (66.67%) Subversion
3 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
3 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (16.67%) MSTest
3 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) NUnit
General
1 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Development Manager
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
1 1 (16.67%) VB.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) RAD
1 5 (83.33%) Waterfall
2 4 (66.67%) Performance Management
2 4 (66.67%) Service Management
2 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) PRINCE2
2 4 (66.67%) UML
2 4 (66.67%) ITSM
3 3 (50.00%) Pair Programming
3 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (50.00%) SOA
3 3 (50.00%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Refactoring
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) VB
2 5 (83.33%) C
2 5 (83.33%) C#
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) VBScript
3 4 (66.67%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) MCSD
1 4 (66.67%) ISEB
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (66.67%) ISEB Practitioner
1 4 (66.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) ISO 9000
2 4 (66.67%) TickIT
2 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (50.00%) COBIT
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Oracle
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