The first table below looks at the demand for VBScript 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 VBScript over the 3 months to 26 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
26 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Rank 24 - 32
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VBScript 5 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 2.941% - 0.578%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.197% - 1.266%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £458 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £288
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
+20.68% +38.09%
All Programming Languages
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
61 82 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 35.88% 48.24% 45.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 47 43
Average daily rate £320 £333 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.75% +12.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £247 £247 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £425 £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 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VBScript
South West

VBScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset VBScript Jobs Demand Trend

VBScript
Daily Rate Trend

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

Somerset VBScript Daily Rate Trend

VBScript
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Somerset VBScript Hourly Rate Trend

VBScript
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 26 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Taunton - 4 £458 -
VBScript
South West

VBScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 26 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing VBScript 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 VBScript.

1 5 (100.00%) C
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) VB
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) ASP
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) XSL
1 5 (100.00%) ISO 9000
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) RAD
1 5 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (100.00%) VB6
1 5 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 4 (80.00%) Subversion
2 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (80.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Management
2 4 (80.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 4 (80.00%) TickIT
2 4 (80.00%) ISEB
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification

VBScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 26 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing VBScript 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 VBScript. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) XSL
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (60.00%) WCF
2 3 (60.00%) WPF
2 3 (60.00%) WF
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (80.00%) SharePoint 2010
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (80.00%) Subversion
3 1 (20.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (20.00%) MSTest
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) NUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) RAD
1 5 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Management
2 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) PRINCE2
2 4 (80.00%) UML
2 4 (80.00%) ITSM
3 3 (60.00%) Pair Programming
3 3 (60.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (60.00%) SOA
3 3 (60.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) VB
1 5 (100.00%) VB6
1 5 (100.00%) C
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) MCSD
1 4 (80.00%) ISEB
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (80.00%) ISEB Practitioner
1 4 (80.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) ISO 9000
2 4 (80.00%) TickIT
2 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (60.00%) COBIT
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle