South Wales VB Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the South Wales region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Aberdeen Addlestone Amersham Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clapham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hayes Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Huntingdon Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Royston Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	26
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	33	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	13.92 %	17.09 %
Daily rates quoted	14	3
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£238
Average daily rate	£349	£313
% change on same period last year	+11.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£388
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£313
% change on same period last year	-0.37 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£11.00	£31.50
% change on same period last year	-65.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.00	£33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.89	£29.82
% change on same period last year	+10.26 %
Programming Languages South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	237	158
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.313 %	0.157 %
Daily rates quoted	77	24
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£266
Average daily rate	£329	£310
% change on same period last year	+6.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£353	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.06	£28.56
Average hourly rate	£28.43	£31.00
% change on same period last year	-8.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.81	£33.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.47	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.31 %
VB Wales

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.

VB
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VB across the South Wales 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 VB across the South Wales region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Cardiff	+13	22	£359	+10.30 %
Newport	-	6	£338	-
Bridgend	-12	1	£300	-2.70 %

VB Wales

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 26 (50.98 %) .NET 2 21 (41.18 %) VB6 3 20 (39.22 %) SQL Server 4 18 (35.29 %) XML 5 17 (33.33 %) SQL 6 16 (31.37 %) Crystal Reports 7 13 (25.49 %) Microsoft 8 10 (19.61 %) C# 8 10 (19.61 %) ASP.NET 8 10 (19.61 %) WebServices 9 9 (17.65 %) IIS 9 9 (17.65 %) SQL Server 2000 10 8 (15.69 %) SOAP 10 8 (15.69 %) PRINCE2 10 8 (15.69 %) VBScript

10 8 (15.69 %) AJAX 11 7 (13.73 %) assyst 11 7 (13.73 %) Workflow 11 7 (13.73 %) Software Engineering 11 7 (13.73 %) Transact-SQL 12 6 (11.76 %) Finance 12 6 (11.76 %) Web Development 12 6 (11.76 %) Workflow Management 13 5 (9.804 %) telerik 13 5 (9.804 %) Health 13 5 (9.804 %) Systems Analysis 13 5 (9.804 %) Java 14 4 (7.843 %) VB.NET 14 4 (7.843 %) Oracle 14 4 (7.843 %) MS Project

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 26 (50.98 %) .NET 2 18 (35.29 %) XML 3 10 (19.61 %) ASP.NET 3 10 (19.61 %) WebServices 4 8 (15.69 %) SOAP 4 8 (15.69 %) AJAX 5 3 (5.882 %) CSS 5 3 (5.882 %) HTML 6 2 (3.922 %) ASP 7 1 (1.961 %) JSP 7 1 (1.961 %) XSLT 7 1 (1.961 %) ActiveX	Application Platforms 1 9 (17.65 %) IIS 2 3 (5.882 %) Lotus Notes 3 2 (3.922 %) Oracle Application Server 4 1 (1.961 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 4 (7.843 %) MS Project 2 2 (3.922 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 7 (13.73 %) assyst 2 2 (3.922 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.961 %) Firewall 1 1 (1.961 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 20 (39.22 %) SQL Server 2 16 (31.37 %) Crystal Reports 3 9 (17.65 %) SQL Server 2000 4 4 (7.843 %) MS Access 5 3 (5.882 %) BusinessObjects 5 3 (5.882 %) Datawarehouse 6 2 (3.922 %) Oracle Reports 6 2 (3.922 %) DTS 6 2 (3.922 %) Oracle 9i 6 2 (3.922 %) Oracle Discoverer 6 2 (3.922 %) Siebel EIM 6 2 (3.922 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 1 (1.961 %) SQL Server 2005 7 1 (1.961 %) Oracle 10g 7 1 (1.961 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 2 (3.922 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (1.961 %) Visual Studio	General 1 6 (11.76 %) Finance 2 5 (9.804 %) Health 3 3 (5.882 %) Law 3 3 (5.882 %) Government 4 2 (3.922 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 22 (43.14 %) Developer 2 14 (27.45 %) Analyst 3 10 (19.61 %) Programmer 4 8 (15.69 %) Project Manager 4 8 (15.69 %) Analyst Programmer 5 7 (13.73 %) VB Developer 5 7 (13.73 %) Consultant 6 6 (11.76 %) Software Developer 6 6 (11.76 %) Senior Developer 7 4 (7.843 %) Systems Analyst 8 3 (5.882 %) Senior Programmer 8 3 (5.882 %) Lotus Notes Consultant 8 3 (5.882 %) Senior VB Developer 8 3 (5.882 %) VB Analyst Programmer 8 3 (5.882 %) Senior Analyst 8 3 (5.882 %) .NET Developer 8 3 (5.882 %) Senior Analyst Programmer 8 3 (5.882 %) Applications Developer 9 2 (3.922 %) Test Analyst 9 2 (3.922 %) Web Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.922 %) NHS 1 2 (3.922 %) AS400 2 1 (1.961 %) French Language 2 1 (1.961 %) Welsh Language 2 1 (1.961 %) E-Learning 2 1 (1.961 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 3 (5.882 %) Windows 2 2 (3.922 %) UNIX 2 2 (3.922 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (15.69 %) PRINCE2 2 7 (13.73 %) Workflow 2 7 (13.73 %) Software Engineering 3 6 (11.76 %) Web Development 3 6 (11.76 %) Workflow Management 4 5 (9.804 %) Systems Analysis 5 4 (7.843 %) Requirements Analysis 5 4 (7.843 %) Use Case 5 4 (7.843 %) Project Planning 6 3 (5.882 %) CRM 6 3 (5.882 %) ITIL 7 2 (3.922 %) UML 7 2 (3.922 %) Migration 7 2 (3.922 %) Risk Management 7 2 (3.922 %) Resource Management 7 2 (3.922 %) Data Migration 8 1 (1.961 %) SC Cleared 8 1 (1.961 %) Security Cleared 8 1 (1.961 %) Test Scripting 8 1 (1.961 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 21 (41.18 %) VB6 2 17 (33.33 %) SQL 3 10 (19.61 %) C# 4 8 (15.69 %) VBScript 5 7 (13.73 %) Transact-SQL 6 5 (9.804 %) Java 7 4 (7.843 %) VB.NET 8 3 (5.882 %) C 8 3 (5.882 %) JavaScript 9 2 (3.922 %) Perl 9 2 (3.922 %) PL/SQL 9 2 (3.922 %) VBA 10 1 (1.961 %) Clipper	Qualifications 1 2 (3.922 %) ISEB 2 1 (1.961 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Vendors 1 13 (25.49 %) Microsoft 2 5 (9.804 %) telerik 3 4 (7.843 %) Oracle 3 4 (7.843 %) Metastorm 4 3 (5.882 %) Lotus 4 3 (5.882 %) Business Objects 5 2 (3.922 %) Sybase 5 2 (3.922 %) Siebel