South Wales VBScript Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) 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 VBScript over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Huntingdon Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leek Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport North East North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Preston Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Street Surrey Swindon Telford Tonbridge Twickenham UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	48
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	2	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	0.870 %	4.046 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£295	£308
% change on same period last year	-4.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£28.08
% change on same period last year	+8.29 %
Programming Languages South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	230	173
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.311 %	0.171 %
Daily rates quoted	72	24
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£267
Average daily rate	£330	£313
% change on same period last year	+5.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.86 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.51	£26.08
Average hourly rate	£32.74	£28.29
% change on same period last year	+15.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.98	£30.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.30	£32.93
% change on same period last year	+1.13 %
VBScript 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VBScript across the South Wales 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 VBScript within the South Wales 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
Newport	-13	2	-	-

VBScript Wales

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Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 8 (100.00 %) VB 1 8 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 8 (100.00 %) VB6 2 7 (87.50 %) assyst 2 7 (87.50 %) Crystal Reports 2 7 (87.50 %) XML 2 7 (87.50 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (12.50 %) Government 3 1 (12.50 %) ActiveX 3 1 (12.50 %) .NET 3 1 (12.50 %) SQL 3 1 (12.50 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (12.50 %) Clipper 3 1 (12.50 %) Systems Analysis

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 7 (87.50 %) XML 2 1 (12.50 %) ActiveX 2 1 (12.50 %) .NET	Business Applications 1 7 (87.50 %) assyst
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 7 (87.50 %) Crystal Reports 2 7 (87.50 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Government
Job Titles 1 5 (62.50 %) Developer 2 4 (50.00 %) Senior Developer 2 4 (50.00 %) VB Developer 3 3 (37.50 %) Senior VB Developer 3 3 (37.50 %) Programmer 4 2 (25.00 %) Lead Developer 4 2 (25.00 %) Analyst Programmer 4 2 (25.00 %) Analyst 5 1 (12.50 %) VB Analyst Programmer 5 1 (12.50 %) Trainer	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages 1 8 (100.00 %) VB 1 8 (100.00 %) VB6 2 1 (12.50 %) Clipper 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL 2 1 (12.50 %) Transact-SQL