VB.NET Contracts in the South West
 
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.NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB.NET 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 South West 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 .NET (VB .NET)
Rank 74 68 65
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -3
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 41 76 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 2.002% 2.293% 2.035%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.467% 5.938% 5.975%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 43 30
Average daily rate £325 £339 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.12% +13.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £250 £249
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 6
Average hourly rate - £41.00 £35.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +15.49%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
All Programming Languages
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 750 1280 954
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 36.62% 38.62% 34.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 741 425
Average daily rate £325 £380 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.47% +26.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 80 92
Average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.25 £18.25 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £46.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
VB.NET
England

VB.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West VB.NET Jobs Demand Trend

VB.NET
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VB.NET across the South West region.

South West VB.NET Daily Rate Trend

VB.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

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

South West VB.NET Daily Rate Histogram

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West VB.NET Hourly Rate Trend

VB.NET
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the South West 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
Devon +11 12 £325 -
Gloucestershire +15 10 £375 -9.09%
Somerset -3 6 £315 -1.48%
Wiltshire -4 6 £450 +56.52%
Dorset - 5 £335 -
Bristol +7 4 £264 +24.11%
VB.NET
England

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing VB.NET 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.NET.

1 123 (100.00%) .NET
2 87 (70.73%) C#
3 78 (63.41%) ASP.NET
4 76 (61.79%) SQL
5 69 (56.10%) Oracle
6 65 (52.85%) XML
7 63 (51.22%) JavaScript
8 62 (50.41%) HTML
9 57 (46.34%) SQL Server
10 50 (40.65%) VB
11 40 (32.52%) Microsoft
12 36 (29.27%) C++
12 36 (29.27%) .NET Framework
13 35 (28.46%) Finance
14 32 (26.02%) CSS
15 31 (25.20%) ASP
15 31 (25.20%) Java
15 31 (25.20%) UML
15 31 (25.20%) SharePoint
16 30 (24.39%) IIS
17 29 (23.58%) Visual Studio
17 29 (23.58%) UNIX
17 29 (23.58%) ITIL
17 29 (23.58%) Ingres
18 27 (21.95%) SOA
18 27 (21.95%) Unit Testing
19 25 (20.33%) OpenROAD
20 24 (19.51%) Microsoft Certification
20 24 (19.51%) PL/SQL
21 21 (17.07%) ISEB

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing VB.NET 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.NET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 123 (100.00%) .NET
2 78 (63.41%) ASP.NET
3 65 (52.85%) XML
4 62 (50.41%) HTML
5 36 (29.27%) .NET Framework
6 32 (26.02%) CSS
7 31 (25.20%) ASP
8 19 (15.45%) XSLT
9 16 (13.01%) Web Services
10 9 (7.317%) Silverlight
11 8 (6.504%) jQuery
12 6 (4.878%) WinForms
13 3 (2.439%) WCF
14 2 (1.626%) Spring MVC
14 2 (1.626%) Spring
14 2 (1.626%) J2EE
14 2 (1.626%) NHibernate
15 1 (0.813%) Oracle Fusion
15 1 (0.813%) HTML5
15 1 (0.813%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 31 (25.20%) SharePoint
2 30 (24.39%) IIS
3 25 (20.33%) OpenROAD
4 1 (0.813%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.813%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 7 (5.691%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.813%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 11 (8.943%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.626%) Intranet
1 2 (1.626%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (46.34%) SQL Server
2 29 (23.58%) Ingres
3 18 (14.63%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (11.38%) TOAD
4 14 (11.38%) SQLPlus
5 12 (9.756%) SQL Server 2005
6 10 (8.130%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (7.317%) SQL Server 2008
8 8 (6.504%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (4.878%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (4.065%) Crystal Reports
10 5 (4.065%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.813%) Oracle 8/8i
11 1 (0.813%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 29 (23.58%) Visual Studio
2 20 (16.26%) Team Foundation Server
3 15 (12.20%) MSTest
3 15 (12.20%) NUnit
4 13 (10.57%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 12 (9.756%) Jenkins
5 12 (9.756%) CruiseControl
5 12 (9.756%) Subversion
5 12 (9.756%) TeamCity
6 10 (8.130%) Git (software)
General
1 35 (28.46%) Finance
2 8 (6.504%) Banking
3 5 (4.065%) Back Office
4 4 (3.252%) Retail
5 2 (1.626%) Law
6 1 (0.813%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.813%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.813%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.813%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.813%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 113 (91.87%) Developer
2 68 (55.28%) .NET Developer
3 28 (22.76%) Analyst
4 22 (17.89%) Analyst Developer
5 21 (17.07%) Senior Developer
6 15 (12.20%) C# Developer
6 15 (12.20%) C# .NET Developer
7 13 (10.57%) ASP.NET Developer
7 13 (10.57%) Senior Analyst
8 12 (9.756%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 11 (8.943%) Senior .NET Developer
9 11 (8.943%) Senior Analyst Developer
10 10 (8.130%) Support Analyst
11 7 (5.691%) VB.NET Developer
11 7 (5.691%) Senior Support Analyst
11 7 (5.691%) Oracle Developer
12 6 (4.878%) Programmer
12 6 (4.878%) C# ASP.NET Developer
13 5 (4.065%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (4.065%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.691%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (1.626%) Open Source
3 1 (0.813%) Client/Server
3 1 (0.813%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 29 (23.58%) UNIX
2 5 (4.065%) Windows
3 2 (1.626%) Windows XP
4 1 (0.813%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (25.20%) UML
2 29 (23.58%) ITIL
3 27 (21.95%) SOA
3 27 (21.95%) Unit Testing
4 21 (17.07%) Continuous Integration
5 17 (13.82%) Business Intelligence
5 17 (13.82%) Service Delivery
6 15 (12.20%) OOP
7 13 (10.57%) Dimensional Modelling
8 12 (9.756%) OO
8 12 (9.756%) Service Management
9 11 (8.943%) ITSM
9 11 (8.943%) Agile Software Development
10 6 (4.878%) B2B
10 6 (4.878%) B2C
10 6 (4.878%) Configuration Management
11 5 (4.065%) TDD
11 5 (4.065%) TOGAF
11 5 (4.065%) Enterprise Architecture
11 5 (4.065%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 87 (70.73%) C#
2 76 (61.79%) SQL
3 63 (51.22%) JavaScript
4 50 (40.65%) VB
5 36 (29.27%) C++
6 31 (25.20%) Java
7 24 (19.51%) PL/SQL
8 15 (12.20%) XQuery
9 14 (11.38%) XPath
10 10 (8.130%) T-SQL
11 4 (3.252%) C
12 3 (2.439%) VB6
13 2 (1.626%) Ruby
13 2 (1.626%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (19.51%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (17.07%) ISEB
3 16 (13.01%) MCP
3 16 (13.01%) Security Cleared
4 11 (8.943%) MCTS
4 11 (8.943%) MCPD
5 8 (6.504%) MCAD
5 8 (6.504%) MCSD
6 5 (4.065%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.439%) Degree
8 1 (0.813%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.691%) Basel II
2 4 (3.252%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.813%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 69 (56.10%) Oracle
2 40 (32.52%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.878%) Business Objects
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Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Rate: £250 - £280 per day
Posted: 24 April 2013
.NET Developer
Bristol, Avon
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Rate: £225 - £300 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013
.Net Developer - ASP.Net, Winforms, C# or VB.Net, Oracle
Bristol, South West
They appreciate this is hard to find and therefore willing to flex if someone is more experienced in one as the team are mixed, however the opportunity to...
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Rate: £250 - £280 per day + extension
Posted: 16 May 2013
.Net Developer - ASP.Net, Winforms, C# or VB.Net, Oracle
Bristol, South West
They appreciate this is hard to find and therefore willing to flex if someone is more experienced in one as the team are mixed, however the opportunity to...
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Rate: £250 - £280 per day
Posted: 9 May 2013
.Net Developer - ASP.Net, Winforms, C# or VB.Net, Oracle
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Net Developers (Winforms, C# or VB.Net) required by leading finance organisation based in the heart of Bristol... Net Winforms C# or VB.Net (most apps now in...
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Rate: £250 - £280 per day + extension
Posted: 15 May 2013
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