The first table below looks at the demand for VB6 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 VB6 over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Rank 87 130 121
Rank change year-on-year
+43 -9
Contract jobs citing VB6 14 2 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.697% 0.064% 0.231%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.108% 0.176% 0.635%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 3
Average daily rate £425 £400 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% +77.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £400 £189
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £400 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £300
% change year-on-year
-2.25% +10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £34.50 - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.75 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.38% -
All Programming Languages
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
664 1139 1102
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 33.05% 36.42% 36.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 645 511
Average daily rate £325 £363 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.34% +15.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £245 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 78 93
Average hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £18.25 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.00 £46.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
VB6
England

VB6
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Somerset - 6 £442 - 2
Bristol - 4 £325 - 1
Wiltshire - 2 - -
Dorset - 1 - - 1
Gloucestershire - - - - 2
Devon - - - - 1
VB6
England

VB6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 17 (100.00%) VB
1 17 (100.00%) .NET
2 13 (76.47%) C#
3 9 (52.94%) XML
3 9 (52.94%) .NET Framework
4 8 (47.06%) HTML
4 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
4 8 (47.06%) SQL
4 8 (47.06%) ASP
4 8 (47.06%) CSS
5 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
5 7 (41.18%) SQL Server
5 7 (41.18%) Visual Studio
5 7 (41.18%) VB.NET
6 6 (35.29%) VBScript
6 6 (35.29%) XSL
7 5 (29.41%) UML
7 5 (29.41%) RAD
7 5 (29.41%) C
7 5 (29.41%) Oracle
7 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET
7 5 (29.41%) SharePoint
7 5 (29.41%) ISO 9000
7 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
7 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
7 5 (29.41%) Waterfall
8 4 (23.53%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (23.53%) Performance Management
8 4 (23.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 17 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (52.94%) XML
2 9 (52.94%) .NET Framework
3 8 (47.06%) HTML
3 8 (47.06%) ASP
3 8 (47.06%) CSS
4 6 (35.29%) XSL
5 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET
6 3 (17.65%) WCF
6 3 (17.65%) WPF
6 3 (17.65%) WF
7 2 (11.76%) LINQ
7 2 (11.76%) JSON
7 2 (11.76%) RESTful
7 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (11.76%) OAuth
7 2 (11.76%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 2 (11.76%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) SharePoint
2 4 (23.53%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) SQL Server
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.882%) MS Access
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Visual Studio
2 4 (23.53%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (23.53%) Subversion
3 2 (11.76%) ReSharper
4 1 (5.882%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (5.882%) NUnit
4 1 (5.882%) TeamCity
4 1 (5.882%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.882%) MSTest
General
1 2 (11.76%) Publishing
2 1 (5.882%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (5.882%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) .NET Developer
3 2 (11.76%) VB.NET Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Development Manager
4 1 (5.882%) Applications Support
4 1 (5.882%) VB Developer
4 1 (5.882%) VB6 Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Inversion of Control
1 2 (11.76%) Social Media
2 1 (5.882%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) UML
1 5 (29.41%) RAD
1 5 (29.41%) Waterfall
2 4 (23.53%) Performance Management
2 4 (23.53%) Service Management
2 4 (23.53%) ITSM
2 4 (23.53%) ITIL
2 4 (23.53%) PRINCE2
3 3 (17.65%) Change Management
3 3 (17.65%) SOA
3 3 (17.65%) TOGAF
3 3 (17.65%) Pair Programming
3 3 (17.65%) Requirements Analysis
3 3 (17.65%) Unit Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Refactoring
4 2 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (11.76%) MVC
4 2 (11.76%) Scrum
4 2 (11.76%) OO
5 1 (5.882%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) VB
2 13 (76.47%) C#
3 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
3 8 (47.06%) SQL
4 7 (41.18%) VB.NET
5 6 (35.29%) VBScript
6 5 (29.41%) C
7 4 (23.53%) Java
8 2 (11.76%) REALbasic
8 2 (11.76%) AppleScript
9 1 (5.882%) C++
9 1 (5.882%) Delphi
9 1 (5.882%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 4 (23.53%) ISEB Practitioner
2 4 (23.53%) MCSD
2 4 (23.53%) ISEB
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.882%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) ISO 9000
1 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (23.53%) TickIT
3 3 (17.65%) COBIT
4 2 (11.76%) QA
5 1 (5.882%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) Facebook
3 2 (11.76%) Twitter
3 2 (11.76%) Apple
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