South West VB6 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VB6 over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Location Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Londonderry Crawley Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stockport Street Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	107	103
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	45	67
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.059 %	0.067 %
As % of the category below	3.462 %	3.394 %
Daily rates quoted	13	21
Average minimum daily rate	£258	£346
Average daily rate	£303	£396
% change on same period last year	-23.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£446
UK excluding London average daily rate	£289	£321
% change on same period last year	-9.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£34.00
Average hourly rate	£32.60	£41.50
% change on same period last year	-21.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.20	£49.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.85	£32.11
% change on same period last year	+5.44 %
Programming Languages South West
Matching contract IT job ads	1300	1974
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.716 %	1.966 %
Daily rates quoted	292	327
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£324
Average daily rate	£326	£353
% change on same period last year	-7.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	256	312
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.13	£30.85
Average hourly rate	£33.35	£33.55
% change on same period last year	-0.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.56	£36.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.40	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
VB6 England

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.

VB6
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VB6 across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VB6
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VB6 across the South West region.

VB6
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB6 across the South West region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

VB6
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VB6 across the South West region.

VB6
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB6 across the South West region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

VB6
Contract Locations

This section 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 21 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
Wiltshire	+5	13	-	-
Gloucestershire	+6	10	£300	-
Bristol	-14	8	£332	-25.09 %
Dorset	-	4	£250	-
Somerset	+6	1	£300	-

VB6 England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, 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 83 (100.00 %) VB 2 63 (75.90 %) SQL Server 3 60 (72.29 %) .NET 4 34 (40.96 %) VB.NET 5 27 (32.53 %) ASP.NET 6 24 (28.92 %) C# 6 24 (28.92 %) SQL 7 23 (27.71 %) ASP 7 23 (27.71 %) Crystal Reports 8 21 (25.30 %) SQL Server 2000 9 19 (22.89 %) XML 10 16 (19.28 %) Finance 10 16 (19.28 %) VSS/SourceSafe 11 14 (16.87 %) Windows 12 13 (15.66 %) UML

13 10 (12.05 %) Client/Server 14 9 (10.84 %) Oracle 15 7 (8.434 %) WinForms 15 7 (8.434 %) SQL Server 2005 15 7 (8.434 %) Transact-SQL 16 6 (7.229 %) VBA 16 6 (7.229 %) COM+ 17 5 (6.024 %) JavaScript 17 5 (6.024 %) Intranet 17 5 (6.024 %) WebServices 18 4 (4.819 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 18 4 (4.819 %) Games 18 4 (4.819 %) Workflow 18 4 (4.819 %) Insurance 18 4 (4.819 %) Internet

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, 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 60 (72.29 %) .NET 2 27 (32.53 %) ASP.NET 3 23 (27.71 %) ASP 4 19 (22.89 %) XML 5 7 (8.434 %) WinForms 6 6 (7.229 %) COM+ 7 5 (6.024 %) WebServices 8 4 (4.819 %) HTML 9 3 (3.614 %) ADO.NET 10 2 (2.410 %) .NET Framework 10 2 (2.410 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 2 (2.410 %) Windows SharePoint Services 10 2 (2.410 %) XSLT 11 1 (1.205 %) ODBC 11 1 (1.205 %) CSS 11 1 (1.205 %) ADO 11 1 (1.205 %) .NET Remoting 11 1 (1.205 %) AJAX 11 1 (1.205 %) WCF 11 1 (1.205 %) Silverlight	Application Platforms 1 3 (3.614 %) CICS 2 2 (2.410 %) SharePoint 3 1 (1.205 %) CMS 3 1 (1.205 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 4 (4.819 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 3 (3.614 %) GoldMine
Communications & Networking 1 5 (6.024 %) Intranet 2 4 (4.819 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 63 (75.90 %) SQL Server 2 23 (27.71 %) Crystal Reports 3 21 (25.30 %) SQL Server 2000 4 7 (8.434 %) SQL Server 2005 5 4 (4.819 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 3 (3.614 %) DB2 7 1 (1.205 %) Oracle 9i 7 1 (1.205 %) DTS 7 1 (1.205 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 1 (1.205 %) SQL Server 2008 7 1 (1.205 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 1 (1.205 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 16 (19.28 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 3 (3.614 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (1.205 %) NUnit	General 1 16 (19.28 %) Finance 2 4 (4.819 %) Games 2 4 (4.819 %) Insurance 3 2 (2.410 %) Banking 3 2 (2.410 %) Front Office 4 1 (1.205 %) Investment Banking
Job Titles 1 69 (83.13 %) Developer 2 28 (33.73 %) VB Developer 3 18 (21.69 %) Analyst 4 14 (16.87 %) SQL Developer 4 14 (16.87 %) VB6 Developer 5 13 (15.66 %) SQL Server Developer 5 13 (15.66 %) Analyst Programmer 5 13 (15.66 %) Programmer 6 12 (14.46 %) .NET Developer 7 8 (9.639 %) C# Developer 7 8 (9.639 %) Analyst Developer 7 8 (9.639 %) VB.NET Developer 8 5 (6.024 %) Senior Developer 8 5 (6.024 %) ASP Developer 8 5 (6.024 %) VB Analyst Programmer 9 4 (4.819 %) Oracle Developer 9 4 (4.819 %) Software Engineer 10 3 (3.614 %) Software Developer 11 2 (2.410 %) Server Analyst 11 2 (2.410 %) C# Analyst Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 10 (12.05 %) Client/Server 2 2 (2.410 %) Mainframe 3 1 (1.205 %) N-Tier 3 1 (1.205 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems 1 14 (16.87 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (15.66 %) UML 2 4 (4.819 %) Workflow 3 3 (3.614 %) OO 3 3 (3.614 %) Service Delivery 3 3 (3.614 %) Migration 4 2 (2.410 %) Risk Management 5 1 (1.205 %) OOP 5 1 (1.205 %) OOA/OOD 5 1 (1.205 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (1.205 %) OOD 5 1 (1.205 %) Stakeholder Management 5 1 (1.205 %) Content Management 5 1 (1.205 %) Data Analysis 5 1 (1.205 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (1.205 %) Requirements Analysis 5 1 (1.205 %) Web Development 5 1 (1.205 %) Unit Testing
Programming Languages 1 83 (100.00 %) VB 2 34 (40.96 %) VB.NET 3 24 (28.92 %) C# 3 24 (28.92 %) SQL 4 7 (8.434 %) Transact-SQL 5 6 (7.229 %) VBA 6 5 (6.024 %) JavaScript 7 3 (3.614 %) C++ 7 3 (3.614 %) COBOL 7 3 (3.614 %) VBScript 8 1 (1.205 %) ActionScript 8 1 (1.205 %) PHP 8 1 (1.205 %) PL/SQL 8 1 (1.205 %) C 8 1 (1.205 %) XAML	System Software 1 3 (3.614 %) MSMQ 2 1 (1.205 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 9 (10.84 %) Oracle 2 4 (4.819 %) Microsoft 3 3 (3.614 %) Sage 4 1 (1.205 %) SAP 4 1 (1.205 %) Sybase 4 1 (1.205 %) Macromedia 4 1 (1.205 %) ComponentOne 4 1 (1.205 %) Infragistics 4 1 (1.205 %) Syncfusion