The first table below looks at the demand for VB.NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB.NET over the 3 months to 21 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 Yorkshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Rank 27 29 34
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +5
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 8 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 2.985% 1.145% 0.356%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.412% 2.586% 0.840%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
Average daily rate £288 - £220
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.72% +6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £33.75
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -3.70%
All Programming Languages
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
85 116 119
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 31.72% 44.27% 42.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 61 66
Average daily rate £280 £310 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.67% +3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £175 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £406 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 13
Average hourly rate £25.75 £23.00 £40.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.95% -43.20%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.70 £22.20 £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £26.60 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VB.NET
Yorkshire

VB.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Sheffield +3 7 £275 -
Doncaster - 1 £410 -
VB.NET
Yorkshire

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 13 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (92.31%) SQL Server
2 12 (92.31%) ASP.NET
3 11 (84.62%) C#
4 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
4 6 (46.15%) CSS
5 5 (38.46%) Visual Studio
5 5 (38.46%) Web Services
5 5 (38.46%) XML
6 4 (30.77%) HTML
6 4 (30.77%) SQL
6 4 (30.77%) T-SQL
6 4 (30.77%) CRM
6 4 (30.77%) Ajax
6 4 (30.77%) SQL Server 2005
7 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2008
7 3 (23.08%) WCF
7 3 (23.08%) Lagan
7 3 (23.08%) MVC
7 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
7 3 (23.08%) XHTML
7 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
7 3 (23.08%) PHP
7 3 (23.08%) XSL
8 2 (15.38%) XSLT
8 2 (15.38%) SOAP
8 2 (15.38%) Intranet
8 2 (15.38%) MS Excel
8 2 (15.38%) N-Tier
8 2 (15.38%) Windows

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 13 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (92.31%) ASP.NET
3 6 (46.15%) CSS
4 5 (38.46%) Web Services
4 5 (38.46%) XML
5 4 (30.77%) HTML
5 4 (30.77%) Ajax
6 3 (23.08%) WCF
6 3 (23.08%) XHTML
6 3 (23.08%) XSL
7 2 (15.38%) XSLT
7 2 (15.38%) SOAP
7 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
7 2 (15.38%) HTML5
7 2 (15.38%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 1 (7.692%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (7.692%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (7.692%) Apache
3 1 (7.692%) Tomcat
3 1 (7.692%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (92.31%) SQL Server
2 4 (30.77%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
5 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (7.692%) SQL CLR
5 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (7.692%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (15.38%) Back Office
2 1 (7.692%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Developer
2 6 (46.15%) .NET Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Web Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Consultant
4 2 (15.38%) VB.NET Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Systems Developer
4 2 (15.38%) SharePoint Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Systems Integrator
5 1 (7.692%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (7.692%) SharePoint Specialist
5 1 (7.692%) C# Developer
5 1 (7.692%) SQL Server DBA
5 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (7.692%) SQL DBA
5 1 (7.692%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) N-Tier
2 1 (7.692%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) CRM
2 3 (23.08%) MVC
3 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (15.38%) Web Development
3 2 (15.38%) Software Architecture
4 1 (7.692%) BPR
4 1 (7.692%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) C#
2 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) T-SQL
4 3 (23.08%) PHP
5 2 (15.38%) XPath
6 1 (7.692%) PowerShell
6 1 (7.692%) Java
6 1 (7.692%) VB
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Lagan
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.692%) Twitter
2 1 (7.692%) Telerik
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle
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