The first table below looks at the demand for the VB.NET Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB.NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised for the Staffordshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VB.NET Developer
Rank 13 25 23
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -2
Contract jobs requiring a VB.NET Developer 6 9 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 7.143% 4.167% 6.912%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.595% 4.265% 7.246%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 7
Average daily rate £330 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -7.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.25 £31.75 £43.00
% change year-on-year
+14.17% -26.16%
All Job Titles
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
79 211 207
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 94.05% 97.69% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 86 90
Average daily rate £325 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £238 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £368 £371 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 13
Average hourly rate £15.26 £17.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.81% +25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £13.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.29 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
VB.NET Developer
West Midlands

VB.NET Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VB.NET Developer across the Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Staffordshire VB.NET Developer Jobs Demand Trend

VB.NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Staffordshire VB.NET Developer Daily Rate Trend

VB.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Staffordshire VB.NET Developer Hourly Rate Trend

VB.NET Developer
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 Developer within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Stoke-on-Trent +9 6 £330 +1.53%
VB.NET Developer
West Midlands

VB.NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region that cited VB.NET Developer in their job title 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 with VB.NET Developer in their job title.

1 16 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 16 (100.00%) .NET
1 16 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 16 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 16 (100.00%) CSS
1 16 (100.00%) XML
1 16 (100.00%) XSLT
1 16 (100.00%) XHTML
1 16 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 16 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 16 (100.00%) SOA
1 16 (100.00%) C#
1 16 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 16 (100.00%) SEO
1 16 (100.00%) Ajax
1 16 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 16 (100.00%) HTML5
1 16 (100.00%) CSS3
2 14 (87.50%) jQuery
2 14 (87.50%) Web Application Development
2 14 (87.50%) Degree
2 14 (87.50%) SQL
3 8 (50.00%) TDD
4 6 (37.50%) Document Management
4 6 (37.50%) JIRA
4 6 (37.50%) AccuRev
5 4 (25.00%) Games
6 3 (18.75%) Windows Mobile
6 3 (18.75%) Blackberry
6 3 (18.75%) Windows

VB.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region that cited VB.NET Developer in their job title 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 with VB.NET Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (100.00%) .NET
1 16 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 16 (100.00%) CSS
1 16 (100.00%) XML
1 16 (100.00%) XSLT
1 16 (100.00%) XHTML
1 16 (100.00%) Ajax
1 16 (100.00%) HTML5
1 16 (100.00%) CSS3
2 14 (87.50%) jQuery
3 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (25.00%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 16 (100.00%) N-Tier
2 3 (18.75%) Blackberry
2 3 (18.75%) WURFL
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows Mobile
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
1 3 (18.75%) Android
1 3 (18.75%) BlackBerry OS
1 3 (18.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 16 (100.00%) SOA
1 16 (100.00%) SEO
1 16 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 14 (87.50%) Web Application Development
3 8 (50.00%) TDD
4 6 (37.50%) Document Management
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (12.50%) Web Development
5 2 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 16 (100.00%) C#
1 16 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 14 (87.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) AccuRev