Staffordshire VB.NET Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for VB.NET skills 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 over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Staffordshire region.

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Avon Basildon Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Glasgow Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Ipswich Isle of Man Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Reading Romsey Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 19 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	3	4	16
Rank change year-on-year	+1 +12
Matching contract IT job ads	11	26	2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire	16.67 %	22.61 %	1.852 %
As % of the Programming Languages category	45.83 %	42.62 %	6.250 %
Daily rates quoted	10	21	1
Average daily rate	£363	£350	£275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.570 % +27.27 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£290	£295	£300
% change year-on-year	-1.690 % -1.660 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0	0
Average hourly rate	£34.00	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.00	£25.00	£32.00
% change year-on-year	+20.00 % -21.87 %
All Programming Languages Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Programming Languages category	24	61	32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire	36.36 %	53.04 %	29.63 %
Daily rates quoted	12	32	2
Average daily rate	£375	£350	£250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+7.140 % +40.00 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£300	£325
% change year-on-year	- -7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	10	2
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£22.50	£19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	+33.33 % +15.38 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£20.50	£13.76	£16.70
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£34.00	£42.50	£22.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.50	£30.25	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-5.780 % -13.57 %
VB.NET West Midlands

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.

VB.NET
Demand Trend

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

VB.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

VB.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. 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	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	0	6	£350	-

VB.NET West Midlands

VB.NET
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 30 (100.00 %) .NET 2 29 (96.67 %) SQL Server 3 25 (83.33 %) Internet 4 17 (56.67 %) SQL Server 2000 4 17 (56.67 %) SQL Server 2005 5 9 (30.00 %) Web Development 6 8 (26.67 %) JavaScript 6 8 (26.67 %) CSS 6 8 (26.67 %) AJAX 7 4 (13.33 %) SQL 8 2 (6.667 %) Contact Management 8 2 (6.667 %) E-Commerce 9 1 (3.333 %) C# 9 1 (3.333 %) CRM 9 1 (3.333 %) SharePoint

9 1 (3.333 %) Visual Studio 9 1 (3.333 %) WinForms 9 1 (3.333 %) SharePoint Server 2007

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 30 (100.00 %) .NET 2 8 (26.67 %) CSS 2 8 (26.67 %) AJAX 3 1 (3.333 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.333 %) SharePoint 1 1 (3.333 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Communications & Networking 1 25 (83.33 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 29 (96.67 %) SQL Server 2 17 (56.67 %) SQL Server 2000 2 17 (56.67 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 1 (3.333 %) Visual Studio	Job Titles 1 28 (93.33 %) Developer 2 16 (53.33 %) Web Developer 3 15 (50.00 %) .NET Developer 4 9 (30.00 %) VB.NET Developer 5 3 (10.00 %) .NET Web Developer 6 2 (6.667 %) Internet Developer 6 2 (6.667 %) Programmer 6 2 (6.667 %) Architect 6 2 (6.667 %) Web Architect 7 1 (3.333 %) Software Engineer 7 1 (3.333 %) Software Architect 7 1 (3.333 %) Applications Developer 7 1 (3.333 %) Analyst Programmer 7 1 (3.333 %) Senior Analyst 7 1 (3.333 %) Analyst 7 1 (3.333 %) Senior Analyst Programmer 7 1 (3.333 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 7 1 (3.333 %) Senior Programmer 7 1 (3.333 %) .NET Programmer 7 1 (3.333 %) Senior .NET Analyst Programmer
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (30.00 %) Web Development 2 2 (6.667 %) Contact Management 2 2 (6.667 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (3.333 %) CRM	Programming Languages 1 8 (26.67 %) JavaScript 2 4 (13.33 %) SQL 3 1 (3.333 %) C#