Stoke-on-Trent VB Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the Stoke-on-Trent region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Ballymena Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnham Filton Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rochdale Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Royston Rugby Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£282	£324
% change on same period last year	-12.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.53	£30.79
% change on same period last year	-10.58 %
Programming Languages Stoke-on-Trent
Matching contract IT job ads	42	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.066 %	0.010 %
Daily rates quoted	11	0
Average minimum daily rate	£311	-
Average daily rate	£317	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£322	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£332
% change on same period last year	-4.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.00	-
Average hourly rate	£36.14	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.29	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.21	£32.89
% change on same period last year	-5.10 %
VB Staffordshire

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.

VB
Demand Trend

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

VB
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent region citing VB 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.

1 16 (94.12 %) SQL 1 16 (94.12 %) Transact-SQL 1 16 (94.12 %) HTTP 1 16 (94.12 %) Information Security 1 16 (94.12 %) Paros 1 16 (94.12 %) Auditing 1 16 (94.12 %) Fiddler 2 5 (29.41 %) Ethical Hacking 3 1 (5.882 %) C 3 1 (5.882 %) VB.NET 3 1 (5.882 %) .NET 3 1 (5.882 %) SQL Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent region citing VB 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (5.882 %) .NET	Communications & Networking 1 16 (94.12 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (5.882 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 16 (94.12 %) Paros 1 16 (94.12 %) Fiddler
General 1 16 (94.12 %) Auditing	Job Titles 1 13 (76.47 %) Developer 2 11 (64.71 %) Tester 3 6 (35.29 %) Penetration Tester 4 5 (29.41 %) Ethical Hacker 5 4 (23.53 %) Web Tester 6 3 (17.65 %) Web Developer 7 1 (5.882 %) VB Developer 7 1 (5.882 %) Systems Developer 7 1 (5.882 %) Security Architect 7 1 (5.882 %) Web Architect 7 1 (5.882 %) Architect
Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (94.12 %) Information Security 2 5 (29.41 %) Ethical Hacking	Programming Languages 1 16 (94.12 %) SQL 1 16 (94.12 %) Transact-SQL 2 1 (5.882 %) VB.NET 2 1 (5.882 %) C