Suffolk VB.NET Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the Suffolk region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited VB.NET over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Avon Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hull Inverness Jersey Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Ringwood Salford Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wellingborough West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	19
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	11	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	15.94 %	19.44 %
Daily rates quoted	1	7
Average minimum daily rate	£425	£303
Average daily rate	£425	£316
% change on same period last year	+34.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£308	£317
% change on same period last year	-3.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	-
Average hourly rate	£12.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.79	£34.79
% change on same period last year	-5.73 %
Programming Languages Suffolk
Matching contract IT job ads	69	72
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.091 %	0.076 %
Daily rates quoted	17	15
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£287
Average daily rate	£334	£298
% change on same period last year	+12.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£309
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£332
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.15	£36.06
Average hourly rate	£24.85	£37.26
% change on same period last year	-33.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.54	£38.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.13	£33.16
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
VB.NET East of 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.

VB.NET
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VB.NET across the Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

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 Suffolk region.

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

VB.NET
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing VB.NET within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Bury St Edmunds	+2	7	£425	-

VB.NET East of England

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 28 (100.00 %) .NET 2 23 (82.14 %) C# 2 23 (82.14 %) AJAX 3 18 (64.29 %) ASP.NET 4 16 (57.14 %) CTI 4 16 (57.14 %) .NET Framework 5 15 (53.57 %) WebServices 6 14 (50.00 %) C++ 6 14 (50.00 %) TETRA 7 13 (46.43 %) Client/Server 8 9 (32.14 %) VoIP 9 8 (28.57 %) Oracle 9 8 (28.57 %) SQL Server 9 8 (28.57 %) WCF 9 8 (28.57 %) WPF

9 8 (28.57 %) Silverlight 10 5 (17.86 %) ASP 11 4 (14.29 %) HTML 11 4 (14.29 %) QMS 12 3 (10.71 %) MS PowerPoint 12 3 (10.71 %) MS Office 12 3 (10.71 %) SAP 12 3 (10.71 %) VBScript 12 3 (10.71 %) MS Excel 12 3 (10.71 %) SharePoint 12 3 (10.71 %) WinForms 12 3 (10.71 %) Microsoft 12 3 (10.71 %) Citrix 12 3 (10.71 %) Microsoft Certification 13 2 (7.143 %) SQL Server 7

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 28 (100.00 %) .NET 2 23 (82.14 %) AJAX 3 18 (64.29 %) ASP.NET 4 16 (57.14 %) .NET Framework 5 15 (53.57 %) WebServices 6 8 (28.57 %) WCF 6 8 (28.57 %) WPF 6 8 (28.57 %) Silverlight 7 5 (17.86 %) ASP 8 4 (14.29 %) HTML 9 3 (10.71 %) WinForms 10 2 (7.143 %) XML 11 1 (3.571 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 3 (10.71 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 3 (10.71 %) MS Office 1 3 (10.71 %) MS Excel 1 3 (10.71 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 16 (57.14 %) CTI 2 14 (50.00 %) TETRA 3 9 (32.14 %) VoIP 4 2 (7.143 %) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2 2 (7.143 %) SQL Server 7 3 1 (3.571 %) RDBMS	Job Titles 1 20 (71.43 %) Developer 2 15 (53.57 %) .NET Developer 3 10 (35.71 %) C# Developer 4 6 (21.43 %) VB.NET Developer 5 5 (17.86 %) Software Developer 6 4 (14.29 %) Software Engineer 7 3 (10.71 %) Senior Developer 7 3 (10.71 %) Support Specialist 7 3 (10.71 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 3 (10.71 %) IT Support Specialist 7 3 (10.71 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 3 (10.71 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 2 (7.143 %) Senior .NET Developer 8 2 (7.143 %) ASP Developer 9 1 (3.571 %) CSharp Software Developer 9 1 (3.571 %) Senior VB.NET Developer 9 1 (3.571 %) Junior VB.NET Developer 9 1 (3.571 %) Senior Software Developer 9 1 (3.571 %) Senior C# Developer
Miscellaneous 1 13 (46.43 %) Client/Server 2 1 (3.571 %) N-Tier	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (14.29 %) QMS 2 2 (7.143 %) UML 2 2 (7.143 %) Agile Software Development 2 2 (7.143 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (3.571 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 23 (82.14 %) C# 2 14 (50.00 %) C++ 3 3 (10.71 %) VBScript 4 2 (7.143 %) JavaScript 4 2 (7.143 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 3 (10.71 %) Microsoft Certification
Vendors 1 8 (28.57 %) Oracle 2 3 (10.71 %) SAP 2 3 (10.71 %) Microsoft 2 3 (10.71 %) Citrix