Surrey VB Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the VB Developer role in IT contracts within the Surrey region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VB Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Coventry Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Exeter Fareham Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Kent Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northwich Norwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	76	94
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	18	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	1.050 %	0.754 %
Daily rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£233
Average daily rate	£261	£258
% change on same period last year	+1.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£272	£283
UK excluding London average daily rate	£254	£278
% change on same period last year	-8.51 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£40.00	£32.50
% change on same period last year	+23.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.22	£31.81
% change on same period last year	-11.27 %
Job Titles Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	1715	2255
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.325 %	2.233 %
Daily rates quoted	461	639
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£331
Average daily rate	£335	£352
% change on same period last year	-4.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£356
% change on same period last year	-0.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	231	346
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.85	£18.40
Average hourly rate	£22.27	£19.68
% change on same period last year	+13.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.69	£20.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.78	£25.65
% change on same period last year	-7.28 %
VB Developer South East

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VB Developer across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB Developer across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

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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 Developer across the Surrey region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB Developer across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB Developer within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 8 September 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
Farnham	-	4	£240	-
Staines	-	2	-	-
Guildford	-	2	£240	-
Woking	-	1	£325	-

VB Developer South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited VB 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 Developer in their job title.

1 33 (100.00 %) VB 2 26 (78.79 %) VB6 3 24 (72.73 %) SQL Server 4 19 (57.58 %) SQL 5 18 (54.55 %) ASP 5 18 (54.55 %) .NET 6 12 (36.36 %) C# 6 12 (36.36 %) Marketing 7 11 (33.33 %) Web Development 7 11 (33.33 %) Transact-SQL 8 10 (30.30 %) C++ 8 10 (30.30 %) COM+ 8 10 (30.30 %) DCOM 8 10 (30.30 %) Motorola 9 9 (27.27 %) ASP.NET

9 9 (27.27 %) SQL Server 2005 10 8 (24.24 %) Microsoft 11 7 (21.21 %) Visual Studio 12 5 (15.15 %) VB.NET 13 4 (12.12 %) Cisco 14 3 (9.091 %) Billing 15 2 (6.061 %) Intranet 15 2 (6.061 %) Degree 15 2 (6.061 %) Computer Science 15 2 (6.061 %) Oracle 15 2 (6.061 %) HTML 15 2 (6.061 %) JavaScript 15 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server 2000 16 1 (3.030 %) Back Office 16 1 (3.030 %) Finance

VB Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited VB 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 18 (54.55 %) .NET 1 18 (54.55 %) ASP 2 10 (30.30 %) COM+ 2 10 (30.30 %) DCOM 3 9 (27.27 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (6.061 %) HTML 5 1 (3.030 %) WebServices 5 1 (3.030 %) XML 5 1 (3.030 %) WinForms 5 1 (3.030 %) WF 5 1 (3.030 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.030 %) Lotus Notes 1 1 (3.030 %) SharePoint 1 1 (3.030 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.061 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (72.73 %) SQL Server 2 9 (27.27 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (3.030 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 7 (21.21 %) Visual Studio	General 1 12 (36.36 %) Marketing 2 3 (9.091 %) Billing 3 1 (3.030 %) Back Office 3 1 (3.030 %) Finance
Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.061 %) Computer Science 2 1 (3.030 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 1 (3.030 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (33.33 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 33 (100.00 %) VB 2 26 (78.79 %) VB6 3 19 (57.58 %) SQL 4 12 (36.36 %) C# 5 11 (33.33 %) Transact-SQL 6 10 (30.30 %) C++ 7 5 (15.15 %) VB.NET 8 2 (6.061 %) JavaScript 9 1 (3.030 %) PL/SQL 9 1 (3.030 %) Java 9 1 (3.030 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 2 (6.061 %) Degree	System Software 1 1 (3.030 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 10 (30.30 %) Motorola 2 8 (24.24 %) Microsoft 3 4 (12.12 %) Cisco 4 2 (6.061 %) Oracle 5 1 (3.030 %) Lotus